Whale Nails!

 Hey guys! How are you all? I painted these really cute whales on my nails and I love them! let me know what you think!

See you next time! Byee!

Easter Carrots!

Hey guys! Happy Easter to you all! I hope you got a lot of chocolate :P I won an easter egg guessing competition on the weekend so I have more eggs that I have ever had before... it is ridiculous! Anyway, I have my nails all themed and ready for you, I hope you enjoy them!

Okay, So they aren't the most Easter-y nails ever... but I think they are a little related right?

Thanks guys! See you next week!

Cactus Nails!

Hey guys! As soon as I did my last set of nails I really wanted to paint them again because they were so pretty.. unfortunately, because they were so pretty, I also wanted to keep them for as long as I could! Turns out the option that requires the least amount of work tends to be the one that is chosen... :P Anyway, after a while they started to chip, so I decided today it was time to paint them again (yay!) Here is what I did:

I think they are pretty cool... As usual though, I didn't come up with this design on my own! I found a really cool print on Pinterest (here) and tried to replicate it on my nails. Its not perfect, but I am quite pleased :-). Now for a bunch more photos for you to have a peek at!

The polishes I used for this design are:
China Glaze Snow
China Glaze Liquid Leather
China Glaze Def Defying
China Glaze Gaga For Green
China Glaze Four Leaf Clover
China Glaze Flyin' High

Hope you enjoyed these nails! See you next time :)

Artsy nail art!

Hey guys! How are you all? I was flicking through Pinterest and I found a cool print that I used as inspiration for these nails. They are a bit more simple and abstract than my usual style, but I hope you like them!

I kinda like this sort of look, though I think maybe a little less black next time so you could see all the colours I used. Only a couple of photos for this design and I didn't film a tutorial because I wanted to do them quickly, but if anyone wants a tutorial let me know and I can film one! 

Here is the print that I used as inspiration and a couple of photos!

Hope you enjoyed this quick post!

See you all soon :) Bye!!

Cats or spiders...?

Hey Guys! How was your new year? Mine was really nice and chilled which was cool. For the first set of nails for the new year I have decided to trawl Pinterest for inspiration (how unusual right?) and I love patterns on my nails and I love cats, so why not both? Here is what I did!

Keep on reading for the usual - pictures, videos, list of polishes etc...

New Years Eve Nails with tutorial!

Hey Guys! Guess what?! It is almost 2016! How strange and exciting :) So I thought I would bring the year in in the best way possible... By painting my nails of course! Please enjoy!

Keep reading for a video tutorial and bunch more pictures!

Robots!

Hey guys! Guess what?! I handed in my thesis a couple of days ago, so I'm almost finished my degree. To sort of commemorate this I have done some nails for the occaision that are sort of in theme. (PS I don't know if you know but I study Mechatronic Engineering, which is robotic engineering really). Here they are!

Floral Pattern Nails...ish?

Hey guys! So today I painted my nails... 

More photos after the break!

Pink Watercolour Nails

Hey guys! I have been wanting to do like a watercolour background for a nail design again ever since I did my rainbow fish nails, but this time I wanted to do like a pink/orange/yellow version. The reason I haven't done this yet is that I didn't know what pattern/design I wanted to do on top. 
So I got to the point where I wanted to do the background and hoped I would come up with something as I was going. For these I kind of just drew something on them and went with it. 

Spotty Floral Pattern Nails

Hi everyone! This is kinda early in the week for me to be posting new nails, but I have meetings with my thesis supervisor every wednesday now so I think monday nails will have to become a thing. I think this will be a good thing! Okay, so today's nails are inspired by the wonderful, and fantastically talented, Wondrously Polished. You should all go check out her blog here, She does the most beautiful and detailed designs, and some of my favourite florals! The nails I was inspired by are these. Though I changed up the colour palette a little.

Flower Pattern Nails

Hey guys! I didn't get time to do my nails during the week which was a bit sad, but I have a good excuse. I was skiing for the week! So to make up for it I did some new nails today.

Red and Nude Patterned Nails!

Hey guys! How are you all? Its still exam time for me, only one left though! and then a month of holidays. Pretty exciting! So these nails are just weird patterns, sort of like what you would draw in your school books and stuff when you're bored I guess. No real meaning to any of them, I guess I just kept painting, not so much thinking :P

I only did my left hand with these. There was no way I was going to be able to paint that detail on my right hand! Though I'm not such a fan of my right hand being plain at the moment. Any ideas on what I should do for them?

Only two polishes today:
OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons
China Glaze Adventure Red-y 

That's all for today! See you later guys!

Leafy nails

Hey guys, today I have some new nails! I was struggling with ideas for this one. My friend had requested I do foxes jumping... but I am not so confident that they will come out like foxes, and instead they will look like red/orange/brown blobs. Anyway, I might try them later on when I am feeling super arty. Today I did some leafy nails instead. I was googling patterns and i found a really cool one that I thought would translate well onto nails!. 
So that's enough rambling, here are my nails:

Oh, and this was my inspiration! How pretty is it! :P



The polishes I used for these were:
China Glaze White on White
China Glaze Def Defying
China Glaze Flyin' High
China Glaze Kinetic Candy
OPI Decades of Shades
China Glaze Liquid Leather

See you next week!

Alien Nails!

Hey guys, I have some nails today that were requested by my friend. He wanted aliens and spaceships, so I did alien heads and UFOs... same difference right? For these I didn't really know what I wanted to do for the UFO, though I did want it to look like a typical alien spacecraft. My first try I started with a metallic base for my UFO, but it was a little... harsh? I don't know, it just didn't look right. But then again I have a tendency to only use cremes in my nail art, and I was convinced that this needed some metallic spacey-ness... anyway, Here they are!

The polishes I used today were:
Base:
China Glaze Snow (white) (1 coat)
China Glaze White on White (white) (1 coat)

Aliens:
China Glaze Def Defying (green)
China Glaze Liquid Leather (black)

UFOs:
China Glaze Recycle (grey)
China Glaze Icicle (silver)
China Glaze Liquid Leather (black)
China Glaze Metallic Muse (metallic teal)

I also made a pictorial so you guys can see how they were made!

I hope you guys like these, they were pretty fun to design and paint! See you next time! :-)

Easter Nails

Hey Guys, its rainy and gross today, so I decided to do some happy nails! Its Easter soon, which is super exciting, who doesn't love chocolate right?! So I decided to do a set of themed nails. As you might be able to see, I have been enjoying doing small repeating patterns, so I tried to do my Easter nails with the same sort of idea.

Also, I hope you like my socks. My friend bought them for me as she doesn't think I eat enough vegetables, so these help right? :-P
For these nails I started with a white base and added the details with a dotting tool and a very thin striper.
The polishes I used were:

Base:

China glaze snow and China glaze white on white (white)

Chicks:

China glaze happy go lucky (bright yellow)

OPI atomic orange (Orange)

China glaze liquid leather (Black)

Eggs:

China glaze lemon fizz (light yellow)

China glaze peachy keen (light orange/peach)

China glaze re-fresh mint (mint green)

China glaze kinetic candy (light blue)

China glaze sweet hook (light purple)

I have also included some photos of Easter nails I did last year. Sorry for the quality of the photos.. I clearly hadn't heard of sun before. 
The first set of Easter nails are just a mash up of a bunch of designs I had seen around the internet. I did have major troubles with the chevrons though, and still I am never very confident doing them, but maybe I will experiment a little more now with them and try to improve!

These second nails are my version of Chalkboard Nails' Easter Mix-up. These were a cool, fun and bright take on the usually pastel Easter nails, and were so fun to wear!

Hope you guys have a great Easter, and I would love to see any cool Easter inspired designs you have tried! :)

Pineapple Nails and pictorial

Hey guys, today I am going to show you a set of nails I did a couple of months ago. These are some of my favourite nails I did over the summer. I have always liked the look of a small repeated pattern, and due to all the fresh fruit around I decided to do a pineapple pattern!

Left Hand

Right Hand

My right hand, as you can see, was considerably less detailed than my left, mainly due to laziness. Being right handed, it becomes very time consuming to do such detailed designs on my right hand as well, so sometimes I cut corners and do a simpler, related design on my right hand.

I have made another pictorial for this design to show you guys how I did this nail art. 

The polishes I used were 

China Glaze Snow (white)

China Glaze Lemon Fizz (light yellow)

China Glaze Happy Go Lucky (yellow)

China Glaze Gaga For Green (green)

China Glaze StarBoard (dark green)

I also used a medium sized dotting tool and a striping brush

Hope you guys like them!