Coming up!

Coming up, some festive nails for the holiday season!! :)
Louisa x

This video is really helpful if you don't have a striper! Or need a thin brush for different colours!

Cutepolish Striper

Hope its useful!

Louisa

Panda!

This is a simple and easy and fast design. Its cute and fun to wear! The panda manicure! I did this on my sisters nails that are really short so good news all you nail biters!

First do your base coat, because your whole nail isn't covered in this design it gives it a nice shine.

Then make semi circles at the bottom of your nails leaving room above for ears!

Now on each side of the head add two small black semi circles and fill them in. do this with the striper.

Now add a tiny pick dot at the bottom this is his nose!

With a dotting tool or make up brush make two black dots for the eyes

Once they are dry add white spots on top of those.

And then tiny black spots in those for pupils!

And now your done! Enjoy the pandas! coming next is a cute heart design!

Giraffe!

I have seen a few nail designs that use all the nails to make up one picture and thought I might give it a go. Behold the giraffe!

To create this simple design you will need a blue, yellow and orange. and white And then a black striper also a dotting tool would be good or do what I did and use the end of a make up brush!

First paint your nails two coats of blue

I used 17 fast finish in catwalk couture, which has a tint sparkle to it, I love it! also it dries in around 60 seconds!

Then with the yellow make bands of the same size and preferably width 

across the middle of your fingers but not the thumb. 

This will be the neck.

Then for the thumbpaint a thinner line then the neck but still in the same place, 

curve it round to make the top of the head and make the front of the

 face and join it back up to the neck and fill it in.

Now take a bit of scrap paper and put some orange varnish on it and use your dotting tool to make the 'splodges' on its neck and a few on the face.

Sorry that photo isnt great!

Now use the orange to fill in the 'snout' section of the face.

Now use your dotting tool in the white and out on two dots for eyes, then once dry put a black dot in the middle of those. and add little black dots on the nose for nostrils.

And now you are finished add your top coat and let it dry to protect your design! Next time it's pandas!!

Socks!

This is my take on cute-polish  most recent design. Its a popular sock and jumper pattern that you can now wear on your nails!

Firstly you need two pairs of complimentary colours  one base and one as a striper, and a base coat and a white striper. I went for pink and blue.

Firstly we need a coat of clear base coat. Then two coats of blue.

This is then followed by two coats of pink in the thumb and ring finger.

Now on the blue fingers make large X's like so.

Now do the same with your pink striper

Fill in the trinages created at the top and bottom of the nail with the striper, do this for both nails.

Now comes the tricky part, the white lines. starting in the centre of the bottom triangle paint up to the tp of the right hand side triangle. 

Repeat this at the top of the nail, so that it looks like this across all nails.

Taaa Daaaa!!!!!! Now your all done, neaten the edges with a Q-Tip dipped in nail varnish remover. 

Done!!

Camera

The reason I haven't been able to post any photos recently is because of my camera, not working. however I am getting that sorted this week. so hopefully some posts will be following this half term!
Have a nice half term!
Louisa x

Sorry...

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days! Just started back at school so I'm super  busy but will see what I can do over the weekend!

Louisa x

Monopoly Manicure

 Monopoly! That childhood memory of so many of 

us, now wear your memories on your nails! It can be useful to have a monopoly board around whilst painting this, just for reference!

These are the varnishes that I used for this design, 

RIO stripers in: red, yellow, pink,blue and black. Rimmel London in Double Decker Red (030) Barry M nail paint in Mint Green (304) and Claire's cosmetics in blue (47)

Firstly paint all your nails two to three coats of green, this is the board.

Firstly the thumb. Based to the 'GO'  square. With your striper write 'GO' at a slight angle to the base of your nail.

Then underneath draw the arrow in a straight line.

Next finger is the Mayfair nail. With the blue nail varnish swipe across the top of your nail to create the coloured band at the top of the square.

 Underneath with a fine brush or striper write Mayfair, this can be difficult so alternately you could just do dots and lines. On the other hand I used the red nail varnish to create the same effect for a different place name.

Third nail!  The chance square. Firstly with the pink or red striper ( I did different on different hands) create the question mark. You can leave it like this or write chance above it.

Next is the electric company, this is quite fiddly but can be simplified. Firstly with a yellow striper draw the top of the light bulb. With the black striper make a square at the bottom of the light bulb and lines coming of the bulb. It can be left like this or once the yellow is dry you can draw the lines inside like I have below.

And last but not least, free parking! With the red striper draw the shape of the car but leaving a little square for the back window (or paint it on with white later!) With black add wheels and the little spare wheel. Now because I have small nails I could't write but if you are painting on to falsies you might be able to add writing!

I really hope you enjoyed this tutorial! It was really fun to do! Enjoy wearing and playing Monopoly!

Louisa x

Coming Up!

Tomorrow I will be posting a tutorial for Monopoly nails! Just a little taster!

Fimo Slices!

As promised my fimo tutorial! This can be quite time consuming because of drying times!

Ok So I have painted my nails two coats of white so you can see better!

So the slices, I brought mine at Claire's accessories, however they are easily avalible on line try here! 

Once you have painted your nails and they are dry do a top coat, pick up the slice and drop it on!

Now the problem I always is it curls at the edges so what I do is use a cocktail stick (because fingers leave prints on the rest of the wet top coat!) to hold it down and blow until it is dry. Then put another top coat on top to seal it in!

I hope you enjoy wearing your slices!

Louisa x

Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be uploading a, use of fimo cane slices tutorial! And maybe some other stuff!

Doctor Who?

As promised the Doctor Who tutorial! Unfortunately the cyber man did not turn out quite as well as hoped so apologies for that! I have put him in but you can leave it out! Or do a better one, email it to me and I will put it up on the blog!

First put on a base coat. It helps to reduce chippings and prolong your nail art. Then do two coats of black on the thumb, silver on the pointer, green on the middle, white on the ring and dark blue on the pinky finger.

Firstly the thumb, take a yellow striper and make and oval then fill it in.

Then take a fine brush or a cocktail stick and write 'who' in the oval.

Then surround it with silver and white spots to be stars.

Okay now for the failed cyber man! Create two curved lines for the cheeks with three little lines between them for the mouth.

Then make two circles with little flicks for the eyes, they should be slightly bigger than how I have painted them here.

Okay Dalek time! With the striper make two lines near the top of the nail. This separates the head from the body. Then add the Dalek 'bumps' in rows underneath these lines. And finally with a blue make a dot above the two lines, this is his eye.

And now for the Doctor! Make two lines for his braces from the bottom up. Then between these two lines make a small red dot.

On either side of the dot make two small red triangles for his bow tie! then take a blue (or any other colour!) and make buttons!

And to complete the design the T.A.R.D.I.S!!  Make a black line down the center of the nail to separate the doors. Then at the top of your nail on either side of the line make two white squares for the windows. also make a small white square under the left hand window. Make a black cross on each window and little dots for writing on the small left square.

The design is complete! I hope you enjoy wearing them assuming you don't bite them off during the first episode tonight! 

Louisa x