Reindeer Fair Isle Nails

Hiya!! This is um a leftover Christmas design, but I still think it's winter appropriate so we're still all good. Fair Isle designs are so nice, I have a jumper with a fair isle design. Hey it's more nail art!! What this blog is about!!

So you can definitely see a Christmas colour scheme, well you can't have enough Christmas. The main shapes of this design are just dots and asterisks and hearts. So it was really easy to paint but still looks pretty complex. The reindeer were definitely the best part of this design, but yeah overall I really like this design, repeating patterns is fun.
Oh yeah and matteing everything, but I had issues with my matte topcoat. Don't know why but it leaves white chunks on my nail art which is pretty terrible when you've spent ages on a design. Thankfully I was able to remove a lot of them but it really jeopardises a design cause the white bits get stuck in the topcoat then everything can get wrecked. You have to tread carefully.

Again this one was very simple, got my peach base then I got my toothpicks and painted the various designs. I worked from top to bottom (cause that makes sense) and did dots and all the other stuff. i'm so good at describing.

Base: M&S - Sun Glow
Green: Barry M - Kiwi
Red: Seventeen - Dark Heart (or something like it, all reds are the same)
Light Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Blue: The Face Shop - GR501
Light Red: OPI - Jinx

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

Girly Christmas Jumper Nails

Hi there!! Oh man it's so close to Christmas!! I have not been on top of blog things (or life things) so you might be seeing some Christmas nail art after Christmas :/ I can't not, Christmas is so great anyway it'll be ok for a couple of extra days :)

As I always say, the winter is a bad time for my cuticles

I got my first Christmas jumper this year and I love it, it looks really nice. It's also a Christmas jumper that everyone has this year but next year I will be the unique one :P The unusual colour scheme is unintentional but altogether I think it works, it's a fun, cute design to have. While the reindeer are deformed, I quite liked them (they looked better in real life), the patterns aren't so great either but when they're far away they look better. As you can imagine I did this with some toothpicks and I went with the flow.

Base: Barry M - Socialite
Light Purple: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream
Thumb: Essie - Lots of Lux, Models Own - Asscher Blue, w7 - Mosaic, Barry M - Fashion Icon, Paris Collection - Mauve Melody and w7 - Brownie
Index: Barry M - Guava, H&M - Blue My Mind, Nails Inc - Sao Paulo Streets, Barry M - Carousel, Barry M - Indigo and Ciate - Regatta
Middle: OPI - Sea You In Hollywood, OPI - Charged Up Cherry, The Body Shop - A Grape Affair, OPI - My Current Crush, Barry M - Kiwi and Orly - Basket Case
Ring: OPI - Jade Is The New Black, Illamasqua - Melange, Barry M - Raspberry, OPI - Where Did Suzi's Man-go?, H&M - Blue My Mind and Barry M - Sugar Apple
Pinky: Kiko - 265, Revlon - Dreamer, OPI - My Current Crush, M&S - Poppy, Essie - Leading Lady, Topshop - Naked and w7 - Golden Sands
It's easier this way. I have a feeling a lot of these polishes are wrong but oh well. I only have artificial lighting photos cause I never made it home in time for natural lighting, I am just wild ;)

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

Rudolph with your nose so bright

Hi there guys!! Christmas Eve, how exciting. I have to say school killed my Christmas mood stone dead cause of all the work I had and just how generally rubbish school is. I LOVE Christmas but I haven't felt particularly Christmassy, though I know Christmas day will be great. I'm going to a carol service this evening so that should be nice, a gospel choir, awk it'll be fabulous.
I tried to post my Christmas nail designs over Christmas but lol I fail, expect to see one or two after Christmas. Then all the swatches, I am excited to finally swatch polishes I got in November and after :)

I did a reindeer design last year but I felt I should do another dedicated to Rudolph, the idea was his (or her, mine looks more like a her) nose was so bright that it lit up all the Christmas lights. Haha I was also trying out some new polishes. I do like the look overall but I think my lights could've been painted better (yet it translates better in photos and I'll take it) but Rudolph is alright. I like the glittered up nose.

I like the combo of the blue base and the glitter, I'll tell the "story" of how I got the blue polish (by the way it's not the Nails Inc one!! Pretty sure this one is a dupe, or close to it) and other polishes I got with it. The glitter was a wonderful wonderful gift from my best friend and she got me some others and it was the best gift ever, love her :3 I think was the combo was weird, but I liked it. Though removal was not a breeze, that's the thing with the packed with small glitter polishes, the glitter takes ages to come off and then it gets everywhere. But love both of those polishes.

Blue base: w7 - Mosaic
Once I've mentioned the other polishes I got with this I'll tell the "story", I got quite the deal and I love all the w7 polishes I got, they are fantastic.
Glitter: OPI - Lights Of Emerald City
How appropriate right? This was on my wishlist for the longest time until I managed to persuade myself that I didn't need it. But I really really like it, my bezzie is just the greatest. I hope she liked my present as much as I loved hers. Also if you knew how much we talk about Wicked you'd know how even more appropos it is :P
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine
Green: Rimmel - Block your Green!
Blue: Rimmel - Azure
White base for lights: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White
Brown: Nails Inc - Porchester Square
Dark Brown: w7 - Brownie
Red Nose: OPI - Dutch Tulips and the pink glitter from OPI - Minnie Style
Pink: Orly  - Basket Case

Thank you for reading and I hope you are very excited for tomorrow!! :)

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (and friends)

Hello there. Christmas is so unbelievably close, it's exciting. I'm pushing these Christmas designs for all their worth, but I love Christmas designs. I didn't even get to do them all :/ Well there's always next year, and I still have one more Christmas design to go (which hopefully will be pretty :)).

I'm happy with how these turned out, I thought they'd be difficult, but they weren't. I thought the background would be more prominent. It wasn't, I've been itching for pink, and this kind of satisfies the need. But not enough, I need to use a bright pink soon!!!
Light Brown: Nails Inc - Porchester Square
Dark Brown: w7 - Brownie
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Pink: Essie - Your Hut Or Mine?, Barry M - Pink Iridescent and Nails Inc - Glamour Glitter 
I put too much enough into the base for it to be covered up, but you learn from these things. I'm liking Porchester Square even though it's totally not my colour at all.

                                                  I like them, they're cute :)

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