Didn't have much time to do these nails, which is why they're quite simple! Decided to go for gothic because hopefully going to Whitby tomorrow, and that has lots of gothic/dracula connections! I also wanted to try out my new matte black BK polish!
So this is two coats, with Born Pretty silver studs :-)
And here it is shiny, because I had to add a coat of clear to stick the studs on! Added another coat of matte in the end though.
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Tomorrow I am going to London, and my very lovely boyfriend told me he'd gone online and bought two tickets for my all-time favourite musical, Wicked. Very excited as I've not seen it since the beginning of the year, so there'll be new cast members in all the main roles - looking forward to seeing what they are like, and just re-living the magic again. Such a fab show, amazing songs, but also beautiful costumes and sets and lighting, which inspired these nails.
I decided to create some Wicked-themed nails for the show tomorrow, and also because my boyfriend asked if I was going to (he knows me well).
As I've said before I'm not great at actually drawing things, so I didn't want to try and recreate the logo or try and draw a witches hat or anything, because I knew I wouldn't be satisfied with the outcome. As I mentioned, the costumes on-stage are great, so sparkly and so much attention to detail & I wanted my nails to reflect this.
Here are all the things I used:
From L-R;
Insta-Dri - Sally Hansen
Hot Stuff - Models Own
Dancing Queen - Models Own
Silver Holo - Seventeen
Grapefruit - Barry M
Grass Slipper - Sally Hansen
Glitterball - no7
& at the bottom;
2x pots of pink glequins - born pretty
dotting tool with blue-tac for picking up rhinestones!
rhinestone wheel - poundland
The
main two characters for anyone who's not seen the show are The Wicked
Witch of the West (Elphaba) and the Good Witch (Glinda) - see above! All of
Elphaba's costumes are dark, and her skin is green! My first two fingers
keep this in mind with the combination of green and sparkle. Glinda loves pink and glitter, and all of her costumes are SO sparkly. I used these in my ring and little finger. My thumb has a mixture of green and pink glitter.
My favourite nail is the little finger with all the glequins - it's so sparkly when I move my fingers about! You can't really tell in the pics because of how the light catches them, but I used a random mixture of dark and light pink glequins. Here's lots more pics because I couldn't decide which ones were best! X
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Today's manicure is inspired by the pattern on this dress that I saw recently in New Look! I love different tribal-style patterns and the effect they create, so this was another one I wanted to recreate on my nails. To make it a bit different from my previous tribal designs, I decided to do only half of each nail.
I used:
Pretty In Peach (Seventeen)
Spearmint (w7)
To match in with the pale green and pale peach in the dress.
After painting my nails alternate colours and letting them completely dry, I used the black and white Barry M nail art pens <3 to divide each nail down the middle then doodle on different parts of the pattern.
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These are my nails today, I went for something quite subtle for work. For these nails I've used two new polishes. The base is two coats of Pretty In Peach by Seventeen. This is a beautiful pale peach/orange/coral type shade. I've had it a while after my sister passed it on to me, but not got round to using it until now. In the bottle it looks like it has a bit of a shimmer and that's what put me off as I've prefered more solid colours recently. But this is a beauty! Lovely colour, less 'in your face' than Barry M's Papaya that I've been using a lot. I do like polishes by Seventeen!
The glitter gradient is created using Revlon's Stunning, that I got as a birthday present from my fab friend Kathie. It's little silver glitter and bigger holographic pieces. These were quite hard to get on the brush as they seemed to be stuck round the edge of the bottle, but with three dabby coats I managed to get some here and there.
I then added a topcoat of Sally Hansen's Insta-dri to make them all shiny :-)
I think this look is a bit subtle for me, but would be fab for a wedding or formal do. Can't wait til my days off so I can play with neons and studs!! x
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I was working on a design today to enter Nail Lacquer's contest. I didn't know what design to do, but wanted to try something new. This summer has been all about bright prints for me, tribal or bold shapes. I found this pic I took of a dress I saw the other week in H&M. I loved the bold colours in the print and took a pic so I could try and recreate it on nails. I don't think it went too well, as I cannot draw!! Anything beyond stripes/spots is too much of a challenge for me :-( Soooo I haven't entered this into the competition, haha.
I spend a while doing this and it did keep me amused for a good hour. Here's the dress that gave me the idea... I tried to pick a different bit of the design for each nail.
I picked out the nearest colours I had to the ones in the pattern. I didn't have a
purple bright enough, and I wish I'd used a lighter blue! Here's all of the polishes I used, and my little practice design I did on paper first!
I used the black Barry M nail-art pen to draw the designs on each finger...
And then started filling in the gaps with the different colours, trying to stick to the design. I didn't use a little brush, just used the brush out of the bottle with each polish. I didn't need it to be too neat at this point as I was going to go over the black lines again at the end.
Once it was all filled in, I added a coat of matte polish as I find it's easier to draw on matte than shiny with the black pen.
And then I went over my lines again to tidy it up.
I do like my pointer finger and my little finger, the other three are a bit rubbish due to me not being able to draw stars very well and the fact I smudged the bottom of the red star! But there we go :-) I took this off pretty quick, because I'd only done the one hand and I wasn't loving it.
Quick post tonight because I don't have new nails to show - my Rainbow On You nails are still going strong <3
So I decided I'd share a quick pic of my "faves" box. I keep my nail varnish in three boxes and my tools (glequins, studs, brushes etc) in another. I don't sort the varnishes by colour or brand, I just sort them according to how much I use them, and this changes ALL the time. The other two boxes live down the side of the sofa, but the "favourites" box lives under my coffee table so I can get to it more easily. Here it is at the moment...
Quick run-down of what's in there... at the top there's all my Barry M gellys that I use all the time, along with my 2 LE Barry M's and my 3 glitters. In the middle are my sparkly Revlons and my Sally Hansens, including my much-used Dorien Grey and Lavender Cloud. The green I might have to move out of the box - I don't use that too much, but I only have three bottles of Sally Hansen and like to keep them all together!
There's my w7 pastel green to the left of the Sally Hansens and I keep this here as I do a lot of mixed colour pastel designs and there's not a pale green gelly yet... There's my cheap neon orange to the left and my Model's Own neon green at the bottom, because they're summery!
Scattered about are my Claire's glitters, my Born Pretty Yogurt polishes and my new Nail Lacquer polishes, as well as a Lac Attack on the left. Lastly there's the Models Own discoball collection at the bottom - got these for my birthday and they're too beautiful not to belong in this box!
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Absolutely beautiful, stunning polish to show off today! This is I Will Rainbow On You by Nail Lacquer. As soon as I saw this on another blog I fell in love with it - so many glitters, so many colours, so many sparkles! You can buy it for £5.50 here. Go and buy it now!
After agonising which colour to put it over, I just went with black/dark, because I didn't want the base colour to be too bright and hide the glitter a bit.
So this is two coats of a really dark navy blue Nails Inc, that I always use when I actually want black because I don't have a black?!? (except today I got a beautiful matte black in the post as a surprise from my boyfriend <3 ....I did these nails yesterday though, before it came!!) ....anyway, two coats of dark navy/black. Once dry I added two coats of I Will Rainbow On You. One coat was definitely sufficient but I wanted moooree sparkles! I let that dry then added a topcoat of Sally Hansen's Insta-dri. Result = stunning!
I've had so many nice comments at work today, lots of people thinking these were shellac/minx/falsies/wraps and that they'd been done in a salon. Everyone loved the sparkles and I got asked more than once where I got the glitter polish from, and how I'd done my nails. My boss even said these were her favourite of all my nails that I've done. :-) so Yay! This is definitely going to be a polish I use lots, because I can't get over how stunning it is. <3
