Tie-Dye on the Highway

Hello!
I'm back after an unintentional hiatus in which my nails had to be cut and polish was not being my friend.


Anyways, I wanted to try a sort of tie-dye type design, due to my recent obsession with it, but I thought I'd play it safe and just do a gradient. I first painted all my nails with two coats of a cheap white Natural Collection polish (which, by the way, is surprisingly good for something costing £1-2) before sponging on China Glaze Electric Pineapple at the base of the nail with a make-up sponge. 

Once that was dry, I used a pale pink that may have been Barry M Strawberry sponged onto the middle of the nail and my current favourite nail polish ever to exist (OPI I Vant to be A-Lone Star) on the very tips. Finally, I used Seche Vite on top of it all to make it super shiny! It doesn't really look like tie-dye but resembles it enough to keep me happy :)

P.S Sorry for the even worse than usual photos! Not sure what happened but only one photo turned out even remotely good enough!

Easter/Spring Nails and THE WORST WATER MARBLING EVER

I'm going away over Easter to see my mum so I probably won't have time to post this tomorrow, which is why it's going up a little early. I'm particularly excited for Easter this year as I gave up chocolate for lent and I can't wait to be able to eat it again!

Anyways, I came up with this little nail design as I was going along and it turned out pretty good...

Colours used:

• OPI I Vant to be A-Lone Star (blue)
• American Apparel Factory Grey (lavender)
• American Apparel Army Jacket (green)
• An old unnamed Avon pink
• OPI In My Back Pocket (orange for the beak)
• Barry M Black
• Natural Collection Nail Tip Whitener

To do this, you need to first paint the base colour on each nail and let it completely dry before sponging on the lavender and the green. Once this is dry, dot on the white with a dotting tool, pinhead, toothpick, bobby pin or whatever you can find that would get similar results. For the ring finger, paint a pink oval and dot two black circles near the top for the eyes of the chick. The beak can be dotted on too, but you will need a smaller tool (I used a toothpick). The white egg can be free handed with the normal polish brush or you could use a smaller nail art brush. All my nail art bushes are dirty (I'm awful at remembering to clean them!) so I used a toothpick to outline the egg and then just filled it in with the normal brush. Add a topcoat and voila!

Now onto the water marbling...

Orange and blue make a hand full of smiles...

Okay so I had the hardest time trying to think of what to call this. It reminds me of hippyish, summery, happy times and makes me smile every time I look at my hands! I intended to post this on Tuesday but I have had so much college work this week (I had to write two essays last night alone) and have been exhausted. I only have two decent photos today as well as I had an appointment at the hairdressers and by the time I got back, the lighting was awful :-( Luckily, the next two weeks are Easter break so I shall be spending much longer on my nails and less on what I should be doing...

This is three (!) coats of In My Back Pocket by OPI for the base colour. This polish makes me so conflicted. I love the colour, but I can never get it perfectly opaque and I refuse to use more that 3 coats. The blue is a cheap (seriously, they are like £1.99) Beauty UK one that I bought once because it was next to the checkout. The flowers were created by simply dotting 5 blue petals with a dotting tool, although you could use a bobby pin, and one dot of white in the centre.

My laptop's doing this wonderful and not at all irritating thing again where it doesn't like to keep photos rotated...

Anyway, hopefully I will have time to do something a little less basic soon. My nail time has been severely lacking :(

Goodbye!