GRANDMA ZENTNER GOT HER NAILS DID!

Why this Kolaveri Di?

For those of you not aware of this song (probably most of you outside of India), it is the most ADDICTIVE song ever. I can't get it out of my head. It's SUPER popular here in India, and is somewhat of a joke now. 'Why this Kolaveri di?' in Tamil means, 'Why this Murderous Rage, Girl?' Check out this song here. Be warned, it's a SERIOUS earworm. To date, the youTube video of this song has gotten over 27.5 MILLION views. Insane.

Today's nails are my tribute to India, my new home for the next year or so. :) I did the Indian flag!

Some goofy pictures from Christmas Day, just goofin' around. (and our Chinese Christmas dinner, lol)

CHRISTMAS SET FOR JOSEPHINE

CARS FOR THE BOYS!

I was painting my cousin Lily's nails, and the boys definitely wanted to get in on the action! So now my cute little cousins Kai, Euan, and Toby all have multicoloured cars on their nails. Nail art is not just for girls it seems!

CHRISTMAS SET FOR MY COUSIN SOPHIA

MINI SNOWFLAKES FOR MY COUSIN LILY!

IGLOOS AND PENGUINS AND CROSSES AND TING

Don't get me wrong, I'm not some crazy cat religious nut or anything [in fact I happen to not be religious at all] but I find crosses very aesthetically pleasing! So along with my igloos and penguins [they have happy feet] - I added a few variations of crosses. 

  

MAMA WAS GOING TO A PARTY..

So I did her nails to match the dress she was wearing! [Me and Josephine gave her the dress last year for Christmas] She danced all night apparantly.. gwaarrn mama!

EIGHTIES EARRING

This is my mum's old earring from the eighties. I've always loved it, and thought the design would work quite nicely on a nail.. 

After I did it I realised it looks exactly like the Outlook logo as well!

KIND WORDS FROM ROSHNI

Roshni is the lovely lady who I did the workshop with! She very kindly wrote a lovely blog post about me on the Fabric blog - have a read of what she wrote here.

Black and White and Red All Over

Wow. It's been a while. Sorry about that. Turns out packing up all yer shit, then moving to the other side of the world is a lot of work! :-D I've missed the blog and interacting with all of you!! I'm finally on the other side of the world and starting to adjust to everything (except the fact that the biggest nail polish remover I can find is 30mL). I'll admit, things were difficult at first, and I questioned WTF I got myself into, but then, things got better, and I started to acclimate to my new surroundings. I'll admit, there are times when this country is maddening, but that's everywhere. If you want to read about my India adventures, I've started a new blog, Just Another Day in India....

Anyway. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, on to what you actually came here for. :)

This nail design was inspired by a kurta (shirt) that I wore the other day. I'm definitely loving the Indian attire, though I still maintain a bit of my American style–can't give up my jeans! I love all the patterns of the clothing here, so many colors! This particular kurta is basic colors- black, white, and red! :)

I used white acrylic paint for the design over the black nail polish base. It's the first time using acrylic, and I'm not sure I like the outcome, it didn't seem to 'stick' well, and left jagged edges.

Our typical picture- me with my tongue sticking' out, and Chris giving me a dirty look :)

My friend Sheba and I

I used American Apparel Hassid as a base, with white acrylic paint for the design, and Nicole by OPI Redy to Runaway Love? for the red. Topped everything off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat. 

SO I DID A WORKSHOP.. !

So a little while ago, I did my first workshop! It was kind of an experiment - I'd never thought of doing workshops or anything before - but after being contacted by Roshni's boyfriend Rob, who wanted to buy her something of that sort for a Christmas present, we agreed on a Saturday morning couple of hours tutorial, followed by a full nail art manicure! It ended up being really fun, and (I hope) a success! I talked with Roshni lots about all things nails, and gave her any tips or tricks I thought may help her if she was trying it out herself. She went through my blog and chose her favourite ten designs. I painted each of her nails, and then she tried out painting the same design on my nails. I have to say I was bloody impressed with her debut nail art skills - with a bit of practice, I'm sure she could be brilliant! So here are some pictures of Roshni's nails. I have a picture somewhere of my nails (which Roshni painted) - I'll put it up when I find it!

So just out of interest - would nail art workshops be something that anybody that follows my blog would be interested in? Let me know if so by commenting underneath this post! 

<3

NEW MENU!

ILLUMINATI WATERMELONS FOR INDIAAAAA

MAPLE WALK PRIMARY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS FAIR

So a few weekends ago it was the Maple Walk primary school's christmas fair. I was there for the whole thing painting lots and lots of very mini nails! I met lots of little cutie pies, and I'm pretty sure they were all pretty happy with their nails! I only managed to take a few pictures, as I was insanely busy for the whole thing - but here are the pics I did take!

NIMMO AND THE GAUNTLETTS

My very good friends just happen to be in a very very good band! 
They're called Nimmo And The Gauntletts, and they are very kindly giving away a track of theirs, for freeeee! 
Just click here HERE for the free download
Here is what they look like - aren't they pretty (and handsome) !

MIXED ANIMAL PRINT FOR LEILAH

RIVER ISLAND VIP WEEKENDER

On 10 & 11 December, I was painting nails at the River Island VIP weekend at one of their shops on Oxford Street. In the shop I was in, Tony & Guy were there doing hair, Nars were doing make up, and I was there doing nails - and all for FREE! Lucky customers! It was lots of fun, and I painted LOTS of nails! I'm not putting all of the pictures up, as they would take up the whole of my blog if I did! But here are some of the pics. For this event, I was offering a menu of some of the simpler designs I do - this was so I could get through more people!