Christmas is here!!

Hello my lovely followers. Hope you are all well. Unfortunately I've come down with a really bad cold and Ive felt like utter crap for the past 2 days. Brilliant! Just what I need for Christmas.
Speaking of Christmas, its only 4 days away, wow! Where has the year gone. Luckily I created a Christmas nail art wheel last week. I came up with a couple of swatches and lots of simple designs of my Christmassy colours and I'm pretty pleased with them. I need some more nail wheels as I don't want to get rid of these designs lol.
So here they all are, the polishes I used where collection 2000, BarryM, Rio nail pens, gallery & la colours nail pens.
I hope you like them.
I'm so sorry that this isn't as detailed as my other blogs, I can't think straight, I blame this stupid cold, hopefully I will be well for Christmas.
I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and I will see you all soon x

Halloween is a week away!!

It's that time if year again, yes you guessed it, Halloween!!! My favourite holiday. It's not celebrated as much in the UK but I still love it. I love everything to do with horror and scary thing's :)
So for the past few days I have been sitting down with my sketch pad scribbling down a number of idea's for kooky & spooky nails.
This first design is a spiderweb and dripping blood collaboration. I drew a spiderweb with a little spider on the thumb and on the ring finger there is a spiderweb. All the other fingers have dripping blood tips. This design was a little rushed as I was only testing and experimenting, I thought I would show you all.
Polishes used are MUA in All Nude which is the base coat. The designs are drew with Rio nail art pens in black & red.
To create the blood drips, I dotted 3 or 4 dots about half way down the nail, then filled in the rest of the tip and joined the dots with a jaggered line to make it look like messy, dripping blood.
I know this is only a quick blog but I thought it would be useful and I wanted to give you guys a couple of ideas for Halloween party nails.
Next blog will be a tutorial, keep your eyes peeled :)

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Continued

I've spent nearly a week with my sketch pad scribbling down ideas for another breast cancer awareness month. I wanted to do something completely different but still look good. So I decided to go with a watermarble design. I've only attempted watermarble once and I thought it would be perfect for another design as I could use my different pink nail polishes.
For anyone wanting to try watermarbling see my previous blog with a tutorial.
All of the nails have two coats of Gallery Colours in White Lightning.My design is pink watermarble using LA Colours in shades electric charge and hot. The ribbon on the ring finger is LA Colours Art Deco Art Pen in baby pink and Rio nail art pen in dark purple. I wanted the ribbon to stand out in this design, I used the purple to outline it.
The watermarble is coated with Models Own Head Kandi Glitter in Ibiza Mix. All of the nails are topped with a Bourjois matt top coat.
I wasn't too impressed with this design at first as I'm not used to wearing pink polish, but the more I look at them, the more I like them.

I hope you enjoy them too.

To celebrate Halloween I will have a few spooky and kooky designs to come very soon :)

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

As many of you know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.I thought I would show my support by creating a set of pink nails with the pink ribbon. I was excited to create this set. It's a horrible disease (as is all cancer) that affects millions of people everyday and has taken so many lives. I'm going to wear my pink ribbon with pride :) This is one of two designs I have put together.

The nail polishes I used were: -Barry M Limited Edition 322 Pink -Barry M Pink Multi Glitter -Gallery Colours White Lightning -Bourjois So Matt Top Coat -Barry M Base & Top Coat in 1 -Silver Studs from Primark Nail Art Wheel-L.A. Colours Art Deco Nail Art Pens in Baby Pink & Silver

I'm back :)

Hello my lovelys. I'm finally back to blogging, hurray!!! I've been poorly for a couple of weeks and haven't been able to do my blog, so now I'm back to my normal self and ready to do nails.
So its October already! Where has the year gone and that means autumn is on its way (although in Nottingham I feel its already here), its Breast Cancer Awareness month and my favourite, Halloween (I'm horror mad)
Throughout October I will be coming up with new designs and tutorials for you all. I'm currently scribbling down some ideas for breast cancer awareness so stay tuned :)

Lets Talk Nail Art

So I thought I would share with you guys were my love for painting my nails and nail art came from.  

I was 12 and I was sat with my nana admiring her lovely long nails that were always painted a shimmering pink polish. I asked her how her nails had gotten so long, she told me that she looked after them and didn't bite them. At the time I was terrible for biting my nails, I had horrible stubby nails. I was young and didn't care how my nails looked, I didn't care much about make up either. I was young, I felt I was too young for that. That was untill this conversation. My nana told me that if I stopped biting my nails for a month she would buy me my first nail polish and paint my nails for me. Just like that I stopped. I visited nana every sunday and she would sit me next to her and she would inspect each nail, file them down so they would grow to a nice shape. A month later we both went shopping and she let me pick my first ever bottle of nail polish. I can remember it was a candy floss pink. I can remember saying I wanted to have pink nails like nana.
My collection grew from there really, both of my nanas would buy me a polish set for my birthday and christmas. I had so many colours to choose from, then I started secondary school and I went through the goth/emo phase untill I was 15. Then it was just black nails all the time, only problem was it was damaging and staning my nails. I still didn't bite them and kept them nice and filed down in a nice shape, I just hated the fact they looked horrible because of the black polish staining them.
I started to take an interest in nail art while I was pregnant with my son back in 2011. I had so much free time on my hands as I didn't work as much, it just tired me out. I was going through pictures on google one day looking at leopard print and seen the design on someones nails and thought to myself Im going to have a go. I had recently bought some nail art pens and they were still in the box gathering dust. I created a snow leopard design with a shimmering pink polish, reminded me of my nanas nails.
Since then I have created so many different designs and have recently started doing my friends and familys nails. I now do acrylic nails.
I think maybe one day I can have my own business at home.

Watermarble Nail Art Tutorial

So I was thinking the other day that I want something completely different on my nails, kinda bored with just plain colour or leopard print. I looked up watermarble nail art a while ago, but never got round to trying it out. I took the opportunity today to try it out. I thought it would be great for a first tutorial :)

You will need:
Nail polish (base & top coat, white, two different colours)
Small cup or bowl of water (at room temperature)
Toothpicks
Tape
Nail polish remover
Cotton buds

Step 1
Fill a cup or small bowl with water, make sure the water is at room temperature (this is to ensure the polish spreads easily)

Step 2
Prepare your nails for polish. First paint your nails with a base coat, this is so your nails don't get stained. Next paint two thin layers of white nail polish ( your design will stand out)

Step 3
Now comes the fiddly part, taking two or three small pieces of tape, cover the skin around your nail, this makes the clean up process at the end a little easier

Step 4
Here is the fun part. Take your two colours ( I chose pink and dark purple) and one at a time put a drop of polish on top of the water untill you get what looks like a bullseye

Step 5
Once you have your desired amount of polish, take a toothpick and quickly drag and swirl the polish, be sure to just touch the surface of the polish

Step 6
Next dip your nail into your design you have just created and ensure your nail is kept underwater. While your nail is in the water, blow onto the surface of the water for 10 seconds to dry out the remaining polish. Then simply pick the polish up off the water with the toothpick and remove your nail from the water

Step 7 Leave the nail to dry for a few minutes. Once it has dried completely, carefully remove the tape from around the nail. Dip a cotton bud into some nail polish remover and clean up around the nail where there is any polish on the skin around the nail. Finish with a top coat to protect and add shine to your design

Repeat these steps for the rest of your nails

And you are done. It does take a bit of time but it is worth it at the end. I love this technique as it let's your creativity out and you can have fun experimenting with different colours and designs I hope you have found this tutorial helpful. Let me know your thoughts in the comments :)

Welcome to my world of nails

Just a little introduction
If you have read my other blog you will know that one of my interests is nail art.
So this blog will be all about my nail art creations and maybe some tutorials.
Hope you enjoy :)