Black and Silver Maze

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I hope everyone is having an awesome time. It is so hot here in California that I do not feel like doing anything. Well doing nails is an exception :D.  Today's mani is very simple. I used stamping for this design and I hope you guys like it. 

For this, I applied 2 coats of Zoya Trixie. Then using the Konad image plate M65, I stamped the geometrical design on all the fingers using Wet N Wild Black Cream. I really like this color combination and the design looks like a maze. At some angles, it looks like I have applied nail foils because of the way Zoya Trixie reflects. 

July 4th Nails

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Happy 4th of July everyone. I am very excited to start blogging again as it has been a really long time since I last blogged. A lot of things happened in the past couple of months. First, I graduated with my bachelors degree. Second, I shifted to a new place. Also, I have been planning to write a blog for about two weeks now but could not make up my mind which design or shade to blog about (kinda anxious I guess). 4th of July seemed like a perfect opportunity to start blogging again.

I started franking after getting annoyed and frustrated with the process of purchasing some of the indie polishes. At present, I am making polishes just for personal use (you never know what the future holds).

For this, I applied 2 coats of Zoya Trixie. Then applied one coat of Patriot which is a created by me. Patriot consists of blue, red, white and silver glitters of different sizes and shapes and it also consist of small blue stars in a clear base. This is my first franken and I am really satisfied with it. You can see the bottle as well as macro shot of the polish at the bottom. 

Black and White Challenge Day 9

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This is my ninth post for the Black and White Nail Challenge. The theme for today's nails was  water marbling. It is hard to believe that this nail challenge is almost over, only one more nail challenge day left. This is the first time I did water marbling and I had such a hard time. I experimented with so many polishes that did not work at all. 

For this, I applied 2 coats of Essie Blanc. After it dried I started working on the water marbling. This is the order I used the Polishes for water marbling: Zoya Raven, Essie Blank, Zoya Trixie, China Glaze Adore, and at last China Glaze Admire. I really like how my ring finger turned out but other than that it is a mess especially my pinkie and index finger. Hopefully with practice I will get better at this. 

PS: I have a giveaway going on right now. Enter here.

Black and White Challenge Day 7

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This is my seventh post for the Black and White Nail Challenge. The theme for today's nails was to create a manicure using black, white, and glitters. I am still not feeling well but much better than yesterday. Yesterday, I was so miserable that I went to doctor first thing in the morning and I can see a little improvement. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.


For this, I applied 2 coats of Essie Blanc. Then waited for it to completely dry and placed a scotch tape covering one-third of the nail at the bottom and applied Zoya Trixie. I removed the  scotch tape when the polish was still wet as it doesn't give thick edges. After Trixie dried, I again applied a scott tape covering the two-thirds of the nail at the bottom and applied Wet N Wild Black Cream and removed the tape when the paint was still wet. It is very important to have nail polish completely dry before you apply scott tape otherwise the polish will stick to the tape when you will try to remove it and will ruin your manicure.

Dots, Dots, and more Dots!

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I hope everyone had a beautiful New Years day. I had an awesome time with my family and I wish I could stay here longer. It's nice to be with family. For this mani, my sister-in-law painted her nails in Zoya Trixie and wanted some stamps on her nails. But for some reasons stamps were not working (kinda moody I guess). So I came up with this and you do not need much stuff for this simple and easy design. 

FYI: These are my sister-in-law nails.

For this, she applied 2 coats of Zoya Trixie. It is a beautiful silver with foiled metallic finish. Then I used  the dotting tool and black acrylic paint (you can use black polish too) to make flowers. I made one flower in each finger except accent finger in which I made one big and two small flowers. Then with a fine brush and green acrylic paint I painted some leaves. On accent nail I added a silver rhinestone on the big flower.

New Years Nails 1

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I am so excited it's New Years this weekend. I will try to upload a couple of New Years design in the next two days and have decided that I will try to upload tutorials for nail art (other than stamping of course!). For each tutorial, I will guide you through the various steps needed to attain the final look.

For the first tutorial, I was thinking about New Years and the first thing that popped in my mind was silver, festive, and sparkles. I know the lighting is horrible but trust me it looks so much elegant and better in person.