Christmas Day 2016 - Fail

I did some stamping for Xmas nails - a big fail.  But hay-ho, have to share the likes as well as the not!

Used an OPI red and PIA glitter red as well as a born pretty red stamping polish.

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 - Yellow and Silver - Mermaid Scales

Week 44 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Eight more weeks to go......

This week the prompt is Yellow and White and my personal pattern prompt of mermaid scales.

I have seen many many manicures of this pattern, but they are all done using vinyl stickers/stencils or stamping plates.

I own neither of these and so did my own interpretation.  Not brilliant or good but it is what I came up with.  I used some sticky back plastic and cut out my own tape with a scallop scissor.

In hindsight I wish I had just done a sort of gradient and then hand painted the scales, but hey ho, a lesson learnt.

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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 - Music

Week 33 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt is Music.

I was going to take my favourite easy way out (water decals) but decided against it.

Instead I went searching for album covers that I could easily re-create.

My end result is this manicure:

This is my recreation of the album Release by the Pet Shop Boys.

I used just black and white acrylic paints to freehand this straight onto my nail.  Although I did do another one onto a stamper which I preferred but I had a little difficulty getting it off the stamp, so I used that on my right ring finger.

The rest of the manicure is a darker shade of grey as is the back of the album.  

     

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - New Year

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

This week the prompt is New Year.  Something girly and blingy.  Not quite the image I had in my head, but this is how it turned out.  I wanted a lighter pink, and in the bottle this pink looked a light shade but once on it dried a little darker.

Nonetheless, I am happy with this manicure.

Happy New Year 2016 everyone. x

 

  

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Christmas Day Red Gradient - 25 December 2015

This was my Christmas day manicure.  I did a gradient with a red and a maroon shade on the tips of my nails.  It was still too stark so I applied another coat of the red all over followed by a  coat of the glitter red by PIA on the whole nail and this is the result.  And look.... I still have the glitter pinky since 14 December.

N.B.
The glitter pinky finally gave up the ghost by the end of Christmas day!  It was peeling off, so I took it off and replaced it with LA Girl Sands of Time.

I'm not sure which red I used, either OPI Red or Elf light red. The maroon shade was Nails Inc Savile Row.

 

Orange Flower Basket (Water Decals) - 7 September 2015

Nice bright manicure here, forgive me, but I saw something like this on the Internet and did not write down who.  But this manicure is from inspiration from someone out there.  Thank you.