Saturday, 13 April 2013

Puzzle pieces

This design is surprisingly easy AND you get to use four colours at once!


I chose yellow as the base, pink, green and orange for a summerish look. (My very own Tardis in the background)

So I started out using tape to keep the lines of my first square in shape but it was just quicker and easier to hand paint the square. 

Add each colour in a section and wait until they fully dry for the dotting.

To get the puzzle effect, use your dotting tool and dab the colours around, I did it in a anti-clockwise fashion, and link the dots to the original colour. You should end up with something like this = 

I was going to put a glitter top coat over (as you can see with my pinky in the first picture) but then you couldn't see the detail so all the other fingers got just your average clear top coat.

Use any colours that suit you and it will turn out fabulous :)

LOVE 
Flower



Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Starry Night

This is one of my favourite pattern/art for a thumb nail! I don't think the other nails are big enough to fully show the gradient. 



What you need:
  • 2-3 different colour blues and a black
  • Glitter polish and or glitter of any kind
  • Toilet paper or sponge ( I prefer toilet paper because it leaves a bumpiness)
  • Top coat

Paint your nail(s) with the lightest blue first and let that completely dry. 
Make sure each layer is dry before adding the next layer.
Wrap the toilet paper around your finger and slather on the colour you are using and each layer just dab it around your nail.
Grab the next shade and dab it on 3/4.
Dab the next shade on 1/2
I do a dark blue on the next 1/4 and then almost dip the tip into a black polish although you can just do 1/4 dark blue or black depending on your nail length and amount of polish variety you have.

After all this has dried, paint the glitter polish on the top 3/4 and BOOM, you have stunning starry night nails

These invite complements where ever you wear them :)

LOVE 
Flower