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?

Get Drunk After The Niceties Are Over

Conti Couture

[My post title is courtesy  Mehak from Peaches&Blushes who came up with it when I complained of not liking the word CONTI over twitter, and my sub heading is courtesy my verrryyyy good friend, Saali Khushi. So due credit to them and none to me for my KAAM CHORI!]


So I am not going to bore you with the clichéd college is ending 'oh-my-godsss'  and I will get right down to the good stuff.

Nude Strappy Flats- Finesse, Khan Market

Sit,I shall tell you a story. 

I was walking  trekking through Sarojini Nagar looking for this shop called KINS ( I`ve talked about this in my Sarojini Nagar Shopping post) and I say I am trekking because that day the entire Sarojini was dug up cos they were laying CCTV cables. So there is basically nowhere to you can normally walk. There are just large chunks of what used to be a path lying around everywhere. I suddenly saw this amazing pink coral dress hanging in front of a random shop. I asked the guy if there is any other color available (this is something I ALWAYS do, ask for all the colors of anything I want so I can choose the one I like the best) he says no. I believe him cos I actually couldn't see anything else in his little shop which resembled this.
He said 300. My mother walked away. Then he said "okay 200" 

The tag says Lipsy London. I went to their site to so I could actually see how much this really was for.

Although I couldn`t place this particular dress, most of their dresses are for 55 Pounds.Which is QUITE alot.

Moral of the story? Shop At Sarojini.

Onto The Accessories 

Pearl Necklace worn as a Bracelet- ALDO
Silver Stone Earings- Local Silver Shop

Nailpolish- Colorbar Exclusive 59, this nailpolish should actually be called SHINY DISCO BALLS

If you rewind back to about 4 years ago, I remember how there were such few shops you could go to to buy dresses. It used to be so damn hard to find a dress you actually liked. I remember only finding them in Benetton or places like Westside. Westside seldom had any and Benetton didn`t have a large variety.
 For one of my school contis this girl and I picked up the same dress. It was very annoying because I had bought it a good 5-6 months before her. Anyway, looking back it was a petty thing (come on though, you know my annoyance was justified!!) and I bet this girl doesn't even WANT to wear dresses anymore. Why I am saying all this is because with the sudden entry of high street labels such as Mango, Promod, Zara , Forever 21 there is no dearth of dresses and no one can actually say there is no choice or variety. We are actually spoilt for choice now. I bet even with these many choices people end up wearing the same dress to a party but I doubt that that feeling of desperation is still there which at least we used to have when we were in school.

Anyway so that random rant ends there.

I Want

Desperately in need (WANT) of some shoes for spring/summer and a nice bag. Or two.