3rd Blogaversary!! Top 10 Nail Art!!

Hey there guys!! Time for my 3rd Blogaversary post, late (it was the 6th June) cause I was mid-exam. Though realistically I was probably procrastinating lol. Like I went to McDonalds the day before my exam (the strawberry milkshake was heaven ^_^).
3 years is a long time, but I don't know it doesn't feel that long cause the blog has been something fun I've had on the side. Been much less frequent posting this year but hey a girl gets busy we all know this. And I do this for fun I've had no reason to stress myself out over this. I did my AS Levels which are a pretty big deal and not gonna lie they were really hard which I why I've had to just take things out of my life. I'm so glad they're over and I can think about something else for once. Did all my music exams this week too, and I got a merit in my Grade 8 piano (another reason the blog took the backseat) which is kind of my magnum opus right now.
Another nail art-wise I'm actually super super proud of the nail art I've done this year, while obviously the volume is lower I think the quality is much much much higher and I've done looks that are so so me. All about the colour and the fun and the cuteness and cartoons. I love cartoons haha. Got my 10 favourites which were fun to order and hope you like them too!! :)

My yearly college!! :D

10. Plants vs. Zombies - I just like how accurate the characters are. And they're cute!! I'm still proud of that zombie. I think the whole look works overall, green background like the grass (great observation me :/).

9. Purple roses + cream polka dots + bronze background - This is a very simple look but the combination of the purple and the bronze is gorgeous. Also you just can't go wrong with polka dots, they are too cute. Also for once my roses were on point.

8. Pink glittery base + triangles - I just love triangles. Always been my favourite shape, defo the edgiest shape. The pattern is so uniform and was on such a placed glitter kick, placing glitter is fun. Glittery pink is also super great. It was all just a great combination ;)

7. Kawaii clouds - Look how cute those clouds are. I obsessed with the neon rainbow. And unrelated but I love that blue of the sky.

6. Dolce & Gabbana cherry blossoms - I think I've really got into red this year. This was just the beginning cause those cherry blossoms looked great on top of the red. Some of the best flowers I've ever painted, just so delicate. Cherry blossom designs tend to be really nice too. Love the peaking out glitter too.

5. Stylish bee + pinwheels - While I posted this late I did paint this before my blogaversary. Just v v funky, love the colour scheme and that bee just chillin' in the middle of it. Pinwheels are so style.

4. Marill in the night sky - Became obsessed with Pokémon nails this year. Marill was the beginning, look at how cute it is!! Glitter gradients can only add to my love.

3. Parrot nails - Parrots have been some of my favourite birds for a while (my favourite top ever that I got last year has parrot print) cause they are so colourful and cool. So obviously parrot print nails are gonna speak to me. I love that I actually managed to capture the detail of the parrot and the colours are so fun. The bar glitter works very well here too.

2. Tribal splatter - This is the pinnacle of funkiness and edge. A complete accident as well, but it ended up being one of my favourite designs I've ever done. The contrast of the monochrome and neon can't be beaten and the splats just look good!! Seriously adored this design.

1. Mudkip + dripping chevrons - I just fell in love with this design. Mudkip is such an adorable Pokémon and look how cool dripping chevrons are!! I like how thin they are in this design and drips, I don't know why I think they're so cool but I just do. This design shows how important colour schemes are cause they're the basis to everything, the colour scheme here is just killing it :D

So what do you think of my favourites? I think I've always made it clear I love the bright ;) I had 6 dominant hand favourites and 4 non-dominant favourites. My non-dominant hand isn't doing a bad job!! One of them made number 2!! I'm on track to becoming ambidextrous :P
I think it's been a very good year in nail art. Thank you so very much for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day!! I like to think the nail art can only get better :)

Kawaii Cloud Skies Nails

Hey there ma peeps!! I'm on my half term break (thank goodness) and I'm hopping off to London so hopefully I'll have nice stories from that!! Today I have a cute sky scene nail art look and not gonna lie I love it. I think this is the first cloud design I've ever done and I wanted to make it cool (read: cute). Also 500th post!! That's a lot of posts, let's call it an achievement :)

Once I realised how perfect Asscher Blue is as a sky blue base I got to work on the cute clouds. For variety I made the clouds white and pastel and of course I needed a neon rainbow. That's where it's at. So after all the elements, I think it shaped out pretty sweet. Cause neon rainbow. And clouds are cute and blushing.

I used the brushes of the polish for the clouds and the polishes being pretty opaque it was easy to do. Details I did with a black nail art pen and toothpicks like usual. For the rainbow it was the same kind of deal except I changed my mind about which colours to use about a million times so some rejected colours were Etude House - No. 60 (I actually had to scrape that off and repaint), No. 7 - Me! Me! Me!, OPI - Charged Up Cherry, Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!, Rimmel - Sunshine and Barry M - Greenberry. But I painted over them so they contributed so shoutout to them :P

Blue base: Models Own - Asscher Blue
White: Barry M - Matt White
Pale blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple
Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Pink: No. 7 - Me! Me! Me!
Light pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit and Barry M - Superdrug Summer LE 2013 A
Neon pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate
Orange: Models Own - Beach Party
Yellow: American Apparel - Neon Yellow
Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard

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

Pink + Blue Clouds and Caviar

Why hello there!! Double posting today, a first for me, not all that exciting to be honest. I've had the "cloud" manicure on my to-do list for too long and it's adorable so I don't know why I've been waiting for so long. Another thing I should've tried earlier, caviar nails (or nail in my case), I've had the beads since Christmas so there's been no reason not to go for it except procrastination.

The clouds are so easy and cute, I just used the brush of the polish to do some lumpy shapes in a scallop shape/pattern and sorted, no issues with proportioning either!! The caviar looks quite cool too, these are the cheap ones from MUA (the one called Pisces containing blue, pink and silver beads, there's quite a large range of different beads from MUA), £3 instead of whatever high price Ciate is charging. It's good for those who want to try it out and not pay high prices, also I can't imagine myself using the beads a lot.

It wasn't particularly difficult to use the beads, just pour them over the wet polish. I had a container to stop the beads from going everywhere and so I could get excess back into the tube. The beads still went everywhere and some got stuck in the container I was using (I have to say I didn't use the best container), but MUA's tube for the beads has a lid that can also be used as a funnel which was somewhat helpful. I shook my hand for a bit to get rid of most of the excess from the nail (much more fell after, all before the photos). I wasn't fond of the packed look. After a little bit I pressed the beads gently to help them stick better I guess.
As you can imagine the beads don't last very long, especially with me as I decided to have a sorting out stuff day and in less than half a day quite a few of the beads came off and then I picked the remaining ones off too. I bet some people could make them last a day (max. 2 days), they are just not convenient for daily life. I wanted to go out and be like "Oh la la I have a fancy nail", but I didn't go out.

Here I have an alternate look, post beads, they left a bit of colour and I thought it looked cool, but after picking some nail was exposed so I freehanded some hearts with Lovely Me:Ex - White and Lovely Me:Ex - Black.
Base: Nails Inc - Sweets Way
I have to say removal this time wasn't so bad, the glitter still went everywhere but it wasn't all that difficult to get it off in the first place.
Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Turquoise: Essie - Turquoise and Caicos

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :) (Something crazy is coming tomorrow, you'll see, seriously it's crazy).

31 Day Challenge - Day 22 - Inspired by a song

I got stuck. I had tons of songs just no ideas of how to translate them onto my nails. Finally I thought of “Anchor” by Mindy Gledhill.  Automatically an idea came into my head. I adore the album “Anchor”; some of my favourite songs are on that album. I like the song, but compared to the other songs on the album I don’t like it that much. 

“When all the world is spinning round like a red balloon way up in the clouds. And my feet will not stay on the ground, you anchor me back down.”

The anchor is so off centered.  It has a Snoopy vibe to it, which makes me want to do Snoopy nails. Oo future idea!!! :D In general it’s ok and I quite like it.

Colours used:

Blue: Barry M – Blue Moon

Peach: w7 – Sheer Peach

White: Natural Collection – White and Sally Hansen – French White Tip

Red: OPI – Dutch Tulips

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

Equipment used:

Toothpick