Indian Nail Art Blog

Claire's challenges are one of my absolute favourites on IG. I was racking my brains for her next prompt, Winder Wonderland; when I remembered Nailstorming's elegant black and white snow nails . She's my go-to nail artist when I'm low on nailspiration. I decided to pair it with some Christmas trees over a black background. Painting over darker colour sucks! My trees were lot slimmer in their white base version lol. What I love about this mani is Gianna's base. I would have never thought of black and white on my own, but its so elegant. The idea of tiny snowflakes drifting around in the dark... ah. I wished it snowed here.

Stamping seemed like such a harmless little fluffball when I first saw a stamped mani. Then I saw another, and another, and yet another, and then I was sufficiently hooked it. I get hooked on everything that involves least efforts, and the notion of stamping pretty things on my nails was admittedly alluring. The first stamping plate was duly booked and received, which was followed by several spectacularly failed stamping attempts. After much google-ing, I was introduced to seemingly alien terms like priming, stamping polish, and an otherworldly invention called 'Clear Jelly Stamper' (one day, you'll be mine CJS). Who knew, huh? Equipped with this new found wisdom, began my never-ending hunt for affordable and easily available stamping polishes. (looking right at ya, international shipping.) TheNailz4fun95  who has ever so helpfully done a video about Indian stamping polishes, suggested Maybelline India's Bold Gold, which was probably one of the best advice given in...