♥ Valentines Day Nails {Video Tutorial} ♥

♥ Hello, Hello~

I'll cut to the chase >:}

I have finished my Mocks and have been focusing on video tutorials recently.

I uploaded my first video tutorial ..yesterday! xD

And it's a Valentines Day tutorial :)

Please take a look ^^

{ Note: Youtube copyrighted my music so I had to replace it with something...Not as suitable xD}

Hope you enjoy~

♥ AnnKiins.

♥ My Top 5 Polishes, 2010 -Tag- ♥

♥ Hey guys!

I hope you had a great 2010, I sure did :D

But out with the old and in with the new, 'cause 2011's coming our way!

But let us remember the memories we had.

(Nail Polish wise, of course!)

So I decided to do this little tag.

My top five polishes -  2010 (in particular order)

Barry M's Mushroom

(Old swatch, don't mind the smudging xD)

I absolutely adore Barry M!

The colors are opaque, application always great, it has yet to disappoint me.

Of course, mushroom is definately no exception!

A dark brown, your average really, however, one coater and application perfect says other wise.

Whenever I'm feeling lazy to paint my nails (happens often) and I just want to slap on a new mani, I reach for this and BAM, problem solved!

Essence's Purple Diamond

It's the polish that made me get started on a collection for Essence.

Like most of my top 5, it's a one coater and application great.

Purple Diamond is a GORGEOUS purple foil, I love it, but it's on the list because of what a surprise I got from using it. I didn't expect it to be so good, I didn't even know that it was a foil!

Made the list for the surprise I got. x3

Barry M's Shocking Pink!

 One of my favourite polishes of all time, of course it has to make the list.

A bright, super hot pink, it's Shocking Pink!

Haha, Barry M have such creative names for their polishes...

But ah, the polish makes up for it, one coater, application perfect, stunning color, I absolutely adoreeee it!

No words can describe it, I love it very much so :')

Boot's Natural Collection's Topaz

This definately made the list for all of the wrong reasons.

Sheer, first coat, the tinest speck of blue.

Application? It streaks so you have to wait in between coats.

Dry time? AGES, I'd say 10 minutes per coat.

How many coats? Oh dear, 5 - 8 coats!

Just. Just. Just. NOOOO!!

 

Miss Sporty's Red

No name, but definately gonna buy again!

This gorgeous red is a one coater creme, it's actually nearing towards blood red?

But not quite! Similar to Barry M's mushroom.

I'd whip this one out if I were lazy (And if I had anymore left ;___;)

Stunning, gorgeous, application perfect!

Definately my favourite red and one of my favourite polishes :3

And so, this concludes my Top Five Polishes!

I tag-

My Leetle Nails

Jette Fromm

NailsbyAlice

Katrina

Laynie's Fingers

Hope you had a good year & I wish you the very best for 2011!

♥AnnKiins.

♥ Hiatus ♥

♥ Hi everyone~

I watched Harry Potter yesterday with my friends.

OMG, we all cried at the end, so sad.

I hope Vulemort and the puffy haired witch dies. Evillll.

Hermine has gotten so pretty (She's my fav!)

Oh yeah.

On other news, I've decided to leave my blog on hiatus for a while :D

I'm really behind on updating and adding watermarks and it's really taking up alot of my time.

 I think I'm getting a few symptoms because of frequent exposure to nail polish chemicals as well.

So I think it's best to leave it for now.

Thank you for following Poka Pika Nails!

♥ Please, please, please, I beg you to read this ♥

This is a true story that happened in Japan in 1988.
A girl named Furuta Junko (17 y.0) was kidnapped and then tortured by 4 boys with very unimaginable way and finally death after 44 days.

For you who can`t stand read something that is so cruel, don`t read this.

******* The crime:
In November of 1988, Boy A (18), Boy B (Jo Kamisaku, 17; Kamisaku was a new family name he took after being released from prison), Boy C (16) and Boy D (17) from Tokyo abducted Furuta, a second year high school (grade 11) student from Saitama Prefecture in Misato, for 44 days. They kept her captive in the house owned by the parents of Boy C.

To forestall a manhunt, Boy A coerced Furuta into calling her own parents and telling them that she had run away from home, but was with "a friend" and was not in danger. He also browbeat her into posing as one of the boys' girlfriends when the parents of the house where she was held were around, but when it became clear that the parents would not call the police, he dropped this pretext.

Furuta tried to escape several times, begging the parents of boy C more than once to help her, but they did nothing, apparently out of fear that Boy A would hurt them. Boy A was at the time a low-level yakuza leader and had bragged that he could use his connections to kill anyone who interfered.

According to their statements at their trial, the four of them raped her, beat her, introduced foreign objects including an iron rod into her vagina, made her drink her own urine and was fed cockroaches, inserted fireworks into her anus, and set them off, forced Furuta to masturbate, cut her nipple with pliers, dropped dumbbells onto her stomach, and burned her with cigarettes and lighters. (One of the burnings was punishment for attempting to call the police.)

At one point her injuries were so severe that according to one of the boys it took more than an hour for her to crawl downstairs to use the bathroom. They also related that "possibly a hundred different people" knew that Furuta had been imprisoned there, but it is not clear if this means they visited the house at different times while she was imprisoned there, or themselves either raped or abused her.

When the boys refused to let her leave, she begged them on several occasions to "kill (her) and get it over with".

On January 4, 1989, using one of the boys' loss at mah-jongg as a pretext, the four beat her with an iron barbell, poured lighter fluid on her legs, arms, face and stomach, and set her on fire. She died later that day of shock. The four boys claimed that they were not aware of how badly injured she was, and that they believed she had been malingering.

The killers hid her corpse in an 55-gallon drum filled with cement; the perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.

*****
Arrest and punishment

The boys were arrested and tried as adults; but, because of Japanese handling of crimes committed by juveniles, their identities were sealed by the court. However, a weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported their real names, claiming "Human rights aren't needed for brutes." Furuta's real name and details about her personal life were reported exhaustively in the media. Kamisaku was judged as a sub leader, at least according to the official trial.

The four boys pled guilty to a reduced charge of "committing bodily injury that resulted in death", rather than murder. Boy A's parents sold their house for approximately 50 million yen and paid this as compensation to Furuta's family.

For his participation in the crime, Kamisaku served eight years in a juvenile prison before he was released, in August 1999. In July 2004, he was arrested for assaulting an acquaintance, whom he believed to be luring a girlfriend away from him, and allegedly bragged about his earlier infamy. Kamisaku was sentenced to seven years in prison for the beating.

Junko's parents were dismayed by the sentences received by their daughter's killers, and enjoined a civil suit against the parents of the boy in whose home the crimes were committed. When some of the convictions were overturned on the basis of problematic physical evidence (the semen and pubic hair recovered from the body did not match those of the boys who were arrested), the lawyer handling the civil suit decided there was no case to be made and refused to represent them further. (There is speculation that the evidence may have been contaminated—for example, by unidentified persons who raped Furuta.)

One of the most disturbing parts of this true story is that her killers are now free. After putting Junko Furuta through all that suffering, they are free men!!! And only have 8 years in prison.
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"A high-school girl was abducted by four teenaged hooligans while she was on her way to work. They took her to the house of a friend, held her in his bedroom, and for the next forty-five days enacted every imaginable form of abuse on her (and some you wouldn’t want to imagine). They gang-raped her—both with their own bodies and with an assortment of foreign objects—beat her, kicked her, doused her extremities with lighter fluid and set her on fire, and probably did many other things to her that went undocumented by either her tormentors or the police. They mocked her pain. They held her down and dropped barbells on her stomach. This last bit of torture was more than she could withstand, and after going into convulsions she apparently either strangled on her own vomit or simply died from her beatings. When the boys were questioned later about why they didn’t do anything during her seizure, they replied, “We assumed she was faking it.”

"She tried to escape, more than once. The first time, she was caught in the process of making a phone call. The second time, she ran into the parents of the boy who lived there; apparently they had known all along what was gong on. She begged them to help her, but they refused; his friend had criminal connections, and they didn’t want to get into trouble, too. After her death, they taped her arms and legs together, threw her into a 55-gallon drum, filled it with cement, and dumped it in an empty lot. The body wasn’t recovered until almost a year later. The ringleader of the whole incident served seven years in prison and is now a free man."

*******
-What they did to her and the suffering-

These horrifying things done to Junko Furuta had been collected through the Japanese court trial of the case, and blogs from 1989. They show the pain that Junko Furuta had to endure before she was finally dead. All this had happened to her while she was still alive. They are disturbing, but the truth.

All of this had happened.

-

DAY 1: November 22, 1988: Kidnapped
Kept captive in house, and posed as one of boy's girlfriend
Raped (over 400 times in total)
Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away
Starved and malnutritioned
Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink
Forced to masturbate
Forced to strip in front of others
Burned with cigarette lighters
Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus

DAY 11: December 1, 1988: Severely beat up countless times
Face held against concrete ground and jumped on
Hands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bag
Nose filled with so much blood that she can only breath through her mouth
Dumbbells dropped onto her stomach
Vomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn't accept it)
Tried to escape and punished by cigarette burning on arms
Flammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fire
Bottle inserted into her anus, causing injury

DAY 20: December10, 1989: Unable to walk properly due to severe leg burns
Beat with bamboo sticks
Fireworks inserted into anus and lit
Hands smashed by weights and fingernails kracked
Beaten with golf club
Cigarettes inserted into vagina
Beaten with iron rods repeatedly
Winter; forced outside to sleep in balcony
Skewers of grilled chicken inserted into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding

DAY 30: Hot wax dripped onto face
Eyelids burned by cigarette lighter
Stabbed with sewing needles in chest area
Left nipple cut and destroyed with pliers
Hot light bulb inserted into her vagina
Heavy bleeding from vagina due to scissors insertion
Unable to urinate properly
Injuries were so severe that it took over an hour for her to crawl downstairs and use the bathroom
Eardrums severely damaged
Extreme reduced brain size

DAY 40: Begged her torturers to "kill her and get it over with"

January 1, 1989: Junko greets the New Years Day alone
Body mutilated
Unable to move from the ground

DAY 44: January 4, 1989: The four boys beat her mutilated body with an iron barbell, using a loss at the game of Mah-jongg as a pretext. She is profusely bleeding from her mouth and nose. They put a candle's flame to her face and eyes.

Then, lighter fluid was poured onto her legs, arms, face and stomach, and then lit on fire. This final torture lasted for a time of two hours.

Junko Furuta died later that day, in pain and alone. Nothing could compare 44 days of suffering she had to go through.

When her mother heard the news and details of what had happened to her daughter, she fainted. She had to undergo a psychiatric outpatient treatment . Imagine her endless pain.

This story from 1989 is true. Please spread her story around. Everyone should know about the existence of Junko Furuta's unimaginable and incomprehensible suffering, and this is why this group has been made.

Rest In Eternal Peace,
Junko Furuta
1989-Eternity

♥ About two months Mayor Haul ♥

♥ Hello, Hello~

School has been awful. I got extra work cause of such unfair reasons.

I was called CHEEKY for doing work.

Teachers are so unfair!!

♥ Pffft. In other words.

I bought alot of stuff over these two months.

So haul...BEGIN!

My Aunt gave them to me :D

Her Birthday was on Oct 1 as well, so Happy Birthday!

↓ Left to Right

Essence (Matt Topcoat) (Glisten Up!) (Choose Me!)

Barry M (Boots Limited Edition) (Bright Purple) (Vivid Purple) (New Effects)

Claires (Holographic Star & Hexagon glitter)

FEAST YOUR EYES!

↓ Some things from Nail Delights :3

I thought I was going to get a bigger package.

But everything was so much smaller in person D:

↓ A practice hand, so I'm gonna do tutorials soon :D

My compartments

WATER DECALS. I was craving them after the Vivalanails ones!

100 wittle rhinestones

A rose cane. And the surprise one, a green watermelon!

Nail chart to swatch my polishes :D

♥ I'm gonna go play with Barry M's Crackle polish now.

See yous!

♥ AnnKiins.

♥ Blog Award + Tagged! ♥

♥ Hi everybody, sorry I haven't been  updating when I said I would. 

Just Back to School stuff throwing themselves at me at full speed. D:

But during all of this business I got my first (two) Blogger Awards from the lovely Leeblee and Emy.

♥ The Rules:
1. Post who gave you this award
2. State 10 things you like
3. Give this award to 10 other bloggers and notify them with a comment

1. ♥

I've only been into nail polish for a few months but I am absolutely addicted!

I'm collecting them now :D

2. ♥

MINY FIGURES. I totally collect them!

About 40 something. I have a shelf for 'em c:

3. ♥

Stickers, any kind, I totally love/collect them!

4.  ♥

Bouncy balls! I totally collect them!

I have like. 10 now. LOL.

5. ♥

Hello Kitty, I'm collecting stuff of that brand now :3

I don't know how much I have :c

6. ♥

Bags, I'm collecting some atm :D

About 16 ish?

7. ♥

I LOVE handmade stuff! I sincerely believe in "Its the thought that counts"

Handmade cards over bought cards, ftw!

8. ♥

I love my of my bestiies, they are totally the best!

They pick me up whenever I'm down and make the best of my day, everday.

9. ♥

K-pop! Korean Pop music!

I am a fanatic, man! I love DBSK, they are my favourite band forever.

And CNBlue as well :3

10. ♥

Cute things. I'm a total sucker for pink things.

And blue as well. But I hate dark/too light nail polish!

♥ Tagged!

Whoever wants to be tagged for the award!

I'll add your name here.

(Yes, I am going for the easy option xD)

♥ AnnKiins.

♥ Nail Polish Shopping ♥

Hi Everyone!

[Pic spam ahead]
[I do not own any brands in the pictures]


♥ Weee, I went nail polish shopping in Liffey Valley 2 days ago.
And I saved up quite a bit of cash for a whole hearted look and buy!

What I saw first was Boots Natural Collection.

I bought the blue polish in the third row.
I forgot to take a picture of it but you'll see it when I swatch it 8)

♥ Next row was the Rimmel section.
What caught my eye was the new Rimmel Matte top coat!!!!!!!
I have always wanted a Matte top coat..and here...here it was!
I just HAAAD it buy it!
It was 6 - 7 euro per bottle, quite pricey, but I didn't care at all!

Up to ten days it says.
I hear a challenge sometime soon...
>:]


♥ Aside from wanting a Matte top coat. I was also in need of a top coat and nail polish remover.
So I searched around the stalls for a cheap and affordable one since I spent some money on the Matte top coat. I'm a student on a budget, don't kill me DDD:


♥ So I bought the Collection 2000.
It was cheap and affordable for around 3 - 4 euro as far as I can remember... >o<

Yes, everybody did think I was weird for taking pictures of the stalls and nail polish... >o<
But I'm a dedicated nail polish blogger!!!


♥ Uhh...Moving on xD
I looked for a nail polish remover after and was surprised to find a Sally Hansen nail polish remover.
Of course, I bought the no acetone version for 2 - 3 euro.
[I tried it already and it worked wonders, only problem was the really strong smell, then again, I'm really sensitive towards smells]

What really made my day was when I looked right beside the nail polish remover.
There they were..

SALLY HANSEN NAIL POLISH!!!

ESSIE!
[More importantly, MATTE ABOUT YOU, always wanted it! But when I went out to the till it had no price so they couldn't sell it...Absolutely, devastated...]

And OPI..I saw a few that were 23 euro... :O


♥ First time in my life seeing OPI, Sally Hansen and Essie.
Nails Inc was there as well.
It was like. Heaven.
I was seriously, seriously, seriously, gobsmacked.
My face was like

O________O + =OOOOOO + 8DDDDD

Eyes widened, jaw dropped, passerbys staring but I didn't give a crap.
Honestly, best moment of my day life.

But then I couldn't buy the Essie Matte about you.
So then I was just like.

O_______O + >:OOOO

Seriously, I wanted to scream out loud ...


♥ Since this post is getting really long I'll just conclude it with the rest of the polishes I bought that day c:

Essence, Return to Paradise.



















 Number 7 Stay Perfect Top Coat.


...And another one I forgot to take a picture of it >o<


Until next time!


♥ AnnKiins

♥

Hii !
I decided to start my own Nail Polish blog.
Swatches, designs, reviews on what I can get my hands on.

So yeah.

^^

♥ AnnKiins.