Galaxy Nails: Take 2

Hey guys!

I know that I keep on saying that I'll be back with more designs but I haven't and I do apologize about that but I had to finish uni and then study for my exams so I found no time to post designs but i did take photos so I'm a tad back dated! which is in the process of being sorted out! So I have finished uni for he Summer which means that I can now spend more time on new designs!!

But for the time being I have another set of Galaxy Nails for you which I did on my own nails as opposed to doing them on fake nails and I loved this on my nails and I also got so many compliments on it!!

The thing I love about these types of designs is that I have never had one finger the looks the same and so they're always so varied and colourful! Because these nails were done with the exact same colours as before but they turned out so differently which I love!

I hope you all like these!!

Lolly POPS!

Hi Guys!

I was playing about with some ideas and I decided that I wanted to do something to do with gradients.

As much as I love the gradient ones, I decided to do last more colourful one on my nails and I think that they're so suitable for this time of year I absolutely love them! :D

I hope you all liked this!!

Galaxy/Nebula Nails!!!

Hi Guys!

I am so, so excited to share these with you! I absolutely love these and I think that they look so nice and pretty! Although the camera I used is showing the orange/yellow as brown so I might have to get a better camera for this design but I couldn't wait till then!

They were so much more simple than I anticipated when using a sponge. I know that there's a huge number of tutorials and guides on how to get these nails but I thought that I'd just tell you what I did.

1. I painted a base of either black, dark purple or dark blue depending on how I wanted the nail to look. However what I found when I was sponging was that I covered the majority of the base colour so as long as the base is a dark colour then it didn't  really matter.
2. I then took a selection of some colours of nail polish (I took a lot just to experiment with and I really loved how it turned out with many colours!) I had a look on Tumblr of Nebulas and took my colour selections from there!
3. I then took an ordinary kitchen sponge and cut it up to make small pieces. (I think most people use a make up sponge but considering that I don't use them or own any then I used what came to hand and that was a kitchen sponge cut up.)
4. I sponged on white first to get the shape and direction that I wanted the Nebula to go in and then added the colours on top of that. This also helped the colours to stand out better against the dark base.
5. I then sponged the appropriate colours on to make it blend and I then added other colours to add more dimention to the design.
6. I then took a cocktail stick or tooth pick and added small dots and few larger ones to represent stars.
7. I then added a top coat and what I found was that it was better to add a thicker layer of top coat when the design was a little bit wet just because it made the colours blend nicely. But just remember to use a very light touch when you're applying the top coat to wet polish just becasue its then that it's possible to drag the design and also to use a thick layer of top coat too!
8. Then wait for it to dry and go and show everyone what you have done! That's exactly what I did!
 



These are the base colours that I used and the top coat that I am using just now!





These are the cool toned colours that I used to sponge on the nebulas (apart from the yellow but that's ok! Ha!)

 These are the warm toned colours that I used to create the Nebulas and the white polish that I used first.

I Hope you all love these as much as I do!! 

'Oh! 'Eat me'. All right. But goodness knows what this will do...'

Hi guys!

I think I saved the best and my favourite one for last! I'm so, so happy at how this one turned out. It's so girly and cute and I don't think it would be out of place in the wee box full of growth sweets/biscuits.

I really, really hope you all like this as much as I do!! 

'Of course not. This is an unbirthday party.'

Hi Guys!

I left my favourite character for last! The Mad Hatter! He is just sheer brilliance. He loves tea just as much as I do and he's a tad loopy which I really love about him!!

Hope you all like this!! 

'If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.'

Hello Guys!

Today is the turn of Alice's design to be posted! I decided to go down the kind of abstract road. (Sorry for that description. CRINGE!! haa!) But my artistic skills are no where near as good as they have to be to paint a decent Alice so I decided to just take her elements and make, in my opinion, a unique design. I haven't seen this before and i love it!

This is my version of, what the ladies of Wah Nails call a double french. The white is meant to represent the white apron type thing on Alice's dress, the blue is obviously her dress, the Black is her hairband with a little bow and the yellow is supposed to represent ther hair! I hope I pulled that one off! Haha!

I really hope you all like this!! 

'I'm late I'm late For a very important date. No time to say "Hello, Goodbye". I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.'

Hey Guys!!

I'm posting the white rabbits pocket watch today! This wee rabbit is one of the cutest rabbits ever! He wears people clothes! Haha! I love him!

Hope you all like this!! 

'Who's been painting my roses red?'

Hi Guys!!

Today's Alice In Wonderland's design is one of the Queen of Hearts rose bushes which has had to have the roses painted red because the cards made a mistake in planting white roses when the Queen only likes red roses!

Hope you all like this!!

'Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here.'

Hi Guys!

I'm posting my Cheshire Cat design. He is one of my most favourite characters of the whole film! I only included his mouth with a really wide smile because that's the most striking thing about him! The colours also seem to be a bit too dark for him but I actually really like that fact!

Hope you all liked this!! 

'Not me, your grace! The ace, the ace! '

Hi Guys!!

Today I'm posting the Ace! Yes he does need a face but I think you'll get the idea!

Hope you all liked this!!

'Just what species or, shall we say, genus are you, my dear?'

Hi Guys!

Today, believe it or not I'm posting one of the flowers, I think it's called a pansie. I think they are so cute in the film! My design is more probably an insult to Disney but I love it. (Sorry! Ha!)

Hope You All Like This! 

'Off with their heads!!'

Hey guys!!

The first design of this series is the Queen of Hearts Crown. It is very simple indeed so I decided to dust sone gold glitter over the crown to make it a tad more interesting!

Hope You All Like It!

Alice In Wonderland!!

Hi guys!

I decided that I wanted to start a little kind of series, so I chose to do a set of nine designs based on one of my favourite Disney films, Alice In Wonderland. I really enjoyed coming up with designs for them so I am considering doing this for other films or just anything really that I love. What do you all think? As always they are simple designs but I love them all so I'm really happy with this!

I also feel as if I've neglected you guys so this series idea is perfect!

HOPE YOU LIKE THIS!! 

Black Triangles!!

I was watching Rihanna's new video for You da one and I really liked the nails that she was wearing. I then was looking through Nailporn Nails Tumblr when I saw some really good photos of them so last saturday when I was heading out to a gig and I wanted to add something easy and simple on top of a nice silver base that I had borrowed from one of my friends the night before! This was done simply by using cellotape. But I was in such a rush that I didn't wait for the black to try so it's a bit raggidy and the triangles are not exactly perfectly triangular. But I've had so many compliments on these nails and for them being so simple it's really nice to hear! Haha!

Here's a link to the NailPorn Tumblr if you haven't seen it already. If not then I strongly suggest that you go have a look I love looking through this Tumblr! http://thisisnailporn.tumblr.com/

Hope you like them!!

What I actually did while I took a break!!

I know I previously said that I didn't really do anything worth posting during that break but I kind of did!
The first one I did was a full set of press on nails that I painted for a friend for Christmas, I also did another set for her mum too which were red glitter and gold polka dots which looked lovely but I forgot to photograph them and then I also painted a set for another friend which had a gold base and black leopard print which looked so nice too but again I didn't photograph them!! I also know that the quality of the photo is rubbish but it was only ever taken to show my friend what she was getting and to see if they were ok for her and they had everything she asked for!

Then the next design was just a spur of the moment decision. I went to the pub with my big sister and her Fiance to watch the Old Firm game on the 28th of December and I needed to do my nails. I'm pretty sure that no one will know what the Old Firm is so I shall explain! Ha! I'm from Glasgow and the football team that I support is Celtic! Their rival team from Glasgow is Rangers and both teams are collectively known as the Old firm so in essence an Old Firm game is simply a Derby game against two rivla teams! Anyway! Celtics top is green and white hoops and so I used these colours in my design and although I didn't use stripes which probably would have been better I chose to do leopard print with a green tip and white base so they went well with the pub we went to and Celtic colours too!

I really do hope that you all like this, and I know that you might be getting a bit frustrated that I've posted so much leopard print this past while but I just love it so much and it is seriously my favourite design to do. But out of fairness and my love of you guys I will try my hardest to stop posting so much leopard print stuff in future! I promise!! Ha!

Simple Colours!

I had a small amount of time to do my nails and so I wanted a quick and easy design. When I go for a simple design I always seem to decide on lines or stripes. These, in my opinion anyway, look so nice on nails and there is absolutely no restriction on direction of the lines or the colours you can use and so I think that this is why I normally just go back to stripes and lines time after time. I really liked the ring finger as it kind of looked like a green and white tiger! Which got me thinking about another design that I really wanted to try becasue a friend asked me if I would paint it on her nails but I didn't really know how to so she chose something else instead. So this will be for my next post when I get a chance to post itand now hopefully I'll be able to do them for her in the future!

Hope you like them!

On the first day of Christmas!

CANDY CANES!

I thought I would start off with just a simple design for the first day!

                                          Merry Christmas!

Even More Leopard Print!!

I wanted to upload these before I started my Christmas designs tomorrow! If you haven't guessed by now I'm really enjoying leopard print nails! Haha! I did these for my best friend at the weekend. I really love the colours together I think they work so well because they are just simple monochrome and I also like the cross on the ring finger! Hope you like too!

Simple and Colourful!

As per usual I was having such a hard time deciding what I wanted to do on my nails but I've found that when this happens I tend try a few different things. This time I started with matte black nails but they chipped after a day, that's what doing a lab in uni will do to you though! Ha! Then I decided to paint my nails red and add a red glitter and then a silver glitter and I really liked how they looked and sparkled but I smudged them like the silly goose I am! So I then thought that I'd get my act together and do another simple, not very time consuming design. And this is what I decided to do. And I know that the colours aren't very Wintry but I love it so I'm not really fussed! I think these turned out really quite well especially considering that I had no idea of what I wanted to do when I started!

Simple Stripes!

I decided to do something simple, easy and not very time consuming. The colour isn't really showing up properly here, it is actually a deep kind of raspberry pink!