Impossible Astronaut Day.

Today, April 23rd is Impossible Astronaut Day for us Whovians. Whovians are people who love Doctor Who, by the way :) So today, Whovians everywhere would have drawn tally marks all over themselves. 

That sounds a bit strange, why would they do that you ask?

It's because of the episode of Doctor Who called The Impossible Astronaut. To put it basically, there is a species of alien called The Silence. When you look at it, you can see it, but as soon as you look away you have no memory of them whatsoever. That's where the tally marks come it. Every time a Silence was spotted, the characters would draw a tally mark on themselves before they looked away and forgot.

It might sound silly, but if you watch it, you will probably understand :)

Here's my nails I did for this day:

I have a beige/nude colour to represent the skin and then black tally marks, pretty simple :)
Then on my thumb, I have a black background with what was SUPPOSED to be a Silence...
Here's what a Silence actually looks like:

Yeah...so mine don't really look like a Silence at all...

Colours Used:
Black - Kiss Nail Striper Black
Beige/Nude - OPI: Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh?
Black - OPI: Black Onxy
Brown - OPI: Wooden Shoe Like To Know?
Grey - Sinful Colors: Cool Grey

Not Your Average Easter Design.

Leading up to Easter, nail art YouTubers, Bloggers and Instagramers etc were coming out with lots of different nail art designs for Easter. They were all so beautiful and I really liked them. So I decided to do my own take on them. When I was practicing on my nail wheels, trying to come up with something similar and just as pretty, I just wasn't feeling it. It isn't spring here in Australia, so I think it was because that's not what Easter is to me. I was quite stuck for ideas. T

Then it hit me...

I would do something that signified Easter to me, something from my childhood...

A nail design inspired by my favourite Easter book. It's still my favourite, even at age 20. The book I'm talking about it The Tale of the Great Bunny. I'm pretty sure it's from Cadbury.

This book holds such good memories, that it's in a scrapbook.
I will always remember reading it every year before Easter Sunday. When we finished I always had to count the gold eggs, the purple eggs and the Cadbury swirls. It never got old, even though I knew how many there were because I had read it the year before and the year before that and the year before that.... If I got it out of the scrapbook now, I would probably count them again, just to be sure ;)

Anyway, on to what I did.
I took the main elements from the above picture.

Like his face,

His waist coat,







the chocolate brown and of course the gold and purple eggs.

My ring finger represents his waist coat and buttons. I attempted to put the little Cadbury swirls on the buttons, but my brush isn't tiny enough, so they're not really swirls...
On the other nails are little plain gold and purple eggs with a chocolate brown and glittery background. I even took photos with some eggs that are similar to the ones in the picture. How many can you count? ;)









Now for my favourite part...

The Great Bunny himself!

I am very happy with him. I painted him using the sandwich bag sticker method. The only thing that I wish I fixed before I put him on my nail is his eyes. Other than that, I am very pleased.



















This post is a little late, but I hope you had an awesome Easter :D


Colours Used:
Brown - Revlon: Espresso
Gold - A-England: Holy Grail (Original)
Purple - A-England: Avalon
Glitter - Sephora by OPI: Golden Age
White - China Glaze: White On White
Grey - Sinful Colours: Cool Gray
Black - OPI: Black Onyx
Blue - China Glaze: Electric Beat
Pink - Kleancolor: Sheer Pastel Cocoa (Not sure why it's pink, but it is :/ )

Roses and Stripes

I have done roses before (my Alice in Wonderland inspired nails), but I wasn't completely happy with them. Then, not long ago I watched one of many tutorials on YouTube on how to paint roses. this particular tutorial is by CTCCNails, who has a YouTube and blog; her technique made them super easy with minimal practice. Her video is titled 'Nail Art How To: Simple Roses - The Copy Cat Way!

 I didn't really have any inspiration for this design, so I just decided to use that rose technique and see what it turns into.

So here's how it turned out. I'm sure this sort of thing has been done before, but I really like it :D

Here's a close up of my ring finger with the roses, my thumb is much the same but I like this one best.

I feel like this is sort of a Vintage type design? Not sure :)


Colours Used:
Blue - Essie: Borrowed and Blue
Red - Sally Hansen: Right Said Red
White - China Glaze: White on White
Green - China Glaze: Gaga For Green
Darker Green - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Emerald City (My favourite green EVERRR! But is discontinued in Australia, :'( wahhh! But I have two back ups :D)
White for lines - Kiss Nail Striper in White
Gold - Orly: Luxe

My First Attempt At One Stroke Flowers

When I say first attempt, I mean on my nails. I have seen a lot of one stroke flower nail art on YouTube channels like Cute Nails and I really liked the idea, but never got around to trying it. So last week, I finally got the courage to try it out on paper and a nail wheel. I tried different colours and I can tell you now, that all the tutorial videos I have watched to learn how to do it sure make it look easy. I practiced until I got the hang of it. Here's what happened.....

I have mixed feeling about this. I'm quite pleased with the flowers considering I haven't been practicing for a long time. But at the same time, it's too pink for me. I have never really been a pink person, so I don't know why I chose these colours.

Here's a side view. I feel like there's a lot of space left, missing something perhaps? Any thoughts?

I must have been in a strange mood because I did something else that I don't usually do; match my finger nails with my toe nails.


Colours Used:
Pink - China Glaze: Wish On A Starfish
Red - Red Acrylic Paint
White - White Acrylic Paint
Black - OPI: Black Onyx
Gold - Orly: Luxe

Gold Fairies on Purple.

This week I decided I was going to use Altered State by Picture Polish. It's designed to go over black, so I did one coat of black and two coats of it. I was completely blown away. I love it so much that I almost left it by itself.

This one is a little blurry, but it shows how glittery it is. In this picture it looks dark and purple/blue...

And then in this one, it looks more of a dark pink. You can also see on my pointer finger thatit looks orangey brown.

Now this one looks much more blue with hints of purple on the edges. 

The stamping plate I used was the MoYou London Fairytale Plate 1.

Let's just say that with polishes like these, it's very, VERY easy to get distracted, especially in full sunlight :D

Colours Used:

Black - A-England: Camelot

Shifty Colour - Picture Polish: Altered State

Gold - Essie: Good As Gold