Cycling Themed Nails for the Two Tunnels Opening!

So a few weeks ago I volunteered at the opening of The Two Tunnels cycle path which starts off the towpath to Bradford-on-Avon. They are now the longest covered cycle path in the UK (and maybe even Europe?) Anyway, I decided to do Bicycle themed nail art to go with the day!!

 My favorite is my thumb nail bike! This is the left hand,  I cant say my right hand turned out so neat! 

I used Barry M Foil Effects in silver and Barry M Black Nail Paint - most of the designs are done with a nail art brush, but my ring finger was with a dotting tool as done in a previous post (my boyfriend said that they looked like bicycle chains!). Then the checkered design at the end is from a cheap stamping kit I bought recently! 

Here's a bit of info about Sustans and also about the Two Tunnels Greenway in case anyone is interested about that side of things!!!

- Faye

Flower nails

These nails are simple but effective and all you need is a dotting tool or even a bobby pin! 

If you've just got your first dotting tools and want a simple design to do this might be for you!

So I started off with a base coat, I'm really liking this pink colour atm so decided upon that one, then using the white I made 5 dots in the flower shape, waited for it to dry and did a further 5 dots in gold using a smaller tool to create another flower on top and finished it off with a pink dot in the middle to tie in all the colours! And as always, finished it all off with a top coat.

I liked the simplicity and ease of this design without taking much time to actually do! Perfect :)

(also, apologies for the quality of the photos...yet again!)

~Heather

Spring colours!

Seeing as its getting sunnier, I have some spring inspired nail art! Very simple, just base coat, then one colour stripped one way over it and then the other doing the opposite!

These are all Barry M colours as usual! You may have noticed that the bottom colour is from the new textured range - which i like in a pattern but can look a bit like u have just painted acrylic paint on ur nails without embellishment! Hope you like it, even tho it still doesn't feel quite like spring! 

- Faye

Glitter-colour-pattern Combo

Whenever I decide to paint my nails, I always have the same dilemma....

"what design to do this time?"

I love a glamarous bit o' glitter...

I love a beautiful colour...

&

I love a pretty pattern...

So to make me really happy and solve my nail nightmare, I decided to combine them all.

I used three Barry M colours - Silver multi glitter, Cappucino and Greenberry. The design on my ring finger was very simple to do. I used the stardard brush from the glitter, wiped off the excess and dabbed on the lines of colour with one of bottom edges of the brush. I managed to achieve a uniform and parrallel pattern which gave it a crisp look.

 I love this design and I hope you do too. I will sooooo be trying a glitter-colour-pattern combo again!

Any requests for designs or colours - leave us a comment below. We all look forward to hearing from you!

-Leah

Easter Fun!

~Easter is a time for cute and lovely new arrivals in the animal world, so here is our nod to Mother Nature!~

Time to get FROGGYYYY!

These frog are gonna have you hopping with excitement!

I decided to create the cutest frogs you will ever see... and they are definitely the cutest frogs I'VE ever seen!
I used a nude polish for the background colour with an incredibly froggy green for the little faces. To make the eyes I used a dotting tool dipped in white and then black polish.

And then the ingenious part... I used a good old Biro to draw on the mouths. Which is a technique I recommend as long as you have a steady hand and a smooth writer. I will defo be using this in other designs as it worked a treat!!

Get your GIRAFFE on!

So as giraffes are one of my favorite animals I felt the need to put them on my nails and what better time than easter?!

I did a bit of research into previous designs for this and found a lovely detailed giraffe head which inspired my thumb nail (http://nailartgallery.nailsmag.com/nailsbydina/photo/278093/tinas-giraffe-nails), but I also wanted it to have a neck! So this was my result...

To create this design I used my nailart brushes for the first time, which I bought recently for pennies off ebay, and I hope you'll agree it didn't go too badly!

I began with a pale base of a silvery white colour, then I used a thin layer of gold to create the shape of the giraffe. For the detail, I simply used Barry M's Mushroom and Black with various sizes of brushes. As well as a green and pink for the tree that it's peeping from.

I have enjoyed creating this design but it took me a while, so if you want to try it, or something similar, just make sure you have the time so you don't have to rush as we don't want this design GIRAFFING YOU CRAZY!!

-Leah and Heather

p.s. Sorry for the animal puns...

...but it was just so much pun!