26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Going on Holiday

The 19th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's challenge.

I am a few days late but the theme is Going on Holiday.

This is my interpretation.

I did palm trees on a two colour gradient base.  I have done these before in a different colourway, I think I prefer the original (here).

Also I did NOT use nail polish, I used acrylic paint for the gradient and trees :)  I put on a glitter coat over the top of the gradient however, and as you can see on the purple bit, it kind of did a shattered effect, I quite like that.

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Blue Floral

This is the 10th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this fortnight is Blue Floral.

I was going to use my all time favourite, water decals.  But I did some freehand floral instead. I used acrylic paints to do the floral.  Overall I think it turned out quite well.

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Black Base - Marble Nails

Challenge number 3 of 26 Great Nail Art Idea's (done every fortnight) this week the theme is - Black Base.

I have seen many many marble nails recently and so decided to do some for this challenge.  For the ring accent however I did a white base.  It still counts, right? :)  Anyway I painted on the black and white nail lacquer and did the marble effect with watered down acrylic paints.  I then used the silver for a little accent.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Books

Week 49 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Three  more weeks to go ......

Challenge this week is Books.

I used to read a lot, but haven't read anything for a while.  The last book I completed was the BFG and this was reading to my son at bedtime about one to two years ago.  We started Danny, the Champion of the World, but never finished it.

Anyway, I was stuck for inspiration, so I opened up Amazon, the page loaded and the first thing I saw was the book I've taken inspiration from.  I just like the colours and the flowers.  I thought I would be able to capture this image quite easily.  Overall I am really pleased how this manicure turned out (unlike last week!).

I did the nail art using the pink PIA lacquer and white and green acrylic paint.  I also used Orly Dazzle on my pinkie.

So without further a do...

Inspired by this book cover.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Insects

Week 41 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

I am running 2 and a half weeks behind with this challenge.  I wore week 42 last week and I will post that asap.

But here is week 41 with the prompt - Insects.

I have been wanting to do this nail art for a very long time, just never got round to it.  So today with the intention of just painting my nails for the prompt, photographing etc I was going to take it off and get on with this weeks prompt.

But I liked it so much even though it was rushed, I decided to keep it on and even did my cinders hand.

Here is my insect manicure - the monarch butterfly.  I painted on the darker purple, let it dry a little then used cling film/saran wrap and patted it onto the darker colour.  With black acrylic paint I did the monarch design and white acrylic paint for the dots and to finish, a coat of SV and voila.

I am really impressed, I really like them on...

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Summer

Week 37 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt is Summer.

I am trying to do some of the challenge nails in advance.  I did these nails a few weeks back.

I have used OPI Alpine snow for the base colour.  The main gradient here is done solely using acrylic paint.  I started off using just an orange and deep red but thought it needed something else.... So.... I added a lighter orange at the cuticle and three sponges later I had a beautiful hot summery gradient.

To finish, I added some lacey decals and some studs.  Overall, I loved this on and got many compliments.  (was asked where I got them done?)  Just wishing now our summer is just as hot.

The acrylic colours I used are Orange, Vermillion and Deep Red.  The decals (10 black and 10 white) are from Aliexpress and I have used them before, here and here.  I also used a very similar set from Sparklynails here.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Music

Week 33 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt is Music.

I was going to take my favourite easy way out (water decals) but decided against it.

Instead I went searching for album covers that I could easily re-create.

My end result is this manicure:

This is my recreation of the album Release by the Pet Shop Boys.

I used just black and white acrylic paints to freehand this straight onto my nail.  Although I did do another one onto a stamper which I preferred but I had a little difficulty getting it off the stamp, so I used that on my right ring finger.

The rest of the manicure is a darker shade of grey as is the back of the album.  

     

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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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