Wild ikat hearts + diamonds nail art

Hi there guys!! I have a nail art look today and it's ok, I wasn't in love with it when I did it and generally it was alright. Went a bit overboard with the lines but at least I tried something new and learnt from it.

Did an accent thing with the green and the pink, the bases by themselves looked a bit off cause one's a pastel and the other's a neon. Didn't get that much better from there haha, no I didn't hate this look but I struggle to say I liked it.
Got some contrast with the hearts and diamonds (like cards!! Diamonds are my favourite suit) and it still wasn't looking right so I added more colours to the base. Still wasn't working so I added the billions of black lines which helped in a sense but we were too far gone by that point haha.

I used the brush of the polish for the general shapes of the hearts and the diamonds then toothpicked all the other colours and the black pen. It was all pretty freeform and it didn't work for this design. A bit too messy for my liking.

Green base: Etude House - No. 86
Pink base: Etude House - No. 60
Extra green: Barry M - Kiwi and Illamasqua - Melange
Extra pink (though can't really remember...): Barry M - Boots LE 2012 B, OPI - Japanese Rose Garden and Color Club - Wing Fling
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Purple: Essie - Lilacism
Dark purple: OPI - Plum & Get It and Barry M - Fashion Icon (glitter couldn't even save it :/)
Blue: Barry M - Malibu
White: Barry M - Matt White

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a really nice day!! :)

Cool-toned Sliding Geometric Nails

Hey there my favourite chums, my title makes this design seem fancier than it really is but that doesn't mean I like it any less. I actually really like it, though I do like most geometric designs. I saw a geometric pattern, thought it was sweet and used for inspiration for my nails.

Yeah I think geometric designs are awesome, and I like the diamonds in this one, how the shapes kind of "slide" together. And letting the glitter base shine through was something else I liked. The jagged edges are pretty beast too, I like some rough edges. Of course I like all the colours too, ok pink isn't cool-toned but this shizz is pretty cool in general.

I can't get away from that black outline, but I like black outlines so expect more of them. I drew the outline then filled in the shapes with various polishes with toothpicks.

Base: Essie - Lilacism and Nails Inc - Westminister Bridge Road
Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind
Rose Pink: OPI - Japanese Rose Garden
Teal: Barry M - Guava
Mint Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Jade Green: Max Factor - Cool Jade
Bright Green: Barry M - Greenberry
Cherry Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Cornflower Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny
Light Purple: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Hot Pink: No. 7 - Me! Me! Me!
Dark Purple: OPI - Plum & Get It
Sparkly Blue: Essie - Lots Of Lux
Dark Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia
Light Blue: The Face Shop - BL601
I like using all the colours. Quite clearly.

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Hello Kitty & The Diamonds

Hi there guys!! Happy Friday!! By the way my title isn't meant to refer to the singer (though her songs seem cute :P I haven't heard many though), it's merely an accident but I like accidents like that. I actually have not done that many Hello Kitty manicures and cartoons are right up my alley, so another was called for!! And yeah I love this manicure so Hello Kitty was the right call.

I'm loving this, I love the colours of the diamonds over the nude and of course Hello Kitty who is the quintessential cute cat. I feel like it all just comes together in this manicure. I like all the arrangements of the diamonds too, it's pretty cool, like those staircase diamonds. Yeah I love this, there's not much more to say, I love when designs like this come together and I'm not disappointed.

To be honest I messed up my Hello Kitty the first time round and I had to get a cotton bud and start that nail again, the proportioning was just all wrong. I was trying to give Hello Kitty a hat and it was a big fat fail. But otherwise I drew the details with a toothpick dipped in nail polish. The same goes for the diamonds.

Nude: M&S - Sun Glow
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White and Barry M - Matt White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine
Pink diamonds: OPI - Charged Up Cherry, OPI - Japanese Rose Garden, M&S - Peony, Barry M - Pink Foil, Barry M - Dragon Fruit and Barry M - Princess
Red diamonds: OPI - Dutch Tulips, M&S - Poppy, Barry M - Raspberry and OPI - Jinx
Orange diamonds: Essie - Tart Deco, Essie - Fear Or Desire, Models Own - Beach Party and Body Collection - Orange Pink (no name)

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day!!! :)

Ikat Diamond X

Hello there you wonderful people!! Ok my less procrastinating thing isn't working out so hot, but that's the thing with resolutions, you can't expect them to be immediate and I don't. But I'll actually have to work on this one, a lot. I like this X, very dramatic, it's obviously not really. But I like how much you can do with ikats, and they look great and are so easy to do.

See dat X, it's v fun. I really like the colour combination here, and the bar glitter all peaking through is pretty cool (unless you hate bar glitter, then it's not pretty cool for you). I was worried about proportioning here, but it all worked out in the end. Hallelujah for my black pen!!

I got my white polish and did a rough diamond, then got the brush of whatever colour of polish I was using and did a diamond blob over the white and finally I did some spikiness with the black pen. Sorted.

Base: OPI - My Current Crush and Barry M - Tinsel Town
White: Barry M - Matt White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Pink: Madame Milly - Pink (no name)
Teal: Barry M - Guava
Green: Rimmel - Block Your Green!

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Neon Ikat Diamonds

Hello there wonderful people!! The long week is thankfully over. I'd love to say things are winding down but they are seriously not. This time last year all my exams were over and I was fighting with myself whether to start a blog or not. Now my exams aren't over and my blogaversary is less than a week away :O It completely crept up on me, I thought "Oh it's AGES away". That is no longer the case and May has whizzed past (as the year in general has). I cannot wait til my exams are over, I will be walking with a skip in my step and spontaneously dancing in random bursts at unpredictable moments (and I'm a great dancer :/).
I have been really liking the ikat pattern, and what could be better than combining it with neon. Nothing, cause neon is the best thing ever.

I normally do the triangle ikat shape but I wanted to switch things up and I much prefer the diamonds. They're great! I busted out my 2 neon polishes and of course added accents. Everything I do requires accents but also you don't want to over-neon or the effect won't be as prominent (or something).

My camera was struggling with how bright the neon is, an example of the brightness, is sometimes in school I'd be sitting in class and I'd say "NEON ATTACK!!" and put my nails in someone's face cause that's normal. I edited to make things BRIGHT as they are.
I also want to apologize for my cuticles, I don't know what's been happening as I've been moisturising a lot and they're still messed. Maybe it's stress, but I'm not stressed so I really don't know, also stress doesn't affect the cuticles (at least I don't think so). I genuinely don't know.

I start with the neons. I needed a white base for China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard (neon green) as I seem to be the only one with formula issues with this polish. So Models Own - Snow White (such a struggle as we have gone into mega gloopy town with this polish) and Professional Nail Care - French Manicure White Tip (which I don't like as it's just a poor white manicure white with no pigmentation). There were bubbles as nothing would dry but the ikats covered it up so all was ok.
But Snow White was good for the whites of the ikats as it was naturally rougher due to the gloopiness. And the neon pink is Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate (LOVE), it's neon pink, love is implied.
For the accents the pink is Color Club - Wing Fling and the aqua is Topshop - Green Room. The black is Lovely Me:Ex - Black and occasionally I would fix things with Lovely Me:Ex - White.
The Color Club topcoat smoothed everything out and was generally brilliant.

I love the roughness of the ikat pattern, once again I have been really enjoying it. I like things with a bit of "edge". This has "edge". I hope you all have a lovely weekend and thank you for reading!!! :)

Geometric Diamonds (if spiders liked geometry)

Hi there!! How are you all, I'm hoping good. During the holidays I never know what to do, as much as I love the holidays (soon when my proper exams begin holidays will cease to exist D:) I sit around wondering what to do. But currently I'm thirsty, after this post I'm gonna get a drink :P Today I have some rather random nail art, I did some glitter gradients then drew something on top. I really don't know, they weirdly remind of diamonds (strange diamonds) or if spiders made geometric webs.

This is probably the kind of design that would grow on me. just looks... strange (but kind of cool). I like the uniformity of the index finger. I want to experiment with the pattern for another time. I'm surprised with how much I like the purple gradient, Shambolic really works in this case.
Purple: Essie - Lilacism
Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Purple Glitter (lightest to darkest): Nails Inc - Abbey Road, China Glaze - Luxe and Lush and Butter LONDON - Shambolic
Pink Glitter (lightest to darkest): OPI - I Lily Love You and OPI - Excuse Moi! 
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Charged Up Cherry is really red in the pictures, and in all honesty really red in real life too, I'm not too keen on that.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day! :)