Water Color Nail Art - Rainbow Rain

Hi friends, today I'm sharing a recent nail art I did for the September nail art challenge in the STNChallenges. This month is all about learning new techniques. I have never done water color nails before and it was fun to create these rainbow nails.

Water color nail art is a technique where you thin out polish with acetone and apply it on your nails and before it dries out you lift off most of the color using a brush or a Q-tip (ear-bud). This leaves a ring of color with a pale hint inside. Depending on how you apply the thinned out polish you can get various results on your nails.

Water Color Nail Art - Rainbow Rain

In my case I used thinned out acrylic paints instead of polish to create a rainbow effect on my nails.


And later on I stamped over it using Mo You London Suki plate to create a rain effect.


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Summer Nail Art Challenge - Chill Me - Ice-cream & Cocktail Nail Art

Hi friends, this is a short quick post about the nail art challenge I'm doing for summers. Day 2 theme is Chill Me and I have created a cocktail drink and ice-cream nail art.

Summer Nail Art Challenge - Chill Me - Ice-cream & Cocktail Nail Art

This is basically done using my acrylic colors. On two nails I dry marbled using white and green. I will share the nail paints in a different post. For rest of the nails I've stuck to white nail paint as the base.

Summer Nail Art Challenge - Chill Me - Ice-cream & Cocktail Nail Art

I hope you girls like this and that you get tempted to have your favorite mocktail, cocktail or ice-cream. I'm fasting for the Navratri Puja and will indulge on the 7th of April after I open my fast. Some people fast for 8 days while others fast for 7. I am fasting for seven days and will have a small puja on the 8th day. For friends who don't know about Navratri Puja, its a 9 day religious period observed across different parts of India where nine forms of Goddess Amba are worshiped. People fast during these days as a form of devotion to the Goddess. If interested you can read more about this on wikipedia.

Coming back to the  nail art I actually did a different version of it but didn't like it much. I was actually trying to get a 'glass' effect for the cocktail glasses and well this is what I ended up with. You guys tell me which one do you like better - the one shown above or this one down below?

Vintage Rose Nail Art Tutorial

2013 is coming to an end, it has taught us all something to live by in 2014 for sure. To end it on a floral note, here is a nail art inspired by Robin Moses and my tutorial to break it down for you. This will be the official last post of 2013.

Vintage Rose Nail Art Tutorial - Inspired By Robin Moses

For this nail art you will need a shimmery base nail paint - I have used a nail paint from Street Wear (can't remember the name - will update this later!). And for the floral pattern I have used acrylic paints in black, brown, red, and yellow. And a lucky find from the craft store was a super thin painting brush (thinner than the 0 number that I normally recommend) - it helped get those rose highlighting lines done.

Vintage Rose Nail Art Tutorial - Inspired By Robin Moses

And now for the tutorial. You first mix black and brown acrylic paints ( a drop of each is sufficient for one hand with nails my size) - don't mix them perfectly and let the randomness come in your lines - it gives that shaded effect.

Follow the steps 1 to 4 shown in the tutorial pic to draw the leaves pattern first. 

Indian Independence Day Nail Art

Today's nail art is extremely simple. Inspired by the Indian National Flag - the Tiranga - or tri-color.

I was just mentioning to my friends today on how simple and childish this nail art will appear as compared to some artistic wonders they were coming up with but well this is what I wanted to do and so here it is. (Nicky now you know what I meant !)

Indian Independence Day Nail Art - The Tiranga

I have used acrylic paints and a painting brush. Instead of creating strokes of color I just patted down the brush to create the effect. I was planning to use a blue on top and do a saran wrap but when I finished painting the tri-color I was so happy with the bright colors on my nails that I simply stopped there (saran wrap I will post you sometime later!)

Indian Independence Day Nail Art - The Tiranga

If you are using acrylics too please do use a good base coat to prevent your nails from staining and don't forget a good top coat to make it last longer.

All my friends will be doing the Independence day nail art and you can check out other posts below (once they start adding their links!)

Happy Independence Day in advance!

Acrylic Nail Art - Hot To Paint Your Nails

I had no idea I would enjoy painting my nails with my regular acrylic paints! It is true a lot of my nail blogging friends used to do spectacular art work on their nails while I used to wonder how could they do that with nail paint.

And then one of them told me that they used regular acrylic paints with regular painting brushes. When I tried it out I was simply super happy - trust me it is so much easier to do patters on your nails with acrylics and you can mix and match colors to create your own color palette.

Acrylic Nail Art - Hot To Paint Your Nails

 I used Camlin acrylic paints with a 0 numbered brush from Camlin. It just bought back old memories of painting. I do not get much time to do regular paintings any more so the excitement in my heart was just something words cannot describe!