Lace and flowers

I love these nails. They are probably going to be the last floral summery ones for a while now as it's getting so cold :(

I found the roses a lot easier to paint than the last time I attempted them. The semi circles of the lace are a bit messy but I think they still look pretty. They were definitely the bit I found hardest to paint. 

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31DC2013 Day 11: Polka Dots

I've really not been putting much effort into this challenge, I didn't realise how hard it would be working and finding time to paint everyday. I think I'm going to only end up posting good nail art at weekends when I have lots of time! 

These are two of my fav polishes, Essie Mint Candy Apple and No7 Lucky Lilac, I use them quite a lot and always love them. I meant for the dots on the green nails to be bigger than the purple ones but they just look a bit shit haha

Yas 

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31DC2013 Day 10: Gradient Nails

I'm really annoyed about today's nails. I painted a really pretty dark to light pink gradient with 3 of my favorite polishes but because I don't have a proper camera I couldn't photograph them properly!! Normally my pictures come out ok, they are never great but you can see what I've painted. With the gradient it just looked like one shade of very badly painted polish.

I did think about trying again and using more contrasting shades but to be perfectly honest I didn't want to do it and then find out they didn't photograph well either and have to start over, again. 

I think I jinxed it by saying yesterday that I'd paint something nice today. Fail. Tomorrow I will incorporate dots and a gradient to attempt to cover both the themes? 

Yas 

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31DC2013 Day 9: Rainbow Nails

I don't really have time to paint anything pretty and immediately thought of Zippy from Rainbow rather than the traditional rainbow theme.

 

Really simple and quick to paint, kind of shows as they really do look awful. For day 10 I'm actually going to paint something nice haha

Yas

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31DC2013 Day 8: Metallic Nails

I'm a bit late into joining the 31 day challenge as I was so busy finishing off my thesis, it's all done now so I'm free to paint my nails as much as I like, yay! 

I was planning on painting these yesterday for black and white but never got round to it. I decided I would make them metallic for today instead.

They are a base of Essie fair game with 2 coats of fine glitter (which you can't really see as the image quality is so bad) followed by a coat of Sally Hansen Nail Shine Miracle to smooth them out. I then freehand painted the black over the top. I can't decide if I like these nails or not, I think they could look nicer if the zebra print was finer and I spent more time on them.

Yas

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