Today (June 24th) is Fairy Day. I was invited by a page I like on Facebook to the event. So I thought I would paint my nails especially for the occasion. I absolutely love how this turned out :D
I didn't want to do something quite so obvious as fairies and also, I did fairies last week. So I thought what's something iconic and associated with faires? Red mushrooms with white spots! (Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria to be exact haha).
I love love love these! I don't think I could be happier with them. Maybe they could do with a little more glitter though ;)
Colours Used:
Green base - OPI: Thanks A Windmillion (Love that name).
Greens for grass - China Glaze: Gaga for Green and Starboard
Reds - Sally Hansen: Right Said Red, Orly: Ruby and China Glaze: Ruby Pumps
Beige - OPI: Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh?
Brown - OPI: Woodenshoe Like To Know (Love this name too).
White - China Glaze: White On White
It's not Autumn anymore in Australia, but it sure doesn't feel like Winter. So I did a bit of an Autumn design.
I wanted to use the leaves from my MoYou London Fairytale image plate 9. I was kind of inspired by a scene from Thumbelina, the Golding of the Leaves scene. It didn't really turn out that well, but it was still, uhh, interesting.
I used the leaves as the top near my cuticles and had a trail of gold glitter/fairy dust underneath. You can't really see the glitter in the photos, which sucks, but it is there.
Then on my thumb, I put a fairy from my MoYou London image plate 1. The trail of glitter/fairy dust is trailing behind her on to the other nails.
I liked the concept of what I was trying to do more than how it turned out.
Colours Used:
Gold - Kleancolor: Americana
Black - Black stamping polish from Born Pretty Store in a teeny weeny sample size :)
Gold Glitters:China Glaze: Golden Enchantment and Barry M: Gold Glitter
It has been about 5 weeks since I posted, whoops....
I have been quite busy with essays and studying, but not too busy to stop me finding time to paint my nails, even if they are relatively plain in comparison.
This post will have a picture of my nails from each week that I was away instead of a different post for each one.
I went for some simple stamping using a stamping plate from myonlineshop.storenvy.com I bought it because it has Harry Potter AND Doctor Who images! How could I not?
It's a bit hard to see, but the stamped pattern is made up of the Deathly Hallows symbol from Harry Potter. It would probably have been easier to capture if I had used a lighter base colour.
Colours Used:
Base - A-England: Beauty Never Fails
Bronze - Kleancolour: Coffee Addict
Here is my recreation of the quatrefoil pattern. I first saw it done by Christabellnails on Instagram and thought it looked awesome. Then I saw a few of her videos on how to do it, so I decided to try it. I have to say I really liked it. It is a bit time consuming to do all 10 nails like this, but I did enjoy it :)
Colours Used:
Black - A-England: Camelot
Purple - A-England: Sleeping Palace
This is the nail art I wore to my cousin's wedding. I didn't want it to be a wedding design with white french tips or lace, I do like the idea, but I wasn't the one getting married. So I went for something delicate, but still colourful. I used a Bundle Monster plate BM 314. The swirl design is one of my favourites.
Colours Used:
Blue - A-England: Galahad
Silver - A-England: Fonteyn
I haven't done water marbling in a while and I wasn't that inspired, so I did this. I don't really like it that much. I expected the silver holo to be more pronounced when I put 2 drops in a row. I used 3 blues, one of them was not sheer, just less opaque than I thought it would be even with 2 drops in a row, so it ended up looking pretty much the same as my lightest colour. Never mind, water marbling is always fun anyway :)
Colours Used:
Dark Blue - China Glaze: First Mate
Medium Blue - China Glaze: Electric Beat
Light Blue - Essie: Borrowed and Blue
Silver Holo - Color Club: Harp On It
This is the design I have this week and I love it!
I did something similar to this on my mum's nails a while back when she had glue-ons and I wanted to do it on my nails. It's ivy leaves and little yellow ivy flowers. We have lots of ivy growing at home and its so magical looking. The flowers on real ivy have longer petals like a daisy, but I still like these. The more I look at them, the more magical they look...
Colours Used:
Purple - A-England: Lady of the Lake
Light Brown - OPI: Woodenshoe Like to Know?
Dark Brown - Revlon: Espresso
Greens - China Glaze: Gaga for Green and Starboard
Yellow - China Glaze: Lemon Fizz
Gold - Orly: Luxe
