Disney's Inside Out nails

I've been excited for the release of Disney's Inside Out since I first saw the trailer, so after I booked my tickets to go and it I decided to paint my nails to match. Here are my Inside Out nails featuring Disgust, Fear and Anger!

The movie was good, very emotional and I'm not afraid to say that I shed a tear towards the end!

The base of Disgust, Fear and Anger are gradient nails. To create Disgust I used China Glaze - 'Treble Maker' and 'Be More Pacific'. For Fear I used Barry M - 'Purple' and Essie - Lilacism. For Anger I used China Glaze - 'With Love', and finally the base for the logo is Barry M - Blue.

Inspired by a makeup look

So last night I was browsing Instagram and I saw this incredible makeup look that Lucisferismydad did. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to do some nail art based on it, so here they are! 

The black line on the top is meant to be the eyeliner and the pink on the bottom is the pink waterline. 

The polishes that I used were 'Pink Voltage', 'Liquid Leather', 'Fairy Dust' and 'Treble Maker' by China Glaze, 'Haute in the Heat' and 'Ruffles and Feathers' by Essie, 'Bright Purple' and 'Cobalt Blue' by Barry M.

To do the design I put a blob of polish on a peice of paper and used the sponge effect, with torn up bits of sponge and my tweezers.

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Winter Forest

A quick update today as I'm going to watch Skyfall with my family in a bit! I've been so busy this holiday period, going on trips to London and spending time with my family. Since going to uni Christmas has turned into my favourite holiday as it's the only time that me and my two older sisters get to spend together. 

Yesterday I was browsing though Instagram trying to get inspiration for a Christmas design and I came across a great snowy forest scene that 'nailsbyjema' had done. I tried to do my best to recreate it but it didn't really turn out how I wanted it to!

The above picture is shown with a glossy top coat, the picture below is with a glitter topcoat to show snow falling, and the one below that is with the glitter and a matte topcoat. 

As usual I used OPI - Nail Envy as my base, then followed it up with two coats of OPI - Alpine Snow. The detailing was done with acrylic paint and a small detail nail art brush. 

I'm not too happy with these nails so I will probably paint them again tomorrow evening, I'll hopefully get some new nail polishes for Christmas that I can try out!

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Chalkboard Nails

In theme of Back to School I thought the perfect design to do would be chalkboard nails! These are super easy and simple to do and look very cool.

As usual I started out with a basecoat of OPI - Nail Envy, followed by two thin coats of China Glaze - Liquid Leather, acrylic paint for the design and then one coat of Essie - Matte About You.

The design is obviously inspired by what little kids doodle on paper and chalkboards when they're young. I know when I was younger I used to draw stars, stickmen and swirls over everything!

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Blue Chevron

So whenever I paint my nails I normally plan out the design before hand or have a rough idea what I'm going to do, but not with this one! I just sat down with a bunch of polishes and I ended up with this! I knew I wanted to something blue and in the end I did chevron nails. 

The rings in the above picture are from Primark, I got a pack of 6 rings that were a mixture of midi and normal for £2.50. All of the rings are so cute and it was a total bargin.

To do this very easy design I first painted my nails two thin coats of Essie's - In the Cab-Ana. Then I dipped a Cheeky nail art brush into Essie's - Mezmerised, painted a triangle onto the tips of my nails and then filled them in. I dipped a dotting tool into some random silver glitter polish and placed one dot at the tip of the triangle. Finally, I topped the whole thing off with a coat of Seche Vite.

As you can see from the above pictures I ended up mattifying it by using Essie's - Matte about You, but I don't particularly like this design matte. I feel you can see my mistakes more and I dont feel like it compliments the chevron.

Pale Polkadots

So I have a back log of designs and swatches that I've done over the past couple of years that I'm going to be uploading, starting with this cute polka dot design. 

The base is Essie - Mint Candy Apple (one of my all time favourite mint colours) and the polka dots were done with a dotting tool and an unknown Essie polish. Unfortunately the name has rubbed off but it's just a pale cream coloured polish.