Wedding OOTD and NOTD Part 2

Today's post is a continuation of yesterdays and covers day 2 of my cousins wedding (the walima). 

On this day I opted for a trail dress, shorter at the front and longer at the back. Unfortunately you will only get a front view as I don't have a picture of the back. 

I love the colour combo on this outfit, the royal blue and the cerise pink go together so well. It is one of my Asian wedding outfits in my possession. 

As weddings go on til late and day 2 was the day after day 1, I really didn't have much time to do any intricate nail art or anything that took too long. I was rushed on time so I opted for a simple french tip manicure but I surprisingly got a lot of compliments on my nails that day.

Onto the outfit and the nails...

Polishes I used:

Duri Rejuvacote

Nails Inc Baker Street

Nails Inc New York 

Seche Vite

I did the french tip free hand but if you hands are shaky and can't free hand you can always make sure the base colour is completely dry then tape off your nails and apply the tip. 

Super easy, super quick and super cute. 

Thanks for reading!!

Wedding OOTD and NOTD Part 1

So, some of you may recall that I had a few close family weddings whilst I was away from blogging. Today I am going to show you one mani I did on myself for my cousins wedding along with my outfit.

We will start with my outfit. As some of you may have notice I am Pakistani, so for this wedding I wore a sari. I love saris and think they are so elegant so long as they are simple and not too OTT. Some people think you can't wear hijab with saris but I like to think I did an OK job.
But, you can decide...

So that was what I wore, now lets get on to my favourite part of getting dressed up, the nails!!

So I found a polish that was closest to the colour of my sari and used it as a base. I decided to do two accent nails; the thumb and ring finger.
For the accent fingers I decided on a gold half moon, the added some rhinestones and gold micro beads to it to get the final look.
Here is what my nails ended up looking like...

Polishes I used:
Duri Rejuvacote
Milani Fresh Teal
Orly Luxe
Seche Vite

I also used:
Clear Rhinestones (3 different sizes)
Gold Micro Beads
Nail Glue
Dotting Tool (to apply the rhiestones/beads)


So there is my wedding NOTD and OOTD, I hope you ejoyed reading it. As Pakistani weddings have 2 main days I will be uploading the second day (walima) soon too. :)

P.S I am sorry that my picture quality isn't great, as I wasn't blogging the only picture I took were on my phone. Sorry!!

Pink and Grey Stripes

Recently I have found that the more simple the nail art the more inclined I am to like it. And stripes are one of my favourites! Since I have started to get back into doing nail art again I have been doing simple manis with colours that I think go together really well. 

I think grey is a colour that goes really well with bright or dark colours, such as; black, cobalt blue, yellow, pink, just to name a few. Today I went for pink and my favourite pink polish is Zoya Moxie. I love how deep the colour is and how it brightens in the sun. Plus it is a perfect one coater and applies like butter. 

Oh how I love creme polishes!!

Here is how the mani turned out...

Polishes I used:

Duri Rejuvacote

Zoya Moxie

Nails Inc Cadagon Palace

Seche Vite

I also used:

A Striping Brush

I love how simple it is. When you have nubbins it isn't always easy to have intricate nail art so simple stuff like stripes, dots and the like look great! 

I also find that darker colours on shorter nails look good. 

Thanks for reading!!

Colour Block

I'm back!! Wow I have had a long break from blogging. in fact I have had a long break from doing nails, even my Instagram has had a lack of nail pictures for a while. There has been a number a reasons for that, close family weddings, moving home, lack of internet, lack of inspiration, and sometimes even lack of nails!!

You're probably thinking 'what on earth can she mean by that?!' Well recently I have been have some major chipping and have some very short nubs, like you see in the pictures but most of the time they are worse and that is why I haven't pictured my thumb in these pictures! 

I have finally got my mojo back and have accepted the nub and am trying to work them as best I can. 

This mani is super simple to do and all you need is some tape. I used royal blue, teal and yellow for my colours but you can use any three colors that go well together, they don't even have to be colour block, 3 shades of the same colour would look fabulous as an ombre/gradient look. 

On to the pictures...

The final look reminded me of the summer and in the horrible cold weather we have now i wish we could go back to summer time. Maybe then it would be more appropriate for me to wear this mani out! 

Polishes I used:

Duri Rejuvacote

Revlon Royal

Milani Teal Fresh

Barry M Limeted Edition Yellow

H&M Matte Topcoat. 

I also used:

Tape

The H&M matte topcoat really isn't very matte at all but it still looks great so I ain't complaining. 

So there is my 'Take me back to summer colour block nails' I hope you like them! 

Urban Decay Metropolitan & Stamping

Today's post is my favourite polish since I became a ail polish addict going back about 4 years. It was one of the first polishes I brought along with a few other Urban Decay polishes. 

The polish I am showing you today is Urban Decay Metropolitan. It a old polish and as I understand it is discontinued. 

This polish is maroon/burgundy with tiny pink micro glitter in it. 

It applied really well, and could reach opacity in one thick coat but in the pictures I have used 2 coats. The glitter isn't hungry in the pictures I have on one coat of Seche Vite. 

It is more sparkly in real life and it isn't even hard to remove as most glitters are. 

As per usual, I can't ever leave well alone and just had to add some nail art to it. I haven't stamped much lately so I figured I would pull out the old stamping kit and see where it took me. I have to say I'm really happy with the outcome. I used Bundle Monsters BM214 plate for the image and a few bits and bots to bling it up a little. 

lets take a look at the pictures...

Polishes I used:

Duri Rejuvacote

Urban Decay Metropolitan

Barry M Foil Effects Gold

I also used:

Bundle Monster BM214 stamping plate

2mm clear Rhinestones

Silver Micro Beads (caviar beads)

The over all look is really elegant and I can imagine myself wearing something like to a wedding as I reminds me of an outfit I have in my closet. 

Thanks for reading!!

Striped Vintage Rose Nail Art

Today I have some awesome vintage roses nail art to show you.  It was actually inspired by a scarf I have but unfortunately I don’t have a picture.

The roses are the same as the ones I did in my older vintage rose nail art post which you can see HERE. The only difference is that I have added a striped background using striping tape. 

Lets take a look at the picture…

Polishes I used:

Duri Rejuvacote

Essie 3in1 Base

Barry M Matte White

Wet n Wild Ink Well

Barry M Bright Pink

Barry M Blood Orange (detail on roses)

Catrice Rambo No. 5

Sally Hansen Lickety Split Lime

Seche Vite

I also used:

Striping Tape

Dotting Tool

Thin Nail Art Brush

For the striped I first painting the white polish, letting it dry, then adding the striping tape and painting over it with the black polish. When I finished I peeled away the striping tape and there you have perfectly done stripes. 

For the roses I added pink dots the size I wanted the roses and spaced them out how  wanted. I then used a thin small bristle nail art brush to add details in white and red.

 For the leaves I had to mix Rambo No.5 and Lickety Split Lime to achieve the colour I wanted. 

I love how it turned out and actually wore this for 3 days which is shocker as I struggle wear a mani for a full day.

Let me know what you think!

And thanks for reading!!

P.S. apologies for the dry cuticles (lazy day) and not so great lighting... dunno what happened here.

Movie Mani: Star Trek

Today I have some nails for Star Trek Into Darkness. I love Star Trek! Well.. ever since Chris Pine has been Captain Kirk *swoon*. Ad when I found out Benedict Cumberbatch would be playing the villain I got even more excited.. if that were even possible! 

I wanted to do a mani inspired by Star Trek for when I went to watch it.. which just happened to be on the day it came out.. and at the first showing (I did tell you I love Star Trek). Unfortunately I didn't get to do a mani for it on the day but when I got home...

 This is what I came up with...

Those of you who have seen the movie(s) won't need me to tell you what I did but for those of you who don't know I attempted the costumes on my fingers, Gold (mustard) for Kirk, Blue for Spock, Red for Scotty and Ahura and Black for Khan. 

I am really pleased with these. They turned out better than I expected. I was supposed to use tape to keep the tips neat but...ain't nobody got time for that! lol.  

Polishes I used:

Duri Rejuvacote

Essie 3in1 Base

Wet n Wild Ink Well

Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens

Nails Inc Denim

Nails Inc Greenwich Market

Barry M Silver Foil

Seche Vite

Thanks for reading!!