Floral Splatter Nail Art.

Hello everyone. How are we all? I am feeling pretty ill and I am working a six day week this week :( boo! I was hoping to have this posted last night but I needed my bed.

Today I have some nails to show you that I based on a make up palette that I have... but I completely forgot to take photos of it, oops. I have a brain like a sieve. 

For these nails I started with a black base (I used W7 - Black).

I splattered on the 4 pink colours. To do this I dipped one end of a straw in the polish and blew through the other end, super hygienic and very messy! Lol. The colours I used were Revlon - Violet, Leighton Denny - Plush Pink, Essie - Angora Cardi and Essie - Like To Be Bad.

I added a coat of Seche Vite to smooth the surface out and then used my Barry M nail art pen in white for the flowers. I really like my black one of these, but I found the white to be a bit runny and watery. Has anyone else had this problem?

At first I added another coat of Seche Vite and I was going to leave it shiny, but it looked a bit much so I matted it with my Rimmel Matte Top Coat.

I did quite enjoy wearing these nails, although they took quite a while to do and I made a huge mess! 

What do you guys think?

Thanks for looking.

Watercolour Nails

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well.

Today I have some watercolour nails to show you. I saw a tutorial by Spektor's Nails recently and I decided I needed to try it out myself. I was very pleased with the outcome and it was so easy! I was having lighting issues with my photos so they are a bit yellowy and dark :( so apologies for that. But you can still get the idea of what they looked like.

For these I painted my nails with a white base.

Once the base was dry I blobbed on a thick layer of white leaving a few gaps. In the gaps I added blobs of Sally Hansen - Fairy Teal.

To get the water colour effect I pressed a square of sandwich bag on top of the wet polish which mixed all the colours together (if that makes any sense).

To finish I cleaned up around the edges and added a top coat. If my explanation made no sense check out Spektor's Nails' post as she has a video on there (link at the top of the post).

I tried it on the other hand with pink! (Barry M - Dragonfruit). This photo was taken on my phone, for some reason the lighting looked a lot better.

I really did love these, they were so much easier than I expected.

Have any of you tried this technique? How did you find it?

Thanks for stopping by!

Inspired By My Shower Curtain :P

Hello lovelies. I hope everyone has exciting weekends planned. It was pay day yesterday so I am planning on going shopping and treating myself today :).

Today I have some nail art to show you which was inspired by my shower curtain. A bit random, but inspiration hit me as I was standing in the shower and I just had to recreate them. I tried to take a picture of my shower curtain, but its a bit gross so there is a link to a nicer picture here. It is slightly brighter in real life though. 

For these nails I used a base of China Glaze - Dandy Lyin' Around.

For the petals I used Barry M - Greenberry and a detail brush.

I wanted to make them matte. So I added a coat of Seche Vite to seal the design as I find my matte top coat smudges nail art. I then added a coat of Rimmel Matte Top Coat.

I was really proud of these, I was kinda apprehensive about doing such little details but I think they turned out quite well.

What is the strangest thing you have been inspired by?

Thanks for stopping by.

Daisy Nails

Hello everyone! I hope we are all having a good week. 

Today I have some more floral nails to show you, I am really loving florals lately. I have a few more designs lined up to show you and I have only just realised that almost all of them are floral in some way. I need to stop! Lol. This time I did daisies, based on this design which was by The Nailphile.

I started with a base of A-England - Lady Of Shallot. This is such a gorgeous colour (as always with A-England) but I struggled capturing it's beauty in my pictures, I still need to figure out my lighting set up.

I freehanded the white with a white creme and my detail brush.

I added the yellow with Nicole by OPI - Hit The Lights using a dotting tool.

A coat of Seche Vite and that was it.

These were so quick and easy to do but still rather pretty.

I will be back soon with some more floral nails! 

Thanks for looking.

Blog Your Heart Out Award - My First Ever Award!

Hello my loves!

I have something a bit different today. I was very kindly nominated for the Blog Your Heart Out Award by Sarah of Penny Pinching Polish. I was very flattered to be chosen.

For this award I have to answer 5 questions and nominate 5 other bloggers for the award. I had SUCH a hard time choosing, there are so many talented bloggers out there!

Onto the questions...

1. What/who encouraged you to start blogging?

I first got into nails when I came across a few nails blogs whilst on the internet and my obsession grew from there. Once I started doing my nails on a regular basis I figured why not start a blog to share my creations. I was (and still am) inspired by all the blogs I follow, but I follow way too many to list here.

2. How did you choose what topic(s) to blog about?

It was easy, there was nothing else I even considered.

3. What is something that most people don't know about you?

This is a hard one.. I am not very interesting haha! I have a genuine phobia of the red demon out of Insidious (I don't know if it has a name but I didn't want to google it because I didn't want to see it). Even seeing a photo of it makes me cry like a baby. I have no idea why I find it so scary.

4. What 3 words describe your style?

Colourful, creative and eclectic.

5. What do you like to do when you're not blogging?

I don't do much else! If I am not working, doing my nails or working on my blog I am usually reading other blogs. I have recently developed a strange obsession for police programmes too lol.

The five blogs I nominate are...

Lou Is Perfectly Polished

Nail Lacquer Blog

Raggio De Luna Nails

Vic and Her Nails

The Nailinator

All five of these ladies have wonderful blogs and are great sources of inspiration for me.

If you wish to accept this award you just have to answer the 5 questions and nominate 5 other bloggers. However you do not have to accept if you do not want to.

Thanks for stopping by!