Sprites thread of Nail Art and stuff
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In keeping with the 1-2 weeks updates here's something fun.
Rainbow nails, Galaxy style
This follows the same pattern as the Galaxy nails (See pages 4 and 5) only rather than a pastel I got a rainbow effect. I used stronger colours than pastels but didn't go over dark. They're awesome they remind me of Rainbow Brite or old school My Little Pony (I used to watch them so much as a kid).
This was how the desk looked after I finished.
The colours I used was for my base Barry M Mint Green
and for my colours:
Barry M Limited Edition Yellow
Barry M Blue Berry Ice Cream
Barry M Limited Edition :Carousel (Corally red)
NYC Lavendar Blossom
Sinful Colours Hottie (Blue glitter)
Sally Hansel Nail art Pen in white
Sally Hansen diamond Flash topcoat.
Make Up sponges
Tweezers
Again I'm absolutely crap at explaining how to do this but in my last galaxy nails post I put a link to follow for a blogger whose much better at tutorials than I am, so nip back to page 4 to check that out.
There's no really wrong way to do Galaxy nails no matter what colours you go for, either, so the best way to do them is try them out for yourself!
I'll definitely have a post up in the next week again as it will mark a year since I started posting this stuff
Rainbow nails, Galaxy style
This follows the same pattern as the Galaxy nails (See pages 4 and 5) only rather than a pastel I got a rainbow effect. I used stronger colours than pastels but didn't go over dark. They're awesome they remind me of Rainbow Brite or old school My Little Pony (I used to watch them so much as a kid).
This was how the desk looked after I finished.
The colours I used was for my base Barry M Mint Green
and for my colours:
Barry M Limited Edition Yellow
Barry M Blue Berry Ice Cream
Barry M Limited Edition :Carousel (Corally red)
NYC Lavendar Blossom
Sinful Colours Hottie (Blue glitter)
Sally Hansel Nail art Pen in white
Sally Hansen diamond Flash topcoat.
Make Up sponges
Tweezers
Again I'm absolutely crap at explaining how to do this but in my last galaxy nails post I put a link to follow for a blogger whose much better at tutorials than I am, so nip back to page 4 to check that out.
There's no really wrong way to do Galaxy nails no matter what colours you go for, either, so the best way to do them is try them out for yourself!
I'll definitely have a post up in the next week again as it will mark a year since I started posting this stuff
Universal Dark
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Lex has shown me you nail art stuff before so just popping by to say hi and your stuff is awesome! Loving the tips and will definetly try out some when I get a chance!
I, like most others slap on the nail varnish and leave it at that but I'll need to get more creative! Nothing worse than having dodgy nails haha
I, like most others slap on the nail varnish and leave it at that but I'll need to get more creative! Nothing worse than having dodgy nails haha
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D'awww *blushes* that's really nice of you. Nails are an awesome blank canvas, for me it's almost part of my routine now to do them like I would do my make up and I like having them done and keeping them looking good, but it's so much fun especially when you do stuff 'on the fly' and it works amazingly well, it's usually how my favourite pieces of nail art I've done like the rainbow nails above happened.
On that Note it's been a year now since I started this little thread so I had a think about what to do and my first two posts were cute little summer ones so I decided to go back to that and came up with this.
Cute, summer peach nails with half done yellow polka dots and a glitter accent nail, it's very quick and easy to do.
1. Apply your clear base coat.
2. Paint your nails in two coats of a peach nail Polish and allow it to dry.
3. Using a dotting tool and bright yellow nail polish dab some polish onto a sheet of paper and add come dots to the nails but only in a sort of curved unfinished look, use your cuticles as a guide for the curve and start from there but leave your ring finger or accent nail of choice free.
4. On the accent nail paint one coat of your chosen glitter, mine was a holographic glitter but any is grand, just make sure it's in a clear base.
5. Round the whole thing off with a layer of top coat and clean up any little messy bits.
Cute, Bright and summery, what more could you want?
On that Note it's been a year now since I started this little thread so I had a think about what to do and my first two posts were cute little summer ones so I decided to go back to that and came up with this.
Cute, summer peach nails with half done yellow polka dots and a glitter accent nail, it's very quick and easy to do.
1. Apply your clear base coat.
2. Paint your nails in two coats of a peach nail Polish and allow it to dry.
3. Using a dotting tool and bright yellow nail polish dab some polish onto a sheet of paper and add come dots to the nails but only in a sort of curved unfinished look, use your cuticles as a guide for the curve and start from there but leave your ring finger or accent nail of choice free.
4. On the accent nail paint one coat of your chosen glitter, mine was a holographic glitter but any is grand, just make sure it's in a clear base.
5. Round the whole thing off with a layer of top coat and clean up any little messy bits.
Cute, Bright and summery, what more could you want?
Sprites
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Two posts in two days
The nails I did yesterday, incidently the ones I uploaded above peeled off very quickly and chipped couldn't figure out why until I realised I used a cuticle eraser cream last night which I didn't rinse properly and it's oil based meaning that as the polish sat on top of it, it created an air bubble between the nail and polish so it couldn't seal properly but hey at least it gave me the chance to do this!
It's pretty right? The dots were kind of inspired but what I did yesterday.
I own very few white polishes and normally only use them for nail art but this one is a Barry M one called coconut and as the name suggests its a very milky beige tone, perfect for nail art and the polish doesn't look tacky on it's own it's very wearable on it's own too.
Anywhoo it's another relatively easy one. You'll need a bright green polish, a bright pink polish, a bright, blue polish, a bright yellow polish and a dotting tool, preferably a double sided one so that you can alter the size of your dots, the key is also to use strong, bright colours as pastels would be a little more underwhelming with this look unless thats what you want to go for.
You can do the colours in any order but make sure your base is a white or beige coloured polish, the trick is to not cover the entire nail and curve them round starting from the outer, upper corner work your way in a diagonal curve, for my blue dots I used the smaller nib of my dotting tool just to change the pattern up a little bit and tried to keep my dots as evenly spaced between one another as I could.
Good luck
The nails I did yesterday, incidently the ones I uploaded above peeled off very quickly and chipped couldn't figure out why until I realised I used a cuticle eraser cream last night which I didn't rinse properly and it's oil based meaning that as the polish sat on top of it, it created an air bubble between the nail and polish so it couldn't seal properly but hey at least it gave me the chance to do this!
It's pretty right? The dots were kind of inspired but what I did yesterday.
I own very few white polishes and normally only use them for nail art but this one is a Barry M one called coconut and as the name suggests its a very milky beige tone, perfect for nail art and the polish doesn't look tacky on it's own it's very wearable on it's own too.
Anywhoo it's another relatively easy one. You'll need a bright green polish, a bright pink polish, a bright, blue polish, a bright yellow polish and a dotting tool, preferably a double sided one so that you can alter the size of your dots, the key is also to use strong, bright colours as pastels would be a little more underwhelming with this look unless thats what you want to go for.
You can do the colours in any order but make sure your base is a white or beige coloured polish, the trick is to not cover the entire nail and curve them round starting from the outer, upper corner work your way in a diagonal curve, for my blue dots I used the smaller nib of my dotting tool just to change the pattern up a little bit and tried to keep my dots as evenly spaced between one another as I could.
Good luck
Sprites
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Helllo!!
Sorry for the lack of posting both here and the rest of the forums, RL stuff is getting in the way, nothing bad, I'm in a good place but I'm just finding less time to post at the moment...it's been a very busy summer, I'm sure I'll be finding some time to post now that summer's nearly over though but in the meantime here's something I haven't done in a while, a nice gradient.
For this gradient I painted my nails with a white base coat as this makes the colour pop, waited for it to dry and then chose a light blue polish and a coral red polish with a slight touch of shimmer. To create the graident I got two make up sponges (triangle ones and one for each hand) and dampened the ends of them slightly (this stops the sponge sticking to the nail when the polish is applied) took a plastic sheet like an old poly pocket and painted two thick strips of the colours side by side on it. I then dapped my sponge into the two colours and applied them to the nail using a very slight up and down motion to blend them creating a blue-purple-coral transition, once the first layer had dried I applied another just to make the gradient stronger. Don't forget to tape around your nails if you don't want the polish all over your fingers as agin gradients are messy business, although clean up is fairly easy if you use fine tipped cotton buds for the trickier areas.
Finally I used two nail art butterfly decals on my ring fingers in the same colour scheme as an accent and sealed the whole thing with a top coat.
I'll maybe have another post up later as I'll be repainting my nails tonight, maybe another gradient
Sorry for the lack of posting both here and the rest of the forums, RL stuff is getting in the way, nothing bad, I'm in a good place but I'm just finding less time to post at the moment...it's been a very busy summer, I'm sure I'll be finding some time to post now that summer's nearly over though but in the meantime here's something I haven't done in a while, a nice gradient.
For this gradient I painted my nails with a white base coat as this makes the colour pop, waited for it to dry and then chose a light blue polish and a coral red polish with a slight touch of shimmer. To create the graident I got two make up sponges (triangle ones and one for each hand) and dampened the ends of them slightly (this stops the sponge sticking to the nail when the polish is applied) took a plastic sheet like an old poly pocket and painted two thick strips of the colours side by side on it. I then dapped my sponge into the two colours and applied them to the nail using a very slight up and down motion to blend them creating a blue-purple-coral transition, once the first layer had dried I applied another just to make the gradient stronger. Don't forget to tape around your nails if you don't want the polish all over your fingers as agin gradients are messy business, although clean up is fairly easy if you use fine tipped cotton buds for the trickier areas.
Finally I used two nail art butterfly decals on my ring fingers in the same colour scheme as an accent and sealed the whole thing with a top coat.
I'll maybe have another post up later as I'll be repainting my nails tonight, maybe another gradient
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Two in one day then.
it's another gradient and just freshly done, this one and my previous one I got the colour inspirations from the sunsets in Galway at the moment, currently we're having some very warm weather and I tend to go out walking around 7pm, and at this time of year around 8pm the sun starts going down, so I get the pleasure of seeing the sunsets around the coast on my way back. They've been absolutely stunning, I really need to start bringing my phone out to take photos of them, they're ranging from blue to purple, to red to orange and it got me inspired to do them in nail art format again.
Anyways I chose a yellow and a peachy orange colour to create this and used the same method as the previous post and I stuck with a colour scheme for the nail decal as the colour I used for the gradients. It's been a while since I've been properly inspired to do stuff again nail art wise so maybe this is the start of it again, I dunno we'll see how things go IRL.
it's another gradient and just freshly done, this one and my previous one I got the colour inspirations from the sunsets in Galway at the moment, currently we're having some very warm weather and I tend to go out walking around 7pm, and at this time of year around 8pm the sun starts going down, so I get the pleasure of seeing the sunsets around the coast on my way back. They've been absolutely stunning, I really need to start bringing my phone out to take photos of them, they're ranging from blue to purple, to red to orange and it got me inspired to do them in nail art format again.
Anyways I chose a yellow and a peachy orange colour to create this and used the same method as the previous post and I stuck with a colour scheme for the nail decal as the colour I used for the gradients. It's been a while since I've been properly inspired to do stuff again nail art wise so maybe this is the start of it again, I dunno we'll see how things go IRL.
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I've read a little on it but I've never fully researched it or anything, most of the time I go with my feeling on what I know would blend well or might create something based on inspiration from on of the blogging sites I go on, sometimes I'll do a tester on paper before I do it on the nails just to see how well it works if something I'm not overly sure of.
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Every now and again there's a time of year that deserves a nail art post and this is one of them.
I'll probably have a post up a couple of times this week just with different halloween themed posts.
Anyhoo welcome to spiderwebs.
For this you'll need a black nail polish, a while nail art pen, a fine clear glitter or shimmer polish, a tooth pick, a small pot of tiny sequins (pearl sheen type ones are the best for this) used in nail art and top coat.
1. Paint two coats of black nail polish and let dry or use a fast drying top coat. In my case I used a MATTE black nail polish as it dries quicker and it's much easier for the nail art pen to move across than a shine type polish.
2. Using a white nail art pen, start at a point around the left or right hand side of the base of your nail and draw lines reaching and fanning out to the tip, (I got away with 3-4, it depends on the shape and width of your nails) then make a curve between the lines to join them together at different points to form the spider web.
3. With the shimmer or glitter polish, blot some onto paper then using the tip of a toothpick, very lightly trace over the white web lines, this will give it that silken, shimmering look that spiderwebs have but be careful not to use too much pressure or you might end up pulling some of the polish off, if you're more nervous about the toothpick a very fine nail art brush will also do the trick.
4. With your sequins, lay some out onto paper and using the same toothpick (the tip will be tacky because of the excess polish pick one up at a time and lay on different areas of the webbing, it honestly doesn't matter where but space them out a bit, I used about 5 on each nail. You probably can't seem them clearly in the picture, I can only make out 1-2 of them myself but the idea is for them to be extremely subtle, a bit like when the sun shines on a cobweb in the morning and you can see the dew shimmering on the web, it's a lovely little touch when it catches the light.
5. Use your trusty topcoat and seal the sequins down and the whole design.
It's very starightforward, the most time consuming bit is placing down the sequins, so this can be optional if you don't want that, alternatively a silver nail art pen will give an automatic shimmer to the web and means you can skip the glitter stage if you prefer.
I'll probably have a post up a couple of times this week just with different halloween themed posts.
Anyhoo welcome to spiderwebs.
For this you'll need a black nail polish, a while nail art pen, a fine clear glitter or shimmer polish, a tooth pick, a small pot of tiny sequins (pearl sheen type ones are the best for this) used in nail art and top coat.
1. Paint two coats of black nail polish and let dry or use a fast drying top coat. In my case I used a MATTE black nail polish as it dries quicker and it's much easier for the nail art pen to move across than a shine type polish.
2. Using a white nail art pen, start at a point around the left or right hand side of the base of your nail and draw lines reaching and fanning out to the tip, (I got away with 3-4, it depends on the shape and width of your nails) then make a curve between the lines to join them together at different points to form the spider web.
3. With the shimmer or glitter polish, blot some onto paper then using the tip of a toothpick, very lightly trace over the white web lines, this will give it that silken, shimmering look that spiderwebs have but be careful not to use too much pressure or you might end up pulling some of the polish off, if you're more nervous about the toothpick a very fine nail art brush will also do the trick.
4. With your sequins, lay some out onto paper and using the same toothpick (the tip will be tacky because of the excess polish pick one up at a time and lay on different areas of the webbing, it honestly doesn't matter where but space them out a bit, I used about 5 on each nail. You probably can't seem them clearly in the picture, I can only make out 1-2 of them myself but the idea is for them to be extremely subtle, a bit like when the sun shines on a cobweb in the morning and you can see the dew shimmering on the web, it's a lovely little touch when it catches the light.
5. Use your trusty topcoat and seal the sequins down and the whole design.
It's very starightforward, the most time consuming bit is placing down the sequins, so this can be optional if you don't want that, alternatively a silver nail art pen will give an automatic shimmer to the web and means you can skip the glitter stage if you prefer.
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So I'm back with another Nail art post for Halloween. I love it because I get loads of inspiration and motivation to do nail art and designs and there's some fab nail art designs out there on the net.
Weclome to blood drips
This is a very easy piece of nail art to do, I did it in about 10-15 mins and the fun thing is after halloween you can swap the colour scheme so you can do it anytime!
For ths you'll need: A nude polish, a deep red polish, some paper and a toothpick.
1. Paint your nails with 1 coats of nude polish.
2. Blot some red polish onto paper then with a toothpick dip it into your red polish and make 2-3 dots with it on each nail at different levels.
3. Swirl the tip of your toothpick in the red polish and using the dots as a guide glide the toothpick with the red polish to the tip of the nail, go over as many times as you need to get it looking thick and drippy, the lines don't have to be neat (this is blood drips after all) and fill in the gaps at the tip of the nail.
4. Give the polish 5-10mins to dry a bit so it doesn't smudge too much then add your usual topcoat, job done.
Weclome to blood drips
This is a very easy piece of nail art to do, I did it in about 10-15 mins and the fun thing is after halloween you can swap the colour scheme so you can do it anytime!
For ths you'll need: A nude polish, a deep red polish, some paper and a toothpick.
1. Paint your nails with 1 coats of nude polish.
2. Blot some red polish onto paper then with a toothpick dip it into your red polish and make 2-3 dots with it on each nail at different levels.
3. Swirl the tip of your toothpick in the red polish and using the dots as a guide glide the toothpick with the red polish to the tip of the nail, go over as many times as you need to get it looking thick and drippy, the lines don't have to be neat (this is blood drips after all) and fill in the gaps at the tip of the nail.
4. Give the polish 5-10mins to dry a bit so it doesn't smudge too much then add your usual topcoat, job done.
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If it helps, it took me a lot of tries in the past to get the webs right and even then I'm still never 100% happy with them,.
Drips are always easy because there's no crap way for them to turn out, it's definitely one of the easier ones to try
Page 3 has my Halloween nail art posts, last year with the blood drips I said a matte polish worked better but after doing it with a normal nude polish, I feel it's worked better, or I've just improved, my left hand looks a bit more drippier than last year this time. I'm still in love with that little mixture I did last year of Halloween stuff on my right hand
Drips are always easy because there's no crap way for them to turn out, it's definitely one of the easier ones to try
Page 3 has my Halloween nail art posts, last year with the blood drips I said a matte polish worked better but after doing it with a normal nude polish, I feel it's worked better, or I've just improved, my left hand looks a bit more drippier than last year this time. I'm still in love with that little mixture I did last year of Halloween stuff on my right hand
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One final Halloween post and then I'll need to get some new inspiration.
This one is centered around my halloween costume tomorrow...you might be able to guess what it is
Anyways again pretty simple to do.
You'll need a white or beige coloured nail polish and a black nail art pen.
1. Paint two coats of white/beige nail polish and allow to dry.
2. Using the black nail art pen, create lines at different angles joining together to make an overlaping bandage effect.
3. On the accent finger of your choice (I chose my ring finger as usual) draw in the center of your nail or thereabouts a small rectangle box, then in the box draw two circles slightly apart and a dot in eqach circle to create eyes. From there create more bandages around the rectangle with the same method in step two.
4. Seal with some topcoat and done.
I've had so much fun creating my halloween ideas this year and it's something I'll definitely be doing more of, I think my favourite out of the 3 is the blood drips though, I was very tempted to keep them on but decided to keep in theme with my costume, pics of that to follow in the next couple of days
Happy Halloween!
This one is centered around my halloween costume tomorrow...you might be able to guess what it is
Anyways again pretty simple to do.
You'll need a white or beige coloured nail polish and a black nail art pen.
1. Paint two coats of white/beige nail polish and allow to dry.
2. Using the black nail art pen, create lines at different angles joining together to make an overlaping bandage effect.
3. On the accent finger of your choice (I chose my ring finger as usual) draw in the center of your nail or thereabouts a small rectangle box, then in the box draw two circles slightly apart and a dot in eqach circle to create eyes. From there create more bandages around the rectangle with the same method in step two.
4. Seal with some topcoat and done.
I've had so much fun creating my halloween ideas this year and it's something I'll definitely be doing more of, I think my favourite out of the 3 is the blood drips though, I was very tempted to keep them on but decided to keep in theme with my costume, pics of that to follow in the next couple of days
Happy Halloween!
Octo
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Spriiiiiiites, my nails are all shitty and bendy and splitting - probably because I wash my hands 900 times a day (not OCD just having Freybs I seem to get dirty hands all the time)
Anyway do you use any kind of nail treatment/strengthener stuff? Can you recommend?
Anyway do you use any kind of nail treatment/strengthener stuff? Can you recommend?
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I'm only seeing this now! Octo I recommend OPI Nail Envy Nail Strengthener, and OPI cuticle oil to keep the skin around the cuticles soft. I have a really weak nail on my right handle, middle finger that peels quite often but the OPI stuff really helps to deal with it
I tend to also completely trim my nails down every couple of months so they grow back healthier from the quick rather than just filing them, then to prevent splits and ridges I use a buffer nail pad to remove those and smooth any peeling areas, hence why in my photos my nails are never the same length for each post I put up.
I'd also recommend Soap and Glory Handfood cream, smells amazing and is probably the best handcream I've ever used. I apply it every morning and night to my hands and it leaves them in great condition as the skin on my hands gets really dry at this time of year.
While we're here I think I'll leave my work Xmas Party nails (the party is tomorrow)
Last year I went for Black with a layer of holographic glitter this year I've gone for white but with an Xmas twist.
This time I've included photos of the polishes I used because of the nature of them. They're all Barry M, the glitter one is a limited Xmas edition called Moonlight, I also have it's partner Starlight but decided to use moonlight for this one because of the red glitter in it.
For this I used two coats of Barry M silk in Pearl (An off white matte polish with shimmer running through it) on every finger but my ring finger and used 1 coat of Moonlight over it.
Moonlight is really something, it's got shredded red metallic glitter, large circle silver and gold glitter, micro silver glitter, holographic bar shaped glitter and finally quite possibly my favourite HOLOGRAPHIC STARS!! which were actually quite easy to get out of the bottle and I was able to get at least 1 star on each nail which you can probably see in the pic, it's definitely a party season polish and it's also got excellent coverage as sometimes glitter polishes look great in the bottles but are very Sparse when applying to the nails, then again Barry M is always really good quality, hence why I used it in most of my posts.
My ring finger was done with a polish I've posted on here before called Lady and is part of Barry M's textured range. It dries to a textured, sand like finish but with the white and shimmer thislooks a bit like freshly fallen snow, it's a favourite of mine at this time of year.
More xmas nail fun to come over the next couple of weeks!
I tend to also completely trim my nails down every couple of months so they grow back healthier from the quick rather than just filing them, then to prevent splits and ridges I use a buffer nail pad to remove those and smooth any peeling areas, hence why in my photos my nails are never the same length for each post I put up.
I'd also recommend Soap and Glory Handfood cream, smells amazing and is probably the best handcream I've ever used. I apply it every morning and night to my hands and it leaves them in great condition as the skin on my hands gets really dry at this time of year.
While we're here I think I'll leave my work Xmas Party nails (the party is tomorrow)
Last year I went for Black with a layer of holographic glitter this year I've gone for white but with an Xmas twist.
This time I've included photos of the polishes I used because of the nature of them. They're all Barry M, the glitter one is a limited Xmas edition called Moonlight, I also have it's partner Starlight but decided to use moonlight for this one because of the red glitter in it.
For this I used two coats of Barry M silk in Pearl (An off white matte polish with shimmer running through it) on every finger but my ring finger and used 1 coat of Moonlight over it.
Moonlight is really something, it's got shredded red metallic glitter, large circle silver and gold glitter, micro silver glitter, holographic bar shaped glitter and finally quite possibly my favourite HOLOGRAPHIC STARS!! which were actually quite easy to get out of the bottle and I was able to get at least 1 star on each nail which you can probably see in the pic, it's definitely a party season polish and it's also got excellent coverage as sometimes glitter polishes look great in the bottles but are very Sparse when applying to the nails, then again Barry M is always really good quality, hence why I used it in most of my posts.
My ring finger was done with a polish I've posted on here before called Lady and is part of Barry M's textured range. It dries to a textured, sand like finish but with the white and shimmer thislooks a bit like freshly fallen snow, it's a favourite of mine at this time of year.
More xmas nail fun to come over the next couple of weeks!
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Helllo!!
Sorry for the lack of posting both here and the rest of the forums, RL stuff is getting in the way, nothing bad, I'm in a good place but I'm just finding less time to post at the moment...it's been a very busy summer, I'm sure I'll be finding some time to post now that summer's nearly over though but in the meantime here's something I haven't done in a while, a nice gradient.
For this gradient I painted my nails with a white base coat as this makes the colour pop, waited for it to dry and then chose a light blue polish and a coral red polish with a slight touch of shimmer. To create the graident I got two make up sponges (triangle ones and one for each hand) and dampened the ends of them slightly (this stops the sponge sticking to the nail when the polish is applied) took a plastic sheet like an old poly pocket and painted two thick strips of the colours side by side on it. I then dapped my sponge into the two colours and applied them to the nail using a very slight up and down motion to blend them creating a blue-purple-coral transition, once the first layer had dried I applied another just to make the gradient stronger. Don't forget to tape around your nails if you don't want the polish all over your fingers as agin gradients are messy business, although clean up is fairly easy if you use fine tipped cotton buds for the trickier areas.
Finally I used two nail art butterfly decals on my ring fingers in the same colour scheme as an accent and sealed the whole thing with a top coat.
I'll maybe have another post up later as I'll be repainting my nails tonight, maybe another gradient
Pardon my intrusion but my god those colour effects are good! How were you able to achieve this pretty effect?
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Aww you're very kind.
I think knowing what colours and tones work together is important and then once you do a few practice gradients its really easy to blend the colours but it's always trial and error, I usually make a mental note of what I did that worked well in creating the gradient and what didn't to see how to improve it
I think knowing what colours and tones work together is important and then once you do a few practice gradients its really easy to blend the colours but it's always trial and error, I usually make a mental note of what I did that worked well in creating the gradient and what didn't to see how to improve it
Dawnbreaker
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I spent some time on my nails to make them silvery-n-shiny...and then I went to clean my sister's house.
Obviously, I did not think this all the way through. xD
also, those nails are just gorgeous, Sprites, m'dear. Do you offer to paint people's nails for a fee? I think you'd make a tidy little profit if you did!
Obviously, I did not think this all the way through. xD
also, those nails are just gorgeous, Sprites, m'dear. Do you offer to paint people's nails for a fee? I think you'd make a tidy little profit if you did!
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so it's been a while again but I have some new nail art pics to make up for it, I've still been doing my nails but haven't had much inspiration to actually do nail art until about 2 weeks ago when I got a new nail art kit by WAH Nails and it came with a couple of tutorials which got me back into doing nail art. I've also recently downloaded instagram so I'm getting loads of inspiration at the moment from it too. Something else that came with the Nail Art kit was a proper cuticle pusher, something I've never owned and should have invested in sooner because it's doing wonders not just for making my cuticles look better but even my nail painting job looks smoother around the cuticles, so win win.
Anyways heres some nail art pics and quick tutorials
Does anyone ever remember those Bruiser bar sweets, they were blackcurrant and apple flavour? Well that's kind of what I was reminded of when I realised I done this simple stripe nail art. It's basically two coats of a pinky purple nail polish and two coats of a bright green polish down the center, then some top coat for shine. This one I'm not bothering with a tutorial because it's as straight forwards as it looks and freehanded so no striping tape or mark offs to get it neat. I prefer freehanding my stripes for some reason I tend to make less mistakes than when I use tape to get the effect.
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OK this one I'm extremely proud of because it was my first ever attempt at doing something with a nail art pen and brush, something which I never do because I always tend to fuck it up. But this was extremely easy and rather than me telling you how to do it below i'm including the tutorial instead, this one came with my nail art kit. 3 pics includes, one of the tutorial, one of my nails beside it for comparison and one of the nails in stronger lighting so you can see it better.
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Distressed nails, I found this type of nail art while going through instagram. Basically for your colours after you apply your base coat you wipe off almost all the polish on your brush either on the bottle or on paper and use light strokes. I wanted to go with a spring/summery style one but it would work well with black used over a gradient or something to grunge it up. Again this was my first time attempting it and I found it extremely easy to do, one thing I will say is probably not to use any more than 3 colours so the design doesn't look too muddles and to seal it with top coat.
1. Choose a base colour of your choice and paint two coats and leave for about 5 minutes to dry.
2. Chose 2-3 polishes of your choice, try and use colours that match up well or tones that match well together. I'd recommend to use colours either around the same shades of the spectrum or that go well together so for instance I used Yellow, coral and deep purple because I knew they'd blend quite well together and not overshadow each other.
3. Start with the lightest or brightest colour (in my case yellow) and after unscrewing your polish wipe most of the polish from the brush on the side of the bottle or paper, then using light strokes on the nail add a few of them here and there, repeating the process with your other 2 colours. You only want to do a few strokes for each polish and not cover the entire nail or the other colours, you also still want to be able to see your base colour underneath. You can also do a few strokes going across the nail rather than long ways or slightly heavier to really make it seem distressed.
4. Seal your design with some top coat. I recommend this because it slightly blends the colours without muddling up the design or making them run into eachother too much, I used a shine type top coat but this design would work really well with a matte top coat, in fact I think it would really bring out the distressed effect to I think I'll be trying that next time.
Again It was done in literally 5 minutes, it was so quick to do and you can get 2-3 nails out of the same brush because the strokes are only light.
Last but not least, Springtime polka dots. This is a design I've done a couple of times on this thread but with different colour combos, so here it is again with another quick tutorial.
1. Pick a base colour of your choice and paint two coats and leave to dry for around 5 minutes, you can use the 5 minutes to do any clean up around the nails. Personally though for nail art like this and bright colours I think white is over all your best type of base colour to use as bright colours really come alive against it and pop.
2. Choose as many colours as you want to create your dots, in my case I chose pastel colours and picked 7, I chose yellow, mint green, a sky blue, a baby pink, a coral ink, a lilac and a peach colour, again think about what tones your colours have so they don't end up overwhelming eachother, so in this case I knew pastel colours together wouldn't clash with one another.
3. Using a dotting tool or if you don't have one a bobby pin with do just fine, blot your colours onto paper and get dotting, just remember to clean your dotting tool before you apply a new colour. The best suggestion I have is do do one colour the whole way through before choosing another one, also don't worry about the colours overlapping, they're meant to slightly overlap and mix, oif you've used colours with same tones then the design won't become muddled and you'll be able to see the colours underneat the overlapping ones still. You also still want to see your base colour under all the colours.
4 Seal it with a top coat, again for the same reasons the top coat will help seal and blend the colours in a bit without them running too much and will smooth down the design.
Sorry for such a terrible lack of posting in this thread but I can never promise I'll be active these days, I'm already thinking of my next nail art piece do maybe before the end of the week I'll have another couple of pics and how tos.
Anyways heres some nail art pics and quick tutorials
Does anyone ever remember those Bruiser bar sweets, they were blackcurrant and apple flavour? Well that's kind of what I was reminded of when I realised I done this simple stripe nail art. It's basically two coats of a pinky purple nail polish and two coats of a bright green polish down the center, then some top coat for shine. This one I'm not bothering with a tutorial because it's as straight forwards as it looks and freehanded so no striping tape or mark offs to get it neat. I prefer freehanding my stripes for some reason I tend to make less mistakes than when I use tape to get the effect.
NEXT!
OK this one I'm extremely proud of because it was my first ever attempt at doing something with a nail art pen and brush, something which I never do because I always tend to fuck it up. But this was extremely easy and rather than me telling you how to do it below i'm including the tutorial instead, this one came with my nail art kit. 3 pics includes, one of the tutorial, one of my nails beside it for comparison and one of the nails in stronger lighting so you can see it better.
NEXT!
Distressed nails, I found this type of nail art while going through instagram. Basically for your colours after you apply your base coat you wipe off almost all the polish on your brush either on the bottle or on paper and use light strokes. I wanted to go with a spring/summery style one but it would work well with black used over a gradient or something to grunge it up. Again this was my first time attempting it and I found it extremely easy to do, one thing I will say is probably not to use any more than 3 colours so the design doesn't look too muddles and to seal it with top coat.
1. Choose a base colour of your choice and paint two coats and leave for about 5 minutes to dry.
2. Chose 2-3 polishes of your choice, try and use colours that match up well or tones that match well together. I'd recommend to use colours either around the same shades of the spectrum or that go well together so for instance I used Yellow, coral and deep purple because I knew they'd blend quite well together and not overshadow each other.
3. Start with the lightest or brightest colour (in my case yellow) and after unscrewing your polish wipe most of the polish from the brush on the side of the bottle or paper, then using light strokes on the nail add a few of them here and there, repeating the process with your other 2 colours. You only want to do a few strokes for each polish and not cover the entire nail or the other colours, you also still want to be able to see your base colour underneath. You can also do a few strokes going across the nail rather than long ways or slightly heavier to really make it seem distressed.
4. Seal your design with some top coat. I recommend this because it slightly blends the colours without muddling up the design or making them run into eachother too much, I used a shine type top coat but this design would work really well with a matte top coat, in fact I think it would really bring out the distressed effect to I think I'll be trying that next time.
Again It was done in literally 5 minutes, it was so quick to do and you can get 2-3 nails out of the same brush because the strokes are only light.
Last but not least, Springtime polka dots. This is a design I've done a couple of times on this thread but with different colour combos, so here it is again with another quick tutorial.
1. Pick a base colour of your choice and paint two coats and leave to dry for around 5 minutes, you can use the 5 minutes to do any clean up around the nails. Personally though for nail art like this and bright colours I think white is over all your best type of base colour to use as bright colours really come alive against it and pop.
2. Choose as many colours as you want to create your dots, in my case I chose pastel colours and picked 7, I chose yellow, mint green, a sky blue, a baby pink, a coral ink, a lilac and a peach colour, again think about what tones your colours have so they don't end up overwhelming eachother, so in this case I knew pastel colours together wouldn't clash with one another.
3. Using a dotting tool or if you don't have one a bobby pin with do just fine, blot your colours onto paper and get dotting, just remember to clean your dotting tool before you apply a new colour. The best suggestion I have is do do one colour the whole way through before choosing another one, also don't worry about the colours overlapping, they're meant to slightly overlap and mix, oif you've used colours with same tones then the design won't become muddled and you'll be able to see the colours underneat the overlapping ones still. You also still want to see your base colour under all the colours.
4 Seal it with a top coat, again for the same reasons the top coat will help seal and blend the colours in a bit without them running too much and will smooth down the design.
Sorry for such a terrible lack of posting in this thread but I can never promise I'll be active these days, I'm already thinking of my next nail art piece do maybe before the end of the week I'll have another couple of pics and how tos.
trash panda
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I haven't even finished watching this youtube video yet but at the mention of nail polish I had to run over here to show you.
I think you would be so good at this.
I think you would be so good at this.
trash panda
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Wfjaklsfjklasdjfkl! It's basically using nail polish to make jewelry. I can't find the videa now. >__<
Sprites would be great at it.
Sprites would be great at it.