ONE STROKE BOW NAILS

Hey guys, today I have a quite post for you. 

I saw some one stroke bow nails on instagram and I knew I had to give them a try. I used Essence Dare It Nude* for a base and then purple and white acrylic paint for the bow before outlining it in black acrylic paint and then I ruined it by adding those 'creases' on the bow which ended up looking silly. 

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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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MINT MANIS FOR TALIA JOY

 Today I have a special mani for a very special little girl. On Wednesday Nicole at Nail Polish Wars asked the nail community to join her in honoring Talia Joy Castellano, you can see the post here, so I did this mani. 

I started off with three coats of Essence That's What I Mint and then painted on a single flower on my middle finger using the one stroke technique. It's simple but I think it's effective if you know what I mean.

So that's all I want to say in this post, I just pray for Talia and her family. 

Check out everyone else's mint manis here:

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ONE STROKE FLOWER NAILS

So I've chopped off my long nails and now I'm left with nubs which feels quite liberating really ! Lol, of course though as soon as I cut off my nails I am overcome with loads of nail art ideas ! Anyway I wanted to try out more one stroke nail art and I ended up with this ! 

I used 2 coats of Butter London Artful Dodger and then blue and white acrylic paint, they didn't turn out very well to be honest but I kinda like how they look and my dad was sat here while I was editing these pictures and thought I'd used a sticker lol! 

I think the middle and ring fingers turned out the best but I will definitely be trying these flowers out again soon and hopefully they'll turn out a bit better ! Have you guys tried the one stroke technique ?

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NEON ONE STROKE FLOWER BRANCH NAILS

It's too hot and I'm not a fan of it! Since it's summer though I thought I'd better use some neon and I still wanted to try out different one stroke techniques, so I came up with this. I used 2 coats of China Glaze Flirty Tankini and then used black acrlylic paint for the branches and blue and white acrylic paint for the blossoming flower buds, before topcoating the whole design

It's not perfect but I still quite like it, China Glazes Summer 2012 neons were gorgeous, speaking of which I am so disappointed with this years China Glaze Summer Neons, I mean the colours look lovely but the formulas seem to be pretty poor and I can't be bothered with tricky neon application, have you guys tried them? Let me know what you think of them 

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ONE STROKE FLOWERS

Are you guys doing anything exciting this weekend? I'll just be home playing with polish, watching movies and cooking! 

So I did some more one stroke flowers, I always try to do something a little bit different so for this I thought I'd try double petals like I did on the middle finger but once I'd finished it I kinda prefered the other nails with just one layer of petals. So I started off with 2 coats of OPI Rumple's Wiggin' and then used blue and white acrylic paint for the flowers, then I used yellow acrylic paint for the centre and white acrylic paint for the dots!

Crickey, look how long my nails are here !

So what do you think of these flowers then? Have you tried the one stroke technique yet?

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MINTY ONE STROKE ROUND FLOWERS

Hey guys, hows your week started? I have spent most of today painting my nails and trying out different techniques and designs, some of which you'll see soon :) 

So I felt like painting something different to the regular one stroke flowers etc. which is how this design was born. 

I started off with 2 coats of Catrice Sold Out Forever (please don't ask me which version this is because there are quite a few and I find it slightly frustrating!) Then I used 2 blue acrylic paints, one dark blue and one lighter blue, then I just kinda pressed down on the brush so the bristles spread out on the nail and rotated to form a circle shape. I then outlined the flowers with some black acrylic paint and added some white dots in the center before finishing it all off with topcoat. 

What do you guys think? The technique is quite easy but it takes a little bit of practice which you can see I need lol!

This is dodgy hand pose but I included it because you can see the difference between the 2 blues in the flowers a bit more clearly. 

See you in the next post then guys, take care :)

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ONE STROKE FAIL ART!

Oh man, this was such a fail but to be perfectly honest I didn't mind because this was just one of those mani's  that just kinda happened ! 

The colours didn't blend together and the leaf on the middle finger is just too big! 

For this I just used Sally Hansen Instadry in Whirlwind White along with red, blue, green and yellow acrylic paint and a black gel pen for the rest of the detail

Not really anything more to say about these nails ! Have you had any nail fails recently?

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MISTY BLUSH WITH MORE ONE STROKE NAIL ART

Hi guys, I'm really cold and I have a lot of work to do so you'll probably see about 5 more posts from me, mainly because it takes too long to edit the photos! Anywho onto today's nails...

I already had Layla Misty Blush on and it's such a gorgeous colour and holo, the holo effect is really strong but it doesn't totally mask the unique base colour ! 

So after a full day of wearing this I decided to add some nail art, I wanted to try out some more one stroke flowers. This time I decided to do them in black and white because Misty Blush flashes every colour of the rainbow and I thought it would be a nice contrast!

I did like a double petal flower thing on my pinky and pointy finger but it's not very noticeable. I didn't topcoat this design as I didn't want to dull the holo underneath!

Unfortunately I  didn't have the sun available to take some shots in direct sunlight to show off the full potential of the holo so all the shots below are with a daylight bulb but just imagine the holo rainbow to be 10x as strong ;) 

The thing I most loved about this mani was the contrast between the intense holo and the black and white art! What do you guys think? Is this something you would wear?

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