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Oh hello there! How have you been? I’m sure some of you know that I’ve been fan of all things nail-paints for a long time and I can be often seen doing an impulsive happy dance with my new bright nails. I’m so pleased with all the hand-thrown goodness served up by POLISH Nail Spa. If it also tickles your fancy, find more about them here.

Special thanks to Gurbani of Spangle Street to arrange this amazing Sunday for all Chandigarh bloggers. With fellow bloggers around, the experience could be nothing but amazing. It was a great opportunity to pamper ourselves and have fun! So, about the experience – I’m more of a power polish kind of a person (pretty nails for at least 15 days! NO CHIPPING) so I chose that with nail art on top! But you get a lot of other options to choose from like Spa Pedicure and Manicure, Permanent Nail Art, Gel Overlays and Nail Extensions. I was getting this done for the first time and I loved it. Also, when I’m using someones services for the first time, specially skin related – I can be a little crazy about hygiene – but I was so happy and relaxed to see the staff in their proper clothes, absolutely clean workstations, technicians wore masks, machines and instruments were clean and the place was very well maintained.

My nail technician Martha was really nice and professional. She started the whole process with cleaning my nails, cuticle pushing and filing. After cleaning, she started with the base coat. It took me a while to decide the nail art and then I finally decided to get almost nude colour nails with the hint of glitter on top. I totally love it. I think it suits my personality and reflects many things about it. Martha did a fantastic job and artfully applied the glitter. I love how the whole look came out, I couldn’t stop staring at hands.

What could be more perfect then getting yourself pampered this festive season? Delicious results with minimal effort! It’s win win, really! 🙂

Here are a few pictures 🙂

For this post, my brother and I planned to do hand photography kind of series. It was our first attempt. Hope you guys like it:)

Polish Nail Spa

SCO – 27 (above Ritu Kumar)

Sector 8 B, Chandigarh.

Until next time!

Hi there! Here is the last part of the series in collaboration with Modayalda.com. This series turned out to be really amazing and exactly what I wanted. This part is based on 80’s hippe fashion trends in India. I hope you enjoy this!

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Concept and Modelling : Charuta
Photography and Editing : Jasmin Kaur

Vintage Maxi Dress : Shopbe | Dream catcher necklace : Yellow Chidiya (buy here)| Rose Pink tee : Adagio | Suede fringe bag : Borrowed from mom | Sunglasses : Trifted

I clearly remember Zeenat Aman in Dam-maro-dam with the bindi, big yellow sunglasses, winged eyeliner and kurta with garland around her neck. She did complete justice to the Hippie Trend and it’s a statement even today. This trend started in the late 1960s and become very popular in late seventies and the early eighties.

One of the prominent trends of Eighties has to be Hippie fashion is all about loud patterns, prints and colors. This trend is associated with flowly silhouettes. Zeenat Aman is the one who popularised the hippie fashion in India with her vibrant colored shirts and dresses (with large amounts of ‘oomph’ factor ofcourse) were the kind of clothes she commonly wore on-screen. She was not conservative in the slightest way and certain trends became exceedingly popular all because of her. Flaired high waist pants and an overall hippie style of dressing was made popular during that time because of the ease in which Zeenat Aman carried these styles. The Retro look was very popular during her time and she took it to greater heights with her sense of fashion and style.

So when I was planning the last part of the story, I know I had to take inspiration from the queen herself. I got this beautiful printed dress from Shopbe and it perfectly fit my eighties fashion story. I paired the dress with a rose pink turtle neck tee. I kept my hair open staying true to the free-spirited vibe of hippie fashion. I carried a suede fringe bag along with it. No eighties look can be complete without a pair of over-sized tinted sunglasses and I prefer yellow. I pop of bright pink on the lips and my clothes transported me back to the eighties.

You can check out curated vintage dresses at Shopbe

I am so glad that collaborated with my friend Jasmin for this post. I absolutely love how the pictures have turned out. You can check out her work on her Blog or Instagram.

You can check out the Part I (sixties fashion) here and Part II (Seventies Fashion) here.

I am so glad I worked on this personal project “Fashion Time Machine”. Did you guys like it?
You always connect to Moda Yalda on Instagram or Facebook and let me know.

Until Next Time
xx
Charuta

Nailing the Nail Business – Polish Nail Spa

80s Fashion – Modayalda.com