Shades of Wazowski

So who doesnt remember Mike Wazowski from Monster's Inc. A one eyed green spherical monster that everyone liked for being the best bud to Sulley. Dance Legend made a collection of duochrome polishes on these monsters and each is certainly desirable as the other. 

Base: Dance Legend Wazowski

Stamping Polish: Konad White

Stamping Plate: BM S104

Here's a swatch catching the duochrome shift in action

A full mani pic: 

Checkered Nails

This one got lost in my drafts: checks to match a dress I had worn for kiddo's annual day program early in the year

Base: China Glaze Recycle
Stamping plate: BP L-006
Stamped with Konad white
Added a few stripes of Revlon Holographic pearl over some lines

Krizia Christian G Swatch and a Damask pattern

Named after the infamous Christian G. from The fifty shades of grey; it is a cool toned grey with what you might initially see as speckles of dust which are actually really minute flecks of glitter.

Base: Krizia Christian G.

Stamping plate: BP L-007

Stamping polish: Konad yellow

Accent Maybelline  Glittermania Starry Night

Here's an upclose bottle shot

Miss Nails Polish Review: Houndstooth Nail Art

Here's a simple classic from my file archives from last year.

This is a new brand in India called MissNails and they have very cute bottles with crystal like etching on the cover. They are available on flipkart and retail for Rs.129/- for 16ml bottle. 

Base: Miss Nails MN11 Classic Nude

Accent: Maybelline glided rose

Stamping plate:BP L-006

Stamping polish: Konad black

Topped with HK girl

Here's a swatch of the polish.

Its a very nice nude in creme finish. 2 coats are shown here. 

Matches my skin tone very well to do nude lace nails or even a classic french.

The dry time is decent. 10-12 mins. I really like the glossy shine of the polish..it was bit more glossy than the usual cremes you find in India.
Overall good value for money and Nice shade!



Disclaimer: Polish sent for reviews. However reviews are my own and unbiased.

Patterned Nails

Hi! Hope everyone's having a good year so far!

I did this for my anniversary in december but held on to posting it coz I was busy posting the seasonal manis. Which now reminds me I seriously need good plates with some nice firework images. 

Base: Essie Candy apple topped with Orly Sparkling Garbage

Stamped using konad black

Stamping plate: B.Loves Geometry is perfect

This pic has come out slightly yellow than actual coz it was taken late in the evening closer to sunset.

I love how sparkling garbage sparkles!

Fusion Fiesta

Running short on time. Have a backlog of manis to post. Also managed to made some really dud ones which I wont bother posting. But this one here was really pleasing.

Pointer and pinky: Base: Models own Shades 

Stamped with Uber chic beauty 3-02 and Konad white; 

Ring: Models Own coconut cream swirled with Opi Dating a Royal; 

Middle Fun Lacquer 24 karat

All topped with HKGirl 

NewU Glitter Nail Art using Outer Space and Green Glitz

I am in looooveeeee.....

with this mani!!!!! and these polishes!!

Base: Glitter polish is Outer Space  from Glitterati collection and Green Glitz on the middle and Ring finger; both from newu (link)

Stamping Plate JQ 41

Stamping polish: Konad Black

Tc HK girl

I completely love both these polishes!

Outer space (link; Rs.75/-) is has duo chrome green-blue and gold glitter in a black jelly polish base. Applied 3-4 coats for complete coverage.

Green Glitz (link; Rs.75/-) is a shimmery chartruese base with pale gold and green-gold duo chrome glitter. I was quite surprised how nice green glitz looked after I swatched it. Quite Lovely!

Applied 3 coats for complete coverage.

Both dried fast! Priced at around 

Heres a macro of Outer Space (Looooove at first sight!!)

Stay Quirky review Crazy Good Sand Effect

Another mani with my new SQ polishes

Base: SQ So crazy

Stamping plate: B.Loves Mind blown 03

Stamping polish: Konad black

Crazy Good (link; available on purplle.com) is a shimmery medium turquoise blue shade; with a sand effect finish. I really like this shade and this is something that I was looking forward to when Maybelline had launched their glitter mania line. But that was very few shades and was missing a turquoise in particular. This polish has very fine shimmer and super fine glitter. It can be a bit tough to remove it, so I have used a glue base under this polish.

I applied 2 coats in the pic above. It dries fast..3-4 mins.

Price is Rs.150/- for 8ml (mrp is Rs.200/- and they have some promotions going on).

The brand says its a part of the sand effect line where you can get gritty granular effect. 

Started chipping on the tips on the 3rd day.

Elegant Bridal Lace Nail Art

Here's a simple and elegant one, suitable to everyday too. One can add rhinestones to give it a glam/bridal look.

Base: Sheer pink unnamed local brand
Stamping plate: BP L-020
Stamping polish: Konad white

Matt neon print

Rainy weather here makes me wanna wear my manis matt for some reason...so all goes matt!!

Base: BK 28 (matt neon green)

Gradient with  Maybelline blackout

Stamping plate: BP L-004

Stamping polish: Konad black

Inglot matt tc

Rainbow Gradient in Glass Effect

Hello! 

This is a new one for me. I tried stain glass colours on a base of silver glitter and the effect looked very nice and shiny. I kept the plain base for a couple of days which is why you can see the edges of the nails have started to show. These colours are very versatile you can thin with using water and also get a nice tint effect and fill in your designs using lead light technique too.

 

 Base: Small silver glitter polish (local unbranded)

Fevicryl Stain glass colours applied using a flat paint brush 2-3 coats

Stamping plate: B.Loves flower power

Stamping polish: Konad white

Topped with hkgirl

Neon Illusion

I bought the China Glaze electric nights and finally sat down to watermarble.

I tried and I tried and I wasted so much polish..waaaay too much polish!!

Then I just sponged on a few different colours and got this:

The stamping went a bit off..I think it was due to the new squishy stamper I was trying and probably didnt prime it properly.

Base: Maybelline Porcelain Party

Sponged on: 5-6 shades from the China Glaze electric nights collection

Stamping plate: B.Loves Mind Blown

Stamping polish: Konad black

Topped with HKgirl

Dazzling Nail Art

I finally managed to get my hands on those awesome B.Loves plates. And I was eager to do some holo nails with the gorgeous mind blown plate. 

My nails were literally dancing in sunlight. The idea was inspired by my Friend (Mithi of nailpolishplay.com) 

Base: Dance Legend T-1000

Stamping plate: B.Loves mind blown

Stamping polish: Konad black

Summery Floral Nail Art

Base Shades: Models own Pink Veneer and coconut cream

Accent: T-1000 Dance legend

Stamping plate: Cici & Sisi 03

Stamping Polish: Konad black

Love love the holo from dance legend and these models own cremes. Everything seemed fine till I stamped up and then I applied a top coat which smudged the stamping a bit. But theres always a next time. till then!

Sweater Nails

These are sweater nails I did sometime in late December. Now even looking at these makes me sweat. The heating is rising up in Mumbai! Yet I think these colors are a cute summer combo I'd like to use again.

Base: China Glaze For Audrey

Accent: Maybelline Orange Fix

Stamping Plate: Moyou Festive plate 06

Stamping Polish: Konad blue

Geometric Nail Art : Advance stamping technique

Hear Hear! I tried stamping decals again after my earlier disastrous effects..encouraged by my friend Puja from cutenailstudio.blogspot.com/ She does some real fab designs. And mine turned out way better than what I thought. So yeah I am on a stamping decal roll!

Once you get the hang of this thing its quite addictive :p

Base: Maybelline Colorshow Black out

Filled the design with: Models Own Turquoise Gloss, Faces Matt Ibiza, Yellow is Maybelline Sweet Sunshine

Stamping Plate: Cici and Sisi 04

Stamping polish: Konad Black 

These are my decals on the stamp. Left them to dry for half an hour and lifted them from the sides. Came out quite nicely and as you can imagine I placed a few orders for more such stamping images that can be filled and squishy stampers too.

See ya soon!

Abstract gradient nail art

Loved this abstract gradient combo.

How about u?

For the gradient: Maybelline colorshow sweet sunshine, faces matte ibiza, and miss claire one stroke A18

Stamping plates:  Pueen 52

Free handed the stripes on accent

Stamping polish:  konad black

Jigsaw Nail Art

Without further ado!!

Base: China glaze secret periwinkle 

Stamping plate: BM 319

Stamping polish: konad White

Accent: maybelline CS glittermania all that glitters

For the foreseeable near future posts I will be keeping them just as short and simple. Please give a thumbs up or a hit a like in bloglovin or wherever you read this so I know that people still do read my post. Hoping to post a bunch load of back log soon. Ciao!

Chic pink

Took a long break didn't I?

Although I haven't really gone anywhere I've just been lazy to post. 

Instagram seems quite convenient as compared to blogging and I see most bloggers happily taking to that. But as most of them I too still love my blog more so let's keep it alive.

Here's a mani I did a few months ago.

Base: Miss Claire A18 (that's the name they gave this pretty shade). It seems to have become my go to favourite for a bright pink.

Accent fingers: Maybelline All that Glitters from their glitter mania range.

Stamping plate: OB38 stamped with maybelline bold gold. 

The studs are from born pretty store.

Trying to finish my backlog of unposted manis here's one I did. But am not fond of it. Something about the combo put me off.

While I love the glitter top coat called Pride by 27 polish. Bought this a couple years ago from their etsy store. I think the  yellow stamping on grey base didn't turn out as I imagined.

Base: china glaze white out and recycle

Glitter top coat: Pride by twenty seven polish.

Stamping polish: konad yellow

Stamping plate: BM 201

All topped with SV.

Starry gradient nail art

Gradient nails are super easy and fun and I keep making mental notes of the different combinations I want to try. One of them is this metallic gradient going from champagne gold to bronze-y brown.

Base: miss claire champagne gold (it actually has no shade name, just a number), Maybelline bold gold, Lakme metallics 241 and chg chiaroscuro.

Stamped with Konad black using Pueen 44.

Topped with Girl HK tc.

The below pic is before clean up but I just wanted to capture the base gradient. It would work really well for parties as well as normal day to day base coz it's not too blingy.

See ya soon with another mani.