Marbled Nails

So seeing as my nails are currently boring and bare I thought I'd post some I did a while ago.

These are done with a pinky/red/coraly colour and a purple. Can you guess how they're done? 

It is a surprisingly simple technique. :)

The ring fingers have gradients because I was a tad obsessed with ring finger gradients at the time. I wish I hadn't done them though, I think it would have looked better all the same. 

Ooh fuzzy fuzzy picture. And what's that I spy, a chipped nail?! Uncool!

New Job

I've started my job this week and it's been very exciting so far! Unfortunately it's meant I've had clean boring unpolished nails. :O Shock horror!!!

When taking off my last lot of nail art I couldn't help photographing what was left on my cotton pad. The entire design came off pretty much intact! I've noticed this a few times and it always amuses me. It only happens if I hold the pad still on my nail for a while and then take it off in a smooth motion. I hope it amuses you slightly too. :)

Stripy Red Nails

The other day my best friend was wearing a lovely red top (shown below) and immediately I told her I wanted to copy it on my nails. I promised I'd dedicate the post to her so Ami, this is for you! :)

These just have a red base with the black pattern added on top with a striper brush. 

The top is a lot more red that it has come out in this photo. I really need to start taking these photos with my camera rather than my phone! 

Satan's Hollow Nails

 So these are some old nails that I did when I was going to a club called Satan's Hollow. It wasn't as scary as it sounds! I thought it would be fun to do some fiery nails for the night and here is the result.

The ring finger gradient nails go from black to red to orange and are done my mixing the colours while they are wet on the nail. 

My thumbs each had little flames on them with a gradient background. I made the fire shape my blobbing nail polish on the nail in the rough shape I wanted and dragging out the shape with a sharpish object. I think I used a pencil for these. 

Gold Stripe Nails Updated

So I did add some zig-zags to the gold stripe. It looks a bit tribal-y now which is cool. It looks so lumpy in this photo, probably because I naughtily didn't but on a top coat!

This picture shows the side view. I keep looking at them like this because I love the teal colour.

Gold Stripe Nails

So I've had to cut my nails! :( I don't mind them short but I was quite enjoying having a little more length on them. Though the claw-like thumb nails had started inflicting some damage on me.

I decided to paint my newly short nails with a gold stripe and then lined it either side with black.
Simple and shiny :)

I think I might add something more to this. Maybe zig-zags down the stripe. I do feel like I've seen that somewhere though... Oh well! 

Ikat Nails

I absolutely loved this design on my nails and I'm not too sure why. I think it had a lot to do with the gorgeous blue/green base colour. It looks so much better in real life. Sort of like a beetle...

My inspiration was Get Nailed once again, I am slightly in love with her nail art.