Cookie Monster!!

I loved creating and wearing these nails! For the same party as Faye's Cartoon Nails I created this little monster!

Created with dotting tools and a brush for the mouth, I decided to show off what the Cookie Monster does best...eating cookies!

I used a nude colour for the base to give my nails a healthy colour then Barry M's mushroom for the cookies and a mixture of a couple of blues for the Cookie Monster colour (you'd think with all the colours I have I would have one that's right without mixing!). 

Mixing colours is a good way to get ideal colours, just find something to use as a palette and off you go!

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did!

~Heather

Owls

OWLS!!!!!!

So flipping cute!!!

Link to inspiration and tutorial HERE!

-Faye

Cartoon Nails

So, recently it was my 24th Birthday! To celebrate such a momentous occasion, i decided to have a party to celebrate. The theme was childhood TV characters! I don't know who remembers it, but Zzzap! was one of my favorites!! Daisy Dares you, was the person i decided to dress up as, as featured in this video below!

...and my interpretation!

Obviously i had to do my nails to match the outfit! As daisy dares you doesn't have her nails painted (i think) i thought i would interpret it! I used Cutepolish's Youtube video as inspiration and then a bit of artistic licence to create what you see below! It was actually quite simple, and as you can see, i'm not as accurate with a striping brush as cute polish is  but i still think the effect looks good!

- Faye xo

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