Simple Roses

Hello everyone! This is a manicure I did a couple of days ago when we had a lovely bit of sunshine here in the UK.

 

It is based on a tutorial that CutePolish did which I watched a long time ago but never got around to do. Some things are a little bit different to hers though. 

 

 

I used NYC – Mint Macaroon for the base then for the actual flowers I used a dotting tool dipped into 3 different shades of pink (NYC – Greenwich Village, NYC – Uptown and a random Accessorize pale pink) then onto the nail to create a sort of marbled effect. The leaves which could have been slightly neater were done with Revlon – Emerald City which is a matte but then of course turned shiny with the addition of topcoat.

 

 

I am quite pleased with how this turned out even though they don’t actually look like roses close up. They look nice from a distance though hence why I wore them for a couple of days! Thank you for reading!

Purple Flowers

Good afternoon, everyone! Today I have some floral nails to show you that I did yesterday. I decided that I wanted to do a design including flowers and including Orly Oui and this is the result! 

 I used NYC – Lavender Cupcake and of course Orly Oui for the centre of each flower then for the actual flowers I used a mixture of several different purples to create different shades. I love how this turned out but I feel like some nails are a bit sparse. I like how there is no uniformity to the flowers and that they are all different colours but because they all belong to the same colour family it still ties together nicely. I will have to try this with different colour combinations!

 

 

 

This design is super easy to do; all you need are several different coloured polishes and a few different sizes of dotting tool. If you don’t own any dotting tools you can use objects from around the house such as bobby pins or pencils. 

 

 

Either tomorrow or Thursday I will post my ‘celebration’ OR ‘commiseration’ nails which I will do because on Thursday I receive my GCSE results (EEEK!) so keep an eye out for them, I am thinking as much glitter as humanly possible! Also today is the last day of voting for the winner of Makeup Savvy’s Nail Challenge so please vote for me if you get the chance! Thanks for reading.