40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Hippies/Festivals

Week 43 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Nine more weeks to go......

This week the prompt is Hippies/Festivals.

Lots of things come to mind, flowers, bright colours, green peace, Reading Festival, Glastonbury.... the list is endless really.

I've never been to a festival but as a child of the 70's probably worn flowery prints and flares :)

But I also had tie dye in my head and as I've never done this on my nails, what better reason than now.

Here is my contribution....

I applied a white polish as a base and then did the nail art over the top.  This makes the colours pop more.

I did the tie dye effect on the two middle fingers using a very fine dotting tool and when I had finished the pattern, gently dabbed over it with some acetone remover with a brush to give a more tie dye effect.

For the index and thumb, I dropped some polish drops onto a stamper and just stamped it straight onto my nails.  I added some metal studs and voila.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Neons - Geometric

Week 32 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week a double prompt.  For everyone the prompt is Neons and my personal pattern prompt - geometric.

I went for two accent nails with the pattern and I did an abstract geometric design.

(Edit - 13 May 2016)
The geometric pattern is done by creating my own nail polish decals.  I painted thin strips of polish onto plastic, once dry, cut them into random shapes and stuck onto the nail, top coat of SV and voila.

The thumb colour in the photo is not at all what it looks like IRL, it is a neon pink, in the photo it almost looks orange!  Two other colours I used on the accent nails not photographed are CG Custom Kicks (teal) and LA Girl Disco Vinyl Record (turquoise).

 

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GOT Polish Challenge Part 2 - Week 6 - Neon

Week 6 of the GOT2 (Golden Oldie Thursday) Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts. This week the theme is Neon.

I cheated a little.  I have had these well over one or even two years, I can't remember, so they are oldies, however they have not been used so a little cheating there.

Anyway here is my Neon manicure, a few days late.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Milani - Totally 80's and Pink Rocks
LA Girl - Silver
Seche Vite top coat

BFF - Neon Challenge

Continuing the BFF challenge - this is number 8 of 16.  The theme as chosen by Kerrie - this time Neon.
As said in my last post I did this manicure and managed to kill two birds with one stone.  I did this neon sponge first using various neon colours I own over a white base, and then did the animal print over the top for the animal challenge.

Items Used:
China Glaze - Snow - White
China Glaze - Blue Sparrow (neon) - Blue
China Glaze - Turned up Turquoise (neon) - Green
Color Club - Volt of Light - Neon green
Color Club - Poptastic - Neon pink
PF UK - Lucious Flame - Neion Orange
Seche Vite

Go check out all the other ladies who are taking part in this challenge:

tHiMeRe of On Beauty Stuff and What Else's

Bec of Lacquer Dreams

Kerrie of PishPosh and Polish

Caitlin of Caitlin's Creative Corner

Emma of Manicurity

Alyssa of Fancy Phalanges

Sally of Nail Pron

Our Challenge Board

 

Pink and Aqua Sponge Gradient

Now those of you have read my blog, will know that I love the gradient manicure.  It is so simple and easy to do and the effects can indeed be amazing.  I have normally done it with three colours but I have recently seen a lot of two colour gradients and thought why not?  So this is my second two tone take on it.  Truth be told, it looks better on the photos than it did IRL!  Nevertheless I had this on for about five days.  Funnily enough the Aqua on the tips looks/ed purple over the neon pink base.

Items used:
Color Club - Ultra Violet - the neon pink for the base colour - 2 coats
Sinful Colors - Aqua - on the bottom half of the tips. Sponged on lightly
Seche Vite top coat.