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!

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! 

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. 

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.