Upload-a-thon!!

Apologies for the lack of posts late, I have been on break from uni and at home I just get nothing done. So here are some of the nails that I did over the last month, well the ones that I remembered to photograph anyway. I think part of the problem was that I was lacking in ideas as well but I feel renewed and hopefully will come up with some amaze summery nails for the coming months. P.S. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos my camera was indisposed so i had to use my Blackberry which as anyone who's got one know knows take awful pictures.

These were crazy neon but also quite cool!!!

These were inspired by this liberty print but unfortunately you cant really see the detail, to get the  fine lines perfect I did the red first and then the pink on top as I knew that I would never get the red line thin enough with a brush.

These were just a really cool twist on my usual leopard print or the ones with a stripe that I did before, by putting the V-shaped smile lines in it makes the nails look really pointed which is a really modern shape for nails this season.

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 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- El Salonisto Inspired

Easy as this week, although I don't take credit for the design which comes from http://elsalonsito.com/. On this site there is also a fantastic photo tutorial although this is extremely simple and doesn't require any skill or special tools!! I mixed mine up a bit by adding the half moons at the top but they could be left out if desired.

Difficulty: 2/10

Nails of the Week- Galaxy Nails

These too are seen on many nails blogs and sites and have been done in a variety of ways by many people, but to me these are the most realistic looking style and they create a look which is very simple but effective.

1. Paint nails a dark colour, I have used a deep, deep blue, almost black but black will work, as will purple.
2. Using a piece of a make-up sponge, torn off and held between tweezers, dab on in streaks a brighter blue a pinky purple, and a pale yellow, make sure these colours are all very close together as if part of the same ermmm nebula?
3. Dot on using a toothpick white dots to form stars, make some bigger and some smaller.
4. Topcoat.
Difficulty: 3/10

Nails of last week-Catching up!!

I was so busy last week I had no time to post so here are the nails was wearing from Monday 12th onwards.
The first ones were a kind of patterned variety type thing, seen here,


I really like these ones, although they do take a long time but the effect is nice, Variety is the spice of life!!

Difficulty: 7/10

These next ones were a little experiment of mine, my own version of Jennifer Mather's cover look for Nails Magazine. Obvioulsy mine are not acrylic nails nor did I use shellac but I managed to achieve the same effect or a good one anyway but with different coulours! I really like these will deffo do again, they looked like jewels!!!

Difficulty: 4/10

Nails of the Week- Vampytines Day?

A break from the sugary pink and red stuff you see at this time of year, to something more edgy. This was done with black studs which I found on amazon and I just stick them on with my topcoat.

Difficulty: 1/10

Doing Bianca's nails

I have to be honest guys despite the four posts in the same day these were done over the week but I didn't have time to post 'til today, so.... Here are Bianca's nails. These are so pretty and suit Bianca to a T. They remind me of Spring and also Daisy by Marc Jacobs perfume. They were also super easy!!! Just paint on the base colour and then added the white and pink flowers with a gold dot in the centre, the accent ring finger was just painted with a pale pink and then I pressed a craft glitter into it when wet. I didn't even use any tools, just the brush which comes with the nail polish.
Difficulty: 2/10

Nails of the Week- Chic Aztec

This was an odd one this week, which really needs a bit of a story to explain but I don't want to bore you so will just say that these just kind of happened. I am not sure if I like all the variations but I do love that they all different which I think makes it quite quirky. Well I like them, the colour combinations especially, and I think I will take the v shaped french manicure reverse ones and do them again. These were also very easy, although I did have to use tape to get the lines straight.

Apologies for the poor picture quality, I forgot to photograph these until when I was out on Monday night, so I took the photos with my phone so the quality is not so good but luckily these are not especially detailed so it doesn't matter.

Difficulty: 3/10