Linear Legacy

Have fun with this every day nail design, The design features bold lines with a hint of colour and sparkle. This design looks particularly good with long nails, but feel free to experiment and add your own twist. This design was inspired by nail-art-101.com image is called zig zag nail art, where a lady painted her nails with a clear glitter nail polish and painted on black zig zags. I loved her design therefore I tried it but my zig zags were horrendous so I tried it with lines.


Equipment Needed:

• BarryM black nail pen
• O.P.I last friday night
• Rio Professional; Blue, Green and Orange
• Sally Hansen Base coat Top coat

Ocean Tiger

These nails are inspired by tiger print. To create this look start by painting your base coat then apply blue nail polish to your nails. With a sponge gradually apply different shades of blue to your nails, go over the individual colours a few times to make them blend together. Now you are ready to paint on your tiger strips, leave your nails to dry before applying a top coat.

Equipment:

• Sponge 
• Deep blue by misguided 
• Rio Professional - Black nail polish and three shades of blue
• Sally Hansen Base coat and Top coat

Colourful Caveman

I currently have neon fever because I am in love with the bright vibrant colours. This nail design was supposed to be strip nails but as you can see my skills are non existent, so me being me I painted black lines over the top and called it colourful caveman.

Equipment  Needed:

• Rio Professional - Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, Yellow and black 

Pink Flamingo

This design is super cute and simplistic, having said that it is every effective and easy to achieve. 

Equipment Needed:

• BarryM pink polish
• Essie white polish
• O.P.I teenage dream glitter pink

Rebel french tips

Unleash your inner rebel and tattoo your french manicure to give it a monochrome effect. This adds depth to your manicured nails as well as a contrast.


Equipment 

• MUA white nail varnish 
• Base coat top coat Sally Hansen 
• Barry M black nail pen 

Under The Sea

This Marble effect has been created with a plastic sandwich bag. The finish is a top coat of Last friday Night by O.P.I which gives a shimmery blue effect, complete with a glittery gold and pink border.
This nails are so cute and adorable.

Equipment

• O.P.I Last night 
• Misguided deep blue
• Rio Professional pink and white

Glamorous Galaxy

This galaxy nail art is out of this world and really easy to do. Add a bit of sparkle to your fingertips and try this awesome design.

Equipment 

• Sponge 
• O.P.I - Not like in the movies (background colour)
• O.P.I - Last friday night 
• Rio Professional - glittery silver, gold

Abstract floral

This is another recycled design it derived from my last post (soldering effect) I filled in the empty sections with white and then layered 3 colours. This nail design took me a every long time to like. As soon as I applied the design to my nails I said no but it grow on me. It's a bit chaotic but I bet nobody else has done this design.  

Equipment Needed:

• Rio professional - Black, Pink Orange Yellow 
• Essie - White
• O.P.I last friday night 

Furry Feather Manicure

This is my first attempt at a feather manicure. I used a plain pink feather in hindsight it shouldn't be in strips it should be a full feather and statically placed, preferably with a print because the nail design looks more complex and interessting. When I applied the top coat it looked shabby, because the feather weren't flat. In conclusion I love the idea of a feather manicure I'm just not that good at it. The manicure last quite a long time so it defiantly worth trying.


Equipment Needed:

• Feathers 
• White Nail polish by O.P.I
• Sally Hansen Base coat and top coat 

Graffiti

These nail designs started off as a bit of a disaster therefore it gave me the opportunity to get creative, I find it more enjoyable when a design is done on the stop rather than a lot of thought. I like this design because it's bright, playful and abstract however you will either hate it or love it.

Equipment:

• Essie - White
• Rio professional -Blue, Pink, Orange and Yellow
• Nails inc - Crackle effect
• Toot pick

Ancient Aztec

Aztec is very trendy at the moment, it makes the cutest nail design against a bright and playful background.

Equipment Needed:

• BarryM Nail pen 
• Sally Hansen Base coat and Top coat 
• Rio professional (Blue, Pink and Yellow 

Neon-Tastic

Brighten up your nails with these vibrant neon nail varnishes, with colours that are so eye catching you are bound to catch peoples attention therefore you will receive compliments. Get creative and paint different linear designs on your nails.


Equipment 

• Rio Professional - Neon Pink, Yellow, Orange 
• Sally Hansen two in one base coat and top coat 

Gymnastics leo inspired

Yesterday I posted ruby slippers and today I really wanted to try to produce marbling without water. I used the method of applying blobs of nail polish onto a sandwich bag, with a toot pick I then incorporated the colours together by swirling the tooth pick into the various colours. I found it hard to peel off the nail varnish from the sandwich bag. 

Equipment Needed:

• N07 red nail polish 
• Glitter Dust 
• Nails inc. silver
• Essie white

Ruby Slippers

I am in love with this glitter dust. Super easy to apply and I had so much fun applying the dust to my nails. I brought this product because I like the texture of the glitter dust. I adore the intense shine when the light hits your nails you cant get that in a bottle of glitter polish. Be careful not to apply to much glitter to your nails, scoop up the glitter with tweezers and drop it on top your nails.

Equipment Needed:

• No7 Red polish 
• Cheng Xin glitter nail kit purchased found at ebay 
• Tweezers 

Jazzy Ombre

Jazz up the fabulously trendy ombre nail technique with a bold design such as hearts, aztec and cheetah print. In oder to enhance the design and make it more divers.

Equipment

• BarryM black nail pen 
• sponge
• Rio Professional white and 3 shades of pink

Crying paint

I love this design because it's fun to wear due to the contrast of sparkle. The silver background is rudely interrupted by a burst of colour giving a paint dripping effect.

Equipment

• Silver nail varnish nail inc.
• nail drip colours are from Rio professional 

Crazy Crackle

These are a few ideas that you create with crackle nail polish. In order to make your crackle nail polish stand out, use it on top of a shimmery background.

Equipment Needed:

• Nails inc. Electric Avenue (Thumb)
• Misguided Deep Blue
• O.P.I Not like in the movies (Far right)
• O.P.I Crackle nail polish
• Nails inc. Old queen Street (second left finger)

Read all about it

News paper transfer nails are super easy and fun. This nail design technique is very versatile. In order to make your nails extra cute cut out images and different text fonts from a magazine, as a result your nails will look more complex.

Equipment needed:

• Essie Mod sqaud pink nail varnish
• Sally Hanson - Base coat & Top coat
• Newspaper
• water 

Cheeky Cheetah

Apply this chic cheetah print to your nails with a hint of glitter for that extra bit of sparkle. It's quick and easy to produce. Cheetah print is so diverse try it with different colour combinations and techniques, for example Ombre this will add more depth to the nail design.

Equipment

• BarryM black nail pen
• Rio Professional Nail varnish gold and silver

LOve yOu mOre

This photo shows that I have painted my nails with to BarryM nail polishes, I like these two nail polishes because of the glossy finish it create an intense shine. In order to finish this design I draw to love hearts. 

Equipment Needed:

• BarryM Fuchsia - Pink
• BarryM - gelly prickly pear - Purple

Sample of Moyou image Plate 04

This week I am so excited because my Moyou nail plate (London 04) came as well as my konad stamp and scrapper yhh!! To be honest when I first tried to stamp a design on to my nails I failed miserable, I completely missed my nail that was disappointing but I wasn't disheartened so I kept trying.

Now I can make more cool funky designs for you to see once I've received my fake nails in the mail, which I don't actually wear personally but it's easier to create designs on a regular bases. I currently own two colours of nails polish blue and red, So shopping is in order I think.

• konad stamp and scrapper
• Moyou plate (london 04)
• N05 red nail polish 
• Misguided polish blue

Marble Me Purple

This goergeous marble nail design is abstract and endearing. The colours used in the design complement each other. This design  is really easy to produce although it looks complex.  Practice is key it took me a few attempts in order to get the best results, your nails will be a topic of conversation this design is definitely one to try.

Equipment 

• Plastic bag 
• Tooth pick 
• Misguided blue nail varnish
• Rio Professional (pink, pale blue and white)

Tribal Effect

This design consists of an array of bold symbols. This design allows you to be artistic and free.

Equipment

• Silver nail varnish from nail inc.
• Black barry M nail pen 
• Rio Professional purchase from Amazon (orange, yellow and pink)

Magazine Transfers

These nails are awesome despite the low quality my apologies. When I found out that you can use a magazine to transfer images onto your nails I was so excited, then I flicked through a magazine and found superman it was epic. (so I was a little bit to happy) I transferred the image using water, The longer you press the image against your nail the better the image transfers. I was really happy that superman came out so perfectly this is defiantly a technique to try I love it.

Equipment Needed:

• Essie White nail polish
• Sally Hanson - Base coat & Top coat
• Magazine
• Water 

60's Retro

These Retro nails are super bright and ultra funky. Brighten up a dull rainy day with these sensational nails. This design can be done with a plastic sandwich bag in order to merge the colours together. This is easily one of my favourite techniques because it's easy and quick to produce. On the left hand side the black border is optional I just wanted to combine different techniques.

Equipment needed: 

• Essie - white for the background 
• Rio Professtional - Black
• Rio Professional - neon pink yellow and orange

Rio professional can be purchased on Amozen.co.uk, the nail varnish features a thin long brush and a pen if you remove the lid. This a cheap polish so it wont last as long even with base coat and top coat, but it is good for tutorials.

Zebra in the Blue

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Stamping Equipment

Left to Right:

• On the far left Moyou image plate 04
•  Blue polish Misguided
• White Konad 11ml
• Red N07
• Konad stamp
• Konad scrapper 

If you want your nail art designs to last longer I suggest that you purchase Base coat and top coat, This will also give your nails a intense shine. In regards to Konad you can use normal nail polish, however if you use a inexpensive polish the image may not transfer. By using a inexpensive polish you will also see a differences in the hue the polish colour wouldn't be so bold. It is important to not that when using Konad a inexpressive polish will strip therefore may result in a ruined design. 

Moyou Image plate N04

This is  great image plate because it features lots of cool and complex designs. When I first got the plate I was quite concerned about the size of the images but it was fine in the end.

A list of some of the designs that are featured on image plate 04:

• Cup cake
• Bird on Barbed wire 
• Cup cake
• Fancy Writing 
• Floral designs
• Dandelions 
• Hounds Tooth 
• Owl with a stripe background 
• Splatter paint
• Victorian Silhouette  

Each plate comes with 18 complex designs, With the ad of stamping kits and image plates it allows you to be more creative and experiment the possibilities are endless. However I well still always enjoy painting my nails by hand but when I am going to College I haven't got the time.

Paint splatter

This design is free flowing, simple yet effective. I'm glad to announce that I am going back to hand painted designs, that can be achieved with everyday household item such as a tooth pick. It's a lot more satisfying creating nail art by hand. The tools that I will be using wont break the bank.

Equipment needed:

• Red polish N05 
• Silver polish Nail inc.
• Tooth pick

A beautiful mess

This design is not your average pretty nail design, it's more gritty and free flowing. I wanted to break free from the conventional perfect nails. I got a little crazy because my first design was a mess so I took my frustration out on my nails and made them look intentionally messy. I love this nail design because it showing emotion you will hate or love it but that's what I want for you to have an opinion. This nail design is super fun to create, layer up your nail varnish colours and run a tooth pick over them. 

Equipment needed:

• Essie - White 
• Rio Professional - Blue, Black, Pink, Neon Pink 
• Tooth pick 

Pink Panther

This photo shows an array of designs that you can produces with only to colours; simple yet effective.

Designs (Left to Right):

• Vertical strips
• Hounds tooth 
• Straight Marble
• Brick Laying 
• Prison inmate 26 with a black border

Equipment needed:

• Tooth pick
• Pink & Black - Barry M

Rosie Roses

Konad (stamp) really helps you to explore your creativity. I love these rose's on the image plate because they are so interact, to create this design by hand would be time consuming and tedious. But with Konad it's really speeds the process up.  

Equipment needed:

• White polish - Konad
• Blue - Misguided 
• Red - N07 
• Konad stamper / scrapper 
• Moyou image plate 04

Crackle Effect

This is a photo of a traditional crackle effect. Choose colours that contrast each other, I like the monochrome effect because the design stands out more on a white background. Once you have created this look get creative and try to combine different techniques such as Ombre, try neon pink tips and experiment with metallic nail polish.  

Equipment Needed:

• Crackle effect (Camden) by Nails Inc.
• White polish Essie