40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Insects

Week 41 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

I am running 2 and a half weeks behind with this challenge.  I wore week 42 last week and I will post that asap.

But here is week 41 with the prompt - Insects.

I have been wanting to do this nail art for a very long time, just never got round to it.  So today with the intention of just painting my nails for the prompt, photographing etc I was going to take it off and get on with this weeks prompt.

But I liked it so much even though it was rushed, I decided to keep it on and even did my cinders hand.

Here is my insect manicure - the monarch butterfly.  I painted on the darker purple, let it dry a little then used cling film/saran wrap and patted it onto the darker colour.  With black acrylic paint I did the monarch design and white acrylic paint for the dots and to finish, a coat of SV and voila.

I am really impressed, I really like them on...

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Floral

Week 31 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

NOTE:

Although the title says '40' the participants have dwindled a little in this challenge.  No longer will you find 40 great ideas. Life happens and we have to go do what we have to.  So even though there are fewer participants the challenge still goes on and I will keep the 40 in the title as this is what we started out with.

Right..... the challenge this week:

The prompt for the challenge this week is Floral.

I could have taken the easy way out (I have in the past ;) ).  But I thought I would hand paint some floral this week instead.

The pinky nail is the same from my last manicure, it was so lovely I had to keep it and the floral theme is done to incorporate the purple theme colour.  You can't really see, but for the two floral nails I did an off centre radial gradient using lilac and the blue.  The floral nails are done using acrylic paints and I've done them over the blue part of the gradient.

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

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pink & Lilac Plus Fishbraid

Week 28 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The prompt for the challenge this week is Pink and Lilac with my personal pattern prompt of Fishbraid.

Colours were easy to choose and the pattern prompt seemed easy enough!  I mean I'd seen plenty of tutorials on how to achieve this look.  How hard could it be???

Well quite difficult as I found!  I just could not get my head round how the braid would work and which colour goes where so as to show a true braid.  I looked at many pictures, tutorials and even practised with pen and paper and even some ribbon.

I gave up in the end and found a great tutorial on a gradient fishbraid, so that is what I ended up doing.

I am not giving up though, this is a personal challenge and I will do a true Fishbraid manicure and post as soon as :)

  

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Violet - Fan Brush

Week 26 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The colour prompt for the challenge this week is violet and my personal challenge is to incorporate the fan brush.

The colour prompt was challenging one for many on this challenge, what is 'violet'?  Does it lean toward purple or pink or in between?  I googled it and there were many explanations, still none the wiser, this is what I came up with.....

I didn't do the traditional side to side fan brush technique instead i swept the brush diagonally with the first two colours and then vertically and horizontally with the last darker colour.  This gives it a slightly distressed look?  I quite like it.

Also, below is the colour square I went with when choosing my violet colours.

                                    violet                                        purple

     

 

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

Lilac Gradient and Lace Decal - 3 July 2015

Ok catch up time again.

We are into July 2015 now.

Here a lilac/purple gradient with some pretty white lace decals.  I love these decals, I have them in black also which I must try out soon.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Grey + Colour - Brush Stroke

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

This week the prompt is 'Grey + Colour' and there is an individual pattern prompt for everyone, mine this week is brush stroke.

When I read this, my personal interpretation was that we had to use grey as a base and then add one colour.

So, as my pattern prompt was brush stroke, I did a grey base and used the 'colour' part in my brush stroke.

A simple but IMO quite an effective manicure.

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

 

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.

GOT Polish Challenge Part 2 - Week 9 - Lilac Floral

A Day late with week 9 of the GOT2 (Golden Oldie Thursday) Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts. The theme for this week is Lilac.

I teamed my lilac base with some hand painted acrylic floral.  The acrylic paints I used here, I bought about 2 years ago and have only just opened the box to use in this manicure. The violet is so bright and vibrant, it is beautiful.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Barry M - Berry
Acrylic Paint - violet, white and green
NYC Quick Dry Clear Polish