My First Franken.

So after spending a lot of time reading up on "Franken" nail polishes I decided to try some for myself.

Franken polishes are pretty much a nail polish that are created by mixing other nail polishes, pigments (loose coloured powder) or glitters.

This is my first attempt where I mixed :

- My left over Colour Stay Top Coat (Revlon)

- some old make-up powder foundation

-round silver glitter

I did not like this final look...

So decided to add

- some more nude coloured powder (from an old make-up pallet)

- Some Revlon "Sheer Petal" nail polish (to try and thicken it up a little)

-and Sally Hansen "Rockstar Pink" to add a bit of multi-colour shimmer

I prefer this final result a lot more. 

but I wish I hadn't added silver glitter pieces, I think this would look beautiful with just the nude colour and the multi-colour shimmer. 

and the glitter pieces make it a bit clumpy...

this is with a Mega Shine (Sally Hansen) Top Coat

Bright halo nails...

Again following on from the trying all the nail ides from Grazia Magazine...

today I did Halo Nails.

I did these pretty easily, I painted the nail a nudey brown shade and then used a nail art pen to draw my outline. 

The magazine suggests painting your nails the bright colour and then painting only the centre with a nude colour (I would suggest painting the centre white and then the nude colour to make sure it really shows up on top of the bright base)

This is my attempt... 

Next time I might try with Orange or Green!

Green geometric nails.

As promised here is my Green geometric manicure...

This manicure was super easy to do! 

Firstly I painted the pale green as a base, then once dry I used a nail art pen to paint the bright green and then darker green.

no masking tape ripping off nail polish and sharp crisp lines! woohoo! 

I hope you like.

Pale Green: Australis Sweetpea

Bright Green: L.A. Colours Art Deco Mint Green

Dark Green: L.A. Colours Art Deco Quirky Turquoise

Geometric nails!

I was flicking through Grazia magazine and came across these cool nail ideas!

so I decided to try them all!

firstly Geometric nails!

I couldn't choose just one colour...

and I did them using different methods.

Firstly the purple I did using masking tape...

I painted my entire nail white then used a sheer pink to do the pale pink colour (this only really shows up well over white)

I then taped over sections of the pale pink and painted with the light purple.

but this was a mistake!

The masking tape pulled off bits of the pale pink (probably didn't leave enough dry time)

I then masking taped over the pale pink and purple to do the dark purple streaks, and again when I pulled off the masking tape it pulled off heaps of colour! 

so I ended up carefully going over each coloured section again with nail polish (that is why the lines aren't so crisp.

but still I think it looks quite nice.

White (under colour): Sally Hansen Sheer Romance Naturel White

Pale Pink: Revlon Pink Orchid

Pale Purple: OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender 

Dark Purple: Elf Dark Purple Shimmer

Tomorrow I'll post how I did the green...

Fourth of July nails!

So I have some nice American family friends and decided to embrace their celebration!

I hope you like.

Red: Sally Hansen Honeymoon Red

Blue: Revlon Mint Fizz

White Stars: Konad special white polish

White stripes: Art Deco white

Catty nails...

So I've been watching a lot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch

and thought I'd create some tribute nails for Salem (the talking black cat)

Hope you like them.

Glittery gradient nails...

I saw a really cute glittery gradient nail manicure on a blog the other day so thought I'd give it a go...

Mine wasn't as effective.

I think I should paint the glitter as a base and then dab on a solid colour over the top (not the other way around)

This one I started with a nude base then gradient blue, and painting glitter over the top and dabbing the excess off (because it was quite a thick glitter)