Leopard Print Nails

If you come here often, you would know that I absolutely LOVE animals. If I were an animal, I would totally be a Leopard. Or a Panther.

If I were a dog I`d be a Beagle, well because they`re so excited in life! Or an  Afghan Hound, cos they`re so elegant :D and cos of their poker straight hair plus they`re tall. So more Afghan hound than beagle.

ANYWAY.

Similarly I love animal print, but leopard print in particular. Not such a fan of leopard print in any other colour (pink/blue) apart from the one nature gave them!

Since I love nail polish too ( i love a lot of things u see) I combined them :)

I got two KONAD nail stamping plates (along with its stamper and scrapper) at Nails & Beauty. They have a whole bunch of KONAD stuff. They dont have Cash On Delivery but you can give them a cheque once the guy delivers it. So its pretty convenient.

They have great customer service as well, as a matter of fact the owner responds to your mails almost immediately! 

Konad Image Plate M 57
It has a zebra print too! and LACE!

(Sorry for the reflection, thats not a part of the plate,its just my window)

The leopard print design I`ll be using.

So this is all that is required.

Left-Scrapper
Right-Stamp

& Image Plate

Whoever invented this method of nail art is quite the genius. I LOVE how simple and easy it is.

1. Paint over the design you want, preferably with a thick nail polish. If you use one that is new and runny, it wont stick very well.

2.The scrapper has a tiny little blade on the end, which I wish wasn't so tiny, but anyway. The design is engraved on the plate in such a way that when you go over it with a scrapper,the nail polish remains in the indented parts.

3. After you have cleared the excess nail polish with a scrapper, you are left with what you see in image 3. Now with the rubber stamp just press on it. 

4. The remaining nailpolish i.e the design will now be on ur stamp!

                                     

5. Now just take the stamp and press it over your nails!

 This is what you`ll have in the end, obviously wipe off the extra print with an ear bud.

 I like animal print in small doses. Thus havn`t gone all out and leopard printed (yup! its a verb now) ALL of my nails. Just one nail on each hand. I also like how random it is.

Each Image plate is Rs 175, and the scrapper +stamp together were Rs.140.The image plates are a little expensive for something that small, but you will get some use out of it.

The other image plate has a stencil that gives a crackle effect, which is pretty cool. Separate post on that!

VOV was having a sale on Fashion and You some time back, and I grabbed some nailpolishes. Since I really think India has a dearth of brands that sell good nail colours, I grab anything and everything in that department, any chance I get.

They say Quick Dry on them, but they also turned out to be matte. Which I dont mind AT all.
I used the gold one, on the far right as my base colour.

I am not being sponsered by Nails And Beauty btw. They should now though :) No they`re the only ones who supply these Konad plates here in India so I am pretty excited :)

 I think Urban Touch has some kits too, but you can actually choose from various imgae plates on Nails&Beauty.

ZARA has a similar bag

Minimal Animal Print.

I want this blazer SO bad, and they had a major reduction on it too. So I went to ZARA, all ready to buy it but I didnt see it anywhere. Maybe that`s a good thing, cos I dunno how many times I would wear it !

My other Leopard print stuff. 

Scarf-Some random shop. Really cheap sorts, I think 50 bucks.

Sandals-ZARA

Flats-ZARA

I am saving these for the winter!

If you were an animal-what would you be?

&

Do YOU like animal print?

 Btw, Cynthia & Mehak, you should try this :)

Neon Neon

Is the John Mayer Song now stuck in your head? Good. Cos it`s been in my head since I decided to do this post.

I quite like the NEON trend. I like to call it ColourBlocking on COCAINE. 

It fits, no?

I think the best way to do neon is either on its own, like a solid neon dress or mix and break it with neutrals.

Or do it with your accessories, like a pop of colour on your shoes or 


a bright lipstick OR

 with a bright bag from ZARA


I went to Zara recently, and I kid you not, you need to wear shades when you enter the store. People who can`t/don`t really work with too much colour WILL have a hear attack from all the brightness and those who absolutely LOVE colour (like tanvi and I) will ALSO have a heart attack, from the sudden excitement.




I love pops of colour, or colour in general ( i am a VERYYYY colourful person ) and I have embraced neons as if it were my long lost child (pet is more like it). 


These days I have shockingly coral nails as you might`ve seen while I hand model over at the Classy&Fabulous Shop (sorry for the shameless self promotion) 

My eye popping neon nailpolishes

The trick with neons is to go easy, have it as a surprise element in your outfit.

 And remember the line between embracing neons and looking like Govinda is very thin.

 

But also have fun with it, goes without saying actually. 

One plus with the Delhi sun is that it makes colour REALLY pop.

These are my neon staples at the moment, and you can see me wearing a solid neon coral dress in my Graduation Party/ Conti Post 

 I want to attack ZARA once more though.

So will you let NEONS in or just put your shades on, and move on?

Nail Care Products I Love

If you come by regularly (if not, WHY NOT!?) then you would know that I absolutely love painting my nails. But one draw back to that is my nails get really YELLOW. I doubt that the fact that the yellow-ness has any other bad effect to the nails, they just end up looking really bad and sick.

The problem solver :

COLORBAR NAIL TREATMENT YELLOW NO MORE

It`s a base coat and works wonders. Just apply it before doing anything and it dries pretty quickly.

This was for 150/- and I don`t know if it`s available at any random beauty shop, I bought it from the Select City Walk Outlet.

Next great product I came across is this FLORMAR Grape Seed nail polish remover.(I had actually never heard of this company before.)

You know how normal removers smell really strong and bad. They have a really intense chemical smell. Well this one really surprised me. It smells of grapes.Thats It! You cannot smell the acetone in it at all. Nor does it make your hand and nails feel flaky and dry.

Its supposed to have 'excellent mouisturizing and nourishing properties'

This was for 125/- and I got it from the NEW U store that recently opened near my place which I am really kicked about :)

Hot Pink Nails

Nailpolish from HERE

Cherry Culture Haul

The Cherry Culture gods have finally decided to smile upon me. Actually no, I paid $23 dollars to MAKE them smile upon me. ANYWAY. Here we go: )

[ Btw, I dedicate this post to Mehak from Peaches & Blush- Beauty Blog bcos she went through the same problems with cherry culture as I did and she needs some cheering up! ]

The Package!

  

Well Everything!

I was the MOST excited about the seven nailpolishes I got.
My Mother and I are always on the lookout for the perfect true red. So i bought two Haha : )

All my nailpolishes. I don`t think any on them is over $3.50

Love the matte one. I hope they start selling matte ones here!

I didn`t swatch the NYX Pomegrante and L.A Girls disoc CHIC because the true colour wasn`t coming in the pictures. The nyx one is a really hot pink which I LOVE and CHIC is a soft creamy pink.

Then I got three of these L.A Colors Baked Eyeshadows.

They are quite pigmented and yes there are a lot of gold-ey bronze-ey colours but my Mother wanted them and well, she`s paying for them Ha!

But seriously, they ARE great. Colour wise and also quality.

 Seems like this little fellow (purple) suffered some injuries while travelling all the way from California Thru Paris to New Delhi!

I have never liked GREEN as an eyeshadow colour but this one has such a nice gold sheen to it.

I love this coral lip gloss, it give an orangish tinge.

Jumping on the NUDE LIPSTICK bandwagon!

Also bought two eye pencils and the NYX jumbo eyeshadow pencil in MILK that Everyone has!
And a concealer by L.A Girl in NUDE and it is BRILLIANT

So that was that. I also went shopping at Forever 21 some weeks back and took pictures of everything but that camera went bust! So I have been using my mothers camera. I tried to re take all the forever 21 pictures but I think the ones on MY camera were better. I am not saying my mothers camera sucks ( cos I think I`ve said it one too many times to my mother, and she reads my blog! ) but I `am just going to wait for my camera to recover : )

And gossip girl returns today. YAY!

Oh, BTW. Look At My Rings :)