20s Nails

These nails are for new years eye tomorrow, I'm going to a 20s themed event. I used striping tape to do these which took me forever because I hate it! I'm happy with how they came out but the index finger is a bit messy :/

Happy New Year :)
Love Yas x

Drunk Reindeer

These are possibly my favourite nails ever. My drunken Reindeer's. I got the idea from another blog but changed it around a bit. You have the fatty with a bow tie, a reindeer caught up in fairy lights, Rudolph with a bauble hanging from his antlers, a reindeer with his head in a holly bush and the little upside down reindeer. 

I've taken photos of all the different stages of these nails, first I painted the bodies of the reindeer,

Then began adding details like ears

...and mouth and nose

Eyes and outline of accessories next

Followed by pupils and further detail to the accessories

Finally I made it snow :D

I loved painting these nails and will definitely be keeping them on as long as possible. Hope you like them too :)

Love Yas

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Christmas Puddings

I painted Christmas puddings for Sarah last year but decided to paint them on myself this year. Her ones were glittery and pretty but just to make them a bit different these ones are plain. 

Here's a link to last years nails, I'm not sure what way I prefer them. I do think my technique has got a lot better in these ones though, and the photos are clearly better!

Left hand

Right hand

I actually hate Christmas pudding.

Yas x

Reindeers

Little reindeers with Rudolph in the middle :)

Some of them look a bit crazy as I couldn't find my biggest dotting tool for the eyes but they still look kind of cute.

Yas x

Snowflakes

These nails literally took 5 minutes, probably why the lines are a bit thick. I like them though, especially the gold glittery base :)

Yas x

Holly Nails

My first Christmas post of 2013 :)

These nails were quite simple but I rushed them so a little bit messy.

Good Hand

Bad hand

I added glitter to these because glitter is amazing and it makes everything more Christmassy, but it's another one where I think it maybe looked better without it. 

My bad hand is also a lot better than the one painted with my good hand, standard Yasmin.

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Leopard Print

I painted some rainbow leopard nails a while back and of all the colours I tried I liked the standard leopard best, another mani I've been meaning to paint for a while...

I also want to try it on a glitter base (as always gold) but I can't decide if it will look too trampy or not, I'm a little bit cautious with leopard print!

Yas 

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Blood shot eyeballs

I never actually got around to writing a post about my Halloween nails, I saw these in a WAH nail art book that Nancy got my for Christmas and have been wanting to paint them forever, Halloween was the perfect excuse.

Sorry this is so late and that the edges aren't tidied. I'll try and post more too, there has been a massive lack of nail art lately! 

Yas

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Frankenstein Nails

These were meant to be Halloween inspired Frankenstein nails, but I can't help but think Frankenstein looks a little bit like Hilter. I think it's the hair. 

I like he barbed french tips though, Frankenstein/Hitler is just a bit spesh.

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Pay-day nails

I was sat on my bed wondering what to paint on my nails and I saw my wage slip on the side. I wanted the pattern on my nails.. this is what happened. 

I'm pretty happy with them, they came out a lot better than I thought they would. It's not actually rectangles, the ends are facing in v's so they kind of look like this >  <  (if that makes sense!) but yeah, you can't really tell from the pics as I didn't take them on my camera. 

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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. 

Enjoy! x

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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Polka Dot Bows

I saw this design on another blog and had to copy it, theirs was on a multicoloured glitter base but for once I decided against glitter and thought it would look nicer on a plain base. 

My mum said the bows look like spiders which has completely ruined these nails for me! Probably over did the definition lines... something to work on I guess hah :(

I love bows.

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Pacman Nails

So my dissertation is due in just over a week so naturally procrastination has set in.

Pacman Nails... 

The next two pics aren't the best quality but I wanted to try and get a closer view of some of them :) 

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Strawberries!

Strawberries with pretty glittery stalks :) 

Good Hand

Bad Hand

I think I actually prefer my bad hand with these nails the stalks look nice but the pips aren't as even... It's another really really easy design that you don't really need tools for, stalks could be a bit tricky with a normal brush but it would definitely be doable.

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Clouds

Possibly the easiest nail art ever, I used a dotting tool but you don't really need tools for this, the end of a kirby grip or a tooth pick would work just as well to create the dots for the clouds. 

It would have looked better if I have a brighter blue, this one is Essie - 96: beach bum blu, which is a lovely polish but it's metallic and not quite the right shade. 

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Summer Roses :)

Not quite perfected the circle swirly rose but it can only get better. 

It's been too long since I've painted my nails.

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Blue Bows

I have a new Essie (beach bum blu) it's a metallic blue colour, it looks really pretty on it's own but to make it even better I added these blue bows. Incase you hadn't realised yet I really really like bows.

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Birthday Candle Nails

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY BITCHES

22 candles on each hand.

left hand

right hand

These nails were actually really quick to do, I was expecting them to be a lot harder and take more time but they only took about 10/15 mins. I've been wanting to paint these for ages and now it's only a couple of days until my birthday it's definitely acceptable.

Enjoy!x

p.s thank Fran for pictures, but blame her if I die tonight. 

Glitter Crossed Pattern

This was my first time using striping tape and I really like it, can't wait to try some other pretty patterns. I used glitter polish so sometimes removing the tape was difficult and it messed up the design but overall I'm a big fan of these nails :)

Motivational Glitter.

I'm ready for cheer camp.

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Paisley print nails

Paisley print on a bluey/purple base... the photos are a bit rubbish, I need to buy a camera :/

doing this design on my wrong hand was quite tricky, the things are thicker and it's not as intricate.. so I've included 2 pictures of the same hand haha  

Due to popular demand here is the what happened with my wrong hand...

Like some of my other designs I did these using a pen rather than nail varnish for more control, but the lines are a bit grey and scrawly in places, next time I'd use a better pen with darker ink to make it look better I also want to try doing this on different backgrounds, possibly with a colour blend. I saw this design on One Nail to Rule them All, you should definitely check out her designs, they are fab :)

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