Matte

Matte nails have been popular for a while. To create them you dont need a bunch of Matte polishes, just the right Matte top coat. So today, using my Matte top coat from Butter London, I turned my glossy nails to matte nails. The polishes I used are - base coat is Maybelline's Naturally Creme, American Apparel's Peacock and Blueberry.

Here is a glossy version of the nails -

Which one do you like better? Matte or Glossy version?

Flower Power

Its Fall season upon us and for some reason the color beige reminds me of Fall. While all the flowers are dying in Fall, I decided to create some pretty floral nails as I miss Spring already. The base polish I used it Maybelline’s Naturally Cream

Adding Glitter

So you all like my black, white and grey vertical stripes from yesterday? I added some black and white glitter to it :) I got this idea from Pinterest. While browsing it yesterday I saw a similar nail art as mine with some glitter on it and decided to enhance my nail art with some black n white glitter which I already had.

Which one do you like better? The vertical stripes nail art or the add on of glitter on my nail art. Let me know in the comments section below :)

Here is a picture of nail art before I added the glitter -

You can read more about it in yesterday's post here.

Beige and Black Polka Dota

Sometimes all you need a simple nail art and nothing makes me more happy than a simple polka dots mani. So I created this beige black polks dots mani to match my polka dot bracelet. Hope you all will like it. I used Maybelline polishes - Black Onyx and Naturally Cream

Black n Gold laser tape manicure

Hello! I am not really pleased with the manicure that I am featuring today but decided to share with you all anyways.

This is a really easy manicure and I started by first painting my nails a base color. I used Zoya’s Ziv as the base which is golden. Once it was completely dry I cut the striping tape and taped it on random sections of my nails. Then I painted over the nail completely with black – Maybelline’s Black Onyx and then slowly peeled off the striping tape. What was left was lines in the color of base, which was golden. That’s it easy –peasy.

You can see some of my other striping tape designs here, here and here.

One Stroke Nail Art

I was shocked to realize I had never tried the one stroke nail art technique before today so I decided to give it a try. Now this was really something, took me a couple of tries to get it right especially with nail polishes. Most of the nail artists try it with acrylic paint. But I stick to nail polishes for my nail art.

To start with I painted my nails with Maybelline’s Onyx Rush and let it dry. After that following the one stroke flower nail art technique, I took 2 different colors (Sinfulcolors Snow Me White and Sunset) on either end of the brush and did continuous strokes with the brush to create the flower petals. I repeated it till the flower was complete and added dots in the middle and sides. It was harder to create the same design on my right hand using my left hand.

I like how this turned out considering it was my first attempt with one stroke nail art. I am glad the colors I chose as well for this. They really compliment one another.

Maybelline's Naturally Cream

I have been looking for the perfect beige polish for my collection from a long time and recently came across "the nudes" collection from Maybelline and found this lovely shade called Naturally Cream from the collection. It’s a beautiful shade of beige and you require only 2 coats to get it opaque. I am a bit late in doing the swatch for this, and have already used it in a number of nail art’s. You can see me using it before with the OPI muppets most wanted collection here and stay tuned for more nail art’s incorporating this nail lacquer.

Neon and Black

Neon polish is hard to wear in day to day life coz the nails are super neon-ish and attract a lot of attention, not that it is a bad thing but I would rather wear neon nails on vacation. And that's what I did on a recent weekend getaway, I painted my nails in neon yellow and added some funky nail art to go with it, in the colors that would compliment neon.

The polishes that I have used are - Neon is Claire's Sunshine, Black is Maybelline's Onyx Rush and White is SinfulColor's Snow Me White.

Did you like this all neon polish? If so let me know in the comments below.

Freehand Chevron Pattern

You all remember my Chevron nail art. This time for the chevron mani, instead of using tape to create chevron pattern, I freehanded it. It was easy to do and I was done quickly. The polishes that I have used are both Sally Hansen's - Hard to Get and Mellow Yellow. The glitter polish is Maybelline's Gilded Rose.

Maybelline ColorShow Street Art

If you follow me on Instagram you probably already saw me eyeing the new Maybelline New York's Color Show Street Art Collection. Of course I couldn't just stop there and bought one from the collection which caught my eye - GREEN GRAFFITI. This is a beautiful collection I must say, an addition to the polka dot collection that came out a while ago.

So I did a quick swatch for all of you to see how it looks. Instead of applying this polish on the usual black and white polishes (on which this polish would be hard to see since it contains black and white glitter), I applied it on the beautiful maroon polish called GET IT ON from Sinfulcolors. You can see it's swatch here.

When applying the polish spreads well and it isn't hard to get the glitter out of the bottle (which is usually the case with some glitter polishes). The glitter, as you can see in some of the pics, consists of bold and small hex and bar glitter of colors, black, white and green.

The collection has some other awesome glitter polishes as well and you can find this in your nearest drug store.

Red n Black design with Gold

Today's nail art is from late last year, which I did to match another one of my Indian outfit's and it's colors.

The polishes that I have used are - Zoya's Ziv, Sephora by OPI's Only Gold for Me, Maybelline's Onyx Rush, Ulta's Red Carpet Red, Revlon's Golden, Sally Hansen's Hard To Get.

Tribal Nail Art

You remember my first tribal nail art and how I didn't like it a bit. So this time I decided to give it another try and with some different design. I think this one came out better than the previous one.

For base coat I used Essence polish called "Miss Universe". You can see the swatch of this polish here. On that using the nail polish brush itself I did a broad line with Maybelline's Black Onyx. On top of that using a thin nail art brush I created the white design using SinfulColor's Snow Me White.

Here are some pics before I added the dots to the design -

I think I like it better with the dots instead of without the dots. Which one do you like? Let me know in the comments section below :)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year my lovely readers. I am back from my vacation and back to daily blog posts. So on the first day of this year instead of new year resolutions, I have this pretty nail art to share with you all. I have gotten a lot of compliments on this one so I know you all are going to love it.

The polishes that I have used are: White - Butter London's Cotton Buds, Orange - OPI's On the same Paige, Red - Ulta's Red Carpet Red, Black - Maybelline's Onyx Rush.

Enjoy, hope you all had a great start of the new year :)

Colorblocking and Polka Dots

There are lot of nail arts out there which are inspired by outfits and accessories. My nail art for today is a nail art which gave me an outfit idea, instead of being other way around.

The polishes that I have used are: Black is Maybelline's Onyx Rush, White is Sally Hansen's Hard to Get and Purple is Ulta's Celebutante

Below is a picture of my outfit which was inspired by my nailart :) Black polka dot top with purple jeans.