Half Leopard Nails...

So I wanted to try a block nail with a bit of a difference, and that is how I ended up with half leopard nails. 

I decided to use a bluely colour scheme (although the base is actually purple)

Enjoy

Base: Australis Peek-a-Boo

Blue Konad special polish

Half colour: Revlon Midnight Affair 

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Mega Shine

Penguin nails

Super Duper Cute!

Penguin's are my second favourite animal. 

so I had to tribute them on my nails...

It was actually super easy, and I love them! 

I just made the design up (based on a few I'd seen on instagram) and I need a little more practice to perfect the precision of the eyes and beak. 

(the blue blobs were meant to be snowflakes)

I think I'd just do them all penguin's next time.

Penguin's

White Base: Revlon White on White

Black Body: Australis Black mail

Yellow: Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow

Orange: OPI A Roll in the Hague

Snowflake nails

Silver Base: Mabeline Marshmallow

Pale blue: Art Deco Sky Blue

Dark Blue: Australis Sky's the limit

Gold shiny stars

So a while ago I mentioned the nail foils I bought.

and after the epic beading fail I thought something easy and simple would be nice. 

I actually had trouble applying these ones (again)

see the yucky creases in the corners, I think the design is not great as it doesn't cater to the curve of a nail. 

But overall I like the shine, and I much prefer these to my beaded disaster! 

OTT beaded nails!

Forgive me for this monstrosity.

I thought I would show you what happens when I get it wrong.

So we know I was giving nail art with beads a try, and I went horribly horribly over the top.

I removed these as fast as I could. 

Blue beads and stripes

Today I thought I'd try something new..

I had seen these cool nails at The Nailasaurus  where she had used all these little studs on her nails.

As I don't own any little studs - but I do have heaps of little beads I thought I would try with beaded nails...

I'm not too sure on the overall look.

After leaving the beads on for a little over an hour before I started picking them off while watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch

I decided to pick them all off and paint a simple black stripe.

I think I like these way more, and will probably try a similar blocking design again.

Marble nails...

So I thought today I could give marble nails a try...

from reading various different bloggers I thought I better try out some of my nail polishes and see if I could master the marbling skill.

Here are four thumb nails I tried (and removed) 

The pink one looks best - It was slightly watery/thinly coated though...

(also creepily the black one looks like a long old fashioned face painting...)

I have discovered that:

 1) the water temperature is important - too cold and the nail polish sets FAST as

2) Thick or globby nail polish does NOT work. (the black one was very thick - which is usually good for normal nail painting, but it didn't spread in the water - but also the water was cold...)

3) sheer/shimmery nail polish does not show up well full stop. The greeny one has actually two other blue tones which were very shimmery, all that showed up was a slight shimmer (but no actual colour)

The best nail polishes that worked were my revlon ones (I love revlon!)

See how well this manicure turned out!

Lovely colours together!! 

This worked so much better than I hoped! (except the slightly bubbly pinky finger...)

Striped fun nails...

another day of uni-break, another day of nail art fun.

Today is stripy! 

I actually was thinking of doing Tribal Nails which I had seen lots of online, but my attempts were not very good.

In the end I liked how the plain stripes looked - however I wish they were straighter lines. 

I can only improve right?

Base colour: Mabeline Marshmallow (silvery colour)

Black: Art Deco Black

Yellow: Art Deco Hi-Lite

Pale Blue: Art Deco Sky Blue

Green: Art Deco Quirky Turquoise

Pale Pink: Art Deco Baby Pink