#LakmeSchoolOfStyle - India's First Fashion Online Magazine

Hi friends, have you seen the latest craze on youtube? I am talking about the #LakmeSchoolOfStyle, India's first fashion online magazine launched by Lakme with Karan Johar playing the editor in chief!

I watched a few videos from the channel and here are two of the ones I really liked viewing.

#LakmeSchoolOfStyle - India's First Fashion Online Magazine

The first one is where the team decides to test the fashion quotient of people out on the streets of Mumbai. They were asked questions like what is high fashion, pret, couture etc and we get some strange answers. Two girls on the streets seem to know if all - watch it for yourself.

Another video I had fun watching is the one with Karan Johar on sculpting your mind, body and soul. If you are a KJo fan then its a must watch for you - it starts off with KJo responding to hilarious tweets and comments made on him. Listen to Karan tell you how you can sculpt yourself.

Lakme #HairIsFashion 'Show Stopping Hair' Makeover

Hi friends, if you follow me on twitter you must have read my tweet about how I was scared about getting highlights done to my hair since I have never colored my hair before. Well that day I was actually sitting at the Lakme Salon Punjabi Bagh (New Delhi) to try out the 'Show Stopping Hair' experience that Lakme has launched. These are hair styles that you can get done for yourself which are as stylish as hair that you see on the  fashion runways! As they say #HairIsFashion

Lakme #HairIsFashion 'Show Stopping Hair' Makeover

There are three prominent hair coloring trends being offered:

The Aubern Blend - this is a bold colored look where streaks of red color pop out from your hair.

The Helix Flair - a combination of golden highlights and a bit of color with asymmetrical cuts.

The Pixie Crop - for short haired girls this one has bright hues of brown and orange throwing in the right amount of texture to stylize your hair.

After a consulation with my stylist Mr Suresh I was coaxed into getting the Helix Flair done. Yes I say coaxed because I really wanted to play safe with the Aubern blend - I kept telling him that I only wanted a deep burgundy done in the Aubern blend style. But he explained to me why he was suggesting the Helix Flair. My hair is wavy and jet black. He told me a burgundy color won't show up properly and that getting caramel brown highlights on my black hair would really soften the look and stand out without giving me a drastic appearance change. He spoke to me about my professional profile and understood my apprehension in getting a drastic change done. He also said that burgundy looks better on slightly deeper skin tones and a golden would go well with my skin tone.

See the below picture - this is the Helix Flair - you can understand why I was so skeptical about this - it is drastic as compared to always having lived with black hair!

Lakme #HairIsFashion 'Show Stopping Hair' Makeover
(Image taken from Lakme Show Stopping Hair book)

So, after a lot of discussion and cajoling, I finally gave in and let him do his work. He showed me this entire book of possible hair colors that we could work with and the perfect golden shades for my hair. As they say sometimes its better to leave things in the hand of experts.

Welcome Back Summers - Chevron And Lines Nail Art Tutorial

Today I'm sharing a nail art which I've done to welcome summers as part of the STNChallenge. This nail art is also part of my Illchallenge where the theme is chevron and lines. Yes here I go again trying to do two things in one go.

Welcome Back Summers - Chevron And Lines Nail Art

Please excuse my super dry cuticles - they aren't dry in person but don't know why they look like this in the pictures :(

I've chosen lovely pink colors because summers are the time when all my lovely pink dresses come out of the closet. The base is Diana of London Nail Paint shade City Glamor (check the link for proper swatches), then I used China Glaze Fifth Avenue for the inner chevron and Lakme Lavender Lush for the outer chevron and ring finger. Flowers are done using Lavender Lush and everything white and green is acrylics.

Welcome Back Summers - Chevron And Lines Nail Art

And to add to the summer feel I've added tiny flowers on two nails. This time I've done a tutorial as well so I hope you all enjoy it.

Lakme Skin Stylist Kit & Lakme CC Cream FOTD

Is this post late? Very late? Very very late? Oh yes its late indeed. I got this kit from Lakme as a prize for a contest held on Neisha's blog.

Lakme Skin Stylist Kit & Lakme CC Cream FOTD

The kit contains the Lakme Iconic Kajal, Lakme CC cream, Lakme 9-to-5 nail paint (reviewed & swatched HERE), Lakme 9-to-5 lipstick in shade Beige Post (reviewed HERE), an eyeshadow quartet, and a liquid liner in blue.


I was supposed to do a look using products from the kit. I did a simple everyday look and followed it up with how you could convert that easily into an evening look. Neisha liked the evening look and put that up on her blog.

This is what I did for a simple daytime look - good for office or college.

Red And White Dots And Stripes - Nail Art

Guest Post By Komal

Hi Friends

I am back with another nail art - this time I've themed it red and white. This nail art is easy to do and looks great on both long and short nails.

Red And White Dots And Stripes - Nail Art

I used Ellwin Two Way Nail Art in Red, White nail paint from Lakme and Maybelline Express Finish top coat.

Showcasing–Lip Products with 16 color swatches!

First of all I would like to remind you of the giveaway that has started. Two lucky winners can win vouchers worth Rs 500 each from Surat Diamonds. Don’t miss this and enter HERE.

Now coming to the showcase of my lip products. There are glosses and lipsticks and I have swatched 16 different lipsticks to show you what is in my kitty!

Lipsticks collection

I am not reviewing each one here but rather just showing the entire collection together so the post is going to be picture heavy!

Enjoy and let me know if any particular shade draws you towards it and I’ll make sure to do a detailed review on it soon. So here we go… drool….

Glosses Galore!

Silver rain on my nails - Nails of the Week

Hi Friends, I have finally reached 100 followers on GFC!!!!!

And to celebrate I decided to do my nails all sparkly this weekend. Here is the final look before we begin the tutorial

Silver Rain on my nails - Glitter Nails

Now for this simple nail art all you need is some silver glitter and a clear polish. I used the 'Clear Glass' nail paint from Lakme and Silver glitter from N.Nails. This glitter is micro small in size, it is really tiny and hence gives a very nice non-overdone sort of looks to the nails.

NOTW 2– Babys Breath on my nails!

Hi everyone, this week’s nails of the week look is simple and very easy to do. My inspiration this week were tiny white flowers called babys breath – these are usually added to bouquets as fillers.

PS: the picture of babys breath has been taken fromwww.flowers.vg (earlier picture was not showing up on some browsers so had to take it down)


I had freshly buffed my nails and they were looking pretty to me so I decided not to cover them completely with nail paint. And keeping my inspiration in mind this is what I did. You can click any picture to enlarge it.

First I painted the entire nail with a clear nail polish. Then I took a nail dotting tool (you can use a tooth pick) and dotted the pattern on. This time I took lots of pictures from different angles. As you can see I messed up the little finger but generally this nail art is very very easy to do.

Lakme 9 to 5 Longwear Nail Color - Lavender Lush - Review

I hope you all liked my sponging nail attempt - today I am reviewing one of the nail paints I used for that nail art technique. It is from the Lakme 9 to 5 range and the shade is called Lavender Lush.

As you can see in the image above it comes in a glass bottle with a lovely golden beige cap. There are no ingredients mentioned and the back label simply suggests how to apply the nail paint. Apply two coats followed by a top coat.

This nail paint is nice and dark so applied in a single coat works just as well - the only thing is that if you don't want it to fade away too soon its best to apply two coats - gives a nice satin finish as well.

Here in the swatch I have applied a single coat. As you can see its not see through. 

I was in a hurry so did not apply it very well but you can see that it gives a nice touch to my sponging nail art below

Now for my take on this nail paint - firstly the color - I love it - I think its a very sophisticated shade yet its fun and not boring. Its a versatile color that can go with a lot of outfits. The quality of the nail is good - its easy to apply and gives a very smooth satin finish. The only problem I have which is mainly because I tend to skip the top coat, is that it does not last for more than 2 days - it starts to chip away. I have had better experiences with other company nail paints so this is surely a drawback for me. But I think I will mostly use it for doing nail art whenever I want to and on its own I would use it only for special occasions where its ok if the nail paint wears off after two days.

Details at a glance
Packaging       : good quality
Pigmentation : highly pigmented
Fragrance        : none
Staying power: 2 days without top coat
Price              : Rs. 195

What I like:
1.The colour
2. Satin Finish

What I don't like:
1. Value for money - its on the more expensive side for a nail paint yet staying power is not as I would expect

Sponging Nail Art - Soft Pink - tutorial

The only way to decorate my nails was to apply direct nail paint. Then I played a little with mixing two colors in different patterns. Later I advanced to drawing patterns using a brush or toothpicks. More recently I started dabbling with stamping. I had never heard of sponging as a nail art technique until I saw some posts on stylecraze. So I googled and found this interesting tutorial on nail art using sponging

It looked so pretty I thought of trying out something similar. The steps seemed simple so I went ahead. First a look at the finished nails.

Now for the steps - I started with a small sponge piece. The sponge was only big enough to cover my thumb. I like having control over the thing I am holding so I made sure it wasn't too big. Next I took white nail paint and put some on the sponge using the nail paint brush.

Then I gently sponged it all over my nails. To cover all fingers of one hand I had to apply nail paint twice to the sponge. The more depth of color you need the more sponging you will have to do. Also if you use a sponge with very fine holes then the look of the paint on your nails will be denser.

As you can see in the picture above I did not care about the extra paint going outside my nails. That can be cleaned off later.

Once the white color dryed (which was very quick due to low density of paint) I repeated the process with a pink colored nail paint (lotus cozy mulberry). This time I started sponging a little downwards from the nail bed - this makes the white visible as you can see in the picture below.

 The final step was to use a darker shade of pink (Lakme 9 to 5 ) This was sponged only on the tips of the nails. I used a Q-tip - dipped it in nail polish remover and cleaned the sides of the nails with it.

Then I gave the complete nails a layer of top coat. When it dried out I used my stamping kit to stamp on snowflake like flowers to alternate nails starting with the thumb. I finished off by putting random dots using a toothpick. Stamping and dots were done using the same white nail paint that I used for sponging.

A final layer of top coat and I was done.

 And here is a picture of the sponge piece that I used.

Nail paints used:
1. Lotus Herbals Color Dew Pure White (81)
2. Lotus Herbals Color Dew Cozy Mulberry (94)
3. Lakme 9 to 5 Lavender lush
4. Top coat - Lakme clear glass

I hope you like the above step by step description for this very easy method. I know a lot of you out there are experts at this technique - please do give suggestions on how to I can improve this next time onwards.