Tabla Nails and Black & Silver Tips

It's been a while since I've posted, but I haven't stopped doing my nails!  Here are the designs I had over the last couple weeks.  (Some of the pics are from my phone camera)

Black and Silver Tips - I saw this on tv and then I saw online again, so then I tried it out.  

 Harmonium Nails - This was for a performance where I was playing the harmonium. 

 Tabla Nails - For my first real tabla performance! It looks white, but the other nails were actually yellow.  

Tabla Covers

So this isn't nail related, but it's another one of my projects.  Since I'm having my first real tabla performance this weekend, I wanted to redecorate the rings that the tabla sit in.      

This was so easy to make and I was really happy with the result.  Next project, updating my brother's tabla rings to a Spongebob design! 

So It Begins

I am starting this blog to organize and share my new found love for nails and nail art.  I never explored the world of nail art until a friend shared this wonderful site with me: http://fuckyeahnailart.tumblr.com.  I was SO impressed and amazed with how people could create such detailed work on a nail.

My Nail Experience:
- Never have had a professional manicure 
- No nail art/technique training
- Limited set of colors and tools (acrylic paint and toothpicks for now)

Also, I like to play Tabla, which is an Indian drum, and because of how the left hand is used to play, I have to keep those nails shorter.  I am determined to succeed at both nails and tabla without letting either interfere with the other!  

Finally, the name of the blog - Tappin' Tips - comes from the balance I want to keep between these two hobbies because I love both!