Sweeties and lollipops

Tuesday 25th February 2014

Today my friend Kerry came round for a catch up evening, so I thought I'd ask if I could do her nails. Luckily she jumped at the chance so I had to quickly come up with an idea. After a couple of hours mulling it over I came up with using 5 diff pastel base colours and painting sweets, cakes, lollipops, etc on them. I looked through my polishes and whilst looking at the colours decided on just using pink and blue. I also decided to cut down the designs to two - sweets and lollipops.

I painted the base colour and the images on and it didn't look as striking as I wanted so decided to draw a white outline on the pictures. This made them pop a little bit more. I also decided the background colours looked a bit dull so went for white dots on alternate nails.

I am happy with the final designs and Kerry loved them.

RBS 6 Nations Rugby

Saturday 22nd February 2014

Over the last few weeks the RBS 6 Nations Rugby Championships have started and today England played Ireland at Twickenham. I was a tad bored and decided I would paint my nails to show my support. I sketched a few ideas for this one and decided to include the England Rugby logo.

 

 

I decided against a basic white background on the nails as I can never get white to look nice. I thought a french manicure may be nice as the base on all the nails, but using silver. I then painted the England Rugby logo on the thumbs, filling up the nail with the image rather than getting the whole image in. I incorporated the silver in as the outlines as I thought it would work better than white. I am really happy with the final effect.

 

After doing the thumbs I thought the other nails looked too bare. I thought about adding red and green dots somewhere on each nail to link them to the image but wasn't too sure. After a bit of playing around I came up with the idea of making the rose logo out of dots. I am not sure how noticable these are as the thumbs are the main focus of the design but I do like it. The 'dot' rose may be an idea to work on for future designs.

 

 

Congratulations to England as they won todays game, 13 - 10.

Gold Leopard Print

Monday 3rd February 2014

Just a basic design this time, I love my leopard prints and I don't think I've ever actually done one in proper(ish) colours.

 

My main plan was to paint my toe nails, I thought it might be a nice change from just plain colours. I chose a gold base to add a bit of sparkle and used black and brown for the spots.

 

 

(PS. Sorry for the feet photo)

 

After seeing the final design I couldn't resist and had to do the same on my hands. I think they look classy but still quite exciting. I will happily do this design again.

 

 

NFL Super Bowl XLVIII

Sunday 2nd February 2014

Although I live in England, I have been introduced to American Football this year. I love all the colours and team logos more than the game itself but I was inspired to do a little Superbowl design for this year.

 

The two teams playing this year were Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Boths teams logos are animal based and I thought it would be fun to have a go at drawing them (especially as I have recently bought myself a new nail art brush).

 

Both teams logos had a dark blue in them so I decided to paint most of my nails in blue and have the thumb and accent nail as the teams.

 

After finishing the design I decided to paint them in a matte top coat. I love the matt effect and the images. As usual each animal is hand painted and I was really happy with the result.

 

Well done to the Seahawks who won.

Leopard nail wraps

Monday 13th January 2014

Today I fancied doing my nails but have got horribly dry hands so I've decided to use one of my nail wraps that I bought a while ago. I chose to use a green/blue leopard print and like the design of it. It is really easy to use and will hopefully last for a while. I have used them before and think I need a bit more practice to get them on nicely.