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 :)

Twin nails with Jenns5nails

Hey guys, today I have something a bit different to normal. I, along with Jenn from jenns5nails did some twins nails! For those who don't know what this is, it is where each person chooses a design that the other has done, and has a go at it!

Floral Pattern Nails...ish?

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

More photos after the break!

Cute Cartoon Floral Nail Art

Hey guys!! Before I start talking about my nails, which we all know i love to do, I just thought I would see if there are any other tay tay fans out there that have been listening to 'shake it off' non-stop... Thats totally a good excuse for not doing my uni work right? I am loving it!
Anyway, today I have some more floral nail art to show you! Because, you know, who doesn't like florals right? These ones are once again inspired by the wonderful Lindsey over at Wondrously Polished, Though my version came out quite a bit differently to hers.

Click through for more!

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.

The Rainbow Fish Nails

Hey guys! Today I have some fishy nails for you! It's winter over here... but these are so pretty and summery!

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!

Abstract Nails with Tutorial!

Hey guys! Last night I was trying to figure out what to do on my nails. I went though the possibility of doing my favourite bags design (which I will probably do later on) or things people have asked me to do, but I wasn't feeling it I guess. Then I reverted to google searching art to give me inspiration. I decided I wanted to do a mixture of circles and prime colours (kinda a circle version of Piet Mondrian's compositions). 

I really like them, but I a little bit regretting my decision on my index finger to colour red down the middle, in hindsight I think I probably should have kept it the neutral colour, but oh well... its a little different.

I also decided to take photos as I was painting my nails so I have a full tutorial with photos instead of my little drawings! Though I did forget to take a photo of just the base colour... oops. 

Okay, so what I didn't take a picture of is how my nails started with 2 coats of a neutral colour. I will list all the polishes I used down below.

1. Paint curved lines and circles with a thin striping brush and black polish. I did these pretty randomly, but I found it looked better when there weren't too many lines (I think i may have gotten a little carries away with my index finger...
2. Start colouring in the sections that you have made. I liked to keep the long sections in the middle neutral and fill out the more circular sections.
3. Continue filling out the sections until you think it looks good. You could have put more colours in here instead of repeating colours, I was just scared that I would choose the wrong colours and screw it up...
4. Go over the black lines again so they are more solid and even
5. Clean up all the excess polish on your fingers
6. After you let them dry, go over in your favourite top coat!

I tend to clean up before I put my top coat on... I don't know if this is normal, but I find it easier and it also makes it quicker for me, but you can do it whenever!

The polishes I used were:

OPI My Vampire is Buff (Neutral)
China Glaze High Hopes (red)

China Glaze Liquid Leather (black)

China Glaze Man Hunt (blue)

China Glaze Happy Go Lucky (yellow)

See you guys next time!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar nails!

Hey guys, today I have some super exciting nails to show you... well super exciting to me at least! These nails were so much fun to create, and I had a good excuse to look up the pretty pictures of one of my favourite children's books! 

I also did my other hand with the other foods that he eats but I seem to have forgotten to take a picture of it! :( 

I used a whole bunch of polishes for this one! 

Base:
OPI My Vampire is Buff (bone colour)

Caterpillar:
China Glaze Starboard (dark green)
China Glaze Four Leaf Clover (blue-ish green)
OPI Greenwich Village (medium green)China Glaze Def Defying (apple green)
China Glaze High Hopes (pinkish red)
OPI Decades of Shades (Brown)
China Glaze Happy Go Lucky (yellow)
China Glaze Liquid Leather (black)

Lollipop:
OPI Decades of Shades (Brown)
China Glaze Hanging in the Balance (blue)
China Glaze Happy Go Lucky (yellow)

Pie:
China Glaze Desert Sun (caramel brown)
OPI Decades of Shades (brown)
China Glaze Seduce Me (purple-red)
China Glaze High Hopes (red-pink)
China Glaze Heli-yum (pink)

Cupcake:
China Glaze Desert Sun (caramel brown)
OPI Decades of Shades (brown)
China Glaze Hanging in the Balance (blue)
China Glaze Snow (white) - mixed with blue

Watermelon:
China Glaze Starboard (green)
China Glaze High Hopes (red-pink)
China Glaze Liquid Leather (black)

wow... that was a lot of polish... I didn't realise until just then...
Let me know what you guys think! bye