nailcial features revisited

The mouth nail - one of the first non-worded projects I endeavoured on. And here I am now, a couple of months later, with a good 30 posts now under my belt, giving it a crack again. I guess I decided to do a mouth nail again to see if I have improved in my nail art skills to any extent.

Here is my attempt:

which you compare to the original, found in my blog archives. Luckily, because I am such a generous person, I will provide you a link right here: http://namirarahman.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/nailcial-features-i.html
Hope I've done it justice! Hope I have improved.
Namira :)x

Holidays are oh so near. But that means exams are even nearer. Don't worry my pretties, I will be posting frequently again soon!

eid nailbarak 2

For my second outfit on Eid I decided to match my nails again, hoorraaayyy

So here it is:

In the background you can see the dress I'm wearing, the print I was aiming. It's a little different  because I didn't have gold nailpolish or the slightest bit of patience. Still turned out nicely though.

Namira :)x

eid nailbarak!

After one month of fasting, the month of Ramadan is almost over! (google keywords if you want to educate yourself) Tomorrow we'll be going round to a ton of houses in new clothes and eating a stack of delicious finger food. I simply cannot wait. I've picked my outfit and I'm super pumped. To show my excitement, I decided to paint the pattern on my nails. It was a big task to set myself.

The goal:

The result:

I've got to say I'm incredible happy with this outcome! It looks really pretty and I cannot wait to show them off tomorrow :)

Namira :)x
(can't believe I forgot to sign off on my last post - shame on me!)

volcanail

Well hello! After the Olympics ended ( </3 ) I decided it was time to remove my litle accent nail. Because I'm still at school, I had to do something small and unnoticeable again. This Tuesday was our school's last dance for the year. And me, and three other of us who form the SAC exec, organised it. It was special because it was our last dance EVER (being in grade 12 and all). The theme was Hawaiian so we went as volcanoes, which got me thinking...

BAM, volcano nail! I really don't know what to say in the space... But the dance was really fun and aweswome because everyone had a great time. It was a brilliant sendoff for the Grade 12's :')

nailympics

As you should know, the London 2012 Olympics will be starting in a few days! I absolutely love the Olympics - I can seriously just sit down and watch any random event and get into it. And of course thanks to Foxtel (cable TV) we get comprehensive Olympics coverage! EIGHT CHANNELS ALL THE TIME! I'm getting excited just thinking about it. I translated my love for the Olympics into nail art:

The olympic logo on my nails! I had the sniffles so I stayed home today, giving me ample time to paint this bad boy out. Circles are a killer, but because I was marathonning Degrassi it was fine to do :) I did an accent nail yet again just so I can wear it during school and have a little reminder all the time that the Olympics are near!

Namira :)x

equestrianail

I did this nail design a while back but I honestly just forgot to post it! I was wearing a shirt with horsey patterns on it that day so I thought I'd replicate it on my nail.

I think I now remember why I didn't put it up... it's a tad messy haha. But apart from that, I quite enjoyed painting little grass out of crackle nail polish for my haphazard horse :) This was an accent nail because drawing the horse was very difficult, so painting it 10 times would have been interesting, if not a disaster!

Namira :)x

anailogue

In my opinion, my nemo nails turned out awesome; I wasn't prepared to remove them so heartlessly. So, I kept them on for some time and tried to do a time theme on my right hand! It took me forever to get done because I never foundthe time to just sit down and bang it out. But alas, after like five days, the unfinished work is now complete.

Voila! From the thumb we have the face of a grandfather clock, a mickey mouse watch (which looks kind of weird because of my phone's flash), a roman numeral clock, a digital clock and just a regular clock.
I'm keeping it short and sweet today!
Namira :)x

finding nailmo

Greetings, fellow earthdwellers. This morning I finally found the time to my paint my nails for a theme! Take a look:

Finding nemo nails! I got this brilliant suggestion from Georgia (thanks mate) and I was determined to get it done these holidays. I was really surprised by my detailing abilities and I think the top photo doesn't give it justice. So I took pictures of every individual finger in vain :)

Starting from the pinky we have: Peach, Pearl, Mr. Ray, Dory and of course Nemo. Now that I look at these close up photos my handiwork looks incredibly messy and amateur. And for that I apologise. But just know it is a fiddly job, okay :(
Also if you're intensely scrutinising my every nail and note that the manta ray is all weird that is because I accidentally knocked it against the table. I assure you it was not intentionally painted that way.
I really enjoyed doing this theme and would not have thought of it myself (thanks again Georgia) and if any of my billions of readers out there have suggestions then PLEASE tell me! Comment or facebook me or throw a rock with a message through my window - just whatever.

Namira :)x

crackalackin'(ail)

Yes yes yes, I just posted this morning but I was too excited to postpone this post so! Today my mother, sister and I went shopping for her upcoming birthday. So while she was looking at perfumes, I managed to sneak a peek at the nail polishes! From the first place I scored 3 $2 nailpolishes! I got a base coat, a white which will be really helpful for themed nails and a gold glitter one for some sparkle and fun. So I was pretty smitten with my purchases at that point. But then, at the next store, I got something awesome. Far awesome than petty, one dimensional polishes. I got...

A Crackle Nail Set! What does this mean, you ask? If you use one of those nailpolishes over your already painted nails, it does this crazy shatter effect. As soon as I got home, I just HAD to try it. So to visually explain what the crackling looks like, I have an image:

Voila! Cool, right? Because I struck gold with this set, I have five different crackling nailpolishes. So that means five times the possible combinations! Ooh plus, I added a little of my gold glitter that I purchased today also, just for some STHPARKLE!

Namira :)x

oceanail

Hello all! Firstly, thirtieth post woo! I don't know why thirty is an exciting number in any way but I like rounded numbers... for some reason. Secondly, I finally have a theme for my nails! I know you are all rejoicing so without further ado:

Under the sea nails! Yeah okay, so it is a bit messy but I've been wanting to do this one for a while so I thought I'd just bang it out. So from the pinky we've got seaweed (sooo difficult to paint lal), coral, a fishy blowing bubbles and a starfish! I couldn't think of what to do for my thumb.. so I ignored it. Sorry, thumb.

In addition! I went to a Chocolateria called Sans Churro on Thursday! This is what I ordered:

And I finished every bit of it. The drink is "Cookie Cha Cha" - a shake with chocolate cookies and white chocolate icecream. My "meal" is a Choc Banana sundae which consists of chopped banana, delicious melted chocolate and MINI CHURROS!!! It was a seriously amazing meal. But if I had to choose between Sans Churro and Max Brenner.... I.. don't think I could (diplomatic answer). Max Brenner.

ALSOO, to continue my binge week, on Friday I had a cute mother daughter lunch with my mum and sister at Capri. They have gooooood pizza:

It was a lamb pizza that had delicious Middle Eastern flavours. And yes I ate it all. You should not be doubting my eating abilities by now, come on. To top it off, Nahila and I were cheeky and had Baskin Robbins ice cream on the way home heeheeheeee.

Namira :)x



binailry

Hey all,
I've been pretty busy these past few days, hanging with friends and eating COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF JUNK FOOD. You shrug me off with a smug laugh and say "Welcome to holidays" but no. More than that. Let me break it down.
Monday = pancakes at Pancake Manor
Tuesday = A full chocolate pizza at Max Brenner (below picture for reference)

It was deeeelicious. And yes. I ate it all...

Wednesday = A raspberry brioche and hot chocolate at Banneton Bakery (again, look below)

SO GOOD. OH MY GOD.

As well as this delicious chocolate birthday cake made by my friend's grandma AND a caramel apple upside down cake my sister made. Goodness.

So yeah, don't underestimate the amount of food I've eaten. Did I mention that tomorrow I will be continuing my ill-eating ways and devouring chocolate dipped churros at Sans Churro tomorrow? Photos (of course) will be shown later.

To stray away now from food, as this is a nail blog, I did my nails in a pattern again. I know, WHERE ARE THE THEMES? But I've just been so busy and I wanted something nice to wear outside that was quick, simple yet statement (mhmm gurl). So I present to you these dual tone nails:

One side has pearly white and maroon and the other has silver and blue. I think both colours really stand out nicely but still compliment each other. Which is nice. I really hope I can get some themed nails out there soon but in the meantime, satiate your demand by constantly checking back! :D The food pictures get better and better the longer you stare at them.

Namira :)x

trinailgular

Hello!
It was Saturday night at 6.30 and my mum informs me that we will be leaving for a party at 7 to 7.10. I say that's fine, sitting and idly watching the time. Then, I look at my outfit. And with 20 minutes to go til we leave, I was inspired to paint! This is the source of inspiration:

And this is what I came up with:

Just some nice, geometric print nails :) I know it's different from my usual stuff by I thought I might get into this kind of nail painting too, you know, stuff you can wear in public haha. This isn't to say I did not wear my Daria nails out and about! I did and it was awesome.

Namira :)x

Daria Mornaildorffer

Hellloooooo my lovelies!

After like a two week hiatus, I HAVE RETURNED. Why? Because holidays are upon us! So that means an intense number of posts coming your way in the next two weeks!!

I've made a to-do list for different paints throughout the term and I've already started my first one. Here it is:

Daria-themed nails!! Man I love that show. I watched it when I was a kid... but then I recently rewatched the whole series again. So good. From the pinky we've got Quinn, Trent, Jane and Daria! Forgive my for Jane's weird little blemish on her nose... I'M NOT PERFECT OKAY!?! It was fun, regardless :D

YAY HOLIDAYS! Just hit me again...

Toodles!
Namira :)x

nailetubbies

Howdy y'all! What.. Ignore that.

But hello! I am pretty much near the peak of Grade 12, once the exams in two weeks are done, I am halfway there!! Well a little bit more than half way because Term 4 is like.. 4 weeks.

I'm posting because I feel I need to give the MASSIVE HORDES of viewers that I have something to look forward to again. I did this paint last week but thought I'd save it for later. Space out my posts for optimum viewer enjoyment :) I care about you. So view my blog. Like a million times. And tell everyone about it. Everyone you know. Yep, all four of them.

THE TELETUBBIES! Inspiration for these nails came from our 90's themed school dance which we (the SAC Exec - no point in explaining) slaved away to organise. To advertise, we were teletubbies having a classic little conversation around the podium. We kept our costume for the actual dance a secret so everyone was convinced we'd be teletubbies. Then BAM. Furbies. Best surprise ever. And have to admit, it was a pretty awesome event in the end. We did an awesome job, regardless what anyone thinks!
But yeah, you've got Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Lala, Po. If you didn't read that in your head like the theme song they had on the show then...That's okay. Thank you for actually reading my blog, for starters.

Namira :)x

if nailtical nonsense be something you wish, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!

Should've been doing my Economics, oh wellsies!
I'm too excited, without further ado, I present to you:

Spongebob Squarepants themed nails! We've got from the thumb: Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr Krabs and Plankton :) pretty proud of this :') After attempting to do some schoolwork, I had the midnight urge to paint Spongebob on my nails. Took me a quick 20 minutes, so in the morning, after a brisk 5 hours of sleep, I just felt like I needed to finish off the rest! So now it's 10... I should do something productive with my life...

Plus, I took this on my new phone woowhooeoooooowhiahwowowoohhooo!! Nokia Lumia 710, Google it ;)
Namira :)x

precipinailtion

Hellllllllloooooooooooo there. What are you doing posting again? You ask. Why aren't you at school!? You ask again... a bit aggressively. You should really apologise, that hurt my feelings. Nevertheless, I am posting and am not at school because I am sick! A case of the damn sniffles. Fear not my avid followers, I reckon one day of rest should get me back into the groove. But yes, I'm staying at home today, recuperating. Which leaves plenty of time to catch up on missed schoolwork, get further in assignm--- LOL JKS IT'S PAINTING TIME

Umbrella nails! The idea came to me a while ago and I have been dying to try it since. So voila! I had thought I would outline sections of the umbrella with thin black lines but I didn't want to taint their already perfect shapes. Plus I thought of putting little blue dots as raindrops in the background, but I thought it would be confusing that you'd be seeing raindrops when you put up an umbrella. I'm stifling my own creativity. I could have easily branched out into dimensional nail art, but I've just decided to stick with one dimension. Forgive me, artistes.

Also, this last Sunday was Mothers Day!! I hope you all pampered your mothers and showered her in gifts. Not gonna brag, my sister and I did a pretty awesome job...

 My fully sick napkin folding skills

 Banana cake I whipped up on a whim of procrastination

And now our mother loves us even more. Mission accomplished!

Namira :)x

egyptianail

After 1 week of hiding, I have returned! We have been blessed with a long weekend - thanks Labour Day - and I decided to utilise this special extra time by painting. Take a look...

Look..eye.. get it hehehe. This is an ancient Egyptian symbol for the Sun God Ra, but I just think it looks awesome. It was difficult to make the lines look nice and smooth and refined, so forgive me for its jagged appearance. I plan on wearing it only on the big toenail of my left foot because I don't want to ruin the overall look of it by having to completely different looking symbols. And the other small toenails will be painted plain white to make the eye pop more. If anyone out there wants to try this, I suggest using a gold background, that'd look cool. Unfortunately, I do not have a gold nailpolish. Must invest!

Namira :)x

500!

I've just been staring at this blog's pageview count all day, refreshing it! And finally, it has moved from 499 and hit the 500! It's such a small number in comparison to avid bloggers but.. I'm proud of my nicely rounded number! So woo! Thank you to everyone who has contributed to that number - even if you accidentally clicked on it when I shamelessly posted a link to facebook.

As I sat and watched the pageview count remain unchanged, my sister pointed out to me that maybe I should post something new, you know, entice people to read my blog. Because my last post was like 4 days ago! So, although I can't paint my nails and this is a nail blog, I am posting new stuff.

I recently tested the waters of baking/making edible food. I was able to procrastinate but also provide treats for my family, whereas painting my naiks would just provide them with nail polish remover fumes. So everyone wins if I make food. Look at all my food endeavours, past and present!

From the top left corner we have delicious oatmeal cookies (very healthy), a banana-weetbix-honey shake (soooo delicious and so healthy - perfect start to the day), honey cupcakes with meringue icing (my sister's doing. Totally not healthy but still incredibly delicious.), muesli cookies (also very healthy but weren't cooked to perfection unfortunately - didn't stop me from eating them) and lastly my prized ginger cookies (you guessed it, very healthy). I've whipped up those ginger biscuits a grand total of three times - it's pretty much my specialty. The family loves it. Eats 6 in a sitting. Okay, that's me, but still THEY'RE YUMMY.

As you can see, all my creations in that food collage are healthy - or healthier than your average baked good. I just like to indulge in sweet treats without the repercussions you get from indulging in a decadent one. My sister is the opposite -  she makes it taste good but the ingredients are sooo bad.  We've decide we're kind of like the cooking show Good Chef Bad Chef (which we loooove, anything on the Food Channel = amazing) (also, google it if you've never heard of it. Don't believe everything I say!). She's the slightly bad chef while I'm the slightly good chef. Awesome story, I know.

Namira :)x

confectionailry revisited

I couldn't think of another name which is synonomous to confectionery that could incorporate nail into is somehow. So I apologise for my lack of creativity in that aspect. Today was ANZAC Day - a day remembering the many heroic Australian soldiers who have fought or are currently fighting. I went to a lovely ceremony and had the honour of carrying The Gap High's wreath! Although my hands were violently shaking after 20 minutes of holding it and it felt weird to bend my arms in any direction other than the wreath holding position, I really enjoyed the ceremony. Anyways, I'm rambling. CHECK OWT MA NAILSSS GURRL!

I'm sorry for that weird gangsta outburst...and assuming you were female. I mean it with a kind heart, I assure you. But I have m'n'm nails! Just something I can leave on my toenails for a while and be pleased with :) I had become bored of the stripes, plus they were chipping. Fiddlesticks!
Namira :)x

social nailwork

Well this is a little sad of me.. I was totally ready to settle into some Economics research and then went on facebook. And I saw the little "f" icon and thought... Hmm... that'd look cool on a nail. Why am I so willing to procrastinailpaint?! Yes, that is a new term and I very readily claim I coined it and it is now trademarked. Regardless, take a look...

Icons of social media sites - from the thumb we've got YouTube, facebook, Blogger, Myspace (bringin' it back, woo!) and tumblr. (look at it. So indie because it has a fullstop in its logo. Pssh, I'm too mainstream for it *flicks hair*) Once again this was my left hand's handiwork and I truthfully think my left hand is better than my right when it comes to detailed paints.

Also, I did this while watching the King's Speech. It's a totally awesome movie.
Namira :)x