American Flag Nails!

American Flag Nails!

In honour of it being Independence Day across the pond last Friday and the fact that I'm on holiday in America soon, I thought I would do a twist on regular American flag nails. 

Rating: ****

Finished nails

Tools

Stamper

I used:

• Rimmel 703 White Hot Love
• Color Show 661 Ocean Blue
• Collection 20005 Fire Engine
• Barry M 54 Clear
• Small metal tipped paintbrush
• Salon Express Stamper

Step 1

Paint all your nails white.

Step 2

Paint your thumbs blue.

Step 3

Use the paintbrush to paint the stripes on all your fingers (not the thumb).

Step 4

Using the large star from the star and moon stamper with the white nail varnish, place a few stars on the thumb. Don't put too many or it will look crowded and make sure they don't overlap.

Step 5

Cover the design in the clear top coat to protect it and smooth it all out. I also paired this with painted toes since I'll be wearing sandals a lot over the summer. I did my big toes blue and the others alternating red and white to look vaguely like the flag.

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

Zebra Print Nails!

Zebra Print Nails

Rating: *

Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• Rimmel 60 Seconds 703 White Hot Love
• Rimmel Lasting Finished 080 Black Cab
• Striping brush

Step 1

Paint your nails with the white.

Step 2

Use the brush to paint the stripes onto the nails.

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

Spring Flower nails!

Spring Flower Nails!

Happy Easter everyone! It's a little late but better late than never, right?

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

Butterflies

I used:

• Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat
• Barry M 290 Spring Green
• Maybelline 720 Green Miracle
• Rimmel 60 Seconds 703 White Hot Love
• Rimmel Lasting Colour 280 Sunshine
• 20/0 Paintbrush
• Dotting tool (not pictured)
• 2 Butterflies
• Tweezers (not pictured) 

Step 1

Paint your nails with the clear top coat.

Step 2

Use the paintbrush to paint the lighter green across the tips of all your nails. Start at the tip and flick the brush up towards the cuticle to get the pointy grass look.

Step 3

Use the paintbrush to paint the darker green over the light green. Don't do too much, you just want it to add depth.

Step 4

Paint the flower petals onto the nails. For each one, start at the centre of the flower and draw the brush outwards. If you can, you may want to practice this before you do it on your nails.

Step 5

Add the centres of the flowers using the yellow and a small dotting tool.

Step 6

Add the butterflies to your thumbs. You could put them on your ring fingers if you wanted but I thought it looked a bit crowded. To do this, paint a small amount of clear nail varnish where you want the butterfly. Pick out a butterfly and place it on the nail. Position it using the tweezers and hold it down (bending it to the shape of the nail) until it no longer slides around. 

Step 7

Paint over the design with the top coat and clean up around it. Make sure to put a little extra over the butterfly, just to make sure it doesn't come off too easily as it does stick up a bit.

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

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. 

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

Star nails!

Star Nails!

(A perfect design to kick off advent)

Rating: *

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