Hottest Nail Trends of 2015

     Have you ever noticed that the nail polish "world" is so many times bigger and more versatile than the makeup "world"? The sheer range of colors that you can get your hands on...compared to the regular pinks, reds and oranges of the lipstick section...or even the boggling amount of types/finishes! You can get all sorts of patterns. accessories, embellishments, tools, glitters, sequins, spikes, flocking powder, feathers, decals, etc etc...phew! There is simply no end to it. Compared to it the makeup section is very pale and dull. Think about it...especially for a person like me who loves variety and gets bored with the sameness pretty quickly...the nail polish/art world has enough to keep me occupied and interested for a long time. I present to you the 5 most interesting things (according to me) that were introduced in the nail art/polish world last year. In no particular order...

      I was feeling extremely low since the last few days for no reason whatsoever. Nothing was wrong yet everything was...I was literally "under the weather"! My melancholic mood made me dislike everything around and was sapping what little energy I have. But enough was enough and I had to just pull out of this slump! I don't like to mope about feeling "victimized"...in fact I despise it and people who have that attitude. There is nothing in this world that cant be dealt with or turned around... I remember one of my college professors saying that when we ladies feel good we dress up...and when we feel bad we should dress up even more so that it helps us come out of the funk and feel good about ourselves. Wiser words were never spoken :D

     So it was my birthday last week...30's is the new 20's as they say :D One would think it would be a glorious week but unfortunately I was plagued by one leg injury after the other and on the same bloody leg! WTF!!! Girl get no slack no time :( But enough with the boo-hoo's! I spent a glorious afternoon with my best girls with lots of food and drinks and gossip. Cant ask for more than the company of some fine friends and of course gifts ;) They know me so well and I was bogged down with jewelry, chocolate, perfume, lotion, etc etc. Ah bliss! Btw the ring featured here is one of the gifts that I got...

I got stars in my eyes, 

and the whole world rose up to meet me, 

with the vision like a child. 

Yeah I got stars in my eyes, 

and the whole world was spinning slowly, 

‘cause they can’t keep up with me, me and my mind. 

- Goodluck

     From the title you can see that I have been bitten by the "Sherlock" bug ("Ive been Sherlocked" for the Sher fans :D). Ahh! I can watch it for hours....and am counting the minutes before it graces us with its fourth season. Benedict Cumberbatch is the stuff dreams are made of! Honestly I have it so bad for him that when I see a cookie my brain registers it as "Cumbercookie" :D :P Lol! Imagine that. Any-hoo....I could keep going on and on about it and bore you to tears or run out of space or both...with great willpower Im diverting my attention.....Uhn......What was that?.......Give me one second......Ok Im don.....Sigh! 

     So I tried my hand with water decals for the first time....Water decals are like those tattoos that you find with chewing gum and candies and what not that transfer onto your skin by applying water. These follow the basic concept except that you need to dip the paper with the decal on it in water and then place it on the nail. Sounds easy yes? Fool proof? Child's play? One would think....But OMFG!!! This is such a pain :P No I can assure you I have all my marbles with me....I counted....and double checked :P You go in and try something with an "adult" frame of mind....how quickly they beat you and have you wailing like a kid! Ok enough with the melodrama :D 

     Hey there my sweet! It has been awhile since I last did a NOTD. Long story...I was too lazy to go for a badly needed manicure and in that process my nails ended up breaking. So I had to wait it out for them to acquire a decent length again. But now I'm back, manicured and all :D, with some basic dotting art that I tried out. Turned out ok...if it would have been a tad neater it would have been da bomb! I got the dotting tool and neon beads from Born Pretty. You can use the code SKT10 and get yourself 10% off. 

     A simple nail art this time but I love the pastel color combo. I have used a textured nail paint from Barry M called Atlantic Road of which I have put 2 coats on all my fingers and Maybelline Color Show in Coral Craze of which I have put on 1 coat on 2 fingers. I was expecting the texture of the Barry M show through the Maybelline coat and it didn't disappoint. Topped it off with dots of the same blue ( I don't know why I have gotten so fixated to the dots-on-the-side design). 

     Honestly I feel like I have come a long way from getting part of the stamp design on my nails to proper full fledged ones that I'm doing right now. I'm no pro at this nail art business but I'm glad that I am improving. I bought myself some stamping plates from MoYou after I saw Awungshi talking about them on her blog :) These are way different from the regular Konad ones that you can find. I love the intricacy in design that they have on offer. So many different themes to choose from. Using the addictive Maybelline Color Show nail paints in Denim Dash and Bold Gold along with MoYou professional plate no. 08 I created this design. 

     Nail stamping has been my must-accomplish-no-matter-how-much-I-suck task. Seeing so many people create such beautiful designs with something seemingly so simple was always quite fascinating. Thinking that it was child's play I got myself a Konad kit last year sometime. Very merrily I set out with the bits and pieces which in this case were the stamper, the image plate, the scraper and the paints included in the kit, and tried my hand at "stamping". But whats this? I managed to get part of the image on the stamper but somehow completely failed to transfer it on the nail?!?

     When Maybelline asked me to create some nail art with the Color Show nail polishes I was left sweating. Like I have stated many times before I cant do nail art to save my life. I don't have the patience or creativity for it honestly. Sometimes you end up looking at a tut and think that "oh that is easy....completely doable. I just to do a little this and a little that and voila I will have a beautiful butterfly down".....A flower? No issues....will take a tooth pick and dot here and dot there and pull there and done! A regular Rembrandt.