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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DIY TEXTURED NAILS TUTORIAL

Hi guys, I know quite a few of you were looking forward to this tutorial but today has been really busy and I'm really tired. 

Anywho this is a really simple tutorial but it creates a great result. 

What you will need:

Base Coat 

A fine, gritty, topcoat hungry glitter. I'm using China Glaze Angel Wings

Acrylic paint of your choice. It should be pigmented and quite thin, (if yours is thick then thin it down with some water) 

A brush to paint on your acrylic paint, it needs to cover the whole nail so you don't want one which is too fine.

STEP 1 - Apply your gritty glitter and allow it to fully dry. 

STEP 2 - Using your brush paint cover the glitter with one thin coat of acrylic paint 

Do not topcoat! This will lessen the textured effect. 

So this mani probably isn't the best in terms of longevity, as acrylic paint can wear away quite easily without topcoat. 

If you have a thin, watery topcoat then you can apply that because it won't make a big difference to the overall effect. 

That's all folks, do give this a try and let me know how you got on 

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DIY TEXTURED NAILS

Texture is all the rage right now and to be honest I'm not feeling it, I've tried it and it's just not for me, it makes me cringe! However I know lots and lots of people love it so I did a little experiment the other day and the result was quite good so I thought I'd share it with your all. 

I only own 2 textured polishes both of which are from the OPI Bond Girls collection, so I thought I'd try to create a similar result before purchasing a full bottle. I am honestly pleased with the outcome, I wore this for a day and everybody thought it was a textured polish. 

Do you like the outcome? 

Check back tomorrow for a full tutorial on how to recreate this effect yourself at home using products you will probably already have in the house! 

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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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MISS SPORTY PINK DUOCHROME & ZOYA CHLOE ACCENT NAIL

Hi guys, I hope you all had a lovely weekend, today I've got a simple mani that I wore recently to show you. 

I started off with one coat f w7 Black and then applied one coat of Miss Sporty Lasting Colour polish in the shade 111. I got this several years ago from a car boot? Anywho I never used it because it looked like a frosty pink in the bottle and this was before I was aware of duochromes and how they come to life over black, this flashed green and pink which a bit of copper. On the accent nail I applied 1 (and a half) coats of Zoya Chloe. 

So that's all for now folks, take care and see you in the next post :)

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BUTTERFLY WING GRADIENT NAILS

Can you beleive this is my first time attempting the butterfly wing nail art, I guess when you see a lot of a design everywhere it kinda makes you feel satisfied so it never appears on your own nails! Anyways I finally decided to try it and was kinda disappointed with the result, my lines just weren't neat and it just didn't look right, so I am going to have to try these again !

For this I started off with a gradient using Kiko 340, China Glaze For Audrey and and unnamed light pink Color Club, when that was dry I topped it off with one coat of China Glaze Glistening Snow before drawing on the the butterfly pattern. I've actually done a tutorial for these which I'll probably post tomorrow. 

My middle finger was probably my favourite but I think I need more practice. What do you think about this nail design, do you like the whole wing nail art thingy?, have you tried it out?

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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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