Gradient stripe Nails

I'm feeling pretty happy today because finally, after days and days of endless rain, the clouds have parted and the sun is out! (A rare occurrence in Manchester.) 

As a celebration I thought I'd share these blue stripy nails with you all. I made such a mess of my fingers doing these but once I'd cleaned it all up I was quite pleased with the result. 

For these nails I used 6 different polishes and mixed two together to make one of the colours. I first painted all my nails white and then added each colour on top with a thin brush. 

The design was meant to be a gradient but when I finished I realised I had put two of the colours the wrong way round! Ooops. That meant there was quite a jump between the light blues and the dark blues which someone told me made it look like mountains coming out of the sea or something which I quite liked the sound of. :) 

I think my little finger looks like it's having issues in this photo :-/

The idea for this was planted in my head ages ago by Mr. Candiipants. She's pretty awesome!!  She also has put up a tutorial for this so go and give it a look. 

Henna Nails

This Summer my best friend turned 21 (HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN AMI!!!) and invited our friends to her family birthday. Ami and her cousins were all going to be wearing saris so we all wore saris too. Buying and wearing my first sari really was an exciting experience (thank Ami and Zash for helping me - and Zash's mum for putting it on me!)

I decided to paint my nails to match my sari so used a similar turquoise blue colour but then, inspiration struck! I wanted to add little henna inspired designs as an accent on the thumb and ring finger. 

This is one design where I much prefer how the design done with my wrong hand came out because my left (above) was all bubbly/lumpy. :( Why does that happen sometimes?! 

The design on the thumb is a part of a flower. I added the dots later to tie the two designs together more. I used a black striper polish for the designs. 

And here is me in my sari! It's the most blingy outfit I've worn...probably ever, I'm not really a sequins kinda girl. I still loved wearing it though and everyone looked amazing in theirs. I know it doesn't look quite right in the pictures but he sari colour matched my nails surprisingly well really. I desperately wanted to cut my face out of this by the way, I don't know it you'll be thankful or sad that I didn't.