Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 3: Warm vs Cool

Happy Monday guys! It's my first official day on holiday and I couldn't have spend it doing more things. I've organized my closet, got rid of all the clothes I didn't want anymore and I cleanded all my room. What a morning I had. However this afternoon I am going window shopping to Barcelona.

Today is Monday and that means Lindsey and I are posting our new designs for the NAGG challenge. Today's theme was warm vs. cool colors. At first I wasn't very inspired by this theme but I ended up doing a mosaic design which you will love.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 2: Jewel Tones

Hello guys! It's Thursday and this means that I bring a new design for the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge. I finished my classes today and that means I'm officially on holiday. I am going to celebrate it tonight going out with my uni friends, let's party.

The theme for today's mani was jewel tones. Honestly at first I had no idea what this meant. After searching for som pictures I found out the obvious. I decided to pick some jewel tones and make little gems on my nails.

Color block & Paisley: Opposites Attract

Hi guys! How did your week start? Yesterday I did my last exam before Easter break and I already feel like I'm on holiday. I feel like I want to paint my nails all the time, must be spring mixed with this feeling of the holidays getting nearer.

Today I bring to you a really cute design I did last night while watching Game of Thrones. You wouldn't think these two things go together but in fact Chelsea King thought it would be great to put color block and paisley together and I love it.

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 1: Achromatic

Hello guys! It's Monday and I have really interesting new to give today. As you all know these last months have been pretty difficult ones, exams, new jobs and in consequence they have been a bit slow. Lately I told you I was going to look for some challenge to make me do some nail art at a regular basis. I am happy to announce that I am starting a new challenge today, the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge put on my Missy over at Gnary Gnails.

This challenge was supposed to be done in February but I loved the themes and saved it for a time when I could do it. Recently I saw that Lindsey from Wondrously Polished  had started the challenge but hadn't continued with it. We ended up deciding it would be fun to do it together. So from now until we finish all the themes we will be posting a design on Mondays and Thursdays.

The first theme for the NAGG challenge is Achromatic, absence of color. I decided to do fun design that I came up with some time ago and still hadn't done it.

Mother of Dragons

Hello guys! We are halfway through the week and I managed to do some nail art during my study breaks. I had my phonetics exam today and I hope it went well. Let's get to the pont though. I did this great design inspired by dragon scales now that season four of Game of Thrones is near. I can't wait, are you as excited as I am?

Warm Pshcychedelia

Hello guys! How is the weekend going? I have spent most of my Saturday studying for my phonetics exam but a girl needs a break right? I did a rather cool design the other day inspired by a psychedelic pattern.

Abstract Nature

Hi guys! I'm trying my best not to take like forever to upload new designs on the blog. This week I've finished that job that has kept me so busy this month. I have managed to organize my time to show you this cute design.

Princess Anna's Dress

Hi guys! I'm sorry I've been so absent this month. I mean four posts, I'm just overwhelmed with work. I managed to have some time at night, late late at night, to do a quick design. I was inspired by Anna's dress from Frozen.

Striped Neon

Hey guys! How is everything going? I'm happy to say that I'm not so stressed as the other day and that I found some time to sit down, watch some of my favorite TV shows and pain my nails. Today I'm bringing a fun and bright mani perfect for spring, which in fact is nearly here so don't tell me it's not spring yet.

Art Deco

Hey guys! I'm here after an intense week. I've been going to Barcelona everyday from 7pm until 11pm for my temporary job. But the most intense part of it has ended and I had some time for an elaborate design.

Let Me See Your Peacock

Hey guys! It's been a while. I have a temporary job in the afternoons during this month and I really don't have time for nail art. As soon as I finish I'll try to do more. I was thinking that April would be a good month for a challenge. Still don't know what kind of challenge but it's an idea. Despite not having much time, yesterday I managed to do a quick mani.

Blue Baroque

Hey guys! How has this week been? After some days rocking my Warhol's Flowers I decided it was time to do some nail art. Today I bring a design inspired by one of my favorite nail artists as you all already know, Lindsey from Wondrously Polished.

Warhol's Flowers

Hi guys! How was you Valentine's Day? I've had a wonderful weekend, I had friends over to my place, pizza, party and I even had time to do some nail art. This design, as you can tell by the title, was inspired by one of Andy Warhol's works and it's totally doable for anyone!

Naughty Valentine

Hi guys! Valentine's Day is nearly here and I have another design for those who like me are not that into romanticism. There's other ways of celebrating Valentine's Day than chocolates and roses.

Queen of Hearts

Hey guys! I am back from London, in fact I came back on Wednesday but I've been recovering. I was exhausted. I saw lots of things and I had a fantastic time. Let's get to what really matters, my new design inspired by Nicole gets Nailed.

Valentine's day is near and I wanted to do something related but not that obvious. I'm not a fan of pink and girly manis so I did this Queen of Hearts manicure. You could wear it for Valentine's day esasily. Eventhough I don't think a queen who cuts people's heads off is very romantic, don't you think?

I did little hearts on my thumb as I did little crowns on my pinky to finish the design. Even if the design isn't that related to Valentine's day I think you could pull it off, and if not it's perfect for any other occasion.

These are all the colors I used. I realised they are practically the same ones as I used in my Pick Me Some Daisies design, except the red of course.

I had a wonderful time in London and I wish I could have stayed longer, everyone loved my London inspired nails. But I have to go back to my normal life. On Monday I'm going back to uni so work and studying again... I hope this last weekend of freedom is great! Have a nice weekend and happy polishing!

London, Here I Come!

Hey guys! Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for my three day trip to London and of course my naisl had to match the occasion. I'll just be there for two nights but I'm so excited about it. I've just been there once and I was like six years old, I can hardly remember anything.

I tried to put the most iconic elements on this design. My index is the subway sign, my middle finger is of course the Union Jack, a typical red phone box on my ring finger and a bit of the subway map on my pinky. On my thumb I tried to paint a nice crown wich turne out quite good.

Red and blue are the stars of this mani but I also used other colors like gold polish for the crown. Here are all the polishes I used to create this manicure.

I'll just be away until Wednesday and I already have a post planned for when I come back. Probably I'll post it on Thursday because I'm arriving late on Wednesday. Have a nice week, I will sure enjoy my time away. I will tell you all about it when I come back. Happy polishing!!

Pick Me Some Daisies

Hey guys! For today I have on of the first ever designs I made, a daisy design. When I started in nail art I fell in love with this design, daisies over black. I thought it looked so classy and pretty, so today I wanted to recreate it.

I really like how they turned out. The flowers look quite nice, at least better than when I did daisies the first time. It's a simple design and it can be worn anytime, spring is better for them but who cares, I hate winter and these nails make it less cold. If you think the same, I have a tutorian on this look right here with another very cute spring themed design. Check it out if you like.

These are the colors I used to create this design. Bothe yellows are in the middle of the flowers mixed I wanted it to look bright but the Astor color was a bit too much.

I hope you liked this design, if you want to check my other daisy design you can see it here. I am warning you it's from long time ago. I'll be posting two more designs this week. On monday I'm going on a trip to London and I'll be away for three days. I hope you don't miss me. Happy polishing!

Vintage Floral Tutorial

Hello lovelies! I have a tutorial  on my vintage floral design for you today. I told you I would post it soon and here you are.

1. Paint your nails with your favorite base coat and paint them black or any other dark color like brown or navy blue.

2. For the flowers you need three shades for each color of flower. You can mix them until you find the three shades that you need for each flower. These are the colors for the pink flowers.

3. With the lightest color paint some abstract shapes, not perfect circles just get your brush and create random irregular spots.

4. With the other two darker shades just paint over with random strokes just like this:

5. Repeat with all the colors you want and then add a top coat and you have already finished this easy floral design.

These are all the colours used for this design. Try and get three colors that are really similar so you have three shades for each flower. If not you can mix them together to make them look more the same.

I hope you try this design. Let me know if you do, you can tag me on instagram #thenailartshow or just comment here or on my facebook page so I can see your designs. Have a lovely day and happy polishing!

Houndstooth Pattern

Hi guys! I decided to try something I had never done before, houndstooth pattern. I've had some problems with my computer and I had to retake the photos of this mani just today so they don't look as good as the first day.

I found it a quite difficult, I don't know if you guys have a easier way to do houndstooth or you are just better than me. It took me ages to paint each nail and they still don't look as perfect as the ones I've seen around. However, it was the first time I did them so I'm quite pleased with the result.

It's just a quick post today, I'm on holiday and I'm a busy girl trying to enjoy each second of freedom I have. In a week I'm going to London so I'm pretty excited about that too. I hope you liked my attempt at houndstooth nails. Have a nice rest of week and happy polishing!

Vintage Floral

Hey guys! I've finally finished my exams so three weeks of holidays and intense nail art awaits me. I've been a bit absent and in these three weeks I'll try and compensate it. Today I did a nice floral mani. I'm not that good at floral designs as you know but I got a really nice inspiration and I did this.

I went shopping the other day and I found a wonderful dress at a really good price and I had to buy it it's the most adorable dress and it's beautiful.

The nails are not a faithful recreation of the pattern. I just loved those flowers and how the colors looked together and I just tried something similar and simplified. I can't wait to wear my new dress but it's still a bit cold, maybe with a warm cardigan.

I used quite an amount of colors, as I needed three shades of each color for each flower. They nearly didn't fit in a photograph, and they are not reallly accurate if you compare them with the dress.

I hope you liked thisdesign. I have a tutorial planned on this design so keep tuned. I'll be uploading it soon, I promise. I have other things in mind now that I'm on holiday!