KIKO 497 Pearly Indian Violet

I did this manicure back in September 2016.  This was from my 2nd KIKO haul.  Isn't it a beauty. Love all the sparkles and micro glitter in it.  Loved it on.  Love the shape on my nails, I must do them like that again.

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 - Black Base - Marble Nails

Challenge number 3 of 26 Great Nail Art Idea's (done every fortnight) this week the theme is - Black Base.

I have seen many many marble nails recently and so decided to do some for this challenge.  For the ring accent however I did a white base.  It still counts, right? :)  Anyway I painted on the black and white nail lacquer and did the marble effect with watered down acrylic paints.  I then used the silver for a little accent.

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Halloween In The Wrong Colours

Challenge number 2 - Halloween In The Wrong Colours.

This was hard to think of in terms of colours, as most colours can be used for Halloween, green, orange, blue, black, white, red and purple! The only one I could think of was pink not really Halloweeny :)

So here is my sparkly, blingy pink Halloween manicure. I think simple but effective?

For the silver nails I used an Orly silver as a base then put the LA Girl glitter on top.

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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 - 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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