Henna Series: Eid al-Adha 2014

Eid Mubarak to all of you. Today on this occasion of Eid al-Adha, I am sharing my latest nail art with you all. Hope you all like it.

You can see my previous henna designs here.

Halloween Series: BOO!

Hello Friends, Its October already and October means Halloween. So starting today till Halloween, I will be posting as many Halloween related nail art posts, as possible. If you get bored, drop me a line and I will post something different. Sounds like a plan? So here we go. My first Halloween nail art this year - BOO! This is done free hand using a fine nail art brush.

You can check out Halloween nail art from last year here. Stay tuned for more.

Rimmel London

Hello Friends, Sharing with you all today swatch of my very first Rimmel London Nail Polish called Sweet Lavender. I never bought any polishes from this brand before but recently saw this pretty shade in a store and had to buy it right away. The brush that comes with the polish I really like it. Its wide and makes application of nail polish very easy. I applied 2 coats of nail polish to achieve the consistency in the pictures below. I love this color a lot, something you will see me using a lot for sure.

Monthly Mani Favorites: September 2014

It's end of month and time to choose the Montly Mani Favorites again. You can see last month's poll here. In case you haven't done this before, this is your chance to take the poll below and let me know of your favorite nail art from the month gone by. Hurry up as the poll lasts only for few days.

Which is your favorite nail art from the month of September on Nails Context?

Icing by Claires

Hi Friends. Whenever I am shopping at random stores and see them selling some different brand polishes, I always like to buy an unusual shade which I don't have and try it out. This time while shopping at the Icing store, I spotted some nail polishes for sale and decided to buy this unusual pale yellow shade called Salt-Tequila-Lime. I like the wide brush which came with the polish as wide brushes make polish application easy. It took me 3 coast to achieve the opaqueness of the polish below. I like the shade itself as I don't own any other polish shades like this one.

Magnetic Polish

Magnetic Polishes are not new and if you are really into polishes then you must have seen them in the store's since 2012. I was talking to someone recently and they started to admire my nails, on which I was wearing the Magnetic Polish. They had no idea what it was and had lots of questions about how to apply them. So this post is for those of you who are not aware of what Magnetic Polishes are and how to apply them.

As I mentioned above Magnetic Polishes have been around for almost two years now and now every possible nail polish brand has there own line of them. I got mine back in 2012 from Nails Inc. It is a pretty shade of purple called "Houses of Parliament". Every magnetic polish comes with a magnet on the polish bottle which creates the magnetic pattern and each bottle usually has a different pattern with them. So if you buy one magnetic polish, you can create only one pattern with it.

TIP: You can always try using the magnet in different directions so that the pattern comes out looking different each time.

Now on how to get the magnetic polish and get the magnetic effect-
Apply your usual base coat and let it dry. Working one nail at a time, apply a coat of magnetic polish till its opaque and then immediately hold the magnet over the nail. Hold the magnet completely still for at least 10 seconds. You will see the desired magnetic design forming on your nails. Continue this process on all ten nails. Wait a few minutes for the magnetic design to set before applying topcoat.

These look so lovely that someone asked me, if it is the scaled gradient technique I used to create this nail art? :) Definitely must try.

Pink Leaves

I wanted to create some free-hand contrasting leaves for this nail art and had the hardest time deciding what colors to use until I settled for this color scheme. The polishes I used are Butter London’s Cotton Buds and Fruit Machine. Also used Revlon’s Plum Seduction. Love the outcome here.