February the 3rd Chinese New Year will be celebrated, it's the date when the year of the rabbit begins. There was a Chinese New year themed nail art contest organized by Nail Art Express, the amazing blog I told you about before, and this is my entry!
I will tell you how I came up with this design, which might not look really Chinese New Year-like at first sight. You would probably expect something red and gold, the traditional colours for Chinese New Year. However, I chose not to use them for two reasons.
As the Singaporean girl behind Nail Art Express noted here, when you use these colours it's hard to avoid ending up with a design that borders on tacky. I definitely do like tacky nails sometimes, but I figured she doesn't - so my main goal became to avoid tackiness.
Of course I could have taken the challenge and tried to make a design with red and gold that was not tacky. But I didn't because since it was for a contest, I wanted my design to stand out. Everyone would probably use red and gold, wouldn't they?
Bottom line: average, tacky Chinese New Year nail art, no sir! So instead I came up with this. A quite cute design actually: light pink and gold with dots and a rabbit on each nail. I also added some Chinese signs using a nail art pen. I have no idea what they mean or if they even mean something, haha.
You can see the other entries (and vote) here!
Unfortunately my entry wasn't included at first. The deadline was January 23rd, so I sent it this afternoon, but it turned out that it was already the next day in Singapore (the time difference is seven hours)! Haha, oops :)