26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Black and White Valentines

This is the 9th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this fortnight is Black and White Valentines

Again, I've incorporated a gradient and a nail decal.  The decal has a bit of red in it, but then valentines has to have a bit of red, right?  I uses OPI Alpine Snow and Orly Liquid Vinyl.

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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 - 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 - Glitter Topper or Flakie - Camouflage

Here we are now on week ten of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt for everyone is Glitter Topper or Flakie with a personal pattern prompt each, mine is Camouflage.

I had a pretty good idea of what to do.  Mind you having said that, the camo nails are my second attempt.  I did the first ones, randomly painting on stripes in different colours.  But the end result looked awful, so I took it off, re-did the accent nails and so much better!

I am very pleased with the end result and got lots of compliments on the manicure.  The flakie polish gave the whole manicure a different look in different lighting.

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Lilac Weave - 21 April 2015

I was looking for inspiration and so went to the big WWW, and found a similar manicure (sorry I can't remember who, but if it is you out there, please leave a kind comment).

Anyway this is what I did with black and white, lilac and silver.

Mango N smoke Gradient - 25 March 2015

I didn't know how to title this so ..... as the accent nail looks smoky.......

Just a simple two colour gradient with a smoky accent nail.

Items used as above with Nail Envy base coat and SV top coat.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Black and White with Aztec

Here we go again, week 6 of this challenge and the prompt for everyone is black and white, and a different pattern prompt for everyone - mine is Aztec.

I've only done Aztec or in this case tribal nail art once here. (I had to do a search as I was sure I'd never done anything like this!) Wow I had square nails too, seems such a long time ago.

Anyway, I was only going to do two accent nails but ended up doing the whole shebang and my other hand too.  All free hand using acrylic paint.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Halloween

This is week five of the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge

This week as the title suggests, it is Halloween nails.

I did some "zombiefied" nails but they were a big fail.  They looked ok IRL but in photo's not so good.  So I re-did them.  I did a simple 3 colour gradient using pale lilac, purple and black and then hand drew some spooky trees and bats with acrylic paint.

Items used:
Nail Envy base coat
Elf - Lilac
Nails Inc - Wigmore Street
PIA - Black
Sponge
Black Acrylic paint

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