SUNSHINE NAILS - UK EDITION

Hi everyone, I hope your all having a lovely weekend! Today I went and picked up my very first car and I love it, then I went to my little cousins birthday party!

Today I have a fun mani to show you which to me is a true representation of the British weather.

We very rarely have a sunny day with blue skies, mostly the sun plays hide and seek with the clouds and more often than not it rains.

I have included a tutorial for you after the jump so click read more if you want to recreate these nails.  

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GEOMETRIC NAILS WITH ILLAMASQUA PARANORMAL & TUTORIAL

Hey guys, how are you all? I have a day off today I feel ill, my throat is red, sore and hurting and I have an earache and a headache, not that I'm complaining ;( 

So here are some nails I forgot to post!

I love geometric nails and was in the mood recently, I decided to use 2 of the polishes from the Illamasqua Paranormal collection, I used Omen and Seance and used black acrylic paint for all the detail. It's really easy to do and I've included a tutorial after the break if you want to recreate this :)

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DESPICABLE ME MINION NAIL ART TUTORIAL

Hey guys, sorry this wasn't posted yesterday but honestly this weekend has been crazy! 

Anywho let's get straight into it shall we. 

What you will need

Base Coat

Yellow polish for the minions (I'm using Butter London Jasper)

Black & White acrylic paint/nail polish

Silver nail polish/acrylic paint

Brown nail polish/acrylic paint (not pictured)

Fine nail art brush

Top Coat

STEP 1 - After base coat apply your yellow polish 

STEP 2 - Paint on 2 small black lines at the edge of your nail 

STEP 3 - Using your silver colour paint on a circle between the 2 coat black lines. 

STEP 4 - Paint on 2 very small vertical lines where the silver circle meets the 2 black lines 

STEP 5 - Paint on a semi circle using the white in the centre of the silver circle 

STEP 6 - Using your brown, draw on a smaller semicircle in the centre of the white semi circle you've drawn.

STEP 7 - Draw a small black dot in the brown semi circle 

STEP 8 - Next draw on a thin black line for the mouth or alternatively you can draw on a different smile like I've done  

STEP 9 - Finally top coat the design to seal it all in.  

Okey dokey, that's that then, simple ! Do give it a try and share with me if you do ! 

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ASSEMBLE THE MINIONS !

Hey everyone! So today Despicable Me 2 comes out here and I had planned to watch it tomorrow but something has come up this weekend and I can't now :(

  Anyway these nails were highly requested by my littlest brother, lol ! He loves the minions and has been asking me to paint them on my nails for ages, and it's been on my to do list and with the release of the second movie this weekend I thought it was the perfect time, so here are some Despicable Me nails for you !

I used 3 coats of Butter London Jasper and then painted on the rest of the details with acrylic paint and Barry M Silver Foil. I've also created a tutorial for you guys so you can recreate this design, but I think I'll post that tomorrow for you ! 

I didn't have room to paint on the overalls or the hair on them all, but apart from that I think they're pretty cute ! What do you guys think? Are you going to watch the movie this weekend?

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BLUE IKAT NAILS

So this morning I purged over 100 polishes, it definitely wasn't easy but I'm glad I've done it, I now have room for more polishes yay! Also today I managed to trap my middle finger in the sliding door above my bed and it's still throbbing, thankfully my nail is still in tact !

Anywho I've been seeing loads of Ikat print nails popping up and I decided to try it out for myself I went for a blue colour scheme for my first try ! 

The base colour is Kiko 339 and the rest of the detail is black and white acrylic paint and Kiko 337 ! I made a tutorial for this design too for you guys, I'll probably post that tomorrow now ! 

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ILLAMASQUA POKE WITH SOME NAIL ART

Hi guys, so I'm back off holiday! We had an amazing time but came back really tired. Our family holidays are not for relaxing; they are little adventures and we rarely get any rest, I don't see the point of going to a new country and spending the majority of your time in the hotel and not exploring! So when we got back yesterday I headed straight to bed and ended up sleeping for 18 hours straight lol! (I didn't get any sleep on holiday at all!) 

Anywho back home now, so today I'll show you a polish I picked up in the Illamasqua sale. I'm not a big purple lover so I'm not sure why I got this, maybe because it looked unique? I'm not sure if I'll be reaching for it again though !

It's a pretty purple with silver shimmer which dries to a satiny finish, it needs about 2/3 coats, I used 2 and the formula is good. It was impossible to photograph as it just looked too blue and the first few photos are without topcoat 

Finally because I liked the name I drew on a finger which was supposed to look like it was poking someone/thing but it turned into a fail and in an attempt to save it I wrote 'poke' onto the pointy finger and then topcoated it all. Unfortunately it was still a fail in my books !

What do you guys think about this one then? Do you like poke?

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POLISH DAYS - NATURE

Welcome to another Polish Days mani ! 

Today's theme was nature and this was again a very much last minute thing ! I wasn't really sure what to do for this one, but last night I got the idea to do this really simple, basic world from space kind of design! 

It's kind of more abstract than a real repsentation lol ! 

Anyways so for this I painted on one coat of Kiko 340 and the I sponged on little bits of Pure Ice French Kiss and Catrice Blue Cara Ciao. When that was dry I used a dotting tool and some green acrylic paint to freehand these random shapes and voila ! 

So I'm looking forward to checking out everybody's ideas :)

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WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY ...

Final Christmas look of 2012 :)

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MARC DARCY'S CHRISTMAS JUMPER

Hey y'all, so I hope your all familiar with Bridget Jones Diary, if you aren't go familiarise yourselves now ! Go  ! So today's nails feature not just any reindeer but the reindeer from Mr Darcy's jumper ; D 

Lol, anyway for these nails I applied 2 coats of Color Club Artsy Crafty (which looks a lot bluer than it really is in these photo's, it's a gorgeous hunter green) Then I had to crack out the acrylic paint and nail art brush to paint in the rest. 

Unfortunately the red polish got a bit stringy when I dotted on his nose which did ruin it a bit but oh well ! 

Lol, I love this little dude, do you ?

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