Dots, spots and slodges.

I haven't tried out dotting before and I thought I'd use the biggest of my dotting tools for this one. New polishes, Sally Hansen Himalayan Blue and Rimmel Misty Jade. I like the colours together so I thought I'd see what this looked like.

 

Three coats of each colour then dotted each colour on top. Quick drying and seem to be holding fast so far. :) I like them.

Also, whilst I'm here, I did my Mum's nails earlier, they could have gone better but this is what she wanted. I did a simple french manicure followed by stamping the little flower design with Sally Hansen Gray by Gray and then adding three little dots to finish it off. I wanted to try silver but Mum wanted this one. Ho hum, she's happy so I am :)

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Blue Moons

So today I've got another little idea inspired by my born pretty glequins. I started with two layers of my blue Nails Inc mini from the "Flutter and Paint" gift set I got for £2 from TK Maxx. Bargain! I then used my dotting tool to place the glequins one at a time over my Barry M top coat to stick them down. I then finished off the moon shape with a line using my nail art pen from Topshop.

 

I've had it on a couple of days now and it's lasted well. I also tried out my new Sally Hansen Dry Kwik for this design and it worked a treat. It's not a thick top coat it's consistency is water like but it does the trick.

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Gray, Gilded Lilies

So I've had a super busy week and thus I haven't had chance to do any nail related things unfortunately. It was good to have a break though, I've let my nails breathe for a few days and they're feeling much better, if not a little battered after my hands-on week camera assisting. 

I did have a lovely delivery of nail varnishes earlier in the week though so to celebrate my last day and getting to work on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway I painted my nails on Friday night and here are the results.

This is Sally Hansen Gray by Gray with SH Gilded Lily on top. I love this. The gilded lily looks gorgeous in all kinds of light. It really shimmers but as you can see from above picture you can still really see the colour underneath when you move your hand. This would look brilliant as a gradient I think.

It's not quite glitter pieces it's lots of tiny differently shaped gold flakes, really pretty. 

And here's Gray by Gray on its own. Really nice, this is after two coats but I was impressed even after just one. Apologies for state of nails and hand, like I said a week of manual labour has caused some damage but I'm all over the hand cream now so they should be good again soon. :) I'll be back soon with some more updates!!

And a little after thought - although it did last quite well considering I worked a 14 hour hands-on day the day after applying (without a top coat may I add) it held quite well. And it's so much easier to remove than normal glitter. Perfect!

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Nail Pop; not nude, but wearing Chinos

I promised myself I'd let my nails breathe for the night and do this tomorrow but I couldn't resist. New polish, Nail Pop, I've got it in two colours so I'll try the other one soon too. I've just gone for the simple nude shade, or "Chino, Shade 7", because I'm working all next week so I need something that is understated and can chip as much as I like without me minding too much. So here's some pictures;

Three coats but it looked great after two, I just needed to do some patching up after my dodgy painting. My nails are pretty short right now too for reason mentioned above. It's quite a nice polish, quick drying, super smooth, no bubbles and glossier than some of my other polishes.

Haven't used a top coat, I might, just to seal it but I'll see tomorrow. Pretty pleased with this, my other shade is a light gray. I bought them to use as base coats for other designs but this one's nice for just an understated coverage whilst I'm playing with cameras next week.

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Stamps and Shiny Pennies

This was my first attempt at stamping. I bought a little stamper set that came with a random plate, which to my delight was flower based and really quite lovely so here are the results;

First one is a close up with flash because you can really see how lovely the basecoat is with this lighting. It's Sally Hensen's Shiny Penny, two coats and it looks great on it's own;

I then used Barry M black to stamp on the flower design and I was really happy with how it showed up. Covered with a top coat and it looked lovely! 

And then here's without flash so you can see the stamp better.

It's a really fun and super quick way to create designs but there's something to be said for spending a bit more time doing it yourself so I don't know how often I'll be using this but it's a great little gadget to have!

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Pretty with Pink Clingfilm

Inspired by a clingfilm tutorial I read a while back. I used Superdrug's cheap light pink MUA Natural Days and a little Marks and Spencers Bright Pink from a set I got a while back. Then topped off with a new Barry M glitter I got called Pink Sapphire Glitter. It's awesome, I'm really into my glitters that have different sized pieces of glitter in them at the moment. They're gorgeous and I have loads to try out! So here's some pics;

First is before I added the glitter;

Serious love for this, it lasted a fair few days with my Barry M top coat on and the glitter wasn't actually that stubborn to get off! I will definitely be doing this again with different colours.

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I should introduce myself...

Hi!

I have very lovely and talented nail arty friends who have encouraged me to get a blog so here I am! I'm looking forward to having somewhere to show off all of my (successful) nail art adventures.

I may have lots of posts in the beginning because I have quite a large backlog of photos from previous attempts. (I may even get a bit Christmassy, who knows!)

In the meantime I shall introduce myself with a blog post about my most recent arty attempt.

I recently purchased some Hexagon Nail Art Glitter Dust Powder from Born Pretty, link here. After some strong words about rubbish delivery my glitters finally arrived, numbers 5, 9 & 14. I love them;

I used my new nail art brushes (£1.84 from ebay - go buy they're awesome. here.) And my new dotting tools to pick up the glitter, again, super cheap and brill delivery (here).

More pics,

So that was last night and the last pic from the bus stop this morning. After this I met up with my equally addicted to nail art friend Saz. Here is a picture of both of our hands together;

And my belated Christmas present and loads of lovely nail art things for my to play with in the future! Very excited to try these... and a photo-framed picture of us in Maltaaaaa.

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