The totally doable I have a life challenge! - Saran wrapped japanese jungle tree

Hi there guys, I know, I have posted quite the title. I've tried saran wrapping (or cling filming) once before and I have to say I really liked the results. So I decided to make it the background for a Japanese jungle tree. I know that's not an actual thing, I just have been wanting to do nail art of a Japanese tree since I saw a painting in Japan which was so nice but I couldn't take a picture (cause of a camera ban in that museum). I based this version off of memory and randomness.

 Ok so the saran wrap got eaten, but I wore the saran wrap look by itself for days and I really liked it. I like that if you feel one area is taken up too much with one colour, you can just keep dabbing until you feel it's right.
With this tree I did the leaves purposefully weirdly, they're oval shaped with some kind of support underneath with yellow spots. I don't know why but I felt like this tree would be in the jungle.
I liked the blue flowers, that was the colour of the flowers in the painting. But the flowers weren't as big in the painting and my flowers are big by accident, it just kind of happened. I was going to add more detail but I really like them the way they were so I left them. Which sometimes is the right decision :)

You know how the saran wrap is done. Saran wrap really does sound much fancier than cling film.
I started with the tree trunk which was all curly and cool but then I painted the leaves over and that masked all of that. The flowers did that even more. As you can imagine it was all toothpick. I know this section might seem redundant but sometimes I write the different toothpick techniques I use :P
Finally I fished for some glitter and randomly placed them around. You know I always need glitter but I felt the flowers needed some dotty friends(?), so the glitter came in.

Base: OPI - Japanese Rose Garden (Coincidence? I think not! But actually not cause I planned it)
Saran wrap colour: Max Factor - Cool Jade
Brown: w7 - Brownie
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Yellow: Topshop - Naked
Dark Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black and China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard
Blue: M&S - Ultraviolet
Dark Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind
Sparkly Blue: Essie - Lots Of Lux
Teal glitter: Claire's - Dizzy

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

Abstract Bird Nail Art

Hiya!! I decided to branch out a bit and do some more abstract nail art. I felt like birds so that's what I went with. Now the success rate is varied haha.

I really like the colours, and I'm really happy with the birds on my thumb and pinky but otherwise it's very messy for the birds. I should've used a thinner toothpick, but at least the abstract thing is more obvious. I also like the branches with the multi-coloured leaves, I quite like this design even though the messiness is real.

I just tried to be a bit crazier with my toothpicks and didn't have a set outline. The other standard me thing is the white sparkle which got blurred on my ring finger. I would do blobs of the colour then get the dark blue to do a rough crazy outline. I went mental with the few "spots" I did.

Base: The Face Shop - Apple Mint Yogurt
Green: Etude House - Play #86
Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind
Pink: Etude House - Play #60
Teal: Barry M - Guava
Dark Blue: Kiko - 265
White: Barry M - Matt White
Brown: Nails Inc - Porchester Square

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

This is tree-mendous!!

Hi there guys!! Hope you had a fabulous Christmas and ate all the food, cause one has to eat ALL THE FOOD!! Especially the potatoes haha :P But really the holidays are the best for getting everyone together and I hope you enjoyed your company :)
My friend gave me a Christmas card and I LOVED the design on it so I nail-arted it, also I was trying out new polishes, I love trying out new polishes.

I'll have a picture of the card at the bottom, but there are basically super cute crazy Christmas trees. Tree-mendous if I do say so myself ;) I love all the trees and this might be my favourite Christmas design, what can I say I love all things colourful.

Thumb and pinky has one of the w7 trio polishes I got, and I LOVE it. This was on my wishlist a while ago but I thought I'd never be able to get it. So polish dreams really do come true :P It just looks awesome and the glitter is another part of the gift from my best friend and I love it too, especially that purple glitter, it's so pretty!! And that glitter was also on my wishlist at one point, so yeah polish dreams come true.

White with black glitter: w7 - Salt n Pepper
Pink/purple/aqua glitter topper: OPI - Polka.com
Peach: w7 - Linen
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White and Lovely Me:Ex - White
Light Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Green: Max Factor - Cool Jade
Dark Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Light Red: OPI - Jinx
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Pink: Barry M - Dragonfruit and Barry M - Fairy Lights (I think, though it's the Superdrug Limited Edition one)
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Rainbow glitter white: The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt

Nails con the card, I love that card!!

Thank you for reading and I really hope you have a tree-mendous day!! :)

Woodland Nails

Hi there guys!! Happy November!! Hope you all had a nice Halloween, I did some revision :/ I have a lot of work I have to get done and I still do but I'm procrastinating as always lol. Though I did give some sweets to the trick or treaters and wrapped a birthday present for my friend (this is how I procrastinate when working haha).
This is the base for my recent iPhone Nail Series for Sprin, I thought this base deserved it's own post for the effort I put in and it looks pretty cute. I mentioned in the post I don't normally put this much effort into the backgrounds. But when it's worth it, I write extra posts :O

Look at that effort, the vines and the random tree details. Those apples are collectable, I really liked the look of this woodland's are cute? Sometimes, maybe. The animals I painted covered up this woodland scene but I'm glad I took pictures before even though I hadn't cleaned up yet.

Dusty Jade: Max Factor - Cool Jade
Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard
I wasn't going to add this green but I wanted the trees to be defined which I'm glad I did.
Brown: Paris Collection - Mauve Melody
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

A short post for once, thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

31 Day Challenge - Day 3 - Yellow Nails

Proceeding to day 3 :)

I am very foolish person. I began by painting my nails yellow, with a foolish thought. I did a gradient, but when doing a gradient you work your ways upwards, the reason I didn’t start with blue is because I thought the yellow would be too sheer to sponge on. I thought I could get a tiny bit of blue on the bottom of my nail and then put the pink of the top -_- when sponging on the blue polish it ended up covering half of my nail and I thought “It’ll look alright”. By the time I added the pink it looked ridiculous and I knew I’d gone wrong. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to cover the blue, but surprisingly the yellow built up really well. So mistakes in nail art can be fixed, or I could’ve been smart in the first place. 

First a right hand picture. Mistake fixed, it doesn’t look like I covered half my nails with blue nail polish. I love the colour combination though. 2 layers of sparkle was a bit overkill, 1 would’ve sufficed but I still like it. I got palm tree idea from a cutepolish tutorial and couldn’t wait to try it. Actually at first I didn’t like the design, but slowly it grew on me, and it looks awesome from far away. Which isn’t the case for a lot of designs, normally from far away it looks nothing special.

Left hand. Ok cuticles a bit messy, another reason to not work backwards, my fingers were covered in blue polish -_- clean up was great. But some of the colours blended well, shown in next picture.

 See the top of the pink and yellow together? I like that :P

Colours used: 

Pink (lid is messy, can’t be bothered to clean it :L): H&M – Check Me Out

Yellow: w7 – Sheer Lemon

Blue: Barry M – Blueberry Ice Cream

Iridescent Sparkle – Barry M – Pink Iridescent (not pink at all, comes out clear)

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black (no name)

Love that shade of pink, also the pigmentation of the blue is amazing, but unfortunately it could be going gloopy. Not sure as it could’ve been my base coat (that is slowly dying). Going to experiment.

Equipment used:

Makeup sponge