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,

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! 

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. 

Falsies and Topshop

I bought this 'Mannequin' Topshop Nail varnish the other day and decided to treat myself by putting it onto some falsies. 

I then drew these cute little hearts with my black pen. 

I love the colour, nice and nude. 

The sparkle just added a bit extra, I kept these on until they fell off! 

If you like this design, feel free to get in contact so I can make you your own!

Kisses

This design is so cute! 

Little pink lips, done with a red nail pen, a crackle nail as well as half and half with sparkle.

The lips were taken from the WAH nail book I blogged about a while back. 

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! 

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. 

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. 

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! 

Palm Tree Sunsets

This picture quality is shocking but here are my most recent nails. 

Gradient pink to orange to yellow, with palm trees painted over the thumb and ring finger. 

Managed to do this on both hands which I was pleased with! 

Hope you like! 

Colourful Gradients and Mixed designs

People need to understand how simple it is to do gradients!

Yes, it can get messy but to get a look this effective? who cares!

I love all the different colours fading into each other, and the designs on top just give it something extra.

I'm definitely going to try this again with the same design on each nail as this can look a bit busy, I can just never decide on one thing!

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!

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!

Paisley Patterns

Whilst in Spain I've also done these nails for my sister. 

The pattern is a bit busy, maybe it would have looked nicer on just one nail, but I love all the different colours with the paisley on top. 

It's quite simple to do with a white nail tool and I followed a design that I found on Pinterest.