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

Lavender & Floral Decals

Good morning everyone!! I may have give you all the impression that I've abandoned the blog for good, but I assure you that's not the case. I just didn't feel like doing my nails for the last two weeks. I'd even done the base for a design I'd thought of, but couldn't go anywhere beyond that. Maybe it's the result of doing your nails regularly. This week I finally pushed myself & came up with this simple & sweet mani. I've always been a bold colors kind of girl, but ever since this polish came as a part of a wedding gift, I've been in love with it. The lavender's so soft & muted & the decals really add to it. Promise I'll come back with something spectacular next week!!

Polishes Used

Lavender: Avon Luxe Lavender

Decals: Born Pretty Store

Black & White

Good morning everyone!! Last week was pretty busy for me. It was my husband's birthday & being his first birthday post marriage, I wanted everything to be extra special for him. I spent the week buying gifts, wrapping them prettily, planning for the day & finally, baking his favorite chocolate cake. With very little time left, I wanted to do my nails in a simple way & this is what I came up with.

I selected black & white as the base colors & used gold striping tape & a gold stud to jazz it up. The finished look turned out to be simple yet elegant. Liked it??

Materials Used

Black: Revlon Knock Out

White: NYX White

Gold: W7 Gold Mirror

Striping tape: Born Pretty Store

Stud: Born Pretty Store

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

Christmas Nails

Good morning everyone!! I know this post is shamelessly late, but I'd so much happening in the last couple of weeks that I just couldn't find the time to post the nails I did for Christmas. There was illness, a number of outings, trying to spend as much time as possible with our family & my brother leaving for Australia for further studies yesterday. I'm gonna miss him badly :(

Coming back to the mani, I applied 2 coats of a dark green polish, sponged on some fine gold glitter polish on the lower half & used beads & rhinestones to create the look of tree ornaments. On the ring finger, 2 coats of red, tape & green polish to create the tree, chunky glitters for the ornaments & a star stud to finish the look. This looked really stunning in person & I'm so proud of it. What do you think??

 

Polishes Used

Red: Maybelline Colorshow Keep Up the Flame

Green: local

Gold glitter: Faces All That Glitters

Multi glitter: NYX Multi Glitter

Rhinestones: local

Beads: local

Stud: Born Pretty Store

Orange & Pink

Good morning everyone!! FINALLY the weather has cooled down but the sudden drop in temperature brought me down with a bad case of cold & sore throat. I'd a string of events to attend the week before that so I decided to really glam my nails with all the bling I could lay my hands on. I sponged a pink & orange polish on my nails to create a gradient effect & topped it with a glitter topcoat to blend it further. Then I went crazy with rhinestones, studs & gold beads to create this gorgeous design. I'm SO IN LOVE with these. It's my favorite of all the manis I've done to date. Do you agree??

Polishes Used

Orange: Colorama Laranja Citrico

Pink: Maybelline: Hooked On Pink

Glitter: NYX Crystal

Rhinestones: local

Studs: local

Beads: local

Yellow & Rhinestones

Good morning everyone!! December has already begun but except for the early hours of the day, there seems to be no sign of winter at all. Keeping up with the hot & bright sunlight outside, I did my nails in yellow this week. Yellow is quite a tricky color to work with as it may not go with all skin tones, but this shade is something different. Its a mango shade that's not too bright & looks gorgeous. I applied 3 coats & used red sequins for the pattern. For the ring finger, I used rhinestones in various colors & shapes & filled any remaining spaces with some more sequins. 

Polishes Used

Yellow: NYX My Sunshine

Sequins: Born Pretty Store

Rhinestones: local

Green & Gold

Good morning everyone!! This is the mani I wore last week. Applied 2 coats of a dark green polish, sponged some gold glitter on the lower half of the index & pinky & used studs & rhinestones on the middle & ring fingers. So easy to do, but I love how gorgeous it looks. This mani just couldn't fail to grab attention. What do you think??

Polishes Used

Green: local brand

Gold glitter: Colorbar Rustic Chant

Studs: Born Pretty Store

Rhinestones: 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

Stars, Glitter & Leopard Print

Good afternoon everyone!! I'm late again this time. Posting the mani I wore last week today. The weird weather that we're experiencing of late just seems to sap all my energy & leaves me feeling lazy to anything more than necessary. Anyways coming back to the mani, I wanted to do something simple & no-fuss & so came up with this. The stars seen here were plain silver ones which I painted using polish in the colors I wanted. Hope you like it :)

Polishes Used

Pink: Maybeline Colorshow Hooked On Pink

Black: Revlon Black Out

Glitter Black: Maybelline Starry Night

Silver: Maybelline Dazzling Diva

Star Studs: Born Pretty Store

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