June Nail Art Challenge - Day 1: Summer (500 days of Summer)

Hey guys, well I am starging this new challenge by Californails. She does challenges like these every month. I did the December challenge and I really enjoy it and as I have some time know as I'm finishing exams and stuff next week I will give this challenge a try.

Day one's theme was summer. I wasn't feeling really summerish because weather has been terrible these days, then I saw The Nailsaurus design inspired by this amazing film 500 days of Summer. And I had a brilliant idea the theme was summer right so I did summer!

I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I really like the film and the way The Nailsaurus did all these designs to represent it it's just perfect.

Here are all the colors I used including this wonderful gray which I painted my thumb with, it's new I just bought it today and I really like it.

This is just the first post of this challenge keep tuned to see more designs. I will be uploading a design for the Deadly Sins challenge soon, I haven't forgot about Envy, this week's sin. Don't forget to share, like and comment if you have any questions or suggestions. Happy polishing!

Cattails at Sunset

Hey guys! Well today I recreated this wonderful design by Chalkboard Nails. She did this perfect gradient recreating a sky at sunset and added these cattails. Well I think I didn’t quite well….. It sucks a bit. It isn’t that bad but I couldn’t get the transition of the colors right, the gradient effect. I can never get gradients right.

As you can see I’m not the best at gradients. I don’t know what I do wrong but they just look messy and I can’t really achieve that gradient effect. I guess I’ll have to practisse my sponging skills. Do you know any tricks or tips for a perfect gradient? It would sure help me a lot.
These are the colors I used for this design:

I also used my new nail art brushes from Bangood which you can find here at a really good price.

Well I hope you like this recreation of Chalkboard Nails design. If you don’t know her check her blog she’s an amazing artist. Don’t be to harsh on me. Don’t forget to share, like and comment if you have any questions. Happy polishing lovelies!

Doctor Who!

Happy geek pride day guys!! I’ve been wanting to do Doctor Who nails for quite a while now. I started watching the show not that long ago and I’m already finishing season 5. It’s so addicting and it’s omg I love the show and everything it’s just oh well perfect! Today was the perfect day to get nerdy and do my Doctor nails!

I was planning on doing this design tomorrow, as I had just painted my nails yesterday, but I did a little sketching and planning to decide what I wanted to do on my nails and I was so excited to do them that I couldn’t wait to tomorrow. I’m totally in love with them! Any whovians around? What do you think?

It took me quite a long to decide what I was going to do on my nails, there’s so many things I could draw on them related to the show! But at the end I made up my mind and ended up with these things:

Thumb: Doctor Who logo over an orange galaxy
Index: Sonic Screwdriver
Middle: The Doctor
Ring: The Tardis
Pinky: a Dalek

I am so in love with my nails right now I think I might even keep them for like three days omg that must mean something don’t you think? hahaha. I’m sure I will be doing more Doctor Who nails, as I said there’s so many things I could paint lots of themes and characters… mmm I have some thinking to do, but after my exams…

Well I hope you like this awesome design, and if you haven’t watched Doctor Who… what are you waiting for?!? You will enjoy each and every second of it!

These are all the colors I used to do this mani. They are so many of them I had to divide them into two pictures. First picture is the colors I used for the galaxy on my thumb and the other picture is the colors I used for the rest of the nails:

Well lovelies, I hope you have an awesome day, celebrate your geekness and keep tunned because this week I will be doing another mani for the Deadly Sins Challenge! Don’t forget to share, like and comment if you have any questions or suggestions! Happy polishing and watch Doctor Who!

Psychedelic Tie Dye

Hey lovelies! Well I saw this awesome design on instagram and I had to try myself. This is the first time I try this tie dye technique and it really didn’t came out so well so I took it all of my nails and then on my second try, well it looks a bit better.

I will be trying this technique again with different colours in the future. I think it’s a wonderful idea for summer. What do you think about this technique? These are the colours I used for this design, bright and colorful colors don’t you think?

Don’t look too much at your nails if you try this design  you will probably get dizzy ahahha I’m trippin on these psychedelic nails hahaha just kidding. Hope you liked this design, don’t forget to share, like and comment if you have any questions or suggestions for me. Happy polishing!

Ikat Nails Tutorial

Hey guys, as promissed a quick tutorial on the rainbow ikat nails I did yesterday. They are perfect for spring and summer and  you can do them with any color you want.

1. Use your favorite base coat to protect your natural nail and then paint your nai with a light color, I chose a pastel yellow.
2. Make two irregular triangles using a brush. They dont need to be perfect and make sure they aren’t too close together.
3. Get black poish and make irregular strokes around the yellow part
4. Suround all the yellow bit
5. Make the same on all the yellow spots you created before. Make sure black and black don’t touch thereselves, that would ruin the design.
6. At the centre of the yellow spot make a white spot, it should also look irregular.
7. Get a small brush and at the centre make a few black strokes to finish the design.
8. Top coat your design to make it last longer and you are done!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and you try it yourselves. I would love to see your different versions of my rainbow ikat nails. If you liked this don’t forget to check my other tutorials on the tutorials page. So like, share with your friends and comment if you have any questions or suggestions for nail art or tutorials. Happy polishing!

Rainbow Ikat Nails

Hi lovelies! Well I couldn’t stand staring at my naked nails so I found a little time to do this simple but cute design. I’ve seen lots of ikat nail designs but today I fell in love with a wonderful rainbow version by Top Coat it, which you can see here. I think I did quite a good recreation of this wonderful mani but judge yourselves.

Ikat nails are really simple, you don’t need any special tooks or a steady hand. I will post a tutorial on this design so you can see for yourselves that anyone can do it. Keep tuned for the tutorial, which I will probably be uploading tomorrow.
These are all the colors I used for this design, yes I know quite a lot but they look great together, don’t they?


Hope you guys liked this design, and you keep tuned for the tutorial on it. Don’t forget to share, like and comment if you have any questions or suggestions. I must say I really feel happy now my nails are polished and I got rid of the watershitymarble design lol. Happy polishing, oh and for those who like me are doing their finals soon lots of luck!

Deadly Sins Challenge – Day 9: Wrath (Watermarble)

 
Hey guys! Well it’s time for a new entry to the Deadly Sins Challenge. Today’s theme was ”Get mad trying, again, that technique you know it’s going to be a fail”. Since I started doing nail art I’ve struggled with watermarbling… I’ve tried it so many times and I fail harder everytime. I had the hope that as today it didn’t matter if I did a mess, as that’s the idea of the sin today, it would turn out not good but acceptable, but it didn’t happen.

 It was a total mess and a big big NAIL FAIL! I mean look at them they look horrible! The photo is terrible, I know, I was so angy about how they turned out I didn’t even bother about my hand pose or the cleaning up, I didn’t even put a proper water mark – who would want to steal this huh?. At this moment my nails are naked because I prefer them to be naked than looking like this lol. Watermarbling is great I mean it looks great on people who know how to do them, but on me its always a fail. I don’t even know what I do wrong… Plus I leave everything really messy after I do watermarble just look:

 This is what my dinning room table looked like after I finished, after I finished did the photo and then went right away to the bathroom grabbed cotton pads and removed ASAP! ahahahah Well when I do watermarble I always have a less hated nail and today that would be my ring finger, which actually doesn’t look that bad. But one finger didn’t save this mani from going off my nails straight away.

These are the colours I used for this failed design:

The result of this mani was terrible but well that was the objective, I had to get mad – I’m really really mad right now – and I had to try that technique I know I’m awful at, and that would be my beloved watermarbling technique – I HATE YOU, you are messy, a pain and you get in my cuticle and under my nails!
Well guys that was all. If you know any tricks about watermarbling or you know how I can do it better let me know. I wouldn’t share or like this mani hahahaha just tell me which is that technique that makes you mad because you can’t seem to dominate? Let me know on the comments below. Angry polishing!