Pink and Blue blossoms on Yellow

I have done this design before I tried with different colours and it looks so cute!

One of my faves.

Tribal Print

I booked a holiday to indonesia yesterday for August and I'm so excited!

I did some tribal inspired nails for the occasion as they are quite summery and its a worldly design. 

I just used a base colour and my pens to do different designs using pinterest and the new topshop collection (below) for a bit of inspo. 

The designs are quite busy, and I think in this case less would be more, but you don't know until you try! 

Lost my OPI virginity

My sister bought me my first OPI nail varnish for christmas and I love it! 

I got Big Apple Red and Do You Lilac It? 

The colours are quite random but I needed them for my collection so I was super pleased!

I used the red to do this bow design which is really cute. 

Happy 2013!

Another Mash Up

I dont usually stick to one design on my nails, I like to test which ones I like, which ends up with loads of different ones. 

So using my nude Topshop colour (which I'm obsessed with) some black Barry M and white, I did a sort of geometric triangle, stripes, half leopard print, geometric stripes, and a bow. 

I always think the leopard comes out nice and I love the triangular patterns. 

I can just never decide on one!

curse of being a libra.. 

Christmas Nails No.4 - Half and Half Sparkle

I love this design, red and gold with white and silver. 

The gold is Barry M, who retweeted when I posted this and tagged them! 

Such an easy design, half the nail one colour, half the nail another and use your black pen tool to squiggle in the centre! 

A bit of Stray news!

A few cool things happened this week, unfortunately not for the blog, but for my nails I guess! 

Firstly my christmas nails from yesterday were retweeted by Grazia for manicure monday. 

I then started getting followed by Barry M!

Exciting stuff, moving up in the world of nails! 

Happy Movember!

Its the start of November (depressing) which means its the month in which all grown men grow moustaches, originally meant to raise money for charity, but now a humorous test for manliness. 

However, I have done these Movember nails, in honour of this event. 

I did them using black and white pens over a base coat. 

Surprisingly simple to do and there are tons of tutorials online to show you how.

If I had enough time (hopefully a possible idea for next year) I would put these designs onto fake nails, sell them, and give the proceeds to charity.

So girls could be part of Movember too! 

Neon Mani

I did these using my neon pens, just painting the tips. 

I prefer the yellow which I'm going to try on a full hand. 

Generic Halloween Nails

I did these last night whilst bored watching the Sixth Sense. 

They were quite rushed but turned out alright!

I did every nail different, I hope you can tell what they are. 

I did them using black, white, orange and green base colours and black and white stripers/pens.

 Its amazing how easy they were to do!

The cob web is my fave.

WAH Nails Nail Art Book Inspo

Some friends gave me 'The WAH Nail Book of Nail Art' (available from River Island) for my birthday which is an ideal gift!

The book has so many ideas and inspiration in it.

I couldn't decide on one design so I tried a few and I love how it turned out as a mixture.

I did all of them using a base coat and my black and white striper and pen tools.

I love the bow, although hard to do left handed! And the flowers, they are different from my usual ones so I love how they turned out! 

Can't wait to try out more designs from WAH nails. 

Sparkly Sparkle

This picture is shoddy quality but you get the idea!

I bought gold sparkly polish from barry M the other day, and this is how it turned out!

I painted on a black base coat and then applied the gold to the tips, graduating less further up the nail.

 I love the effect so much. 

Definitely going to do this again with different colours! 

Half and Half

This style is popping up every where, and yet again, its really easy to do! 

Paint half your nail a plain colour, I used purple. Then paint the other half glitter. The line doesn't have to be neat because your going to go over it. 

Either using a black precision pen or a dotting tool, paint squiggly lines down the centre of the nail. 

Put on a top coat and its done.

Its a really nice effect and can be done in all sorts of ways. 

Cath Kidston inspired nails

I did these by applying a base coat, adding a straight white line in the middle, dotting white along the line, and then adding flowers. They are done by randomly dotting large dark pink, and lighter smaller pink dots on top. Add some little leaves with a brush and enjoy your cath kidston style nails!

Spotty Clusters

These were inspired by some nails I saw on a nail board on Pinterest (below). 

I did the base coats and then did the spots using a dotting tool. 

Its so simple and easy to do and looks quite effective, love them!

Black to Metallic Gradients

Not my best set but I did these to match a dress I was wearing this weekend!

I painted a base coat and black, then rolled silver and metallic green over the tips.

I Love NY

I did these for my friend who went to New York for a trip. 

I used my black and red nail tools for the lettering and I hope she liked them!

Cherry blossoms in Lilac and Mint

These are so simple to do!

After applying a base and colour coat I used a dotting tool (use a tooth pick if you don't have one) to do the darker pink, with smaller, lighter pink dots on top and then fill in the gaps with white dots. 

Really effective and lovely for the last dose of summer!

Summer Doodling

I have a few days to kill on my nails before I do them properly for a weekend festival so I just played around with doing different designs on my new orange colour with a black tool. 

I seriously need to learn how to do it on my right hand! 

Hello Kitty Nails

My little cousin loves Hello Kitty, so when I told my Auntie I could do the design on nails, she had me do them for her, my cousin loved them!

the pinky went a bit wrong!

Hello Kiko

Hi Guys, 

I've recently done a post about the Italian brand Kiko on my other blog.

It's mostly about nail varnishes so if you fancy a look click here!