26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Halloween In The Wrong Colours

Challenge number 2 - Halloween In The Wrong Colours.

This was hard to think of in terms of colours, as most colours can be used for Halloween, green, orange, blue, black, white, red and purple! The only one I could think of was pink not really Halloweeny :)

So here is my sparkly, blingy pink Halloween manicure. I think simple but effective?

For the silver nails I used an Orly silver as a base then put the LA Girl glitter on top.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Orange - Mosaic/Stained Glass Skittlette

Week 46 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Six more weeks to go ......

This week the prompt is Orange and my personal prompt - Mosaic/Stained Glass .

I went for the Mosaic.  I painted 3 different colour oranges onto a plastic sheet, when dry, I cut out tiny random shapes.

I painted on the Kiko base colour once, let it dry, applied a second coat and while still wet, placed randomly the cut out polish pieces.  A top coat of SV and voila.

The three colours I used for the Mosaic on my nails ↓ 

 

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Hot Pink - Gradient with Decals

Week 34 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week a double prompt, Hot Pink for everyone and my personal prompt: Gradient.

I chose my colours carefully, thinking they were different shades (the first two in picture below), in the bottle they certainly look it, right?  Wrong!  I had a base of white (OPI - Alpine Snow), on top of that I started to sponge on the first two OPI colours, but when on they looked the same.  I did another coat thinking the difference would show.... nope... it did not.

So I changed one of the colours (LA Girl).  I did from cuticle, LA Girl and 2nd OPI, and this seemed much better.  On the two middle fingers I added a little white to the tips to lighten it a little.
They looked too plain though, so I added some flower decals on a few nails.

I have done gradient nails a million times, but this one just did not turn out that well at all.  I am pleased but not one of my best!

 

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Green tea and Rose Water Decal Gradient - 11 August 2015

OK, on to August 2015 now.

A sponge gradient done with a light green shade and two bright pinks, topped with water decals and voila.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Christmas

We are now on week twelve of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt is Christmas.

What could say Christmas more than red, glitter, snowmen and santa.

I found a picture on IG, I just switched the nails a little and this is what I came up with. Loved this on, I work in Reception Class, and this kids (as well as my colleagues) loved this manicure :)

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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.

Sponged Decal Skittlette - 22 February 2015

Another water decal manicure.  For the polished nails, I picked colours from the decal and dabbed onto a white base with a small washing up sponge to get this stippled effect.  Added some round nail studs and voila.

 

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?

Remembrance Day Skittlette Nails 4 Nov 2014

4 November 2014

Not a very good photo I'm afraid.  But these looked so good IRL, if I do say so myself.
Not sure which red I used, but the two accent nail base colour is OPI My Vampire is Buff and the pinkie glitter is LA Girl Sandblast - Sands of Time.
The poppy nail art is done with acrylic paints.

Red Flower Decal Skittlette - 13 June 2014

13 June 2014

A skittle manicure here using water decals again from AliExpress.  Obviously filed my nails down to squoval! I wonder why I did that, so long ago I can't remember.  Anyway I liked this manicure, almost, I did not like the pointer finger. I wish I hadn't done spots on it, or maybe should have done them smaller. Oh well it turned ok'ish. 

As always I used OPI Nail envy for base coat and Seche Vite for top coat.