Elegant Corset Decal Nails

I did this elegant manicure way back in March.  I met up with my bestie school friends, we had not met up for over fifteen to twenty years!  But we have over the years kept in touch via social media.

The meet up was arranged in a matter of days.  We were just chatting as one of them is having a birthday party in June. We were all saying how we were looking forward to it and meeting up, but what a shame it was such a long time away, we just over the course of a day or two decided why wait....  and set a date later that week to meet up.

I wanted something simple but elegant and I had had these decals in my stash for ages (bought from Aliexpress), so what a good reason to use them.

The polishes as used pictured above.  The glitter one I've used loads of times, unfortunately it is not named, bought from Ebay.  It is beautiful. As was the evening spent with beautiful lovely ladies, who I am proud to say are MY friends.  Love them xx

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Neons - Geometric

Week 32 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week a double prompt.  For everyone the prompt is Neons and my personal pattern prompt - geometric.

I went for two accent nails with the pattern and I did an abstract geometric design.

(Edit - 13 May 2016)
The geometric pattern is done by creating my own nail polish decals.  I painted thin strips of polish onto plastic, once dry, cut them into random shapes and stuck onto the nail, top coat of SV and voila.

The thumb colour in the photo is not at all what it looks like IRL, it is a neon pink, in the photo it almost looks orange!  Two other colours I used on the accent nails not photographed are CG Custom Kicks (teal) and LA Girl Disco Vinyl Record (turquoise).

 

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Floral

Week 31 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

NOTE:

Although the title says '40' the participants have dwindled a little in this challenge.  No longer will you find 40 great ideas. Life happens and we have to go do what we have to.  So even though there are fewer participants the challenge still goes on and I will keep the 40 in the title as this is what we started out with.

Right..... the challenge this week:

The prompt for the challenge this week is Floral.

I could have taken the easy way out (I have in the past ;) ).  But I thought I would hand paint some floral this week instead.

The pinky nail is the same from my last manicure, it was so lovely I had to keep it and the floral theme is done to incorporate the purple theme colour.  You can't really see, but for the two floral nails I did an off centre radial gradient using lilac and the blue.  The floral nails are done using acrylic paints and I've done them over the blue part of the gradient.

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Prince Tribute Nails - One week... Still can't believe it!

Purple gradient. A week ago Prince passed away, I still can't believe it......

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - 3 Shades of Red/Orange - Fluid Lines

Week 30 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The prompt for the challenge this week is 3 Shades of Red/Orange  and my personal pattern prompt - Fluid Lines.

I was in a hurry and this is not quite what I had in mind but here you go.  As it goes the red by LA Color had a gelly finish and so I ended up with a sandwich of the fluid lines.

I started off doing a gradient with LA Color Moody Red and Pride of London orange, but you couldn't see the difference really.  Then with the lightest orange I did some random fluid lines, topped it with another coat of moody red and voila.....

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