All you need is Polish And A Plastic Sheet

Hello and welcome to day two of Crumpet's Nail Tarts Tri Polish Challenge.

I don't really have anything to talk about today, so here's the mani.

 

Deborah Milano #833. Maybelline Laranja Citrico, Etude #107

I started with two coats of VOV white no. 70 .

Then using this awesome technique i learnt from
Shilpa's Blog - Love For Nail Art, i put blobs of the colours i chose and used a plastic sheet to cover the nail and smudge it? Spread it? Blend it? Argh see for yourself.

 

It kinda reminds me of the multi coloured mani i did with the straw but in this the colours are more blended in.

the middle finger got a teeny bit spoilt

I quite liked the effect and will try it with more pastel colours or maybe on a black base sometime soon.

with a thick layer of top coat

 

with top coat

Toodles

 

Check out what the other Tarts did! lol :P

Tri Polish Challenge - Day 1 (French Tips)

hello loves,
i hope you'll didn't have a too crappy Monday. I've jut got to go work tomorrow and then i have Thursday and Friday off. That makes me want to do my happy dance, no one said it was a good dance. Just Saying.

Today we start Month Two Day 1 of  Crumpet's Nail Tarts Tri Polish Challenge .

 

The basic gist of this challenge is that every month three colours are chosen, you have to pick a polish for each colour. Then you gotta do a mani each on the last two Tuesdays and Thursdays of the month using the same polishes, and free use of white black and glitters are allowed cause these ladies are kind like that. The colours for this month are Orange, Turquoise and Pink, such a bright fest. 

I picked out Deborah Milano 833- a beautiful pink that makes me so happy, Etude no. 179 a great turquoise, and Maybelline Colorama Laranja Citrico a bright orange. Bring out your sunglasses y'all!!

I started with painting the top half my nails orange, i used two coats of Laranja Citrico, then leaving the tips orange i painted the remaining bit turquoise, i used two coats because it is kinda runny. I painted the rest of my nails pink leaving out a crescent of turquoise. Think double french manicure with super bright colours.

 

Then i added two coats of my VOV #90 transparent polish that i use as Top Coat, to even out the bumps you could still see them in bright light though. 

 

Did you like it? I'm quite happy with this mani which is good because the last two mani's for the Tri Polish Challenge (March) make me cringe.

A little happier than usual,

Check out what the other Tarts did! lol :P

I'll take my inspiration wherever I find it!

Mayans gambled.

What else would explain the Mayan inspired playing cards i found!

 source

 Ancient Mayan was the time period for last week's Inspired By A Time Period Challenge by Llama Nails.

Initially i thought it was Ancient Greece and kept putting it off then i saw it was Mayan and boy was it difficult to find inspiration.

I looked and looked and found the Russian playing cards inspired by mayans. Ill take my inspiration wherever i find it thank you

Thus was born this mani.

I started with Avon Warm Black two coats. Then i cut off the bristles of a paint brush to make my own striping tool and used it with a cute Etude cherry red,nameless, then i just sponged the other two colours from the playing card. I used a VOV gold and Etude turquoise blue both nameless.

i also tried to do the design just like the playing card with the star thingie in the square but it didn't turn out that great. :(

This is my Mani it's not the best but I'd decided to show you'll all my mani's fail or no fail. And this one isn't half bad actually, it's just a million miles away from the kind of mani you'd expect for this time period.


Peace Out!

Don't forget to go see what all the other lovely ladies did! :)

Bling a Ling

woot! that doesn't make sense! I know :) so you know how i was supposed to catch up with my mani's in the sequence they were supposed to be posted? well I've decided to let my mild OCD relax for a bit. I went and looked at all the other posts out there and i wanted in.

So here it is my second post in the same day *ha don't get used to it* for the same challenge which the awesome Moore is hosting with me. It is The Girly Girl Challenge - Gimme That Bling!

So i started with my VOV clear polish that i use as base coat and top coat and then using my fingers smeared on paste. Yup! normal ordinary craft paste and waited for it to dry.

Still with me? Good. So i wanted this to be a total bling-y affair and all i wanted to use was glitter dust so i used the paste to help me peel off the glitter easy peasy :)

*drool*

I bought this from Khar Beauty Centre (for anyone who is in Mumbai) for umm 250 rs i think. That is approximately 6 USD. Neat right? Then i used the Blue Silver and Pink and mixed them up, i applied another coat of VOV transparent on my nails and dipped my finger into the glitter then i used a brush to fill in the gaps and then added another coat of polish.

 under the light

 wannabe macro shot. lol

 most colour accurate

 this ones without top coat

Lets just go look at them again..i love it! Now this is also the Mani i wore for my surgery and as soon as i was admitted they wanted me to take it off so i had this on for like 2 hours only what a waste. Thank god for me i had decided to try the paste technique or I'd have to spend forever getting this off in the hospital. The paste technique pretty much worked i peeled most of it off and had to use a little bit of acetone to get rid of the base coat and few sparklies. i know that is not a word.


I should be in bed!

Do check out what the other girls did :) 

Crazy Cat Lady!

Yay i have a nice title today :) As you know I'm doing the Inspired By A Time Period Challenge by Llama Nails and this weeks era is Ancient Egypt. 

What? did anyone think I'm going to get straight to polish without a little jibber-jabber first? Hell to the No! 
It is kinda polish related though, i was super clueless as to what to do for this challenge. I googled and that made it worse then i looked at my stamps and i saw a cat although with a flower on her tail and i thought oh this is Egyptian and well of course it is so i took what i had and ran with it! *not literally*.

So i started with Avon Simply Pretty Glitter Gold and did two coats, now my camera decided to act funny so i took pictures in different places and that causes my fingers to look different, however I do not use colour correct because I'm too poor to afford one! *rather too lazy to look it up*.

It is kinda frosty and needs two coats to not show streaks but its a nice colour that i would've never thought of wearing alone then inspired by google i added blue stripes to my nails using Colorbar Blue Topaz which is super runny, hence not ideal for striping but i make do cause I'm hard-working like that. 
After i did my pinkie i started stiping my ring finger  i wanted that to be the accent with the cat so a quick change in plan and i had two cats :) which i loved btw which makes me wait for it... the Crazy Cat Lady! 

the stamp had a few delicate details and i had to struggle to get it on camera but i did succeed after a bazillion photos were taken! 
Now remember i do not have a striping tool and I was too lazy to cut such fine tape strips so do not cringe at the lines :)

I love it! do you?  i made it better too you know by adding Fairy Dust aka Glitter Polish! 

 look at my cats! :)

ooo shiny!

Isn't this awesome? I actually like what i did which is what this is about anyway! Oh and Happy Holi to all me Indian lovelies out there! :) I'll elaborate on Saturday i have a post planned :)

Here's the picture for the Girly Girl Challenge, it's not what the challenge creator has suggested this is one i found off the net. 

Source

See you soon,

Don't forget to go see what all the other lovely ladies did! :)

I hate Tuesdays!

I hate this one! why? cause i had to go back to work and i missed being at home so much :( also by 4 i was so drowsy because i didn't have nap time *shame i know* 
well I'm home now and also i gotta post today's Crumpet's Nail Tarts Tri Polish Challenge  they're doing the annual team shuffle also know as make you hate work even more! they change the people we work with so we get to know everyone! I really liked this team! I hate change i know its inevitable but there's always that feeling of i know this is good-bye even though we're acting like its not...people change i know but why do we loose touch with friends we couldn't think about parting ways with at one point? 

I wanna know what you think....

On to my mani which also is pretty darned normal, the Avon polishes are pretty runny so it was difficult to think of what to do with them! Here's what i did anyway, first my colours!

  Avon Electic Green, Midnight Plum and Coral Beat.

Then i used two coats Midnight Plum as my base and added Coral Beat as a contrasting French Tip.

as you can see under this kinda lighting its still sheer

 the weird marks are from the glue on the tape! sorry!

 my thumb! its not half unpolished its just weird

then i added my VOV glitter cause i didn't like this all that much! do you think glitter fixed it? i have mixed feelings about that! 

 ta-da!

thats the glitter bottle!

I have to add that the glitter polish is just awesome! It is thick and gloopy but you kinda have to dab and see if you notice my index finer it has a surprise star or two in it! plus the circles and hexes are so versatile they looked orange on this mani but when i tried it on another one it looked more nude! cool? i think so :) 

I think i also found the pick-me-up I've been looking for.. om nom nom glitter!!

Thank god you'll aren't gonna change

Have a look at the other awesome Mani's for the challenge:-

I'm a girly girl!

Yes I am! A friend once asked me if I'd ever gotten into a fight with another girl, I looked at him wondering where he was going with this.. because well us girls we fight you know, he then continued "You know the kinda fight where you pulled her hair or hit her" I looked at him horrified, and he laughed apparently that was expected because he thought i was too girly to actually hit anyone. I stood corrected *kinda* after i punched him in the stomach for saying something so stupid!  Okay maybe the punch didn't hurt but you know i can't really deny the fact that I am girly I love pink and glitter and unicorns that poop butterflies *kidding* 

Is anyone wondering what my point is yet? I'm announcing a new challenge :) Along with Moore and its called the Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge. It's all her brilliant idea and she came across it and thought it would be fun to do and agree! We'll be starting from next Friday i.e. 29th March and continue posting every Friday so March 29th, April 5th, April 12th, April 19th, April 26th, May 3rd, May 10th and May 17th.

Here are the themes :

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge
1. Think Pink
Wear your favourite pink nail polish and nail art.
2. Gimme That Bling
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, so put some sparkle on those nails!
3. Delicate and Elegant
Adorn yourself with a lovely pattern, colour or technique
4. Inspired by the Runway
What is your favourite trend this season? Show us your stylish nail designs!
5. Gotta Love Chick Flicks
We can’t resist! Wear a nail design inspired by your favourite chick flick.
6. Who Inspires You?
Show some love to your favourite female role model by creating gorgeous nails in their honor.
7. Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice
That’s what little girls are made of! Show off your sweet (or spicy) inspired nails.
8. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!
It’s true, we do! Let your nail designs show us how fun-loving you are!
Originally created by Neverland Nail Blog

I'm super excited and i would love it if you'll do the challenge with us. 

Now I do have a mani to show as well or I'd feel like the kid who came to school empty- handed on Show and Tell day!  

I started with VOV Got A Pretty In Thailand (woot two posts in one week using the same mani! yes i think I'm in love). I wanted something nice and bright to cheer me up cuz i had to go to the hospital to get my stitches checked and see if the histopath reports were back. 

*sigh*

Then i added this VOV Glequin which has Pink hexes and silver fairy dust! aka glitter :) I added two coats and pardon my camera because it does not do this baby justice at all.

 is it just me or is my little finger too little?

 this one is most glitter accurate

this one is most colour accurate

My sister bought me this one after i gave her instructions on the phone about where the counter for glitter polish is. The perks of surgery are few but oh so good!! Also this has a super slow dry time but nothing top coat can't take care of.  

My new comment widget quit on me in my last post here's hoping it stays okay in this one :) and do the challenge! 

Loads of Love,