Selamat Hari Raya!

Hello! This is going to be a quick and short post to wish all my friends and readers who are celebrating:

Salam Aidilfitri! :D

For every raya, I looked forward to eat all those savoury Malay food. Ketupat, nasi impit, rendang, curry and beef. Such delicious food! This Hari Raya, I decided to do a simple nail art that's inspired by Ketupat. ;)

Yes, very simple nail art. Mostly are done with fish braid style mani. Except, I did from bottom up. To make them look a little more like ketupat, I did each "line" manually using my nail art brush to blend a little. The process is simple, start with a light base colour. Use a middle tone to paint the lines from bottom up. Then using the same middle tone, fill in the bars halfway and blend it with the light base colour. Choose a darker shade to draw the final lines. 

For accents, I have orange to contrast with the greens. I'm sad the beauty of the glitters didn't show up that well in photos. But its gorgeous in person, and very very 'Raya' to me :) To back my theory on orange being a very Raya colour, I saw a family in orange on first day of Raya! XD Hahahha!! The father, the mother, the kids! Gosh, they were all so adorable.

I wasn't very sure what to do for the thumb, another fish braid? But as I lined them together, 'Gold' was what came into mind. Yeap, what is Raya without a splash of glittering gold, right? ;D

I must admit, I'm not knowledgeable about Malay food (other than savouring it). But I did a brief reading about Ketupat before posting. It was very interesting to learn that the ketupat foldings (criss-cross weaving of leaves) represented mistakes and sins humans make. The white rice inside, symbolizes purity after observing the month of Ramadhan. I think this makes the celebration of Raya a little more meaningful, don't you agree? :)

That's all for today. Have a very Blessed Raya my wonderful readers! ♥

From left to right: Etude House Only Olive, Etude House Play Nail #87, The Face Shop GR508, Baviphat #13, Sally Hansen Black Out.

From left to right: Etude House PBE102, It's Skin Nail Stylure GD101, Lioele #39, Tip Top Nail Chic Mango Tango, Tony Moly Halloween Orange (GI04)