Chanel inspired

I originally did these nails for a competition, but being the genius I am, I missed the deadline. Still, I like the nails, they're quite sleek, but still include bling. You gotta love bling.

 I made the Chanel double c symbol out of individual rhinestones, and took a while. Not one for the impatient.

If you want to see the tutorial I made you can find it here.

Products used: Nude - 17 (Forever)
                       Black - Collection 2000 (Liquorice)

Aztec Awesomeness

It's been a while since I've had nails worthy of photos, so I'm ridiculously happy about these. They're an Aztec-type design (inspired by Wah-nails, for a change) and with a vaguely egyptian colour scheme.

 Close up of my thumb. The flash has warped the colour a bit, the base is actually a darker metallic teal.

Products used: Dark blue (under metallic teal) - Barry M
                       Metallic teal - Strictly Fab-u-lous Collection (Tropical)
                       Thin Tipped Gold - Andrea Fullerton (India)
                       Thin Tipped Black - Rio Nail Art Polish
                       Thin Tipped White - Rio Nail Art Polish

More Christmas Nails

My other Christmas design suffered some damage while moving so I did another one. Prezzies! What's not to love? The original present design was inspired by Wah-nails.

 I put stars on the ring fingers and thumbs to add yet more sparkle.

Products used: Gold - Avon (Gold Foil)
                       Red - Rio Nail Art Polish
                       Dark Red - No.7

Christmas Nails!

 I actually love christmas, but I refuse to start getting festive until december, so I've been waiting to do these for weeks. There is no better time of year for sparkle and bling so these feature 22 rhinestones. Everyone seemed to be doing red based designs, so I decided to go with green (it's emerald green in real life), and as it's so dark the white and silver show up much better.

 Here's a close up of my thumb nail (which is very short at the moment after a wrestle with the recycling box).

And this is a close up of my ring finger. I went to town with the rhinestones here.

Hope you like them, and Merry Christmas!
Products used: Green - Barry M
                       White - Rio Nail Art Polish
                       Silver - Rio Nail Art Polish

Autumn Nails

After I'd moved in to my new house at uni, I had a week before term started, and therefore a bunch of time to do my nails. I decided on a autumnal theme with rhinestones. Rhinestones because I can.

 It's kind of difficult to properly see the finished effect of these. There was more orange than it looks like here, but you get the jist.

Products used: Yellow - Barry M
                       Orange - Collection 2000 Hot Looks (Hip Hop)
                       Red - MAC (Rougemarie)
                       Brown - Me Me Me (Amythyst)
                       Black - Rio Nail Art Polish

Experiments with Rhinestones and the like

I found all manners of glittery things and decided to shove them on my nails. Here are a few of the results.The Orange Flower look is inspired by a design on my.coolnailsart but I can't remember who.

 Very simple blue with sparkles.

 Sorry for the bad lighting of this photo. This is my most recent nail design (I still have it). In real life, it's covered in a glittery top coat.

Products used: Orange flower: Orange - 2True (No. 15)
                                               Black - Rio Nail Art Polish
                                               Green - Rio Nail Art Polish
                                               Silver - Rio Nail Art Polish
                        Blue sparkle: Blue - Collection 2000 (Electric Punk)
                        Purple glittery: Dark purple - 2True (No. 13)
                                               Lighter purple - Rio Nail Art Polish
                                               Silver - Bichun (No. 6888)
                                               Glitter - Barry M

Poddington Peas

I did Poddington Peas nails! I'm pretty proud of these ones. As you can see, my hand is bandaged up there so I could only do the one hand. The peas are thumb: Dum-pea; and from the left: Sweet pea, Grump-pea, Zip-pea, and Black eyed pea.

I mixed the greens together to get more shades.
Products used: Blue - Barry M
                       Lightest green (Dump-pea) - Collection 2000 Hot Looks (Mint Mojo)
                       Light metallic green (Zip-pea) - Avon (Limeade)
                       Dark metallic green (Black eyed pea) - Barry M
                       Yellow (Sweet pea's hair) - Barry M
                       Light metallic brown (pastry) - 17 (Toasted Almond)
                       Pink (Sweet pea's bow) - 17 Vintage (Flare)
                       Red (pie filling & Zip-pea's hat) - 2True (No. 24)
                       Black - Rio Nail Art Polish
                       White - Rio Nail Art Polish

Comedy Festival Nails

I did my nails especially for my trip to Edinburgh in August. This is what I came up with; Cheshire Cat!

 There is the possibility that I got 2 new purple polishes and wanted to use them.

Products used: Pale yellow - 17 (Sherbet Lemon)
                       Darker yellow (eyes) - Barry M
                       Pink (ears & nose) - 17 Vintage (Flare)
                       Lightest purple - Avon (Lavender)
                       Mid purple - Collection 2000 Hot Looks (BMX Bandit)
                       Darkest purple - Barry M
                       Black - Rio Nail Art Polish
                       White - Rio Nail Art Polish

Nail Foil Experiment

I had an experiment with nail foils. I like the result, but they can be difficult to use. The set I have comes with a 2 in 1 base and top coat, and you definately need it. Especially as a top coat, otherwise it starts to peel. 

Anywho, these are my attempts with them. First: disco nails!

 Blue and Gold. I really like this one, it looks sort of regal.

Products used: Nail foils - Rio Professional Nail Foil Set
                       Blue - Collection 2000 Maxiflex (Electric Punk)
                       Gold (french tips) - Avon Mirror Shine (Gold Foil)

POW!

I wanted a bright and colourful design for my summer holiday (to Bristol, but a holiday's a holiday), so I did a rainbow version of Wah Nails' "Pow" design. There are also 2 fairly obscure references in there, 5 points to anyone who can guess them.

 Close up of my left hand...

 And a decidedly blurry not-really-close up of my right hand.

Products used: Yellow - Barry M
                       Orange - Collection 200 Hot Looks (Hip Hop)
                       Red - Nails Inc. (Victoria & Albert)
                       Blue - Barry M
                       Green - Barry M
                       White - Collection 2000 (French White)
                       Black - Rio Nail Art Polish