bavani's colours: orange

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Kitten Love

You're probably wondering what this has to do with kittens. Well, it's inspired by this photo:

Yeah. I just took some of the colours in this picture and put them on my nails. I am SO creative, I know.

It's my favourite picture of all time. Look how sweet and adoring he is! I just woke up one day and he was lying up there like that. And since my phone was already in my hand after I switched off the alarm, I clicked the camera on and snapped a picture.

This still happens a lot. My cat loves to sleep near my head in the morning. Sometimes on my head. Many times, he sits on my chest and rests his face on mine. That was so sweet when he was young, it still is, but now he's so heavy. He's almost 5 kilograms heavy. He's a big boy now. <3

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Sari Stripes

I saw a woman wearing a stripy sari in these colours and I couldn't stop looking at it. So of course, I had to put it on my nails. Pretty, isn't it? The colours are spot-on because I just happened to have them in my collection. I love my nail polish collection.

And yes, the black lines are jagged. I used a thin brush which I'm not used to yet. Maybe I should have just used scotch tape. And if you think those lines are uneven, take a look at the nails of my right hand:

Oh, man. I need more practice.

And why am I holding an orange? I was about to eat it, and wanted to take a picture of my nails before I use them to tear away its skin. Loodie Loodie Loodie has a helpful tutorial teaching us how to peel an orange with a spoon, so as not to ruin nice nails, but I just can't be bothered to do all that. My nails are always protected with thick layers of top coat hard as glass, anyway. No orange peel can hurt my nail polish.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

I Dreamed A Dream

Believe it or not, this design came to me in a dream. I saw it very clearly - the colours, the shape, the rhinestones, and even the length of my nails. I guess I'd been reading too many nail blogs and was thinking about nail polish when I went to sleep.

This picture doesn't do justice to the colours, though. I didn't manage to take one that showed the true colours. And I can't take any more pictures at the moment because most of the rhinestones have fallen off. I got my hands very wet while cleaning cat cages at the SPCA. I'm left with 3 out of 10 rhinestones. Maybe I'll put on more when I'm not stoned on flu medicine, and stick them on more firmly. I just used a measly drop of top coat under the rhinestones to paste them on. I should have totally smothered them in polish.

I tried my best to edit the pictures to make the colours look as accurate as possible. This is as close as I got. The purple and the pink rhinestones are actually just a tiny bit deeper, but the orange on the tips is a LOT more fluorescent. To say it's bright would be a terrible understatement. I love it so much.

It's one of the polishes that cost about $2. People love to buy expensive nail polish brands like OPI and Orly, but in my opinion, they're very overrated. Most of them are very mediocre. I have a lot of very interesting, quality polishes that I bought for less than $3. Maybe I'll show you one day.

I'm holding a nearly empty bottle of vanilla extract because I'd been baking. But I don't have a picture of the delicious, fat, soft, chewy, chocolate chocolate chip cookies I baked because my mother brought them to school and fed them to her students. They're all gone. I've got quite a reputation as an expert baker at my mother's school. Her students and colleagues send me compliments through her. It's nice to know that I make people I don't even know happy.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

bavani's colours

I've always found beauty in colours. It's what I love most about nature, and wildlife and all that. Bright flowers in green trees. Light from the sun captured in water in the sky, forming rainbows. Black stripes dark against the brilliant orange stripes of tigers. Iridescent wings of huge, scary black insects. Clear rain water mixing with sandy soil to make chocolate-brown mud. Shiny gray dolphins jumping out of deep blue seas. White-blue Husky eyes. The contrast of the pure white and stark black of my cat's fur, and the clear, sharp yellow of his eyes. The same colours on mynas - yellow beaks, black bodies and white wing tips. The thick, rich red of blood that rushes through all of us.

These things are why I love colours. Colours make me feel calm. That's why I always paint my nails. People think it's because I'm insecure about my naked nails, but no. It's to remind myself of things that make me happy. When something upsets me, I can look at my nails and feel composed. When I look at my nails, there's nothing but my cat's eyes or a flower in a tree or the blood that's pumped through my lungs. Everything else fades. Nothing can make me unhappy when my heart still pumps blood and flowers still bloom and my cat still looks at me with love. I don't paint my nails to hide myself from the world. I do it to hide the upsetting things in the world from myself. The more troubled I am, the more colours I put on my nails.

I feel in colours too. I don't know it when I'm feeling them, but when I think back about times when I experienced strong emotions, everything's tinted a certain colour. Every emotion in every situation has a unique colour. Painting that colour on my nails or my eyelids is a way of releasing the emotion.

I hope you didn't expect this blog to be light-hearted fun, with manicures and makeup tips. Nothing about me is light-hearted. My heart is very heavy.

Here are some of my best expressions: