26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pastel to Bold Gradient with Something on Top

This is the 14th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This fortnight the theme is Pastel to Bold Gradient with Something on Top.

I love doing gradients, if a little messy.  Here I used a base coat of OPI Alpine Snow.  I put on a coat of SV for quick drying.  Then for the gradient I used LA Colors Mega Watt and Elf Mango Madness.

For the something on top, I used some floral and butterfly nail water decals - voila.

Simple and effective.

 

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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 - Coral and White with Tweed - Skittlette

Week 38 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt is Coral and White with my personal prompt of Houndstooth/Tweed/Plaid.
I chose Tweed.

I did a something a little different.  I have been looking at a lot of Korean/Japanese nail art, and they seem to do something like this quite a lot so that is my inspiration.

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Christmas Day Red Gradient - 25 December 2015

This was my Christmas day manicure.  I did a gradient with a red and a maroon shade on the tips of my nails.  It was still too stark so I applied another coat of the red all over followed by a  coat of the glitter red by PIA on the whole nail and this is the result.  And look.... I still have the glitter pinky since 14 December.

N.B.
The glitter pinky finally gave up the ghost by the end of Christmas day!  It was peeling off, so I took it off and replaced it with LA Girl Sands of Time.

I'm not sure which red I used, either OPI Red or Elf light red. The maroon shade was Nails Inc Savile Row.

 

Red and Black Net Water Decal Skittlette - 14 December 2015

Another Christmassy manicure.  A lovely true red, two accent nails off set with some pretty black net water decals. And have to have glitter at Christmas, I applied a coat of NI George Yard and then two coats of Cuccio, a coat of SV and voila.

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

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

   

Born Pretty Store - Open Ring Stud Review

Today I am reviewing the **Open Ring Studs sent to me by Born Pretty Store.

My first impression was "great", and then it turned to "... how do I even get to them...?"  I could not open the wheel.  Several family members tried but we just could not open it! But I was not going to be defeated and unfortunately I had to break into the wheel and decant into another one. Phew!

I did a sponge gradient using a white and two greens.  Stuck the rings down with clear polish and then put drops of glitter polish in the rings for more sparkle.

Although I like these rings I did find that where they weren't closed, they got stuck in hair and clothing.  I think a thicker layer or two of top coat could help but next time I may just have to flatten them with some pliers so they lie flatter.  Overall it was an ok product and I already have an idea for some nail art where this will be an ideal product.  Hope to share with you soon.

You can use my discount code PBL91 which will get you 10% off the full price. So what are you waiting for, go to Born Pretty Store for loads more nail art goodies.

Items used:

Honeypot - White      }
Elf - Mint Cream        } Gradient
Barry M - Greenberry}
China Glaze - Techno
Born Pretty Store - Open Ring Studs

** This item was sent to me for my honest opinion.

GOT Polish Challenge Part 2 - Week 2 - CORAL - Floral Gradient Skittlette

Week 2 of the GOT2 (Golden Oldie Thursday) Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  This week the theme is Coral.

I am a day late as my daughter and I have been doing our own version of the 3 day hydration treatment with our own homemade cuticle oil.  A post on this to follow this weekend, hopefully.

So now onto my coral manicure.  I have had the coral polish I used here for just over a year.  I bought it then to use in a challenge but it arrived too late and it has been in my un-tried drawer ever since.

This manicure was inspired by carlysisoka# on IG, who was inspired by Sammy (Nailasaurus).
I couldn't decide on photo's so posted the best ones.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Sally Hansen - Sheer Me Now
ELF - Fire Coral
China Glaze - Dreamsicle
Acrylic Paint - Green
Seche Vite