Leaf Nail Art

Hey Guys! Its the weekend, and it's super sunny which is nice, it hasn't been like this in ages! I was hoping to go to the beach but it is still pretty cold out, and I'm not that brave...
Today's nails are this cool, simple leafy pattern I found on pinterest. I wasn't able to match it exactly, my brush strokes are a little too thick on the outlines (I think I'm going to start working on thinner lines), but I am suprised how much I like them!

Mr Men and Little Miss nails!

Hey guys! New nails today! So these are more nails inspired by childrens books... again. This time, mr men and little miss characters. My sister helped me figure out which characters to paint. There were so many of them! obviously I had to do Mr Happy, because, well of course! Mr bump was also a pretty obvious one, cuz he is all cool and stuff, and I thought the bandages would be fun to paint. My sister wanted me also to do Mr Topsy Turvy, but we decided he wasn't well known enough, and Mr Strong is also cool! So i decided on him instead. With the Little Miss characters (I chose to do 3 men and only 2 miss') my sister always liked Little Miss Naughty and then Little Miss Splendid has an interesting outfit, so she is in!
Anyway, that was probably wayyy too much insight into my thought process, so here are the pictures!

(in the shade)

 (In the sun)

The polishes I used were:
OPI My Vampire Is Buff
China Glaze Happy Go Lucky
China Glaze Grape Pop
China Glaze Flyin' High
China Glaze Def Defying
China Glaze Salsa
China Glaze Liquid Leather
China Glaze Starboard
China Glaze White on White

These were so much fun to do! Hope you guys like them!

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!