Night Sky Nails!

Night Sky Nails!

Rating: ***

Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• Essence Black Space Glitter
• Lottie LL024 Gimme the Beat
• Chromacryl White Paint
• Sinful Colours 903 Top Shine
• Makeup sponge
• Small metal headed paintbrush

Step 1

Paint your nails with the sparkly black.

Step 2

Using the sponge, add a silver stripe across each nail.

Step 3

Using the paintbrush, and the white paint, add some dots for stars and one or two crosses on each nail.

Finally, cover your nails in the top coat to protect them.

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Van Gogh style TARDIS nails | 6 days to go!

Doctor Who Themed Nails!

This design is based off this painting in the Matt Smith episode 'Vincent and the Doctor'. It is quite an arty design this time so, if you're not confident with acrylic paint, maybe find someone who is or give this one a miss for the time being.

Rating: *****

Finished nails

Acrylic Paints

I used:

• Rimmel 703 White Hot Love
• 011 White acrylic paint
• 159 Primary Blue acrylic paint
• 026 Black acrylic paint
• 603 Primary Yellow acrylic paint
• 690 Yellow Ochre acrylic paint
• 201 Burnt Sienna acrylic paint
• 123 Ultra Marine acrylic paint
• Small metal tipped paintbrush
• Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat

Step 1

Paint your nails with the base coat to protect your nails from the paint and to make it easier to remove later.

Step 2

Put a few blobs of the blue, black and white acrylic paint into a palette for easy mixing.

Step 3

Paint the background on each nail. Plan ahead so you know where the swirls will go and try and keep the parts which will be yellow paler to make it easier to add the yellow on top. It doesn't matter how neat it is either - have a copy of the painting handy so you can match the Van Gogh style as closely as possible. Don't forget to decide which nail your TARDIS will go on first so you can have the swirls radiating from that point. I decided to put mine on the middle finger of my left hand.

Right hand

Left hand

Step 4

Paint over the paler sections with the yellow. Make sure the blue is dry first otherwise you're in danger of getting smudges though. Leave the finger with the TARDIS on for the time being.

Right hand

Left hand

Step 5

Add the TARDIS to your chosen finger along with the explosion.

Step 6

Cover over the nails with a top coat to prevent chipping and to make them shiny as acrylic paint is decidedly dull on it's own. 
 

Right hand

Left hand

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Autumn Leaf Nails!

Autumn Leaves Nails!

Apologies for our mysterious absence but I found these from ages ago and thought I would post them. Don't expect posts to suddenly appear - it's surprisingly difficult to find time to do the more intricate designs but we do have a few ideas and old designs that are still on my camera which will be coming your way every fortnight for the next month or two!

Rating: ***

Finished Nails

Acrylic Paints

Tools

I used:

• Collection 2000 Lasting Colour19 Berry Hot
• 619 Cadmium Orange acrylic paint
• 651 Lemon Yellow acrylic paint
• 701 Gold Imit acrylic paint
• Clear top coat
• 20/0 paintbrush

Step 1

Paint the nails with the red nail varnish.

Step 2

Paint the orange leaves on the nail using the orange acrylic paint and a small paintbrush. You could use nail varnish instead of acrylic paint but I found it easier to paint the leaves using paint. To do each branch of the leaf, draw a line and then add the points.

Step 3

Repeat the process using the yellow acrylic paint.

Step 4

Repeat the process with the gold acrylic paint.

Step 5

Cover the design in clear nail varnish to protect it and make it shiny as acrylic paint is rather dull. Also, clean up around the nails with nail varnish remover. 

 
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