Monthly Mani Favorites: Jan 2017

One month already gone and we are already looking at the second month of 2017. So here are my favorite nail designs for January. Which one is your favorite?

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Chinese New Year

It's Chinese New Year today and every year I think of creating Chinese nail art for this occasion but either I forget or don't have enough time on my hands. But this year I was determined to create a Chinese themed nail art for this occasion.

Those of you don't know Chinese New Year is based on Lunar calendar and is also known as the "Spring Festival" in mainland China. The Chinese Zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, is based on a twelve-year cycle and each year in that cycle is related to an animal sign. Year 2017 is the year of a rooster. Red symbolizes good fortune and joy in Chinese culture and it is found everywhere during the Chinese New Year combined with shades of Gold, so I created this red and gold nail art for this occasion. In case you are wondering what that sign means on my little finger, it is the symbol of Luck in Chinese.

In Chinese culture, the red lantern is the symbol of booming life and prosperous business, so they are always hung on important festivals such as Lantern Festival and Chinese New Year. Hence I created the lantern on my middle finger, hanging from a blooming tree. Hope you all enjoyed all these fun facts surrounding Chinese culture and New Year, and will love this nail art as much as I do.

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone.

Indian Republic Day

Today is Indian’s 68th Republic Day and on this occasion I am sharing with you all a nail art inspired by Indian Flag colors. In India, Republic Day honors the date on which the Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950. Since India's national bird is Peacock, I wanted to create something depicting it using the National Flag colors. I did this nail art free-hand and used all polishes - Zoya's Purity, Michael Kor's Passion, Sinfulcolor's Innocent, Cupcake polish Little Butterfly and Ulta's Moody Blue.

Check out some other nail designs inspired by Indian Flag- HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Happy Republic Day Fellow Indians

Winter Glam

Sharing some winter glam nail art with you all. I used Cupcake Polish's What in Carnation? as the base blue, on that I free-handed OPI's Super Star Status. Then using a dotting tool I added black and white dots on the top. Hope you all like this winter glam look. Enjoy!!!

Blue and Blue

From the archives: These nails are from 3 years ago and I thought I had lost them but guess what I found them in a old folder of my hard drive and decided to share them anyways :)

Animal Print Nails

I love creating animal print nails and this time I wanted to mix and match some metallic polishes to create one. So I free-handed this design using OPI DS Glow, Zoya's Ziv, Butter London's Cotton Buds and Formula X's Dark Matter.

Bracelet: Chloe and Isabel's Rebel Statement Bracelet

Holo Drag Marble

I decided to create another heart drag marble, this time with some of my favorite Holographic polishes from Glisten & Glow - Raspberry Margarita and Black Roses. To see there swatches click HERE. Also in order to see how to do a heart drag marble click HERE to watch my tutorial.