40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Red, Yellow and Green - Negative Space

Week 50 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Two  more weeks to go ......

Challenge this week is Red, Yellow and Green and my personal pattern prompt - Negative Space.

What more can I say... well the red and yellow stripes could have been neater, but overall really pleased.

The orange stain on my finger is fading mehndi (henna) that my daughter did on me.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Peach or Lemon - Needle Drag

Week 48 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Four  more weeks to go ......

Challenge for everyone is Peach or Lemon - my personal pattern prompt is needle drag.

I am running late as usual, so this was done in a hurry.  It didn't quite turn out how I planned but I did not have time to do it again.

Anyway here is my Peach and Lemon with two accent nails with the needle drag prompt.

 

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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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Minion Nails - 28 June 2015

Last manicure for June 2015 - Minion Nails.

A colleague prompted me to do these, so I gave it a go....

How I started off with the base colours, ready to paint freehand with acrylic paint and nail polish.

 My normal photographed hand.....

 ..... and my Right hand too,.

Decal Accent - 13 May 2015

A nice little water decal manicure here.  I last used this pack of decals here.  I only used enough for four nails, therefore leaving plenty for another, if not two more manicures.

Here I only used a decal for an accent nail, and as my nails are a lot shorter I cut out what I needed and saved the rest for another manicure (I sure am frugal!).  I always paint my nails with a base of white before applying decals.  Let the base dry and then apply the decal over it for a lovely opaque look.

  

Above, side by side, amazing how one product used with different items or in a different way can give you a completely different look 

I love water decals.

Water Decals and Dry Brush Technique

 25 October 2014 

Ok, not so happy with this at all.  It looked better in my head than on my nails. 

But I tried the dry brush technique here with some water decals as bought from AliExpress.

I wish I had just done one plain colour on the thumb, pointer and little finger. Never mind ....

SIMPLES - Week 2 - Skittle

SIMPLES: Nail Art from Muggle to Mastery - Week 2 is Skittle week.

I have been reviewing and had to use my cinderella hand for this manicure.

A skittle manicure is when you paint all your nails differently, whether it is pattern and colour combo or just colour combo it is a free for all so long as all the nails are different.  Here I went simple and went for colour - I used the colours of the rainbow.

Items used:
Rimmel - Double Decker Red
Pride of London - 343 (orange)
Sally Hansen - Buttercup
Color Club - Twiggie
Kiko - 386 Light Pastel Blue
Acrylic Paint - Black
Sech Vite top coat

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.