40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Fashion

Week 21 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

A week Late, but the prompt this week was Fashion.

I have been re-decorating my son's bedroom and I took inspiration from the new curtains in his room.

   

   

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

Delicate Gold Gradient with Decals - 21 May 2015

A delicate nude/gold gradient with some black water decals I got a while back from AliExpress.  As you can see I was in a hurry and I think I did this quite late at night, as the decal on my index finger particularly if not on point!.  Nonetheless, I loved wearing this.

As with any pale gradient I do, I usually start with a base coat of white and then use the darker colours on top. Not pictured, the white I used was by Honeypot Cosmetics.

This pack of had ten black decals and ten white (on the right, camera did not pick up the colour).

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

Tweed Nails

I saw these on Saranail's blog, and totally had to recreate.   I should have used a brush to do the darker crosses on the tweed nails instead of my dotting tool.  Lesson learnt and I know what to do next time. I loved these so much, I only took them off yesterday (I had them on for a whole week).  Here is my version:

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Sally Hansen - Tahitian Sunset (base for the tweed nail)
China Glaze - Side-Saddle (middle, thumb and tweed)
NYC - Full Metal Jacket (Ring)
LA Colors - Shock (yellow for the tweed)
White Striper for tweed
Gold Striper
Seche Vite

GOT Polish Challenge - Week 12 - Peach/Yellow - Gradient Cartoon Nails

Week 12 and the final one of this first GOT Golden Oldie Thursday Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts. This week the theme is Peach/Yellow.

I have a lot of orange polish but only a couple of peach colours, but they did not qualify as they are less than a year old.  So I opted to do a sponge gradient with yellow and an orange.  Both polishes are well over a year old. I got the yellow shade back in 2011 (see post here) worn only once. The orange one is even older worn only a few times, (here and here, oh and here).

I am sharing this manicure, but I was not at all happy with it.  It made my hands look awful and the nail shape was not made for the at all.  I hasten to say this came off within 24 hours and I also re-shaped my pointy nails.

GOT Polish Challenge - Week 6 - Valentines - Skittlette

Week 6 of the (Golden Oldie Thursday) GOT Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  This week the theme obviously is Valentines.

My "oldie" used in this challenge in the decal stickers.  I have had these for absolutely ages.  Again as last weeks GOT post, these decals came from QVC again from a Special FX polish purchase, oooh about 10-15 years ago!

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
LA Girl Sand Blast - Sands of Time - Gold on pinky finger
LA Girl Sand Blast - Sand Dune - on index and thumb
NYC - Full Metal Jacket - Foil Gold on ring and middle finger
Water Decals
Seche Vite

An InLinkz Link-up

GOT Polish Challenge - Week 4 - Dots

I was looking forward to this one.  I had wanted to this design for ages.  So I set about knowing just what to do, and  it turned out a big fail. I did not have time to do it again or do another manicure.  And really I can't say anymore :(

Items used:

LA Girl Disco - Dance Studio (a lot darker navy than the photo depicts)

China Glaze - Sweet Hook (Lilac)

Honeypot - White

NYC - Lights Camera Glitter

An InLinkz Link-up

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 2 - ORANGE

Day 2 (week 2) of the ER31DC and I am a day late, sorry.  But again I am really pleased with my manicure.  I have had this nail enamel in my stash for sometime and I have only ever worn it twice, here and here.  I have to admit it went on like a dream.  The first coat was almost opaque but I did this with two.

I do a lot of nail art and wearing just a colour can look to me a little naked!  But like the red nails last week, the orange nails on their own look really cool.  I also like using flowers in my nail photography and again I am pleased how these turned out.

I have on my new camera a feature that takes 16 multi shots. With this orange colour and the black background I think the picture came out really, well for me anyway!

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
NYC - 112A Times Square Tangerine Creme
NYC quick dry top coat 

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Sponge Gradient with Glitter

Another Manicure to share with you all.  I did this gradient using pink for the top of the nail and orange on the bottom half to the tips.  I then added some glitter to bling it up a bit.  And a great tip here perhaps, rather than just applying the glitter straight on to the nail with the brush, I applied it on to the sponge and then sponged it on.  It seemed to adhere better. 

Items used:
OPI - You're a Pisa Work - Pink
NYC - 112A Times Square Tangerine Creme - Orange
NYC - Lights-Camera-Glitter - Glitter
Seche Vite

My Valentine's Day Manicure

A BIG thanks to Colette .  Totally loved her design and I thought would give it a go on my shorter nails.  I used OPI Decked out in Red and the white NYC i134A.

Ombre Manicure

This is my try at the Ombre Manicure. I first saw this on Audrey's blog and youtube video (aka Szuchnic).

I thought I would give it a go, and this is what I came up with.



I used 3 colours, NYC i134A, NYC 112A and La Femme Beauty un-named dark red/burgandy colour.



The middle finger is the original NYC 112A organge. For the little finger I used the NYC112A with La femme mixed in to darken the shade. The middle finger same, only a smaller amount of La femme to lighten the shade a little from the pinky finger. For the index and thumb I mixed in the NYC i134A to the orange shade, adding more to lighten more for the thumb.





My Favourite is the thumb colour, I am now looking to find a shade like this. Any suggestion?


A few days later, I got bored and did a fauxnad on my nails. The photo does not do this justice! Looked much better in reallity.