Skittle Stripes

Hello! Just a quick post today because since my nails are so short I haven’t had any inspiration and am struggling to find things to post. As soon as my nails get a bit longer posts should become a bit more regular, please just bear with me! 

 The pictures for this post aren’t very good quality because I took them on my phone to show my boyfriend, never intending to use them for my blog. I didn’t do any clean up so that’s why some nails look a bit scruffy. I think you get the idea though! 

 

 

 

 

I was just playing around with striping tape for the first time and this was the result. It is similar to this manicure that Chalkboard Nails did a while ago. I didn’t copy it on purpose but as I was doing it, I was thinking to myself ‘I’ve seen this before…’ and then I googled and that was where! 

 

 

 

 

 For the base colours I used Barry M – Pure Turquoise, Indigo; China Glaze – Papaya Punch; NYC – Greenwich Village and OPI – Who The Shrek Are You? The black was just a random one from Collection 2000. I really need a new opaque black creme!  Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

 

Thank you for reading!

Scalloped Nails/Ruffle Nails Experiment!

I have seen the Scalloped or Ruffle nail trend everywhere recently and I really wanted to try it out for myself. I didn’t sit down with a plan, and you can tell but this was just an experiment to see what I could do with it. This is the result!

I had some slight issues with polish from the end circles flooding into the cuticle which you can see as well keeping the circles the same size but practice makes perfect! I will definitely try again. Additionally my NYC topcoat bubbled a LOT so please excuse that! I will use a different top coat until I get chance to repurchase.

 

 

I think I perfect the ruffles at an angle like on the pinkie but the middle finger is nice too. On the ring finger I think the gap between the first colour and second colour is too big and the index finger… let’s not talk about that one! It is a total fail. I think I meant to add orange as the third colour again but clearly I forgot…

 

 

I used lots of polishes, so I will quickly list. If you want to know which colour is which specifically, please ask. Barry M – Indigo, Blueberry Ice Cream, Berry Ice Cream, Pure Turquoise; Orly – Oui; OPI – Who The Shrek Are You?; China Glaze – Papaya Punch; NYC – Uptown, Greenwich Village, Price Street; Color Club – White; Revlon – Ocean Breeze, No 7 – Purple Fantasy, Lilac Chill; Miss Sporty – Teal (?) and Pop Fiction.

 

 

Finally, do you prefer plain backgrounds to photos like this or the coloured or patterned paper that I used in pervious posts? Thank you for your feedback, reading and to anyone who voted for me to win Makeup Savvy’s Nail Challenge!

15 Day Nail Challenge – Day 8 Leopard

I loved my nails so much from yesterday that I didn’t want to take it off for today so instead of completely removing it, I simply added leopard print over the top with a Sharpie! I have never been very successful with leopard print but I absolutely love this! It is quite abstract and I love the way that everything blends together slightly.

I am sorry about the quality of some of the pictures, my camera had a massive smudge on the lens and I didn’t realise until I came to upload the pictures. Sadly my nails are no longer in a state to be photographed so these will have to do!

 

 

These nails look far better in real life but you still get the general idea from the pictures. Sadly my topcoat smudged the design a little bit but this isn’t as noticeable in real life either.

 

 

 

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15 Day Nail Challenge – Day 7 Neon

I don’t actually own any true neon polishes so instead I did a watercolour manicure with a couple of very bright almost neon colours. This is the first time I have tried to do this and I am quite pleased with the results.

 

I started off with a base of Color Club – White then on a plastic food bag I mixed a drop of each colour polish with some nail polish thinner (I tried with acetone first but it didn’t turn out as well) then dapped it onto my nail with a little nail art brush. The colours I used were Barry M – Indigo, Barry M – Pure Turquoise, OPI – Who The Shrek Are You?, China Glaze – Papaya Punch, Rimmel - Sunshine and finally Maybelline – Hot Salsa.

 

 

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15 Day Nail Challenge – Day 4 Galaxy

Galaxy nails! My absolute favourite nail look to date! They are easy to do, look fantastic and there are endless colour combinations.

Without further ado here are some pictures:

 

I used Rimmel - Midnight Blue as my base colour (just £1 in Poundland!) then sponged on Collection 2000 – Hello Sailor!, Essence – Where Is The Party?, Essence – Choose Me!, Essence – Space Queen, Color Club – White, NYC – Prince Street, a Hello Kitty dark pink from M&S, OPI – Mediterranean Moonlight and Orly – Oui. Lastly I added some stars with Gosh – Holographic and a dotting tool.

 

I couldn’t resist adding a coat of a matte top coat, there is just something about matte glitter that looks fantastic. Here are the results:

 

Thank you for reading!