Monday, 20 August 2012

Cherry Blossom Nails :)

Doing this nail design has made me realise how good acrylic paints are for doing nail art. I could kick myself for all the times I've gone out and bought a new nail varnish to do a specific design when I could have just mixed up the colour with paints I already own!


 I saw a similar look done by Love4Nails on Youtube and I changed it a bit to get this look. It's the first time I've used acrylic paint on my nails so I don't know if it stains or does any damage, we'll see when I take it off :P I figure as long as you use a base coat and a top coat to seal in the design it can't do much harm. This is the first time in a while that my nails have been roughly all the same length, I hope I can keep it up :)

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Lunar Haze Nails

I did this look with one of my new polishes called Lunar Haze by Natural Collection.


I love doing fairy-like looks like this with a soft pastel colour fading from the tips and some glitter and holographic hexagons on the end.


It doesn't take very long to create this cute look and it's great for summer :)

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Nail Polish Haul

The other day I bought 2 nail polishes, then yesterday my boyfriend came back from Italy and got me 6 more! This is the most I've ever got in such a short space of time :) and here they all are...




This is Lunar Haze by Natural Collection. It was £1.89 in Boots and I love it. It's not opaque after 2 coats but the shimmer on it is beautiful.


Next is Icy Mauve by All About Nails, 99p in Tesco. I have nothing but good things to say about this brand, great colours and an even better price :) This colur is also quite transparent but has a lovely gold shine to it.

Next we have the Italian ones. They're not necessarily Italian brands as the writing is in English but that's what I like to refer to them as :P



This one is Space Queen by a brand called Essence: Colour and Go. It's very similar to Iridescent by Barry M that I have, a pale pink gel with glitter in.

This green  has no name but is by Pupa: Lasting Colour. It's opaque with 2 coats and is a nice colour, but I don't think I'd wear it on its own.




Here is It's Purplicious, again by Essence.



 It's a clear base with purple and pink glitter in it. The glitter is a mix of small specks and sqaure chunks. It would look good over a shade of pink or purple.

This one has no name from what I can see on the bottle, it could be no. 22 but I'm not sure. It's by Debby: Colour Play.

I don't normally wear neon colours but I like this one, and if the sun comes out one of these days it'll look good my homemade shorts and sunglasses :)

Lastly we have 2 polishes that came together as a nail art kit. They're also by Pupa, which I think is an Italian brand as it says Pupa: Milano on the box.  One is a silver glitter and the other is a dark grey crackle top coat. The box says Grey Green but I personally don't see the green :P I don't own any crackle polishes but I like the look of this one.


And so ends what I think is my longest post to date. I can't wait to churn out some new looks with these polishes!






Thursday, 12 July 2012

Melting Crayons on a Canvas :)

I found videos of people doing this on Youtube and I had to try it! I stuck Crayola Crayons on a white canvas in rainbow colour order and used a hairdryer to melt them into a work of art!


Here they are before, not knowing what's about to happens next :P


This is going on the wall in my room at university :)




I've seen this technique done on black canvas, with the wax melting in other directions and the crayons arranged in different shapes like hearts.


Not bad for my first go at it :D