Twickenham

Saturday 8th November 2014

 

As a treat my boyfriend managed to get us tickets to see England v's the All Blacks New Zealand rugby team at Twickenham. I had never been to Twickenham before so I was extremely excited, plus it gave me a chance to create some fun nail art for the occasion.

 

I decided to use a simple french manicure style but wanted to encorporate the England flag into it. I also had to include the England Rugby logo and the All Blacks logo too.

 

This was the main nails sorted but I also wanted to do something exciting on the thumbs. Having tried flock on a couple of designs before I decided to treat myself to some grass green flock and have a go at creating a pitch. I wanted to add a rugby ball onto it so people could tell what it was. I ended up cutting out a ball shaped template to stick on the nail and flocked over it, removing the template to reveal the white shiny ball underneith.

 

I was absolutely thrilled with my nails and couldn't stop looking at them. This was one design I was quite sad to take off.

 

We had an amazing day at Twickenham, cheering the boys into the stadium and the game was exciting!

 



Happy Halloween!!

Tuesday 28th October 2014

 

I am not a huge fan of Halloween but I couldn't resist doing some nail designs for it, especially when my friend Kerry came round for the evening.

 

I had a few ideas (all including glow in the dark nail polish!!) and chose my two for the evening.

 

For Kerrys nails I decided to do Pumpkin carvings. I painted the orange and then did a few coats of glow in the dark before painting on the faces in black. She was happy with the design.

 

 

For my nails I wanted to do a mixture of images. I first painted a base coat of glow in the dark and black on the nails and then I painted the triangles. On each nail I picked a different character.

As usual they are all hand painted, and my favourite the Frankenstein on the thumbs.

 

Thumb - Frankenstein

Index Finger - Pumpkin

Middle Finger - Cat

Ring Finger - Ghost

Little Finger - Vampire

 

I did try to get a photo of them glowing but it didn't turn out too well.

 



Sri Lanka

Wednesday 14th September 2014

 

For her birthday this year, my sister went away to Sri Lanka for a few weeks. As she was away on the day of her birthday we had a family get together when she returned and I asked to paint her nails for her.

 

She had been sending me photos throughout her visit and on a few of those she was wearing a new pair of purple trousers. I loved the patterns on them and decided to replicate it as much as I could.

 



Tour de France

Thursday 24th July 2014

 

I have always wanted to go to Paris and this year I got a chance to. We managed to get on a bus trip to see the final of this years Tour de France. It was such a great weekend and was really exciting to see the Tour going past.

 

For my nails I decided to use the colours of the winners jerseys, and I wanted to add the logo in there too. Instead of painting my nails normally with the colours I decided to only paint half, using a diagonal line to add a bit of visual interest.

 

As stated before I chose to paint the Tour de France logo on my thumb and decided on a French flag on my other thumb, mirroring the diagonals from the other nails.

 

I hope you like it. 

 

 

Little Finger - White Jersey - Best Young Rider

Ring Finger - Yellow Jersey - General Classification

Middle Finger - Green Jersey - Best Sprinter

Index Finger - Polka Dot Jersey - King of the Mountains

Left Hand Thumb - Tour de France logo

Right Hand Thumb - French flag