A touch of class

 I have a family friend's wedding to go to in a couple of weeks so I thought it would be a good idea to practice my nails (just and excuse to paint my nails really!). I've decided these aren"t summery enough for the wedding, but I thought I'd share them with you anyway.

I decided to use a colour called ruby by champneys as that has class written all over it!

Then I used my dotting tools and my 17 crackle top coat to do the spots (as it was closest to the colour I wanted and I figured it wouldn't crackle too much!).

I was fairly pleased with the results and now I have to go somewhere classy to show them off!

Hope you like!!

Abbi. Xx

Sugar Spun Nails

I discovered this lovely creation on the web a while back but didn't get round to it until recently. I found a lovely tutorial on Nailasaurus' blog (http://www.thenailasaurus.com/2013/06/sugar-spun-nail-art-tutorial.html) which came in handy to try out this design!

I love the textured effect of these nails and have found it great fun wearing them!

 The downside though is that it took a long time to do...but I think every second was worth it.

To complete this bumpy design I used Barry M denim and La Femme Beauty Rickpink cream as base colours, I then used a top coat BEFORE the Barry M gold foil effects on top. This meant that once the gold was applied, as the Nailasaurus's tutorial suggests, I could leave it without a top coat so it was as textured as possible.

The technique used to do the sugar spun effect took some time and persistence. My technique wasn't as perfected as I wanted but I like how it ended up turning out. You can see the rounded blobs where I was trying to pull the varnish string across but accidentally touched my dotting tool to the nail, but fortunately, I did this enough times it looks like that's how it's meant to be!! This was my first time trying this technique so it goes to show you don't need to practice it lots before you can wear it out as even the mistakes look good with this effect!

There are some really cool sugar spun nails out there with combinations of colours too, I decided to stick to the one for my first go, but maybe I'll try two colours the next time I find enough time to tackle this technique again!

~ Heather

Piggys!

Hi everyone,

I recently went glamping (glam camping) on a pig farm! It was lots of fun and we spent girly time doing a few nails! Inspired by the surroundings I did some piggy nails for my friend Helen! 

The base colour is Barry M Peach Melba with rimmel 60 secs Sundowner polish for the darker pink and then my models own dotters and stripers to do the details! 

I love doing fun characters but don't get to do them much due to work so when someone allows me to do fun things with their nails, I am on it! 

- Faye

Pink Retro Flowers

Pinky Pinky Pinky...

I bought this new pink recently and put it straight to use in this retro design. It kind of reminds me of the stunning vintage flowery dresses that I have seen from Forever 21. This is bright and eye catching colour but it has a creamy and smooth finish.
In other words - I LOVE THIS COLOUR!!

I used a darker pink colour to make two curls for the petals, then I used a peach polish to dab into the middle of each flower for the bud. To finish it off, I used a green to create a swirl at either side for the leaves. 

I chose to use colours that were all non shiney and non metallic to keep the design simple and uniform. 

Hope you guys like this summery design! There will be more summery designs coming soon so keep your eyeballs peeled! 

 -Leah

Tie dye love

So I'm a little bit obsessed with tie-dye at the moment. And I just love these nails! I did them a while back but I have been a bit slacking with the post!

I started off with the light purple colour (that the lovely faye brought back from her travels in china!) as my base coat. I was fairly impressed with the quality considering it is not a make I know and I found the tiny brush it comes with very easy to use on my tiny nails!

Next I used a white from a french manicure set to do 3 stripes vertically on my nail, making each one shorter than the one before.

After that dried I used the dark purple (again from the lovely faye) to do the same thing again over the top of the white but just fractionally shorter.

I think this really easy design creates a brilliant effect and I love how it turned out!

Thank you very much to faye for the nail varnishes and the inspiration for this design!

Abbi. Xx