.Bridal Manicure with Clear Caviar.

I was asked to create a Bridal manicure by the lovely Goldleaf using their Clear Caviar Beads* and this is what i came up with! I decided on something simple using the beads on the all important wedding accent nail and a floral pattern on the rest. Keeping to a white, gold and silver colour scheme to compliment any blushing bride.

Polish: Natural Collection White, Barry M Gold Foil. Bundle Monster Plates 221 & 225, silver glitter from ebay and Clear Caviar Beads* from Goldleaf / The Glitter Shop.

You can get your mitts on a bag of Clear Caviar Beads for just £1.99 HERE!

I can’t wait to try these beads over different colours and see what they look like, i think they’re going to be the most versatile beads yet!

Any brides to be out there looking for some wedding nail inspiration?

xax

.Rainy Day Nails.

.A Tribute to Our Lovely British Summer.


Rain rain go away!!!

How To:  Paint your nails with two coate of grey apart from your ring finger which you need to paint with a lighter colour. To paint the clouds use your brush and the base colour of your other nails to draw three strokes down the tip of your nail. Wait for those to dry and do the same with your black. Set the gems into a layer of clear polish and cover with a coat too!

Polish: Barry M Grey and Black and Essie’s Master Plan. Assorted blue gems from ebay!

Is it raining where you are?

xax

.Jubilee nails.

A piccy of my Jubilee nails! I painted them for a lovely street party we went to yesterday and they went down a treat but they’re also quite fitting for our trip to London so I’ve kept them on!

How to: Paint each nail in two coats of your blue apart from the little finger in which you only need one coat at first.
Paint the crown using a nail brush and your gld polish by drawing a line at the bottom, two outside lines, filling in the middle two lines and painting a little cross on top. Finish off your thumb with gems set into clear polish.
For the caviar, paint the second coat of polish on your pinky and sprinkle the beads over your nail catching the excess in a little bowl. Gently press the beads into your polish and even up the edges by pushing them in where they poke out if you like. Cover with a thin coat of clear to protect the colour.
For the flag, paint the shape of the flag with your white polish making the lines quite thick, When this is dry paint over it with your red and finish with a topcoat.

Polish: N07 Sing the Blues, Barry M Gold Foil and Konad Special Polish* in Red & White. Gems are from ebay and my caviar beads are in a set called ‘Vintage’* from The Glitter Shop!

Are you sporting some patriotic nails?

xax

.American Spirit.

I’ve painted a set of Union Jack nails in the past when i first started messing around with nail art so i thought it time to do some stars and stripes! This particular design comes on Konad’s m45 plate which was in the French Nail Art* set that Funtica sent me and i used the red & blue special polish from Stamping Set C*.

How To:
I started with a layer of Barry M’s Silver Foil and then using a cut-up baby sponge (so much cheaper than make-up sponges by the way) i patted a rough white tip to sit under the flag design. For this i just used my Natural Collection tip whitener and wasn’t overly neat with it as i wanted some of the white to spread out from under the flag and give a grungy look. From there it was just a case of painting half the flag with red and half with blue before scraping and carefully stamping onto the tips. Finished with a top coat of Barry M Clear and they’re done!

xax

.Painting the roses red...and blue.

Roses painted over OPI's Funny Bunny. The roses are just blobs of colour with flicks of a lighter shade over the top. Paint your leaves in little flicks at the side and highlight everything with glitter!


Polish used: OPI's Funny Bunny, Barry M’s Raspberry, Strawberry Ice Cream, Blueberry Ice Cream, No7’s Betty Blues and Model’s Own Grace Green. The glitter was just from a mixed pack of colours i brought on ebay and the top coat was just Barry M Clear.
 
What are your favourite colour rosey nails?
 
xax

.Polka-dots, Stripes and Moustaches.

.Polish Used.

Barry M Clear Basecoat, 17 Supreme Shine Mink, Barry M Black, Beautify Cosmetics Black nail Pen, Seche Vite Clear Topcoat. I also used these mini black bowtie gems and some plain round black gemstones.

You can watch a quick step-by-step tutorial of how i created this look on my Youtube channel HERE!

I'm loving nude and black nails at the moment - thoughts?

xax

.Cherry Blossom Gradients.

 

This look is created with real dried flowers on my ring finger - how cute!

How To:
For the main manicure i used the lovely Sammy’s (aka The Nailasaurus) gradient nail technique and it worked a treat! I added a little glitter on the tips too so they sparkled a little in the sunshine! For the accent nails i painted a base of OPI’s Funny Bunny and used a brown nail art pen to draw the tree trunk. To adhere the flowers i just put a blob of clear polish on the tree and placed the flowers on using tweezers. I then finished all my nails with a coat of Seche Vite- loving this topcoat by the way - being careful not to move the flowers around and putting two coats on the accent.

The pinks came from my set of nail art pens so i'm afraid they don't have colour names, but just have a route around in your nail polish box and pick out two or three similar shades to print with.

Have you tried dried flowers on your nails yet?

xax

.Strawberry Ice Cream Nails.

It was the name of this Barry M polish that inspired this design - Strawberry Ice Cream! Yes, yes i know the ice cream i've painted is very much vanilla, but the strawberry sprit is there!

How To: Paint two coats of Barry M's Strawberry Ice Cream onto your nails and top all of them apart from your ring finger with Barry M's White Shatter Polish. To paint the ice cream i use Barry M's Mushroom in a triangle for the cone and a little line for the flake and Natural Collection's White for the icecream itself. Top with a little 'cherry' gem by sinking it into clear polish and you're done!

What do you think, are they good enough to eat?!

xax