26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Black and White Valentines

This is the 9th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this fortnight is Black and White Valentines

Again, I've incorporated a gradient and a nail decal.  The decal has a bit of red in it, but then valentines has to have a bit of red, right?  I uses OPI Alpine Snow and Orly Liquid Vinyl.

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pastel Christmas

6th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this week is Pastel Christmas.

I did this manicure a week before the last challenge here.  This was going to be Christmas Preparations, then I read that the next one was Pastel!  So I saved this for now :)

I loved how this turned out, love all the snowflake decals on the nails, so very christmassy, don't you think.

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Blue and Silver

The 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge finished a few weeks ago.  It was so much fun doing that, a new nail art every week, and I managed to finish it too.

A New challenge starts this week.  Instead of 52 GNAI's, its been cut down to 26 GNAI's, to be done every fortnight.

The first challenge is Blue and Silver.

Mine was simple enough, but I just could not get the two accent nails right.  It took me two tries and over an hour to do!!

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Books

Week 49 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Three  more weeks to go ......

Challenge this week is Books.

I used to read a lot, but haven't read anything for a while.  The last book I completed was the BFG and this was reading to my son at bedtime about one to two years ago.  We started Danny, the Champion of the World, but never finished it.

Anyway, I was stuck for inspiration, so I opened up Amazon, the page loaded and the first thing I saw was the book I've taken inspiration from.  I just like the colours and the flowers.  I thought I would be able to capture this image quite easily.  Overall I am really pleased how this manicure turned out (unlike last week!).

I did the nail art using the pink PIA lacquer and white and green acrylic paint.  I also used Orly Dazzle on my pinkie.

So without further a do...

Inspired by this book cover.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pink and Aqua - Ikat

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

This week the prompt is Pink and Aqua and my personal pattern prompt - Ikat

I have only done this pattern once and then it was a very trial and error attempt (see here).

But I am quite happy with how these turned out first time, so without further a do....

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Elegant Corset Decal Nails

I did this elegant manicure way back in March.  I met up with my bestie school friends, we had not met up for over fifteen to twenty years!  But we have over the years kept in touch via social media.

The meet up was arranged in a matter of days.  We were just chatting as one of them is having a birthday party in June. We were all saying how we were looking forward to it and meeting up, but what a shame it was such a long time away, we just over the course of a day or two decided why wait....  and set a date later that week to meet up.

I wanted something simple but elegant and I had had these decals in my stash for ages (bought from Aliexpress), so what a good reason to use them.

The polishes as used pictured above.  The glitter one I've used loads of times, unfortunately it is not named, bought from Ebay.  It is beautiful. As was the evening spent with beautiful lovely ladies, who I am proud to say are MY friends.  Love them xx

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Animals

Week 29 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The prompt for the challenge this week is Animals.

Recently I have seen loads of animal print nails on the web.  I can't give credit to anyone in particular as I took inspiration from lots of pics that I liked and this is what I came up with.

For my base for the animal nails I used SH Shorely and then the gradient is done with a mix of brown, black and white acrylic paints.

The next two photos are without clean up.  Not too bad a mess and it was fairly easy to clean up as it was acrylic paint used for the gradient.

 

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