Blue Distressed Grid Nails

Hi there everyone, if anyone is still here cause I know I've been away for quite a while. Can't say I'll be back much either though. To explain my absence basically I just stopped doing nail art cause I got super into knitting. They don't contradict each other so to speak, like I can have nice nails and knit but I've just kind of invested all my time into knitting (and been loving it). I still like nail art but I've moved on, you know the natural progression from nail art to knitting hahaha.
It's bad that I didn't say I moved away from the blog because of A levels haha. But yeah I got my results and I did pretty well, 3 A's and I've got into uni so this is why I think I will be retiring this blog. I do have one more nail art look before I go but I think it's time to say goodbye. I've had such a good time writing this blog, the point was always to document the creativity cause I've always loved art and while I've felt behind so frequently on this blog it's always been a good time. And while it's been small the feedback I received from anybody always made my day and I've met such lovely people in the nail community so thank you for even reading a few words or taking some time to look at my nail art.
I don't think I'll start a knitting blog, I think I've had my share of blogging but I might start an instagram cause I love pretty things really. I might put up the odd bit of nail art there. I've knitted like a maniac since Christmas and I moved away from the blog, I have a real affinity for hats, I love knitting hats, I don't even know why cause I look terrible in hats but that's where I'm at now. Anyway after that huge explanation I'll get into the nail art, which I obviously did a while ago. I have been doing nail art but it's mostly geometric and I haven't been bothering to photograph (and my cuticles have been a mess haha).

It's been so long since I've done this, I can't remember how to do this anymore. I saw this on someone's instagram but honestly I cannot remember. But they did it in warm colours. I think it's pretty rad, love a bit of distressed and geometric is always so clean. The glitter makes it more clean too.

Trying to keep the same format as before, even though it's not gonna be for long. You know the distressed nails procedure, wipe most the polish of the brush and swipe. Got my toothpick and drew the grid on top.

This is hilarious cause I cannot remember at all what was used so I'm gonna guess.
Blues and purples: Barry M - Sugar Apple, Rimmel - Disco Ball, M&S - Light Mix, OPI - Plum & Get It and I don't think I can guess anymore haha
Black: Rimmel - Black Pearl

I hope you've all been doing well these few months and you've been keeping well, I hope you guys have a great day and until my next and last post!! :')

Geometric Metallic Stripe Nails

Hello there guys!! I hope you're January is going sweet. I'm desperately trying to motivate myself to do work. We'll get there. So today I have a nail art look, I'm not the happiest with this, I think with a different colour scheme it would've been way better. I should've just enjoyed the glitter nails I was rocking with.

So there's a super glittery base and some metallic stripes. I really like the stripes but I think the whole thing looks very dull because of the colours. It had potential.

This is a simple one, where I just painted lines and hoped that they weren't too lopsided. That's really the extent of it.

Base: M&S - Peacock, Barry M - Aqua Glitter, OPI - Polka.com and Revlon - Belle
Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror
Pink: Barry M - Boots Xmas LE 2012 B

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

Cut-out herringbone green ombré nails

Hello there!! I apologise if in future posts the state of my cuticles goes majorly downhill. My cuticles and the winter don't go together, my cuticles seriously protest. Anyway I have nail art as herringbone is really cool. It's been a while since I've had an ombre here too (though that more because I'm not the biggest fan) but the outcome is this crazy design.

I was meant to have a colour scheme but then it didn't happen and I should've had one. Also the colours you're seeing on my thumb is the result of some weird as chemical reactions. Forgot that Rimmel Block Your Green! reacts weirdly with other polishes since I haven't used it in a while. The colours on my thumb were actually blue, pinky purple and purple. Who knows what happened?
I went for a rainbow thing on my other nails and I quite like it. Though the green was not a good base. should've ombred the whole thing at that rate. So I left out the herringbone gaps and I really like it. No regrets about the glitter.

So as usual this was all freehand, I had no way of judging the spaces but I think I did pretty good with the spacing and straightness of lines. So toothpick and trapeziums.

Green ombre (lightest to darkest): Barry M - Pole Position, Barry M - Mint Green, Barry M - Greenberry, Barry M - Kiwi and Rimmel - Block Your Green! (the culprit)
Glitter: Revlon - Belle (the other culprit) and Rimmel - Disco Ball
Thumb (left to right): Barry M - Malibu, Orly - Frolic and Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Index: Barry M - Miami, OPI - Charged Up Cherry and M&S - Sun Glow
Middle: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!, Essie - Fear Or Desire and Rimmel - Bee A Honey
Ring: Barry M - Guava, H&M - Blue My Mind and Barry M - Berry Ice Cream
Pinky: Orly - Frolic (cause you wouldn't be able to tell it's the middle colour on my thumb) and OPI - Plum & Get It

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

Neon brushstrokes + tribal nail art

Hey there guys!! We're nearing November and made it through October alive. I had my formal (or "prom") last week and that was fun and that was my last crazy event and I'm enjoying the week off school I've been blessed with. Meaning I did nothing productive lol. Need to sort that. I think November'll be nice. I know it's Halloween time but let's be real Halloween is one day of rubbishness, I have no nail art for that. Also I have nail art I'd prefer to do. Like this little design that was pretty rad, I love neons.

So I used the distressed thing but with neons and since neons are sheer it went well and contrasted that with a jet black geometric design and it's sweet if I do say so myself. It's so striking and I love that. Also I love triangles, fun fact.

So we know how brushstrokes go down with the wiping off all the polish from the brush and going with that. Then I got my toothpick and painted the black pattern, I just went with random designs there's no real correlation. I try my best to do freehand straight lines, I think I've got quite good at it over the years. Of course they're not ruler straight but we do the best we can :)

White: Barry M - Cotton

Black: Rimmel - Black Pearl

Pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate

Yellow: American Apparel - Neon Yellow

Orange: Models Own - Beach Party

Purple: Orly - Frolic

Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard

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

Colourful half triangles + Pink glitter nails

Hey there!! Hope you're having a good day and life is being cool with you right now. I now it can be overwhelming, I've been there, done that and there's a chance I'm going back cause I do A levels haha but not really. Today I have a sweet mani cause I love geometric patterns, I was once again inspired by Base Coat Top Coat but different colour scheme. Was in a bit of a creative slump, let's hope I get out haha.

I really really liked this look cause it's really cool, I love uniformity. I was going to do a full design but those 3 nails took ages so I was like "Ok that's enough" and I like accents so it all works out. I love the kind of grid pattern the spaces in between the triangles left. I wasn't sure of the rainbow triangles but I like the way it looks. The more colours the better right?

I got my toothpicks and did the little triangles one by one, so as you can imagine is why it all took so long. Like it's not perfect but I'm still happy, when you're freehanding perfection doesn't happen but that's the charm of it.

Blue: Nails Inc - The Tide Is High
Pink: The Face Shop - Strawberry Milk Yogurt
Rainbow triangles (in rainbow order): M&S - Poppy, OPI - Where Did Suzi's Man-go?, Essie - Fear Or Desire, Rimmel - Bee A Honey, Barry M - Pole Position, Barry M - Kiwi, OPI - Jade Is The New Black, Barry M - Malibu, Barry M - Prickly Pear, Orly - Frolic (my current favourite), Barry M - Miami, OPI - Charged Up Cherry and Rimmel - Black Pearl

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

Cool-Toned 3D Cube Nails

Hey there!! I hope you're doing well today and things are working out somewhat ok, especially you hilarious people doing the 31 Day Challenge, I just don't see how anyone has any time?? I have none, I can barely paint my nails once a week let alone 7. Oh the days when I had the time, and still I didn't complete in 31 days. I did this design when school was starting again so when I felt depressed at least I had cool nails. Matteing this was a mistake though, the colours dulled and my matte topcoat is adding white specks that are not easy to remove (at all).

So ignoring the flaws I pointed out in my intro I really like this design, 3D cubes always look cool. I love the colour scheme too. Also the fact it isn't a full design made it mad spiky the other way round and I really really like that.

I did the black outline and then filled in the spaces, it was very easy to go over the lines so I had to redo things so much. I just went one colour at a time so it was very random. But I like the outcome, I don't think any colour dominates.

Blue: Models Own - Asscher Blue
Black: Rimmel - Black Pearl and Ciate - Chalkboard Paint
Darker Blue: Barry M - Malibu
Mint Green: Barry M - Pole Position
Pinky Purple: Orly - Frolic
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

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

Distressed art deco arch nails

Hello there!! Man I cannot believe it's April, life has been going so fast this year!! I know that's every year but I feel it's especially speedy this year. Life moving faster ya'know. More nail art today and I really like this design, mega cool, geometric designs are some of my favourites.

Also this was so unbelievably easy to do and I love the way it looks. I love the colour scheme too, I thought it was very art deco, obviously a much less complex art deco but I don't think that detracts. Distressed nails are also super cool. I like the silver outline too, got to stray away from black you know. I think black would've been too intense, also my pen is acting up :P Oh yeah I was totally inspired by Mr. Candiipants!!

So I got the brushes of the polish, wiped most of the polish off and randomly swiped, I tried to make the distribution of colours as even as possible. Then once it was all dry I got my silver on a toothpick and drew the "egg arches", haha some got totally wonky but I thought it added to the design. No need to be perfect :)

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips

Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!

Yellow: American Apparel - Neon Yellow (love this in the design cause it blends great)

Gold: w7 - Golden Sands

Dusty green: Illamasqua - Melange

Dark green: Barry M - Kiwi

Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror

Flakies: Essie - Shine of the Times

Thanks so much for reading and I hope you have a fab day!! :)

Star-Crossed Nails

Hello!! I've have some downtime recently so I've been trying to get some nail art and general nail stuff done before everything goes insane again. I might have to do mock exams and so much urgh. See my clever title, cause it's literally stars and crosses, I needed something simple to last and this fitted that criteria.

I always like star patterns and the cross pattern is pretty cool. It's very simple but sometimes that's the most effective. I like this colour scheme too, blue and green are 2 of my favourite colours too. The glitter really adds too, it was missing a little je ne sais quoi and the glitter got it.

I freehanded the design with some toothpicks, I'd draw the outlines of the stars and then fill them in. I tried my best to keep the lines straight and while they're a bit wobbly I'm happy with it. For my left hand I did the pattern "inverted" cause I can never truly match.

Red: Barry M - Starlet
Blue: Barry M - Malibu
Green: Barry M - Greenberry
Dark blue: Nails Inc - Baker Street
Olive green: Illamasqua - Melange
Glitter: Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B

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

Colourful triangle pattern nails

Hey there!! You're probably busy right now just cause everything always seems to be busy. But while it's busy I hope that it's also worthwhile. One of the reasons I've been posting less is cause I have my Grade 8 piano coming up in less than a month and a girl has to practice and keep her nails short. But short nails can still have sweet designs.

Triangles are my favourite shape, they're just edgier than circles and squares. I think about shapes more than most cause I do A level maths. It's hard, I'm sure you guys who've done it know that. Anyway getting away from maths I love the bright colours and just how cool the triangle pattern looks. It's just mega fun.

I used toothpicks to freehand this as usual, as you can tell the triangles are not all the same size but that doesn't bother me. It's just so uniform and I like that sometimes.

Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine
Red: OPI - Jinx
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Green: Barry M - Kiwi
Blue: Barry M - Malibu

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

Gradient hearts + blue tribal nail art

Hey there!! I realise now this actually would've been a valentine's appropriate design but I did this is January. Gurl don't have time for valentine's designs. I was looking for something funky to wear for the week and I love some glitter gradients and tribal.

My gradients are very hit and miss and this one missed but I feel like that component didn't really matter cause of everything else going on. I love cute little heart patterns and I've always thought tribal patterns were great. It's somewhat contrasting, but not too much, like most nail patterns work together anyway. I had a slightly different pattern going on, on my left hand.

I think my gradient wasn't so good cause I just used the brush of the nail polish. Otherwise everything was with a toothpick and went wild with that.

Purple: The Body Shop - A Grape Affair
Teal: Essie - Naughty Nautical
Glitter: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen
Dark pink: Madame Milly - Pink (no name)
Pink: No. 7 - Me! Me! Me!
Pink glitter: Barry M - Socialite
Blue: Essie - Lots of Lux
Light blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple

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

Hot Geometric Rainbow Nails

Hello there guys!! It's been a while, but as you can assume I've been busy so I haven't been painting let alone blogging. Hmmm what's happened in like the last 2 weeks? I passed my driving theory woohoo!! Oh yeah I hope you had a nice Valentine's day, I legitimately forgot that was a real thing, like I don't think it has any weight as a significant holiday. The piano was my valentine, I love the piano haha. I have a nice little design here, I really like the geometric rainbow pattern.

I liked the idea of a warm toned rainbow thing, and then different shades of the colours fading.  really like the look it's fun and I think it's sunny and funky. I wanted the colours of the rainbow to stand out and it was random but I like it way it looked. I should've used my good topcoat cause the matte topcoat didn't do well on top of that.

I freehanded the whole thing as usual starting with the outlines of the rainbows and then I used my toothpicks to fill the stripes of the rainbow in.

Red outline: Barry M - Carousel
Reds: M&S - Poppy and Essie - Leading Lady
Orange outline: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Oranges: Rimmel - It's A Scorcher! and Paris Collection - Copper Topper
Light orange outline: Models Own - Beach Party
Peaches: Paris Collection - Brown Beaute and w7 - Linen
Gold outline: w7 - Golden Sands
Yellows: Ciate - Loop the Loop and American Apparel - Neon Yellow
Base: M&S - Maize

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

Red/blue/black 3D cube nails

Hello there guys!! I wish I could be posting more in December but I have a lot of things going on. Also honestly I'd rather be doing more productive things if I can than nails right now cause I have a big piano exam coming up relatively soon and I want to rock it. Plus let's not even go into how much stuff I have on, everyday there's something mental. Plus I have to keep on top of my schoolwork, basically I'm not allowed to have fun. I'm hoping once school is over and its the holidays (YES THE HOLIDAYS), I can chill and do some nails. But it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and I'm mad excited, CHRISTMAS!!!
I felt like painting something cool and 3D cube nails are the embodiment of cool so I had to get them sorted. Especially since my last attempt was so unbelievably messy. I'm really happy with it this time.

I just tried to be really neat, also the added glitter makes it really sweet. I quite like the colour scheme too, it's serious if you know what I mean. I love that red too. I love the geometric-esque designs and this brings it to a whole new dimension (d'ya see what I did there? :P).

Again this design is easier than it looks, I began with my outline which has a certain pattern to it but once you learn it and repeat it, it's very straightforward. I randomly filled the sides in with toothpicks and whatever polish I thought was appropriate. The top of the cubes always being in sparkly black though.

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black and M&S - Petrol (added so much to the design, tied it all together)
Red: Barry M - Carousel
Blue: Spa Ritual - Navigate and OPI - Get Your Number
Light Blue: The Face Shop - BL601

Thanks so much for reading and I hope you have a jolly day!! :)

Pink + teal herringbone nails

Hey there guys!! Hope you're chilling, I'm trundling along as usual. Things seem to get more and more busy for me so I'm trying to manage and have as much fun as possible while doing so cause otherwise I'd be drained. Drained is not a good feeling guys. So positivity and that!! I have herringbone nail art today cause it was about time I tried it, plus I do love that geometric look so this had to be right up my street.

I really like this colour scheme, I think it's a pretty solid, teal and pink and the bonus silver/grey only aids it. Herringbone looks cool and it's so simple, adding glitter can only make me happier. The design is mega sweet, you'll probably be seeing it in many different colour combinations in the future haha.

Herringbone is also so easy to paint, if you're not sure I say go for it!! It's actually as simple as it looks. After glittering everywhere, I just got my toothpicks and drew some straight lines (actually straight lines can be hard not gonna lie) and then did arrow lines(?) between the columns. After that I just randomly coloured in some of the spaces, I managed to be neat enough to no have to go over the lines again. It's the small things.

Base: Essie - Naughty Nautical
Glitter: Orly - Go Deeper
Flakes: M&S - Light Mix (really nice over the teal)
Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Metallic pink: Barry M - Boots Xmas LE 2012 B (brill for this design)
Grey: Barry M - Chai

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

Geometric Gradient Line Nails

Hi there!! This nail art look is inspired by the one and only Chalkboard Nails where she did this design during the 31 Day Challenge and I thought it was sweet. But also on that note, I'm so glad I didn't do the challenge this year. There's just no way, I can barely do my nails once a week let alone everyday. Madness that challenge is, madness. Girl has homework.

This is a bad time of the year for my cuticles :/

I thought all the lines looked really funky, the gradient making is especially so. I mixed up the colours for fun and otherwise I think this looks really cool. I would just stare at the design in school cause of gradient really, gradients are great. 

I got to work with my toothpicks and initially I tried to make the lines thinner but when that didn't work it was chubby lines all the way. I first did the 3 main colours then went to the intersects and did the blending colours, worked quite well if I do say so myself. 

Pink: Models Own - Radiant Pink

Glitter (I had to add some glitter): M&S - Light Mix

Beige: Nails Inc - Sao Paulo Streets

Brown: Nails Inc - Porchester Square

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Light Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear and Essie - Lilacism

Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny

Light Blue: The Face Shop - GR501

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

Tessellating Triangle Nails

Hey there!! Life's been a little bit hectic lately but I'm trying to find balance. My whole life I've been trying to find balance and I don't think I've got there yet, balance is hard. So today I have some funky cool geometric nails, I just love triangles so here I am more triangles but colourful ones that look quite cool.

I had a silver base and I guess I just wanted some geometric nails then I saw a cool triangle pattern. I painted the triangles with the flow cause I just kind of gave up with following the pattern. So I went a bit loose and free with the triangles. I have to say the textured polishes made the design, the extra sparkle and something something was really significant.

I used my toothpicks and just freehanded them triangles. When it came to positioning I tried to get them all the same size (hard, it was hard and I didn't complete succeed) and I just guessed where the triangles would fit in the design. It was quite successful overall I guess. All the colours do make me happy. 

Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror

Textured Blue: Essie - Lots Of Lux

Teal: Barry M - Guava

Textured Purple: OPI - My Current Crush

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Green: Barry M - Kiwi

Aqua Green: Barry M - Greenberry

Sparkly Red: OPI - Jinx over Barry M - Carousel

Light Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!

Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire

Dark Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind

Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny

Robin egg's Blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple

Peachy Pink: Etude House - No. 60

Redy Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry

Pink with texture: Orly - Basket Case and Barry M - Princess (which isn't the best combo)

Light Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard

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

Fun Triangle Nails

Hey there, I hope you're having a good day. I have nail art today (woop woop) and I really really like this one. I've always loved a good geometric design and I think I have managed to achieve this time. The uniformity and regularity of geometric designs look so cool and balanced. Hey I always like a good bit of balance.

How colourful!! How fun!! This is the feeling. I'm happy with how neat I managed the triangles, it was time consuming. But worth it!! I really like those colours together too. Of course I needed some variation so I did some glitter placing, I should've just done the same triangles for the whole design. But I do like some placed glitter (and glitter in general not gonna lie) and I like adding some interest.

Yep like usual I got my toothpicks and just painted those triangles, no other rhyme or reason I just painted them on. For the glitter, I fished the glitter out of the respective bottles (which was sometimes slightly hard cause there's lots of different colours of glitter in the bottle that wants to stick together) and placed. Sometimes there was a lot of fishing haha.

Base: Barry M - Fuchsia and Barry M - Superdrug 50th Birthday
Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!
Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind
Green: Barry M - Kiwi
Purple: Illasmasqua - Jo'Mina
Plum glitter: Orly - Ridiculously Regal
Aqua and Purple glitter: OPI - Polka.com
Neon Yellow, Pink, Green and Blue glitter: Claire's - Dizzy
Matte Pink, Green, Blue and Red glitter: The Face Shop - CMX321
Orange glitter: Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B and The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt (which ended up being a huge mistake cause the white base of that polish really interfered)
White glitter: Claire's - Fluffy

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

Geometric Glitter Rainbows

Hello there!! Finally I have some nail art and I'm loving this, I love some geometric rainbows and pack it with glitter, I'm in nail art heaven :P It was another "hmmmm I don't know what to do with my nails" and I went with the flow (that's how all the glitter happened) and love it, again they are the best manicures :)

So you see a geometric design with a ton of glitter, like a lot of glitter, and that's the way uh-huh uh-huh I like it uh-huh uh-huh. Yep I just referenced that. I didn't intend of this much glitter but that's what happened after going with the flow. I was just going to do a glitter base then do the black outlines on top but then I thought the black outline was boring by itself so I added a bunch of glitter. I loved the outcome, I really did, and the glitter base was fun it reminded me how awesome Barry M Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B is, it's still beautiful :)

I painted my base, dabbed different sections of my nails with different glitter polishes (mostly half-half horizontally or vertically) and once that dried I got my black nail art pen and painted on the rainbows. Then I got some toothpicks and put some over some of the lines and for the other black lines I used a sparkly black textured polish so it wasn't too overloaded with glitter haha.

Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
Base glitter polishes: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen, OPI - Polka.com, OPI - Rainbow Connection, The Face Shop - CMX321 and Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Black with green: M&S - Petrol
Glitter on top of the black lines: Barry M - Fairy Lights, Essie - Shine of the Times, Barry M - Amethyst and Barry M - Aqua Glitter
I was going to use more glitter, but restricted myself, I'm good at restricting myself.

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