Nails of the Week-Groovy Grunge

These nails were born form a lack of inspiration, I just ended up layering different colours because I couldn't decide and I realised that a good effect could be had by layering up the colours and then removing some to reveal the layers.

Here's How To:

1. Paint nails a with a good basecoat and a dark colour like a black (a very dark brown would be excellent here but I don't have one so I use black). Wait for it to dry COMPLETELY

2. With a nail art brush (like one with a square tip) paint on very roughly and streakily both a dark blue and a brown colour over different parts of each nail.

3. Paint using the nails art brush the entire nail with a pale minty green

4. Over different sections of the nail paint pinks and purples, again not being  perfect AT ALL!!

5. Dip your nail art brush in polish remover and brush over the nails in different areas to expose the layers, it works best if you do it in downward stripes. Try to show all the colours, the more you apply remover the more polish will come off so vary the pressure you apply and be sure not to remover the colour all the way off to your bare nails!

5. Apply a topcoat and if you can streak the polish even more for that distressed look.

Difficulty: 2/10

Nails of Last Week- Spring

This is late because I lost the lead to connect my camera to my laptop... ooooops!! these pretty florals are beaut!!!

Difficulty: 5/10

P.S. I also did my sisters nails (she is 6) in a more vintage-y floral to match her dress for a wedding we went to. Here they are

They are very sketchy because it is very heard to get a 6 year old to stay still for more than 5 mins!!

Pink Friday-Gel manicure

this week, on Thursday I got a gel manicure, like shellac, the results are amaze and I was pleased to learn that I could pain my own polish on top. They should last about two weeks which is great because I am going to a wedding next week and the nude colour I picked will be nice and classy, because my dress is bright pink!!!
this is what they looked like when I left the salon...

Tried to get a good shot in different lights, the only problem that was my nails were such a wreck (they looked like I had clawed my way out of my own grave!!) so they had to be cut really short. Oh well, hopefully they will grow stronger and longer because of the gel. 

Anyway to fit Pink Friday, and hopefully make my nails look longer I did they leopard with the pink stripe across one side, vertical stripes are lengthening. These really should be called Cece nails as they are her fave. 

Difficulty: 4/10
TIP: The more neon the block colour side, the better!!!

Nails of the week-Fleuralicious

As you may remember a few weeks ago I posted about my nail flowers which are just darling... and very easy to use I just stuck them on using my topcoat. Buy them here. All of my friends absolutely loved these and said they were the best I ever did, I didn't really know how to take this seeing as these were lemon squeezy and I usually spend ages on my nails? Maybs I should give up?

Sorry for the chippedness I didn't get to photograph these until I was taking them off!! 

Difficulty: 0/10 (!!!!!!)

Nails of the Week- Springalicious

Ohh bananas it's been a long time I think I forgot how to spell -alicious!!! This week I did these cute blue roses, flowers things. Very pretty, not easy though but I love the colours, muted but still appropriate for the beaut weather that we are experiencing this weekend. I did the black outline first, then filled in the blue, obvs any colour combo would be lovely I just liked these because they were different.

They looked better once I had put the topcoat on them, for some reason I just forgot whilst I was taking the photo.

Difficulty: 6/10

Pink Friday-Stink Friday

Couldn't think of any pink patterns yesterday for Pink Friday... tears!! But I did use this crème de bananas colour from models own called Bubblegum Pink, a better name would be neon pink or I need my sunglasses to look at my nails pink!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhhahaaaaa the craziest colour I have worn on my fingers since when I tried to wear yellow. This looked good though it was great for clubbing because no one lost me I just held my hand up and my friends could spot me across the crowded dance floor in the dark!!!!

Models own are an amaze brand which do an unbelievable amount of shades in really on trend colours. This photo though makes me laugh because it does not express just how neon my nails were!!!

Nails of the week- Who you callin' a natural beauty??

Outside of my usual MO area these neutral earthy inspired nails, sometimes its nice to go simpler...!!

Difficulty 4/10

Fashion Inspired- Prabal Gurung

These images from the Prabal Gurung S/S 2012 show were so beaut I just knew that they would look great on my fingerlings. I looked at the images and came up with this look including a new technique for me marbling, (without water).

Technique
1. Paint nails with a basecoat
2. Paint nails with one very thin coat of white polish
3. Paint a second very thick watery coat of white polish, and very quickly add a few small drops of dark and light purple to each side of the nail in inwardly pointing triangle shapes.
4. Using a cocktail stick or a pin quickly swirl the colours together, but not too much so that colours remain separate, (you don't want to mix them into one colour).
5. Paint on the Purple and black triangles using a fine brush or a nail art pen.
6. Topcoat.

This sounds complicated but it isn't really, you will have more time than you think to play with the swirls as long as you paint a thick enough base colour on. You could even so this all over the nail or maybe as a gradient from the tip up. It goes without saying that you could use whichever colours you wanted but I wanted to create this Prabal Gurung look so I used his colours.

Difficulty: 6/10

Arrrgh- Nails Fail- Miu Miu

Ewwwww!!! These nails looked like pokemons...  these lovely miu miu bags. They are not exactly my taste but I thought they would translate really well into nails....this is what they were 'sposed to look like... (the yellow one obs.)

This is what they actually looked like...

See I only got half-way through one hand and had to give up... sometimes its best not to continue. I think that if I had chosen the pinks instead it would have been fine, but TBH I am too pale to wear yellow but hey just really like jumped out at me in the photo...? Oh well!!!

Pink Friday- Tigerlicious...!!

My love of all big cats and jewellery with big cats on inspired this very cool tiger print look this week. I loved it but for some reason it really chipped!!!! Sooooooooo annoying... oh well it gave me a n excuse to do another look very soon. To do this I used a very fine artists brush but a nail art pen would be fine, the stripes were ridic easy but the tiger on the middle finger took a lot of time and concentration, I wanted it to look like a tiger brooch or something not an actual tiger so I had to do lots of shading with golds.

Difficulty: 2/10 Stripes

7.5/10 Tiger