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

 

Red with Rhinestones

Good morning everyone!! The wedding season is on in full swing & this is how I did my nails for the wedding I'd to attend last week. I was running short on time & patience, so I simply chose to go with a blinged-out accent nail. Applied two coats of this amazing red & used beads, studs & rhinestones on the ring finger. It turned out to be simple yet eye catching. What do you think??

Materials Used

Maybelline Colorshow Keep Up the Flame

Beads: local

Rhinestones: local

Studs: 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

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

Purple & Lavender Roses

Good morning everyone!! This week I decided to go the easy way & chose to use decals on my nails. I applied 3 coats of a glitter purple polish on my index & pinky & stuck 3 purple rhinestones. On the middle & ring finger I applied 2 coats of white & used striping tape & a lavender polish. Topped it off with water decals. Hope you liked it!!

Polishes Used

Glitter Purple: NYX Royal Purple
Lavender: Avon Luxe Lavender
White: NYX White
Decals: Born Pretty Store
Rhinestones

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  

Black & White Leopard Print with Rhinestones

Good morning everyone!! This week I decided to go black & white, & then jazz it up further.

I used 3 coats of white as my base for the leopard print & added silver dots with the polish brush itself. Used black acrylic paint for the leopard details. On the middle I've used Maybelline Glitter Mania in Dazzling Diva. I'm so glad I pick the gold & silver ones from this range as they go with a variety of shades. Finally on the ring finger I applied 2 coats of black & used my favorite Revlon topcoat to stick the rhinestones. I quite like the final look & hope you do too :)

Polishes Used

White: NYX White

Silver: Maybelline Glitter Mania Dazzling Diva

Black: Revlon Knock-Out

Black acrylic paint: Camlin

Rhinestones