ROSE NAILS

Hi everybody, how are you? I've spent the past 3 days working on an essay which is drawing the life out of me! I also have my besties wedding this weekend and my outfit still isn't ready! 

Today I have some rose nails to share with you. I used a tutorial to paint on the rose which I saw on instagram (and I can't remember whose tutorial it was) I wasn't sure what to do as a backgroud, eventually I decided to try out a circular gradient using Zoya Ling* and Models Own Baby Blues, this was the first time I tried a circular gradient and I think it turned out ok! 

I then painted on the rose on the middle finger and to tie the rest of the nails in I added a few rose petals on the other nails and I fell in love. 

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LAVENDER NAIL ART & TUTORIAL

Hey guys, is it Sunday night again? The weekend goes way too quick! 

I often get questions about the acrylic paint I use in my nail art and normally I just pick up them in random places so I haven't been able to recommend any brands or places to purchase until now. 

I did quite a bit of research online for some acrylic paints which weren't the regular red, blue, green, yellow, white and black etc. but also affordable and I'm happy to report I found the perfect paint! 

So the acrylic paint I found is by DecoArt and is sold by Art Discount for a very reasonable £1.30 for 59 ml and the colour range is huge, like seriously, there is every colour imaginable! You can find them here. All the paints I've tried so far have great opacity and formula so there's no need to thin them down. 

I received a lovely selection of these paints quite a while ago to share with you and I'm really sorry this took so long to make it to the blog but there are lots of posts coming up using these acrylic paints and also some tutorials as well. 

So let's get onto tonights nails. This design was inspired by the paint in the shade Lavender* and I also paired it with the shade Leaf Green*. 

I used a base colour of Barry M Gelly in Huckleberry. 

Click read more to see the rest of the pictures and of course the tutorial and it's a very simple one :)

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WATERCOLOUR FLOWER NAIL ART

Hey guys, so it's not often that I'm blown away by a nail design! the last time I was, however, was when I laid eyes on these nails by Lucy's Stash, it honestly took my break away and couldn't wait to try it for myself. So for these nails I did 2 coats of OPI My Vampire Is Buff and then used watered down purple acrylic paint. Go and check out her tutorial to see how to do these, obviously mine didn't turn out as well as Lucys! I did the same flower on my accent nail as well but the thumb turned out better so I thought I'd just show you the thumb instead! 

Ok, I have a splitting headache so I'm going to bed! 

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DAISY NAIL ART WITH ZOYA TILDA

Hey guys, how are you all doing? I hope your weeks started out on a positive note :) 

When Tilda* dropped through my post box, it just looked like the perfect grass green colour! 

I wanted to do some flowery nail art with it but wanted to keep it simple, so I painted on this daisy :)

Love it! Makes me think of summer! 

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LILLY NAIL ART WITH BARRY M GELLY

Hey guys, how was your weekend? Again I haven't posted in a few days because I've been ill and I've been really busy too which means I've spent the rest of the day sleeping. 

So for these nails I started off with 2 coats of Barry M Gelly in Blueberry and then I used Madam Luck's tutorial on instagram to paint on the lillies. I did my ring finger first and it didn't turn out as well as the others I did. For my right hand, to make life easier, I made lilly decals and then just stuck them on. Do you get what I mean or shall I make a tutorial? Comment below, let me know!

Anyway I wore these for 4 days and I really, really loved them and I got so many lovely comments on them!

Enjoy the rest of your week guys and I will see you in my next post which is a gorgeous gradient!

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BARRY M ROSE HIP & HALF MOON DAISIES

Hey everyone, how are you all? I hope you've had a good weekend :) So today I went to the Essence Bloggers Event and it was awesome! I came away with loads of new goodies and lots of exciting nail products to share with you soon :) 

So today's nails I used Barry M Gelly in Rose Hip for a base, I had to use 2 thick coats.  I didn't instantly love it but the colour grew on me and I ended up wearing it for longer than I had meant to! I decided to add a little bit of nail art and painted on daisies as half moons and I love them, how cute are they?

As a bonus, here's a plain swatch of Rose Hip

Ok, I am very tired so I'm heading off to bed and I'll see you in my next post. Have a good week guys :)

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EASY SUMMER FLOWER NAILS

Hey guys, a really quick post from me today before I head off to bed. I can't remember if I saw this design on instagram and where, when my brain is working I will check! 

Ok so I love yellow for summer and Essie Shorty Pants is my favourite yellow ever! I started off with 3 coats and used OPI Alpine Snow and a dotting tool to make the flowers, then I added a gold circle glequin in the centre of each flower. Unfortunately when the white flowers dried they ended up looking yellow :( 

Ok, so that's it for now, I shall see you tomorrow hopefully :)

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CIRCLE GLEQUIN FLOWERS !

Hey guys, hope your all well! I've been playing with the circle glequins again and I ended up creating this design. 

I started off with 2 coats of Illamasaqua Load and I then used the circle glequins to create the flowers, I then used some green acrylic paint to draw on the rest of the detail.

 

Hehe, I must say this was a really simple design but it was so cute ! hehe :)

 Take Care Lovelies and I'll see you in the next post!

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FLORMAR DUO 2X CHROME DC07 & ONE STROKE FLOWERS

Hi everyone, hope your week is going well so far and if not then there's only 2 days left ; ) 

Anywho when I was in Turkey I knew I had to pick up some of the Flormar Ducohrome polishes but unfortunately they didn't have them in any of the places where Flormar was sold :( 

In their shop however I managed to find this DC07 and although I couldn't really see any duocrhome in the bottle it still looked pretty and I was in a hurry! 

When I got home and tried it I was disappointed, there is no duochrome visible at all and although it's a pretty colour I can't see myself reaching for this one again ! 

To make it a bit more interesting I added some one stroke flowers in black and white. I love the contrast of the black and white flowers against the complex colour, I did a similar thing here. 

I think the nail art saved it for me! 

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NUDE FLOWER GLEQUINS!

*this is a scheduled post*

I haven't played with glequins in quite a while so I pulled out my new set and used these two lovely colours to make some flowers over 2 coats of Essence Nude Glam in Cafe Ole. This was my first time using these glequins and unfortunately the colour bled when I applied topcoat!

Have your glequins every bled?

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