Monday Manicure: Freehand Geometrical Design

Yay! A Monday Manicure after a long long time! The winter's been very harsh on my nails, yes even in Mumbai! So I haven't been wearing as much nail polish as I used to. My nails keep breaking and nail polish keeps chipping too! X(

Anyway, I did this manicure a couple of days ago, I was really bored and decided to do it freehand. I would have normally use tape for lines like this but the glue on the tape was too strong and peeling off my polish.. Grrr...

So I used a paint brush! Lol!

Sure, it's not as neat as using tape. But still fun to do!
Btw see how dry my cuticles are? ;n;

The colours I used are China Glaze "Flyin' High" for a base, "Re-fresh Mint" for the mint and Maybelline Colorama "Sexy" for the pink! Hope you like it! ^_^

What do you like using to do nail art?

♥

Manicure Monday: Jackson Pollock Manicure

Ok, so that's just a clever name for a splatter manicure! LOL! But seriously, I'm in love with this mani! I was itching to use the Flyin' High China Glaze polish Deepika gave me and I decided to go all artsy with it!

I used Ulta3 polish in Hot Spring and Street Wear Silver Sparkle to make the pattern using cling film! If you remember, Hot Spring was the brush-less wonder from my Australia haul. It's thickened up and is perfect for this job! The silver was camera shy and doesn't look as good as in real life. :(

This manicure was so simple and fun to do, I don't know why I hadn't tried it before! Have you tried it ever? If you haven't you should! :D

Oooh! And I'm so excited that Mary Kom is on to the Semis! I hope she gets gold! I can't think of anyone else who deserves it more! ♥ Go Mary Kom FIGHTING!!

Manicure Monday: Blingtastic Sequined Nails with Review

Hey everyone! Here's a little change from my makeup challenge, I decided to do my nails with a little effort yesterday, I've been doing them lazily for a while now since I had such a huge workload to deal with!
So I thought I would try this awesome glitter that was sent to me by KKCenterHk.

KKCenterHk, is a great stroe where you get everything beauty related under the sun for very reasonable prices :)
The glitter I received is a beautiful gold colour, this is the actual product name and link:  N.NAIL 1.5mm Bright Glitter- B0208.
The jar is $5.54 for 10 g and will seriously last me a life time! The glitter is 1.5mm in size and just the right size to be used on nails. The glitter is good quality and I like that it's a bit thick so it doesn't fly around when opened. The size is pretty uniform too!

I plan to use this glitter for eye makeup too! Lets see how that goes. :)

Now here's my manicure!

flash

w/out flash

detail

 I used NYX's Hot Coral and while it was still wet, set the glitter in there with a toothpick. Then added top coat!  I liked how it turned out! I obviously have a thing for coral and gold, I'm sure some of you remember this tutorial. :D

Anyway, I hoped you liked this Manicure Monday! Make sure to check out KKCenterHk! 

Use the code: beautyandthecheap and get 10% off your purchase!

*Valid till 31st Jan 2013

*Product was sent to me for review.

Manicure Monday: Glitter Confetti and FOTD

Finally a Monday Manicure! Sorry for such a lame-o one! I'll have an epic one next week.. (At least i hope. >.>)
Anyway, I call this Glitter Confetti but its just this manicure revisited.. Used th same NYX Multi Glitter polish, except over white. ^u^

The multi glitter polish is thickening up! I has a sad! ;-;

Anyway, this is the FOTD today! Ansh from Vanity No Apologies sent me over the Forever Pink Infallible eyeshadow for my contest prize and it was so pretty I had to try it out! My camera no pick up the prettiness! X(
 It looks a lot like MAC Expensive pink, I was just like : *u* PURDEH! Thanks Ansh! *kisssssiiieeees*

Forever Pink and Revlon "Coffee Bean" quad on lids

Buttery Nude Xtreme Lip colour by NYX on lips! ♥

My hair is starting to fade! SOB! I have to wash it more often because of the damned humidity.. 'll have to touch up soon. :C
Sorry I'm not writing much, I've become an old lady these days, I sleep at 11:30pm and wake up at 8 am.. I don't do that usually! I feel like there's something wrong even though what I'm doing is healthy. LOL!

Btw,  I'm going to have an interesting post tomorrow for FOTD! :D So come back! LOL! Bye!
♥
ps: After the circle lens post, I feel like I have tiny irises! The vicious cycle, it begins!

Manicure Monday: Set Lasers to Fun

*Hauls self from under rock.* Hi all! Sorry I've been posting less often these days, technically I posted on Saturday but for me 2 days is a long time to go without blogging now! LOL!

I've just been swamped with work. I'm living on 4 hours of sleep and barely any food. -__-
Anyway, I managed to dig up a mani that I had done a few days ago, and decided to post it.

How to: This was my first time trying a laser mani, I put a layer of the yellow polish first, then when it dried, I put on the striping tape at various angles and painted over with grey. Once that dried I I peeled the tape and was left with the laser like stripes!

Without flash the yellow looks more green and grey more blue. Still pretty!

Also, for the very first time, the nails on my right hand look better than the left! LOL! I got impatient and peeled the tape before the polish dried. >.<

How to fail at the lazser mani!

What I used:

NYX Girls polish "Dark grey," China Glaze "Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" and Striping tape.

I've also used the China Glaze polish for this stripey manicure.

I hope you enjoyed this manicure! I have to get back to work now!

But I'll still do my best to update as often as I can! I won't be able to do any makeup tutorials for awhile though. ;n;
After two weeks, I'll be free again *hopefully*.
Tell me what you thought of this manicure! Will you try it? Do you get impatient with polish too?
Let me know!
♥

Manicure Monday: You are My Sunshine! ~

Hellooo everyone! I'm in a really perky mood today! ^-^ Although I should probably be sitting in my corner of shame because I officially broke my makeup buying ban. 

 I went to Beauty Center to pick up some hair bleach and developer and I *tried* to avoid the NYX counter, which btw is right at the entrance of the store.. SO, you can't avoid it! Foul temptress!! 
Anyway I tried to be strong! I tried not to buy anything.. BUT they had the Girls Nail polishes for only 120, they usually cost 150-200! Well, there goes my will power! 

I ended up picking up:

L-R: NYX Xtreme Lip Cream in Buttery Nude (I'm in love!),
Gilded Glitter, Dark Grey and My Sunshine ^^

I think I'm just going to be buying my NYX stuff from Beauty Center, with the rupee being the way it is, this is probably cheaper now! Not to mention I got a free eye pencil, this time in brown! Hehe!

I used My Sunshine to do my manicure today! I love this yellow! It's not in your face but still cheerful. ♥
My sister said it looks like mustard, I thought of mangoes, my grandma said egg yolks! LOL! Whatever it is, it's pretty! ^-^
I cut my nails recently so they look pretty short in the pictures!

The colour doesn't show up right in pictures, the colour is slightly more orange.. Think egg yolks and mangoes as I said. :>
The colour dries fast and goes opaque in 2-3 coats. Plus no bubbles! Oh joy!

Hope you liked my manicure for today! Do you like yellow nail polish?
LOL! I just realised i used yellow two times in a row for Manicure Monday! >w<

Btw, hope you liked the cute emoticons! I have a lot of them saved in my PC and thought, eh, why not? :D

Gloomy Weather Calls for a Bright Manicure Monday!

YA-CHOO! *sniffles* I got caught in the downpour on Saturday, man it was COLD! I could feel the cold in my bones and guess what? Now I have a cold.. I'll live, but that's why I haven't posted in the past couple of days. Plus yesterday I was just lazy, the weather's been so comfy and the constant twilight created by the cloud cover... I just lost the will to type again! No.. No!

A good way to perk up was doing my nails, I decided to use my pink crackle, "Immortal" by Cherimoya.
I haven't used it a lot but I LOVE IT! I got it at Beautyjoint.com for around 150 INR. It's like any other crackle but it's oil based. I think that helps it not dry out. Overall I love this crackle, I have  purple too, that I'll show you later. :)

Here's how Immortal looks like over Amarelo Sol by Maybelline, a bright chrome yellow:

Pretty bright right? LOL! The second picture is more true to colour btw. :)
What do you do to as a pick me up on a gloomy day? Do you like crackles in colour?

Another Late Monday Manicure and a FOTD

I know, it IS Tuesday, I'm late again but I was out the whole day yesterday and by the time I got back I was so pooped, I would have been just typing "Baaboohagdjkagdhfk" and thinking I'm writing the blog post equivalent to a Shakespearean play.. I wonder what that looks like.. But anyway, yeah, so I decided to write when I'm more aware of my surroundings, especially the keys on my keyboard here.

Here's a tip from my boyfriend (who btw I now know is AMAZING at picking out foundation! Who woulda thunk it?!), he says before you look at my nails, make sure to stare directly at the sun for awhile, so your eyes won't hurt as much from the nails... Okay, don't really do that, the camera muted the colour anyway. :(

So here's my manicure, it's Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by China Glaze, I think it was from last year's summer Pool Party collection? Correct me if I'm wrong. I also did zebra stripes, I love the trashy look! LOL!

The camera doesn't pick up how highlighter yellow it is! *stomps camera*

In the sun, I feel it looks more "glowy" in darker conditions.

A close up because I hate your eyes! I kid, I kid!

Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is a very flourescent colour BUT pretty sheer. It has a matte finish and dries in seconds. For this mani, I used 2 layers of white polish below the yellow to make it pop. I'm loving it!

And I'm so happy, I found it on discount for 375 INR, I think its much cheaper than the online stores. :D

Here's the makeup I wore yesterday, it's at the end of the day so it looks pretty messed up now! LOL!

I'm wearing Maybellin's BB cream in Nude, Jordana Stardust blush on my face

I'm wearing ColorBar Velvet Matte lipstick in Peach Crush on my lips and
Maybelline's Chai Latte quad on my eyelids (3 colours) with Hypercurl Mascara and Colossal Kajal.

Apparently my hair is in competition with my nails! As is my lipstick! LOL!

I love it when my lipstick matches my hair btw! Hope you enjoyed this NOTD and FOTD.
See ya! xoxo

Review: KronoKare Beautiful Nails

Kronokare is a company I never really heard of before, so when I saw this Beautiful Nails cuticle remover online, I was a bit skeptical. Then again it was only 75 INR so I decided to try it out. To describe it, it looks like Gelusil or Peptobismol. :/ No smell and it claims to give you 75 manicures in one bottle. It is to be used on dry skin and not wet.

Now, for a good thorough test of this kind of product, my nails are no good. Since it is summer I have no dry cuticles or hangnails. So how was I going to test out this product? I decided to test on someone else... My dad.
My dad's feet deserve a paragraph to themselves, I hate to say but they've been mistreated. My dad's feet have seen years of gymnastics, commando training, several years in the army etc etc.. His toenails, especially the smallest ones had a lot of cuticle and skin growth on them and it was my job to get it all off! So, you can see what a challenge this was for a lowly cuticle remover (and me!)

We need a pedi! STAT!

To remove cuticles all you need is a drop, the liquid softens up dead skin and cuticles and they can easily be scraped off or removed with a cuticle removing tool. My dad's first concern was that Beautiful Nails might have some kind of acids that dissolve skin and cause damage, but that was not the case.

The Beautiful Nails softened up the skin to such a degree that I didn't even have to apply any pressure to remove the skin. It didn't cause him any pain and didn't take long either. All I had to do was scrape and clean with a cotton ball.

Me in my pajamas, working (not so) hard!

The end result:

TADAA!

After seeing these results, I'm sold! If this thing can do that ^ it can definitely work for anyone. If you're too lazy or cheap to go for a mani-pedi evey month, I would definitely recommend KronoKare's Beautiful Nails to you. It took me half an hour to do both my dad's feet and both of us were very happy with the results!

Breakdown:
Cost: 75 INR

Pros:

• Softens dead skin and cuticles fast.
• No burning, tingling sensations.
• Easy on the wallet.

Cons:

• Not available everywhere. The only place I've seen it is Urbantouch.

Verdict: Definitely a buy again product!