40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Animals

Week 29 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The prompt for the challenge this week is Animals.

Recently I have seen loads of animal print nails on the web.  I can't give credit to anyone in particular as I took inspiration from lots of pics that I liked and this is what I came up with.

For my base for the animal nails I used SH Shorely and then the gradient is done with a mix of brown, black and white acrylic paints.

The next two photos are without clean up.  Not too bad a mess and it was fairly easy to clean up as it was acrylic paint used for the gradient.

 

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pastels - Dotting Tools

Week 22 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this week is Pastels and my personal prompt - Dotting Tools.

I used a pastel green for my main manicure and a silver accent.  For the dotting tool, I went unconventional and used a hair pin (bobby pin to US readers).  This is inspirted by @ashnevarez on IG.

See what other participants did in this challenge via the inlinkz below.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Orange, Purple and Green - Accent Nail Part 2

Well as you see in the title this is part two!  I was happy enough with the accent nail I did for 40 great nail art ideas challenge but not enough, so I did another one. :)

If you read my last post you will know that the colour prompt (as in the title above) is orange, purple and green for everyone, then we all have a different pattern prompt, mine is accent nail.

This is what I did the second time:

I just painted the ring finger with the orange polish, painted a strip of purple in the middle, added a few drops of green and swirled with a fine dotting tool.

Its looks out of focus, but this is how it looks IRL.  I really like the effect.

           

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Nails For Woolwich (H4H) - Polka Dots

This is my contribution for Nails for Woolwich. Kerrie from my various nails groups that I am on has organised this.  This is to show support for Lee Rigby and his family x

Items Used:
OPI Nail Envy
NYC top coat
China Glaze - First Date and Bahamian Escape
Nails Inc - Tate
Dotting Tools

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 11 - Polka Dots

Day 11 (week 11) of the ER31DC - Polks Dots
Again this was done a few days before the "chop"  I really liked how this turned out, I wore it for almost 3 whole days!  Would have worn it for a lot longer but I had to cut my nails down. I didn't realise until I put on the NI polish, that it was a jelly!  A nice surprise.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Color Club - Who are you wearing? - Nude
Nails Inc - Mayfair Mews
Seche Vite top coat

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 5 - BLUE

Day 5 (week 5) of the ER31DC - Blue. I haven't worn nail polish for over a week and a half since being ill. The last ER31DC was just photographed and immediately taken off!  So my nails were crying out to be painted and what a lovely colour this is, blue, my favourite.  A few dots to make it a bit more interesting and voila....

Items Used:

OPI Nail Envy
NYC Quick Dry Top Coat
LA Girl Disco - Deejay (Base colour)
Color Club - Factory Girl
Dotting tools

Inspired - Valentine's Manicure 002

12 February 2013
I did this manicure last Tuesday.  It is now Monday 18th Feb.  Apart from a little tip wear, I have to say that this manicure has lasted really well.  I have also only lost one bead from my right dominant hand. I work at a school and I am the dishwasher so I am really surprised.  This is No 3 from the PIA range I bought a few weeks ago from fragrancedircet.
Inspired by Robin Moses here.

Items Used:

OPI Nail Envy
Seche Vite
PIA - 03 - Vivid Pink
Sinful Color - Black on Black (Polka Dots)
Acrylic Paint - White
Mini Beads - Silver
Dotting Tool

Lilac Spotty Dotty

16 January 2013

Some dotty nail art worn today.  This was so easy to do. A base colour of the gorgeous Pembroke Close by Nails Inc.  Then the Lines using black and white acrylic paint.  The dots/spots using a darker purple shade of Nails Inc Savile Row and the lighter lilac by China Glaze.  I used a wooden skewer cut and filed for the larger dots and my larger dotting tool for the small spots. This was not the pattern I had in my head but all in all, it turned out pretty well.

Items Used:
Nail Envy Base
Seche Vite Top Coat
Nails Inc - Pembroke Close
Nails Inc - Savile Row
China Glaze - Sweet Hook
Acrylic Paint - black and white
Dotting tools

12 December - Rudolf and his friends

My 3rd set of Christmas nails.  These were my favourite of all the nail art I did over Christmas. All this children loved these nails.

Items Used:
China Glaze - White on White - base colour
Nails Inc - (TBC) - reindeer
Acrylic Paint - various
Seche Vite
OPI Nail Envy

Connecting the all the Blue Dots

Today a simple french manicure and a pretty dotty bow for the accent nails.

Items Used:
OPI Nail Envy Base Coat
Seche Vite Top Coat
Nails Inc - All Saints Road - dark blue
Color Club - Factory Girl - Light blue for accent nails
Dotting Tool

...WWW updated

 ... I wore this Tuesday and a day or so later I added some nail art using my sticky back plastic, Sinful color Black on Black and a dotting tool.

 I got my inspiration from here.