Thursday 31 January 2013

Inspired by - Gangnam Style

30 January 2013
This is inspired by two manicures on youtube, (Cutepolish and Createtivenailart).  This my copycat version.
Items used:
Pinky - China Glaze - Sunshine pop
Ring -   Color Club - Who are you wearing?
Middle - OPI - Alpine Snow and Asos Paint - Lauren
Index - LA Girl Stirling Silver and China Glaze Nova
Thumb - as above and OPI Greenwich Village (Green) and China Glaze Sexy Lady (Pink)
Black and white acrylic paint
OPI Nail Envy
Seche Vite

Purple Sponge Gradient

25 January 2013

Just a really quick simple sponge gradient here.  Very subtle.
Items Used:
As in picture and
OPI Nail Envy
Seche Vite
Sponge

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Orange Plaid - Inspired by Polish2Times

22 January 2013
This manicure was inspired by Polish2Times.  She did it on all nails,  I chose 2 accent nails and she used a white for one of the plaid stripes (I used a pale yellow in the plaid).  I also changed the shape of my nails to an oval as they were so short as I broke a few!  I quite like them in this colour not sure if I like the shape overall all though.  What do you think?
Then a few days later I saw this beautiful manicure and just had to try it out before I changed my polish.  I used a darker orange for the pinky finger which turned out really pretty.  For the others I used an unknown dark brown/black colour, not a bad effect.  I will have to do the Nailwish manicure soon though as it is so beautiful and really easy.
Itesm Used:
OPI Nail Envy
Seche Vite
China Glaze - Peachy Keen
Acrylic Paint

Tuesday 29 January 2013

Lilac Spotty Dotty

16 January 2013

Some dotty nail art worn today.  This was so easy to do. A base colour of the gorgeous Pembroke Close by Nails Inc.  Then the Lines using black and white acrylic paint.  The dots/spots using a darker purple shade of Nails Inc Savile Row and the lighter lilac by China Glaze.  I used a wooden skewer cut and filed for the larger dots and my larger dotting tool for the small spots. This was not the pattern I had in my head but all in all, it turned out pretty well.
Items Used:
Nail Envy Base
Seche Vite Top Coat
Nails Inc - Pembroke Close
Nails Inc - Savile Row
China Glaze - Sweet Hook
Acrylic Paint - black and white
Dotting tools

Floral Black and White

14 January 2013

Black and White today with black and white nail stickers with rhinestones.  While photographing my nails it started to snow!  Quite heavily as you see it settled in the background.  Some snow landed on my nails/hands also.  Sorry about the bad photography, my new camera, I still can't use it :(
Items Used:
Nail Envy Base
Seche Vite Top Coat
Color Club - Oooooo La La - White
LA Girl - Rock Star Heavy Metal - Black
Nail Stickers

Monday 28 January 2013

Escape to Bahamian!

9 January 2013
I love this colour, but it was a bit plain and so to jazz it up I used some nail stickers.  I think the orange flowers compliment the blue perfectly.  But OH my short nails.  They just keep splitting and breaking. My fault though, not enough moisturising.
Items Used:
Nail Envy Base
Seche Vite Top Coat
china Glaze . Bahamian Escape
Nail stickers

Sunday 27 January 2013

Wavy Autumn French

4 January 2013
I saw this on the WWW while looking for some inspiration, I can't remember where, so if it is yours, thank you. I gave it the above title because I did not know what else to call it!  Sorry for the lack of clean up. I am also photographing using my new Christmas present, a new Nikon bridge camera from my DH.  I still am not used to it, so any tips would be most welcome.

Tuesday 1 January 2013

Holographic New Year 2013

Simple manicure to see in the new year of 2013.  I took the photos yesterday, it was raining, can you tell!
Happy 2013.
Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Gosh - Holographic (original)
Seche Vite top coat

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013

Happy New Year Everyone.
Happy blogging for 2013. xx