Beetlejuice Nails

I've never seen the film before but I couldn't think of a better way to describe these nails.

I started out by painting long French tips in white and then using a black thin tip nail varnish to do the black stripes, but it wasn't very neat so I cut some tape to shape so that the curved line was neat. It looks a bit odd that my nails aren't all the same length, that's cus they are slowly snapping off one by one.. :(

It's quite a sleek look but also jazzy at the same time so it would look good for a night out or a fancy occasion :)

Purple French Tips and A Way to Whiten Your Nails

I've had this nail varnish colour for years but it was drying up so I bought it again; Vivid Purple by Barry M. I used my new glitter to line the french tips for a bit of sparkle. Quite a glamorous look if I do say so myself :)

My mobile picture quality isn't the best but you can see how sparkly the glitter is. It doens't show the holographic-ness of it though and how nice it looks with all the rainbow colours.

 I don't know if you can tell but my nails have gotten whiter as I've been cleaning them to get rid of the awful yellow stains they had from me neglecting to use a decent base coat and not giving my nails time to breathe between each design. It sounds harsh but I used neat bleach straight onto my nails and I swear they are 70% whiter after 3 lots of bleach! Now I don't have to hide them under nail varnish out of shame anymore :P

Holographic Glitter

The glitters I ordered on eBay has finally arrived (it had to travel all the way from Hong Kong and I didn't pay any postage :P) and I love them!

They costed just under £2 for all 12 and the colours are so nice, and they're holographic so it reflects all different colours :)

I'm excited to try out the turqoise blue, purple and white :)

Fairy Nails

I wanted to do a design with a girly, glittery, fairy-inspired theme; not sure it's very fairy-like but I like the end result :)

The colours don't show up that well in this light but I used a French manicure pink and then ColourTrend nail varnishes from Avon in glittery pink and green on top. Then I added the dots with a nail art pen and added Barry M glitter on top.

Fimo Nails

The Fimo nail art canes I ordered arrived today and I couldn't wait to try them out :)

I got 100 in a pack from Ebay for £3.49, I chose free postage and it turned up 5 days later. There's a huge variety; flowers, hearts, butterflies, smily faces, stars, fruit, bears, bows, Hello Kitty, a Mario mushroom, skull and crossbones,  and even the American flag :P Some of them are hard to tell what they are so I won't be using them, but the majority of them are good. There are so many, every time I look at them I see one I haven't seen before :)

I decided to try out fimo fruit nails as I'd seen them online a lot. The canes are so detailed, they're about 5cm long and you can get about 80-100 slices out of each one so you won't be running out any time soon! Seeing as this was my first try with it I cut my slices a bit too thick so they didn't stick down very flat and I could feel that they were on my nails, but my next few designs will be using them so I'll get better. I didn't buy a cutting blade with the pack as I have a craft krife which works just as well, but you can get ones specifically for them.

Next I'll be trying out some of the fimo flowers :D



Abstract Nails

I felt like doing a design with girly pinks and purples (and my new manicure pink) and I found inspiration from a photo online of one with lots of dots and lines in it.

Each nail was different and this one on my little finger was my favourite, not sure why :P Coming next will be my attempt at dry water marble nails :)

Matte Nails

I just got Rimmel London's Matte nail varnish and I tried it out with a stripey design. It works on any colour which works out way cheaper than buying each colour again in a matte version. Here I used it over Barry M's Bright Purple.

I love this polish; it opens up so many new looks using just one colour of varnish like stripes, polka dots and French tips :) This varnish was £4.49 from Boots which is at the top end of my budget for buying varnishes, but I think it's a worthy investment :P