Spring Time Come Back, Violet Floral Nail art

Long time no see. I think this has been the longest I've spent without either doing nor posting nail art. It has been a really tough couple of months. As you know I work now in the afternoons, and in the mornings I have university. Furthermore I am taking driving lessons now and I have rehearsals as always...so yes pretty much I'm too busy for nail art and it makes me really sad.

Spring has officially started, and even though it doesn't seem to show here where I live...damm rain, I decided a nice floral design would be a nice one for my come back (I'm saying come back but I really don't know when the next design will be lol).

Storm Gradient Nail Art

Hello lovelies! After a week of rain and storms and a load of work I found a little "me time" to dedicate to some nail art and my tv shows. I wasn't really inspired but I remember seeing this design by Cotton Coney, and it was perfect for the terrible weather of that day.

I decided to recreate her design giving my personal touches. I hope you like it. I did a gradient and some detailed design. 

Grunge Floral

Hello lovelies! What a busy week I've had. As some of you know I'm trying to get my driving license and I've had to have a medical examination this week. I'm also starting a new job in September and I had a training session also. I did this design two days ago but I haven't found the time to post it until now.

I've been quite into florals this summer and when I saw this design by Danielle on instagram I felt in love and I had to try it myself. 

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 14: Sweets

Hello lovelies! I've sure taken my time to come back after my trip to Milan. It's been nearly a week since I last posted, shame on me. However, I'm back now and for the moment I'm not planning to leave. The concert was awesome and now I'm back with some nail art.

After a week without posting I need to continue with the NAGG challenge. Today's theme (well actually yesterday's sorry, I should have posted on Monday....) is sweets. I wasn't really inspired by this so I ended up doing something simple. I hope you like this jelly beans design.

When I Grow Up I Want to be a Mermaid

Hello lovelies! It's been some days I know. I'm trying to get everything done but I'm struggling, between final exams, projects and my dad in the hospital I can't get everything done. Lindsey and I are taking a little break from the NAGG Challenge, just this week and the following, don't worry guys.

Today I'm sharing with you this design. I've been wanting to do fish scales since I did my Dragon scales mani which you can find here, and also a tutorial here.

Spring Time Floral

Happy Sunday! What a weekend I haven't stopped, studying, working... But I found a little time and I put up together a quick design perfect for these hot spring days.

Lace Tutorial

Hey guys! I am so sorry I can't post a new mani for the 31 day challenge, I'm really busy with university and my choir. Singfònics, the choir that I'm in, is on a TV program and we have rehearsals everyday and it occupies most of my time. I thought as I can't give you a new design I would give you a tutorial for my Lace It Up design from last week.

1. Paint your nails with your favorite base coat and a base color, I chose this pastel purple.
2. Paint a black half circle on your nail as you were going to do a halfmoon mani.
3. Make a curved line at some distance from the half circle and draw some lines.
4. Paint little half circles around the line you just created
5. Go from end to end of the nail, it's quite a difficult step so be patient. I finished my nails here as I was really happy with how they looked but you can continue with the next steps if you want a more fuller nail.
6. From the borders of your nail make two curved lines that meed in the middle.
7. Draw another curved line where the other two lines met.
8. Just above the line we just did make a more curved one.
9. With a really small dotting tool or the same nail art brush male little dots to finish the design and make it look more like lace.
10. Add a top coat to protect your design and you have finished with your lace design.

This is the final result following the steps until 5, but you can continue and fill your nail with the rest of the design.

 

These are the two colors I used for this design but you can try many combinations, different base colors, white or gray for the lace pattern. Anything is valid!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I will do my best to try and do my nails this week. Next theme is watermarble and I suck so hard at watermarble but well... that's what challenge are for, trying to improve and trying things you wouldn't normally do right? Wish me luck and happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 19: Galaxy (You Can Paint With All The Colors Of The Universe)

Hey guys! It's time for another mani for the 31 day challenge. It has finally arrived, galaxy themed nails! As you may all know galaxies are one of my favorite things to do. Do you remember when I went crazy and did all those galaxies on a nail wheel? I couldn't wait for galaxy day and here you have five different galaxies, each one on a different finger. Enjoy!

I was feeling inspired today and I really wanted to enjoy myself with this design so I did five different color combinations on each finger. And it's strange that actually my favorite combination was the one I did on my thumb, wich I don't really show because I got it caught in a door as a kid and it's a bit strange, but here you are:

I think I had never used so mani colors for a design, I mean it's like 4-6 colors for each nail. I took photos off all the color combinations so you can see which ones I used in case you like them so much you also want to do a galaxy design with the same colors. Here are all the colors I used for each nail:

Thumb

Index

Middle

Ring

Pinky

When I finished the design my desk was a mess with so many bottles, I also used a black base polish 'Black on Black' by Sinful Colors and the silver glitter is 'Helo Holo' by Essence.

Which finger do you like the most? They were so fun to do I really recommend trying a galaxy design this week. I have a tutorial here if you want to check it out and also other galaxy manis here. I hope you liked this design and happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 17: Glitter (Fairy Tale Nails)

Hey guys! It's time for a new mani for the 31 day challenge. Today's theme was glitter and I decided to use my favorite glitter polishes and make a fairy inspired mani. What's more sparkly than a fairy?

What do you think? I bit too girly for me but they were fun to make, even if they will be a pain to remove! These are the colors I used with the three different glitters I chose for this mani

Soon I'll finish the second phase of the challenge and I can't wait to start with the next one! This is being so much fun! I hope you liked this design and happy polishing!

31 Day Challenge – Day 15: Delicate Print (Lace It Up)

Hey guys! Just so you know, if anyone's interested the human chain was a total success and it was great taking part and everyone loved my design. Today I'm returning to my 31 day challenge manis with a delicate print themed mani. I really didn't know what someone considered delicate but I went and did a little bit of lace. Let's see what you think.

Would lace be considered delicate? At first I wanted to do white lace wich would look like more delicate, but then I realized I have to buy new white polish because I had run out of it so I did black lace wich I think looks quite well. Delicate and sexy I think right?

These nails weren't easy but at the end I was really happy of how they turned out. What do you think? Would you like to see a tutorian on these nails? I hope you do because I'm planning on posting it soon.

This is my last weekend on holiday as on monday I start university again so I must enjoy everysecond. Have a wonderful weekend and happy polishing! 

31 Day Challenge – Day 9: Rainbow Nails

Hey guys! Don't you think after black and white themed nails and a metallic theme mani we need a bit of color? Today's theme for the challenge is rainbow nails, a bit of color for my babies!

Straight parallel lines aren't really my thing but I really like how the colors look together and I think I really didn't do that bad right? I should have used striping tape but that was too much work and a big mess if it didnt turn out as I wanted. I'm pretty happy with the result.

These are all the colors I used for this rainbow mani:

Even if the lines aren't the srtaightest lines I've painted I think the mani in general looks pretty nice. What do you guys thinkg? I'm just one design away from finishing the first phase of the challenge. I'm having so much fun! I really recommend doing it! I hope you liked this mani, happy polishing lovelies!

31 Day Challenge – Day 6: Blue Nails (Blue Skies)

Hey guys! Just a new post for the 31 day Challenge. Today's theme was blue nails and recently I bought this beautiful pale blue, the color of the sky. I decided to do a sky related mani, I had done something similar only sky and clouds so I decided to add some kites.

I also decided to make it matte. I bought a matte top coat this weekend and, well I've been wanting one forever, and I couldn't wait to use it! What do you thinkg? It's my first matte manicure and I really like the effect. You will be seeing more matte stuff I think I will play around with my matte top coat!

These are all the colors I used to create this design, quite I lot right?

I've already planed my new design for day 7 and I can't wait to show you guys. Are you enjoying your holiday? I hope you are. Happy polishing lovelies!

31 Day Challenge – Day 5: Violet Nails

Hey guys! Today's mani is a new design for the 31 day Challenge. The theme for today's nails was violet and as I didn't want to do something really detailed I went and did a cute gradient dotticure.

I chose a range of purples to create a gradient effect using dots of different sizes which I created with different dotting tools. The result was a cute and simple design.

What do you think? It's the first time I've done a gradient using just dots but I think it looks really nice. The gradient effect is more subtile but I like it quite a lot! Have you ever done a gradient dotticure?

These are the colors I used in order of application from the top of the nail to the tip:

I hope you enjoyed this mani for the 31 day challenge. To see more designs I've done for other challenges just visit my Challenges page. Have a nice day and happy polishing!

Waterfall Tutorial

Hey guys, I've put together a quick pictorial on how to do waterfall nails. It's a really fun design with infinite color possibilities!

The things you need are just one nail polish for the base color and 4-6 different nail polishes for the lines. You will also need a 10mm-ish long and thin nail art brush.

You just need to paint your nail with the base color of your choice and then starting with the darker color create some lines of different length. Continue doing this with the other colors and just add a top coat. See easy peasy! Check here to see the list of colors I used for this mani.

I really liked the idea of this design so I picked up my nail wheel and started trying different color combinations:

I really had nothing better to do and I went a little crazy but I think all the different colors look awesome with this design. Don't you? What's your favorite combination?

Here are all the color I used for each design:

Green Waterfall:

Purple Waterfall:

Pink Waterfall:

Yellow Waterfall:

Metallic Waterfall:

Red Waterfall:

Have I convinced you of the awesomeness of this waterfall design? Try this yourself and let me know what you think, I bet you will recieve tons of compliments on your nails and it won't take you long to do, not even a lot of effort to get kick ass nails. Show me your nails on twitter or instagram tag me #thenailartshow. Happy polihing lovelies!

Pixie Dust

Hi guys! The other day I went shopping to Barcelona and I went into KIKO and found out some polishes were on sale. I saw the Sugar Matte collection and I thought they were awesome. I had seen the pixie dust collection by O.P.I around the internet but nothing where I live so I bought the black polish and gave this cool effect a try.

It's like a glitter polish but the glitter is really small and you feel the texture of it so it's also like a textured polish, which by the way I don't own none. The polish is matte and it's strage because I never wear matte nails. I should buy a matte top coat because I really like the effect that it gives to some designs.

I only used one coat of the polish and it was enough, let's see how it behaves for removal. I guess I'll have to get some foil and cotton pads to remove it. The polish I used is this KIKO one from Sugat Matt collection:

 Have you tried any of these polishes or similar effects? What do you think? This was kind of a review on this polish did you like it? Would you like seeing more thins like this in the future? Let me know on the comments below. Happy polishing!

Purple Universe

Hey guys! After two days, I repeat TWO DAYS, of naked nails - I know right unbelievable-  I finally went and did some galaxy nails. Galaxy nails are what I call emergency state nails. Whenever I don't know what to do or I just need to paint my nails because they've been naked for too long I just go with galaxies. I'm quite proud of my sponging skills and the colors I use for galaxies so I decided to do a purple one.

 They look awesome in daylight because of all the shimmer and glitter which you can't really see in the photo. I actually mixed my grey KIKO holo with a purple KIKO polish which shows only with daylight and looks really cool and galaxy-ish. I didn't use as many colors as I normally do for galaxies, these are all the ones I used:

Do you love galaxy nails as much as I do? Want to make them yourself? Check my galaxy tutorial and my other galaxy designs here. I hope you enjoyed this mani and you give galaxy nails a try following my tutorial. If you have any questions just email me at thenailartshow@gmail.com or just comment below. Happy polishing! 

Play Me!

Hey guys, I've been wanting to try out a mani inspired by vinyl records and I finally did it. I think I didn't quite get the effect I wanted and they are really simple I didn't even try to name the records or anything because I was afraid I would mess them up. What do you think?
 

 I really don't like them that much but I think they diserved to be on here I took them off as soon as I took this photo. But they were fun making so who cares that's what matters.

These are the colors I used for this design:

I hope you enjoyed this design don't forget to like on me facebook page and follow me on isntagram. Happy polishing!

Happy Birthday To Me!

Hey guys! I'm happy to announce that today is my birthday! And of course I had to do something special to my nails. Just a few candles over this wonderful color called Miss Universe by Essence.

I just did a quick design but I think it looks really cute! I still haven't planned anything to do for my birthday but I hope I have a good time with my family and friends. 

These are the colors I used for this nail design:

I hope you like this design as much as I do! I also wanted to say I hope you don't mind I didn't do the last two days of the Nail Art June Challenge, I really didn't like the last themes that much... Well guys share and comment as always. Happy polishing!

Holo Spirals

Hey guys, I had some time left yesterday after going out to buy me a new bikini, yay at last, and I decided to do a quick design using black polish and silver holo!

I really like how the holographic polish looks with black and the spiral forms were fun to paint. And they were quite easy to do, they look like a goth candy cane.

As a base I used my KIKO holographic polish, this one and a blue holo also from KIKO are the only holos I own but I really like them. They look so cool in the sun.

Do you own any holo polishes? What do you think about them? I think they are so cool, I know they are a trend but I think they won't be left behind I mean crackled or however you spell that, polish was terrible I really hate that one but holo is amazing! Happy polishing lovelies!

June Nail Art Challenge – Day 16: Match OOTD

Hey guys! It's been a while since I posted my last mani but I've been to the beach this weekend and I wanted to keep my mermaid nails for the ocasion. Now I'm back and I have a new mani for June nail art challenge. Today's design had to match OOTD but it didn't say it had to match MY OOTD. As I'm on holiday I really don't get dressed in the morning so instead I got inspired by my sister's outfit today.

She was wearing this tribal kind of T-shirt and I thought it was perfect for a nail design. So I guess today's theme would be MSOOTD (My Sister's Outfit Of The Day).

I tried to recreate the design as best as I could. It was quite difficult because of the parallel lines but I think I was succesfull. Here's a close up of the pattern:

What do  you think of this design? These are the colors I used, to make the light blue I mixed two colors - blue and white- to try and get the exact tone of blue.

I hoped you enjoyed this design. I will upload a tutorial later today or tomorrow, yes probably tomorrow I have so many things to do this afternoon. Have a great Monday loves. Don't forget to like and share with your friends. Happy polishing!