40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Earth Tones - Nude Base

The last manicure for this challenge! YAY I have managed to complete it.

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

Challenge this week is Earth Tones and my personal pattern prompt of Nude Base

I can't believe a whole year has passed by.  Although this has been challenging at times, I am so proud and pleased to have taken part.  A big thanks goes to Debbie of Crumpets Tarts for organising this for us.

I did a saran wrap manicure with earth tone colours and for extra bling I added some studs.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Autumn - Saran Wrap

The penultimate manicure for this challenge!

Week 51 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

One  more weeks to go ......

Challenge this week is Autumn.

I did a saran wrap manicure with autumn colours.

I did a base of Elf Mango Madness to start with and then on top of that I added a coat of CG Fire love.  When this was dry, I painted on a coat of SH Haute Chocolate and with a rolled up piece of saran wrap, sponged off some of the colour to bring out the orange base.  On some nails this method took off too much top colour, so I went back and added the brown on the saran wrap and sponged it back on ... and voila.

Simple but effective.

 

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Food

Week 23 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this week is Food.

I had lots of ideas, but kept it simple and quick.

I did a chocolate theme.  I took my inspiration from Aero, original and mint.  The middle finger is the original Aero with all the bubbles inside and the ring finger shows the centre of the mint Aero.

 

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Muir Muir Gilded Lily & Water Decal - 18 November 2015

On the two accent nails I did a gradient with the two colours pictured below, I then added my famous water decals to accent them more.  In all I was very pleased with this regal looking manicure.

Chocolate and Tartan Accent - 23 September 2015

A simple manicure with just a tartan accent nail.

Leopard Espresso! - 11 May 2015

After my beautiful (smiles to self :)) last manicure, a really plain down to earth one here.  I filed down my nails so they are a tad shorter, cuticles could do with some TLC also.

But hey ho, here a simple leopard print accent nail.  

 Also used on this manicure not pictured, a matte top coat.

Espresso Blobicure - 17 March 2015

Filed down my nails just a tad from the last manicure.  Another simple manicure with a blobicure accent nail.

 For the accent blobicure, paint on one coat of base colour, let it dry then apply a second and while that is still wet just drip on some colours in random spots and voila.  The polish spreads out and you are left with the blobicure.

As always I use OPI Nail Envy as my base coat, Espresso as the base colour and then Cloud and Shore-ly for the blobs. Seche vite top coat and ready to go.

Full Nail Decal Skittlette - 20 Nov 2014

20 November 2014

Photo taken a few days later, as you can see, tip wear.  It comes with the job, working in a school.
But it did look good on fresh!  I used full nail decal stickers that I have had for a good few years. 

I used the full nail decals (or wraps as some call them) here.  I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but having used decals so many times recently, I knew what I had to do and these were indeed a cinch to apply.

I only used two out of the 12 decals on this sheet, they are so very long. Waste not want not?  or am I just a frugal user?

Chocolate Mint and Decals - 13 Nov 2014

13 November 2014

Again not good photo - what on earth happened to my photography skills (not that they were good, but much better than this) shocking!  :)
I used Hot for Chocolate by Revlon and For Audrey by China Glaze.  Ooh what are those flowers?  Oh yes, they are water decals from AliExpress.

Happy New Year 2014 and a little skittlette...

... my nails for the New Year of 2014.  Wishing anyone who reads this a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014.

This is my take on the skittlette  manicure as made popular by Chitchatnails here.  I used lacquer from my haul here, which I still have not filed!  The glitter is from my stash.
I used Sally Hansen Bittersweet - brown, Bandage - beige, Tahitian Sunset - coral, Nails Inc - Devonshire Street.
I am happy with the most part of it, just not the middle finger, I wish I had given myself more time and taped it rather than freehand painted.  Lesson learnt for next time.

Feather Nail Art

Mid year I got myself some feathers.  I had been looking to do this manicure for ages.  Finally in September I got round to it!  For the main manicure I used the beautiful Nothing but Truffle by Color Club, two coats here and doesn't it look stunning?  For the ring accent nail I used a feather to compliment NBT.  I loved having this on and wore it a whole week!

Vinyl Chocolate Saran Manicure

The title says it all I guess?  Vinyl Record by LA Girl for the blue and Haute Chocolate by Sally Hansen on the ring finger.  I used SH HC with cling film (saran wrap) on top of the blue.  Not a bad effect.  I love this brown shade by SH.  I think it suits my skin tone really well.

Plaid Isle of Wight Nails!

We went to the Isle of Wight this summer 2013 for a week.  This is what I had on my nails for the trip down. I liked them for about two days and then had to take them off as found them too busy! Nonetheless I did like doing this manicure and wearing it, for all of the two days.

I used China Glaze lacquer and black and white acrylic paint for this design.