40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Things in Water

Week 45 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Seven more weeks to go ......

This week the prompt is Things in Water.  I don't own many stamps and so was a little stuck on what to do for this prompt.  But the manicure I have done is inspired by lots of nail artists out there who have done similar, so thank you all.

So on to the manicure, I did a blue gradient then applies a couple of nail water decals followed by a dip in water for some water spotting. The end result .......

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Hippies/Festivals

Week 43 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Nine more weeks to go......

This week the prompt is Hippies/Festivals.

Lots of things come to mind, flowers, bright colours, green peace, Reading Festival, Glastonbury.... the list is endless really.

I've never been to a festival but as a child of the 70's probably worn flowery prints and flares :)

But I also had tie dye in my head and as I've never done this on my nails, what better reason than now.

Here is my contribution....

I applied a white polish as a base and then did the nail art over the top.  This makes the colours pop more.

I did the tie dye effect on the two middle fingers using a very fine dotting tool and when I had finished the pattern, gently dabbed over it with some acetone remover with a brush to give a more tie dye effect.

For the index and thumb, I dropped some polish drops onto a stamper and just stamped it straight onto my nails.  I added some metal studs and voila.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Nude and Colour - Leopard

Week 42 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Wow, just 10 more weeks to go.

Trying to catch up, here is last weeks manicure.

This week the prompt is Nude and Colour and my personal pattern prompt - Leopard.

I had so many ideas running through my head, I couldn't make up my mind.  In the end my daughter suggested I use the Barry M Daylight Curing polishes she bought me for my birthday earlier this month.

And lo and behold, the first colour I looked at was a nude, great ....

.... and this is what I came up with.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Weddings

Week 35 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt is weddings.

I guess when you think of wedding nails you would normally think pastel or french manicure or along those lines.

I took inspiration firstly from my own wedding outfit and then from the lovely @lauramerino12 on instagram.

I can't even remember what I had on my nails all those years ago (26 years).  But I thought if I did my nails, I would do them to match my outfit and this is what I came up with.

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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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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pink & Lilac Plus Fishbraid

Week 28 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The prompt for the challenge this week is Pink and Lilac with my personal pattern prompt of Fishbraid.

Colours were easy to choose and the pattern prompt seemed easy enough!  I mean I'd seen plenty of tutorials on how to achieve this look.  How hard could it be???

Well quite difficult as I found!  I just could not get my head round how the braid would work and which colour goes where so as to show a true braid.  I looked at many pictures, tutorials and even practised with pen and paper and even some ribbon.

I gave up in the end and found a great tutorial on a gradient fishbraid, so that is what I ended up doing.

I am not giving up though, this is a personal challenge and I will do a true Fishbraid manicure and post as soon as :)

  

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Red with Dots

Week 20 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt was Red and my personal prompt was Dots.

I love this Red, it is opaque in one coat, although I used two for this manicure.