Homemade lemon zest body scrub

This is a aromatic body scrub made from citrus fruit Lemon. We would use both lemon zest and juice in this scrub.

I grated the zest from 5 whole lemon then squeezed juice off them. Additionally you would some essential oil such as lemon or Bergamot or orange as these belong to citrus family. You could also use orange zest to enhance the citric fragrance. You would smell lemon if your bathroom after a shower.

Our main ingredients would be Lemon juice, Zest, 2 tb spn honey, Sugar, Oil.

1. In a large bowl Add sugar, all citrus zest mix well.
2. Add Lemon juice, honey  mix well
3. Add few drops of each essential oils and mix
4. Time to add little olive oil or sweet almond oil or virgin coconut oil, as preferred. I used sweet almond oil.
5. Ensure the consistency is not too thick or liquid. Sugar would dissolve a bit but you should still have the crystals for exfoliating skin.

Nail Art Designs with glitter top coats

I simply applied each glitter colors on my nail as swatch in each finger. Five types of glitter top coats on 5 fingers. The result wasn't bad so I wore it for a week.

Most of glitter top coats looks nice on black nail polish. For one top coat L'Oreal Paris Jackie Tweed, I did it on top of a beige color.

Thumb to Pinky finger: Color Bar - Retro Pink , Loreal Paris Disco Ball, Gold Leaf, Jackie Tweed, Lyn - Gold and the Beautiful

Nail art design on Dull Color Nail Polish

I had some mint green color from Faces which was dull on my skin tone, and I didn't want to waste it. Tried my hands on the nail art paints and brush for the first time. I wouldn't say this is great but you could get an idea around it and useful for experts.

I tried to do streaks with white and campaign with silver in between.

Revlon Color Stay - Nail Polish - Rain Forest (220) Swatch & Review

This nail polish from Revlon is one of their glitter nail polish other than their Sun and Moon Candy Collection. This is a nice color wearable by almost all Indian skintone.

It's priced at Rs 350 for 11.7 ml. Available in all major online stores.

Color is a dark bottle green kind like thick woods with light green shimmers, exactly as the name says. It's very opaque, and lasting power is good too. I had it on for 4 - 5 days, after which started to chip from edges.

Essence Nail Hardening Nail Polish Remover Strawberry & Passion Fruit - Review

With the current trend of nail art and different type of nail polishes coming into the market every fortnight, we tend to change nail paints so often. Especially people like me who love nail designs might change nail paints every week or even in less than a week. Buying a nail polish remover of 30ml does not help much.

I thought of giving a try with Essence. I bought this from eBay. It comes in a plastic bottle. Quantity 150 ml priced Rs. 249/-

It's very good, has the mild smell of the fruits does not make your skin white. Takes off nail polish easily. Like I said before I change my nail colors twice a week, also do nail swatches, color trials, including glitter polishes. It lasted for more than 1.5 months but less than 2 months. It got over today. I am so happy with this product.

For people interested in Ingredients:
Ethly Acetate, Alcohol Denat, Isopropyl Alcohol, Castor Seed Oil, Caprylic Triglyceride, Isopropyl Myristate, Parfum (Fragrance), CI 14700 (Red 4)

This is an imported product, made in Astria as per the label.

How to remove glitter nail polish without making a mess

Many of you would have thought removing glitter type nail polish or top coats would be a pain or difficult. I had the same problems, I use to rub remover over it multiple times to take it off, it just doesn't come off like nail polish.

Once The glitters were everywhere on both hands, making a big mess. Then I learnt this technique. There were several but I have tried this and worked perfectly.

Simply use cotton soak in remover and wrap a cellotape around. Wait for 3 - 5 minutes and take it off with slight rub and pull, as shown in pictures. No need to unwrap. This cleans it all. I tried wrapping with rubber band instead of cellotape it resulted in finger swell. Good to use to cellotape around or aluminium foil.

Later apply any vitamin E oil or almond oil or nail cream as the nail polish remover would have been on the finger and nails for a long time.

Happy Manicure!!!!