Recent Nails

In honour of Valentine's (I hate the holiday but I couldn't help myself) 

Candy Stripes. 

pink and purple bows

I did base coats of different shades and then did the classic bows designs using my pen tools.

To break it up, I did some stripes on my ring finger,

Mono

Since one of this seasons trends is monochrome, I thought I would give some black and white patterns a go to match the theme and this is how they came out. 

I started with a white base on each (except middle) and drew on each pattern with a pen tool. 

Hope you like them!

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!

Holiday nails!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but yet again Uni calls! 

I did these leopard print nails whilst in Goa, and they got a good few likes on insto, so I thought I would share! 

The design is from the WAH nail art book. 

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! 

Christmas Nails No.3 - Presents, Tree, Dots and Sparkles

I did these quite a while ago, but forgot to post them! 

Not my best but quite christmassy! 

Christmas No.2 - Candy canes, snowmen and Glitter

Here is my second design for my Christmas themed nails! There will probably be a lot of these! I used a white base and shimmery red striper to create the candy cane stripes.
I then painted pale blue with white blobs for the snow man using my dotting tool. I have him some arms, buttons and a hat with my black striper.
My ring finger is my favourite, red shimmer with gold Barry M glitter, I might do a whole hand in this!
So it's a bit of a mixture today to test out the designs, but stay with me for more of these cute Christmas designs!

Christmas No.1- Snowflakes

Here is my first Christmas nails of the season! I saw these cute snowflakes on Pinterest and had to try them! I used a shimmery blue by Barry M and a white striper to create the pattern, love it!

Stripey Stripes

I've been practising my stripes using my stripers and here are a few designs I've come up with! 

Geometric patterns and shades of pink with white verticals. 

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! 

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. 

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!

Pink Glitter and Hearts

I bought this pink sparkle nail polish from Claire's Accessories, only £2.50! Bargain.

And I drew white hearts using my small dotting tool and white No.17. 

I love the effect, it looks really girly! A bit too girly! 

Panda and Dots

I love this little panda design. Done on the tip of the nail using white with a brush and black detail with a little brush.

To make sure it wasn't too busy with panda's I did white bases with black dots on the other nails.

Pink Hearts and Sparkle

I love this sweet and simple design. 

I did base colours of different shades of pink, finishing with white on the pinky. Then using a contrasting colour, did the hearts using a small dotting tool. 

The sparkly nail on the ring finger just brakes up the pattern a bit more and makes the design even more girly! 

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!