A Riot of Colors

Good morning everyone!! This is the mani I did for the festival of Holi celebrated last week. I'm not a fan of actually participating in the celebrations with colors & all, so I decided to bring out the festive spirit on my nails. I dabbed on a few colors randomly on all nails, blended them together with some glitter polish & finished the look with white dots in various sizes & loose glitter. I'm in LOVE with how it came out. Hope you feel the same!!

Materials Used

Orange: Colorama Laranja Citrico

Yellow: NYX My Sunshine

Green: Local brand

Blue: Local brand

Glitter polish: NYX Crystal

White: NYX White

Loose glitters: Born Pretty Store

Glitter!!!

Good morning everyone!! Yes, I'd promised to be regular with my posts, but as soon as I resolved to do that, I fell ill. Then we found out that we're required to move out of the place we currently live in & find a new place ASAP. Which meant running frantically from one broker to another, facing disappointment over not being able to find what we want & finally, leaving behind the life we'd just got used to. Now you can understand my plight :( Last week however, I was required to show up to collect an award my brother received for academic excellence from his former college. He has moved to another country, you know. I wasn't in the mood at all to do my nails, but there was no way I was gonna go with bare or simply painted nails. So I turned to the color which I've been quite fascinated with recently, slapped on some multicolored glitter & done!! Simple yet eye catching, isn't it??

Materials Required

Blue: Avon Aqua Fantasy

Glitter: NYX Multi Glitter

Vintage Romance

Good morning everyone!! How was Valentine's for you? It was our first V-day post marriage & we celebrated with a nice candlelight dinner, flowers & a red velvet cake I baked. I wanted to do a special mani for the day but I can't draw intricate hearts & I don't own any nail stamps. So I decided to go with a soft vintage feel on my nails. This one was seriously time consuming & required a ton of materials, but the end result was surely worth it.

For the index finger, I used a soft blue & white polish & striping tape to create the stripes & topped it with a fimo heart (cute, no?). The middle finger has a light pink base with glitter. On the ring, light blue base with pink roses, & a pearl, rhinestone & stud on a glitter pink base for the pinky.

Materials Used

Light pink: local

White: NYX White

Blue: Avon Aqua Fantasy

Pink: Maybelline Colorshow Hooked On Pink

 Green: local

Chunky glitter: Nyx Pink Glitter

Glitter: Nyx Crystal

Fimo heart, striping tape, pearl, stud: Born Pretty Store

Rhinestone: local

 

Feeling Blue

Good morning everyone!! I'm freezing here as I type....it's so COLD!! I wait all year long for the weather to cool down, but now that it has finally happened, I've been feeling quite lethargic & prefer to spend my time reading & rustling up delicious hot meals. That means I haven't been painting my nails as often as I normally do. But today I have a wedding to attend & I chose to do my nails in a color matching my sari. I applied 2 coats of a light blue polish, 1 light coat of glitter & finished it with studs, rhinestones & beads. I love how simple & gorgeous this design is. Agree with me??    

Polishes Used

Blue: Avon Aqua Fantasy

Glitter: NYX Crystal

Studs: Born Pretty Store

Rhinestones & Beads: local

Grey, Glitter & Rhinestones

Good morning everyone!!! I know I've given an impression that I've abandoned the blog, but that's absolutely not the case. The thing is, I was too busy preparing for & having fun during Diwali. Especially with it being our first Diwali after marriage. I'll make it a point to post regularly now onwards. Coming back to the mani, I'd no idea what to do with my nails so I just applied my favorite grey polish & decided to see what I could do with that. Then a day later, inspiration hit me hard & I came up with this. I sponged on Rimmel's Disco Ball on the lower half of my nails & dressed up the accent nail with rhinestones, pearls, blue studs & silver beads. The glitter polish is a beautiful one with loads of holographic glitter too, which I unfortunately couldn't capture. I really love how this came out. Hope you do too!!

Polishes Used

Grey: NYX Cloudy

Glitter: Rimmel Disco Ball

Pearls: Born Pretty Store

Beads, Studs & Rhinestones: local

Denim & Studs

Good morning everyone!! Along with Hooked On Pink, I'd also picked up Denim Dash from the Maybelline Colorshow range which I decided to wear this week. I love this one!! It totally lives up to its name, more so as it dries to a matte finish. And what better to complement the color with some zippers & studs. I've applied 2 coats of Denim Dash, water decals on all nails except the ring, where I've used studs. Quite edgy I say.

Polishes Used

Blue: Maybelline Colorshow Denim Dash
Studs: Born Pretty Store
Decals: Born Pretty Store

Blue & Green with Glitter

Good morning everyone!! Wasn't able to post last week as was quite busy with multiple birthdays in the family & the start of the festive season. I applied an aqua blue polish & sponged on some green on the upper half. The glitter polish that I applied is from a local brand but I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. It's a clear polish with fine blue & chunky diamond shaped blue, gold, silver &white matte round glitters. The polish is quite gloopy as you can make out from the thick layers on my nails but the end result is worth it :)

 

 

 

Polishes Used

Blue: Avon Aqua Fantasy

Green: Avon Sweet Mint

Glitter polish: Local brand

Royal Blue with Beads & Rhinestones

Good morning everyone!! This is the mani I wore for my birthday two days ago. There was a time when it was compulsory for my outfit & nails to be matchy-matchy. I've outgrown that phase a long time ago, but I fell so in love with the colors of my birthday outfit that I decided to do my nails in the same combo. I applied 3 coats of a dark blue polish & gold decals. Finished it off with red & white rhinestones & gold beads. I really love how royal & intricate this mani turned out to be. The pics are a bit hazy as they were taken from my cellphone camera. Hope you like it :)

  

Polishes Used

Blue: NYX Ink

Decals: Born Pretty Store

Rhinestones & Beads

Pastel Green & Blue with Rhinestones

Good morning everyone!! I've never been a fan of pastel shades until a few months ago. Maybe my advancing age is the cause of my changing preferences :) Of all the Go Graffiti shades launched by Maybelline, I really like
Green Graffiti due to the contrasting matte glitters in it. So I picked it up on our last trip to the mall even though hubby thought it to be an average shade. The index & pinky fingers have  3 coats  of Green Graffiti. Pretty shade, but I expected something more. The color is dull, maybe next time I'll try layering it over a bright green polish. On the middle finger I've used a pastel blue with rhinestones & a gold glitter polish on the ring. 

 

 

Polishes Used

Green: Maybelline Green Graffiti

Blue: Avon Nailwear Pro Aqua Fantasy

Gold: Maybelline All That Glitters

Rhinestones  

Dark Blue and Glitter

Good morning everyone!! Wanted to do something simple and blingy for an event over the weekend and  this is what I came up with. I've sponged the glitters which I think looks better compared to direct brush application. Hope you like it :)

Polishes Used
NYX: Ink
Colorbar: Rustic Chant
Swiss Beauty (gold, pink & red glitter polish)

White and Blue Flowers

Good morning everyone!! Had these pretty floral water decals lying around for a long time and this week I finally decided to put them to use. I've applied two coats of white polish followed by sponging white and blue for the tips. Applied the decals and finished with topcoat. I'm quite happy with what I've come up with :) 

Polishes Used

NYX Girls: White

Avon Nailwear Pro: Misty Blue

Revlon Colorstay Topcoat

Born Pretty Store decals