Painting fingernail: still suck at it

Yesterday I suddenly had the mood to try painting my fingernails. I rarely do it because I suck at it, but of course you can argue that I suck it because I rarely do it. Anyway, I found that 5 out of 10 nails were done pretty ok, which is higher the success rate compare with the last time I did.

Let's see when I have mood to do it again.

Probably won't last for a few times

I really like the race queen costume I wore at anime matsuri yesterday. Sadly I found out that around the edge of the collar, some of the pattern already started fading. And that's when I realized that it was ruined by my sweat, which is something I cannot avoid since the whole purpose of getting this costume is to wear it.

Still, I think that's ok. After all, i did not pay a lot for this costume. So I think this costume is meant to be wear only a few times, and then put it in the storage as a memory.

By the way, I need to establish a system to separate clean (washed) costume and costume worn a few times, so that I know when to clean what costume.

Finally got some time to put some new photos online

Finally I got some time to put up some photos online. You can find them in this Flickr stream.

It's basically a showcase of some costumes I tailor made during my last trip to Hong Kong.

Among all the new costume, I like this blue auto show girl costume the most. I think I look reasonably good on it.

A costume I ordered 2 years ago

Here's a costume I ordered 2 years ago. Yeah, it's not the like awesome (I blame the lousy instruction I gave the tailor), and my make-up was kind of messy too, but at least I tried :-m .

Broken boots

Since I am about to go back to Hong Kong for a few weeks, I was wondering if I should exam my costume inventory, and the see what I should buy during the trip. That's when I realized how fragile a pair of Mongolian boot I brought 4 years ago was.

I picked up the boot, found the boot almost like new (since I almost never wore it). But the moment I touched the zip handle, the zip handle fell apart. You can see the result in the enclosed photo.

So basically, pissed, but then I didn't spend way a lot of money to get it, and I don't like the style anyway.

Relaxing in the hotel

A photo from my recent trip. This the first time I wear this RaceQueen costume away from home, but also the last time because the skirt is just way way way too short.

Super thanks for Rachel taking the photo for me. :>

Itchy

Somehow I keep forgetting the price that I need to pay for shaving my legs. It allows goes like this: 3 to 4 days after I shaved my legs, I will start feeling itchy all over my legs. I mean, VERY ITCHY. The pain will continue for 2 to 3 days and eventually it will go away. But it's definitely irritating. This is nothing but just a note to self :-P