Star nails!

Star Nails!

(A perfect design to kick off advent)

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Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• '17 Navy Glint'
• 'Models Own Silver'
• Salon Express Stamper
• 'Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat'

Step 1

Paint the nails with the navy blue. This may require two coats to achieve the desired effect of midnight blue sky.

Step 2

Use the star stamper to place a silver star in the corner of each nail. I only used the biggest of the stars in this cluster because I thought any more would look over crowded.

Step 3

Cover the design in the top coat to seal in the design and prevent chips.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below 

Flower nails!

Flower Nails!

A perfect design for Remembrance Sunday

Rating: **

Finished nails

Tools

I used:

• 'Collection 2000 103 French White'
• 'Rimmel Lasting Finish 030 Double Decker Red'
• 'Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat'
• Salon Express Stamper 
• Nail Varnish remover
• Tissue

Step 1

Paint the nails white.

Step 2

Paint the nails red.

Step 3

Use the stamper to put the flower design onto each nail. You will need to clean the stamper with the nail varnish remover and tissue between each nail. The stamper is quite tricky to use so do some practices beforehand and don't expect it to be perfect the first time around. 

Finally, cover the nails in the top coat and clean up around them with nail varnish remover.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below 

Halloween Nails!

Halloween Nails!

(slightly belated but better late than never, right..?)

Rating: **

Finished nails

Tools

I used:

• 'Collection 2000 103 French White'
• 'Miss Beauty 21 Sunset'
• 'Barry M black Nail Art Pen'
• 'Barry M 54 Clear'
• Sponge

Step 1

Paint your nails white to protect them from staining when you remove the orange

Step 2

Paint your nails orange. I only used one coat and got a pretty decent coverage but you might want to use two if your orange isn't as thick.

Step 3

Dab a bit of the black onto the sponge and make the tips of each nail black. You want the part of your nail which is usually white to be completely covered with black (like a French tip mani) and then you want it to fade into the orange.

Step 4

Use the pen to draw bats on the remaining orange section of your nail. Draw the ones at the top slightly smaller than those at the bottom, if you can, although this is a little tricky.

Step 5

Cover the nails in a top coat to protect the design. If you do this immediately after doing the bats it is liable to smudge so wait a few hours before doing this to prevent it. Finally, clean up around the nails to make them look presentable!

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below  

Sorry!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to apologise for the lack of post today. We are both away this weekend and have spent most of this week preparing so haven't had time to paint our nails... We will resume normal posting next week, hopefully (don't hold your breath though; it's quite hard to co-ordinate it with all our school work and other clubs). We're also slowly starting to run out of ideas so, if there's something you want to see us do, feel free to let us know, either in the comments below or by emailing nail.art12345@gmail.com.

Stripy white tipped nails!

Stripy White Tipped Nails

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Finished nails

(Tools picture to follow)

I used:

•  A clear sparkly nail varnish (the name of which I've forgotten but I think it was quite old...)
• 'Barry M Nail Art Pen White'

Step 1

Paint your nails with a clear, sparkly nail varnish. You might want to do several coats until you achieve the amount of sparkles you like.

Step 2

Use the nail art pen to draw lines from the tip of the nail up towards the base. Draw them in different directions and don't draw them too long (ie. not more than half the nail). You could paint the tips of your nails (the white section) with the white pen before drawing the lines to neaten up the whole design if you like.

Finally, clean up around the nails and apply a top coat to prevent chips (I didn't and mine had chipped by the next morning).

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below  

Pastel dot nails!

Pastel Dot Nails!

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Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• '17 Heart Beat'
• 'Maybelline New York 825 Oh So Close'
• A small dotting tool

Step 1

Paint the nails with the pale blue or any other pastel colour. You will probably need two coats to achieve a smooth finish.

Step 2

Use the dotting tool to place dots in the corner of each nail, trying to make the ones further from the corner slightly smaller.

Finally, clean up around the nails and apply a top coat to prevent chips.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below  

Half black nails!

Half Black Nails!

Rating: **

Finished nails

Tools

I used:

• 'Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat'
• 'Rimmel Lasting Finish 080 Black Cab'
• 'Maybelline New York 825 Oh So Close'
• 'Collection 2000 103 French White'
• A small, metal banded paintbrush
• Nail Varnish remover
• Tape
• Small dotting tool

Step 1

Paint your nails with the clear varnish. Leave the nails for a fairly long time to dry before doing the next step or you'll just pull it straight off again.

Step 2

Cover half of the nail with the tape and paint the uncovered bit with the black. Remove the tape immediately or it will stick to the varnish and pull it off.

Step 3

Using the paintbrush, paint silver down the dividing line between the black and clear.

Step 4

Using the small dotting tool, paint white dots on the black half of the nail.

Finally, clean up around the nails and cover them in a top coat to seal in the design.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below 

Sunset Nails!

Sunset Nails!

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Finished nails

Tools

I used:

• 'Rimmel Lasting Finish 280 Sunshine'
• 'Colour Pink'
• 'Rimmel 60 Seconds 610 Pompous'
• 'Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat' (not pictured)
• A make-up sponge

Step 1

Paint your nails with yellow. This particular yellow stains like crazy so either use a white or clear base coat before putting on the yellow.

Step 2

Sponge the pink over the two thirds of your nail closest to the base. This will make a mess of your fingers which you can either clean up after each stage or you can wait and do it at the end.

Step 3

Sponge the purple over the bottom third of your nail.

Finally, cover the nails with a top coat to seal in the design and clean up around them.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below 

Blue and White Stripes!

Blue and White Striped Nails!

(based on this design by Caz)

Rating: **

Finished nails

Tools

I used:

• 'Collection 2000 103 French White'
• '17 Heartbeat'
• '17 Seabreeze'
• 'Barry M Confetti Nails Liquorice' (optional)
• 'Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat'
• Sticky tape

Step 1

Paint some of your nails white and the rest with the pale blue. I chose to do them randomly although you could do alternating nails in opposite colours if you wanted.

 

Step 2

Paint a free hand line of the opposite colour down the nail. Wait a little longer than you would normally between these two steps to reduce the risk of getting the colours mixed together. 

Step 3

Cut the tape into lots of long, thin strips and put them somewhere easy to pick up (I used the edge of the roll of tape). They need to be long enough that they will stick off both ends of your nails (making it easier for you to peel them back off!).

Step 4

Wait for ages for your nails to dry or the tape will pull off the varnish! Then, one nail at a time, stick the pieces of tape across  the nail randomly. Make sure you remember what order you stick on the pieces and leave an end hanging over the edge of the nails so you can pull it off easily. Paint over the whole nail with the dark blue and immediately remove the tape in the opposite order to the order you stuck them on. This is quite messy so make sure you have a tissue on hand to wipe your fingers and some nail varnish remover for the stubborn bits! Repeat for all the other nails.

Step 5

Cover the nails in the top coat to seal the design in and clean up the mess around the top (which is inevitable).

Step 6 (optional)

I originally wanted to cover the nails in the confetti varnish instead of the clear top coat however the confetti turned out thicker than I anticipated and it ended up looking messy. I was aiming for something like the little finger below but instead I pretty much covered up the design. However, if you would like to give it a try, feel free!

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below 

Lightening Nails!

Lightening Nails!

Rating: ***

Finished nails

Tools

 I used:

• 'Collection 2000 103 French White'
• 'Maybelline New York 840 Purple Reflect'
• 'Collection 2000 12 Blue My Mind'
• 'Rimmel Lasting Finish 198 Azure'
• 'Barry M 306 Blueberry I/C'
• 'Barry M nail art pen white'
• 'Barry M 54 Clear'
• A make up sponge

Step 1

Paint your nails with the white. Don't worry if it is messy, you can clean it up at the end either with a cotton bud and nail varnish remover or you can peel it off!

Step 2

Paint your nails with the purple. You'll probably only need one coat as this is quite a dark varnish.

Step 3

 Use the sponge to dab some dark blue across the nails. You don't need to be particularly neat about this, it's just to make the sky look more than one colour.

Step 4

Use the sponge to dab on some of the middle shade of blue (the Rimmel one). You want to put this so it will be under where the lightening strike will go so make some nails have one branch and others have two or three.

Step 5

Use the sponge to dab some of the palest blue down the centre of the previous blue stripes.

Step 6

Use the pen to draw the lightening strikes down the centre of each blue stripe. Put a little bit of white at the top of each nail too, like the bottom of a cloud.

Paint over the nails with the clear to seal in the design and, finally, clean up around the nails to make them look neat.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below 

Diagonal split nails!

Diagonal Split Nails!

Rating: *

Finished nails (2 stripe)

Finished nails (3 stripe)

Tools

I used:

• 'Maybelline New York 825 Oh So Close'
• 'Maybelline New York 840 Purple Reflect'
• 'Maybelline New York 820 Winner Takes It All'
• 'Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat'
• Sticky tape

Step 1

Paint your nails with the colour you would like to be closest to the base of the nail. For both of these designs I chose the purple. 

Step 2

Stick the tape over part of the nail closest to the base. The distance depends on how many stripes you want on your nails; the more stripes, the closer it needs to be to the base of the nail. I stuck mine at an angle however you could just as easily make it straight. Then paint the section which isn't covered by the tape. You will need to remove the tape fairly quickly after painting it or it will pull off the varnish. For the 2 stripe one I chose gold as my other colour and for the 3 stripe one I chose silver.

Step 3

Repeat this as many times as you want stripes! For my 3 stripe one I chose gold as the final colour.

Finally, paint over each nail with the top coat to seal in the design and clean up around the nails to make them look neat.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below