Love-ly Nail Art Challenge - Favourite Valentine Tutorial

Hey there guys!!! I hope you are all well this fine day, I once again have to say the weather was lovely today and that permitted me to takes pictures slightly later than usual. This is the final day of the challenge and it made February race (but I did anticipate that).

I knew which tutorial from the very beginning of the challenge, it was probably the tipping point to me doing the challenge, as for some days I wouldn't know what to do (but I'm glad I gave it a try cause I tried some different things out). It's the "MWAH" kisses tutorial by Professionaldq, I love her style, she gets me :P Her pop art designs are amazing, I know my last challenge design was pop art but I can't get enough pop art.

I didn't want a stark white background, but that completely changed the design in the process, I couldn't do the dots (my favourite part of pop art) so I was kind of bummed. But it's pop art, therefore I obviously like it :P I think this looks better in real life. I have to say I always misjudge the space the words will take up, I always end up with a bit of the word chopped off. Clearly I also chopped my nails (wow that sounds violent), but I need to play the guitar properly in a few days but I'm trying to hate on them :P
Base: Nails Inc - Sweets Way
White: Models Own - Snow White and Lovely Me:Ex - White
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate 
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
I have to say I have really enjoyed this challenge, I do like me a good valentine cliche but it was lovely (;)). I want to thank Samantha from The Manicure Hut for hosting this challenge. It was a lot of fun!!

Thank you for reading and have a truly lovely day!!! :) (Of course check out everyone else doing the challenge :P).

Love-ly Nail Art Challenge - Cupid's Arrows

Hello there guys!! Hallelujah for the weekend, am I right? I hope you are all relaxing and chilling, sorry to bring up work but I have given myself a lot for tomorrow :/ Oh well we worry about that later :P

It's the second last task :( This has been really fun. I was completely stuck for Cupid's arrow, it was the one I was not looking forward to, actually Cupid scares me. A baby that fires arrows? Ok then. But after some thought and thinking about pop art I thought I'd combine it in. I thought before I painted and it works, reasons to think in general ;)

I love pop art, I took a lot of inspiration from Professionaldq's tutorial, but I still think it's quite different... Of course I had to add some sort of cartoon, the idea was the "WHAM"was sending arrows through the heart (which ended up at a different angle...). I don't really know who'd be that happy with an arrow through them, but it's a cartoon heart.
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips 
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
White: Models Own - Snow White, Gorgeous - French Manicure White (no name) and Lovely Me:Ex - White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Purple: Essie - Lilacism
I wanted to write "WHAM" cause of Orange Coloured Sky by Michael Buble (such a good song, though not originally by him, Michael Buble is amazing). "Flash, bam, alakazam, wonderful you walked by". His new album is going to come out and I am excitement. Ok sorry to add more but my iPod is on shuffle and Orange Coloured Sky just started playing (I love coincidences like that :)).

Thank you for reading, have a lovely day and check out everyone else doing the challenge :)

Love-ly Nail Art Challenge - Valentine Gradient

Hey guys!!! Happy Valentine's Day (or singleness awareness day :P)!!! I hope you had a great one, I'm excited to kick back and relax for the next couple of days... Then school will come back and I will be sad again :/ haha just joking (but not really).

Me and gradients don't go so well together (gradients are not my valentine :P) and my gradient actually worked this time until I painted over it (genius), but I think it's still respectable.

Hmmmmm, it's ok. I don't hate it but I don't particularly like it. I used a cutepolish tutorial, I just looked at the picture then just did my own thing. There's some uneven patches in the black cause there was smudging and I was bored in school so I coloured it in with black pen.
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Pink: OPI - Japanese Rose Garden
Glitter: OPI - I Lily Love You, Barry M - Pink Iridescent and Nails Inc - Glamour Glitter
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
I like the moon, that is all.

Thank you for reading, have a nice day and check out everyone else doing the challenge!!! :)

Love-ly Nail Art Challenge - Valentine Candy

Hi there guys!!! Hallelujah for the weekend, I can proudly announce that I have not done anything productive and I don't care (except I will care tomorrow when there's homework unfinished).

I don't really know any valentine's candy except the standard chocolates and Love Hearts. I only chose Love Hearts because last year I attempted them and they ended in epic fail.

It reminds of a time quite recently when my friend brought One Direction Love Hearts to geography, I ate it cause it was food. I have to say I'm not the biggest fan of Love Hearts. Or this design, it's quite messy but personally I think it'll do. On my middle finger it's meant to say "For Keeps", but me misjudging space it says "For Keep", there's bad grammar written all over that (don't know if I can count that as a pun or not) but oh well.

Pink: Barry M - Strawberry Ice Cream

Yellow: w7 - Sheer Lemon

Purple: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream

Green: Barry M - Mint Green

Blue: The Face Shop - BL601

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips

Strawberry Ice Cream is a lovely colour, just saying that now. I think I've mentioned this before but it really doesn't suit me, why there is so little left I'll never know. I love Berry Ice Cream, it's gorgeous, I never fully appreciated it until now. The pink tone keeps it suiting me (kind of). I left it unused for a year cause I didn't think much of it and purple in general. Oh my it's gorgeous. 

Thank you for reading, have a wonderful day and check out everyone else doing the challenge!!! :)

Love-ly Nail Art Challenge - Lips

Hello there people. Hope you are all well :) I had an idea and I went for it, I did change my mind in some parts but I think I changed my mind for the better.

There's a lot of kisses going on in this manicure...

I have never done an ombre manicure before but I have to say I'm a fan. I was surprised as the reason I avoided it was because I thought I wouldn't like it. It think they're awesome, more to come in the future :) Overall I think this looks quite cool, I definitely wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for the challenge.
Pink (from darkest to lightest): Per Una - Fuchsia (no name), OPI - Charged Up Cherry, The Face Shop - PK105, Per Una - Pink (no name) and Barry M - Strawberry Ice Cream
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
I think this fits the category of lips :P

Thank you for reading, have a lovely day and check out everyone else doing the challenge!!! :)

Love-ly Nail Art Challenge - Hearts

Hey there guys, I've decided to join the Love-ly Nail Art Challenge by The Manicure Hut. I just thought it was adorable and since I've been a bit low on inspiration, why not let a challenge give me some ;)

I'm impartial towards Valentine's Day, I don't care much for the actual day with all it's implications. But I love all the girly things related to Valentine's Day, cause in all honestly I'm the biggest girly girl. So let's get this started.

I've been wanting to do these nails ever since I saw them on Emerald Sparkled a while back. They were just SOOOOOO adorable. I did my own little twists to the design, I find it kind of reminiscent of falling snow in the background. I also did a successful gradient (a very rare occurrence) but you can't see it at all in the picture :( When painting, I was trying to be careful but there was a point where I didn't like what I had painted (OCD tendencies :/), but thankfully after some fixing I'm happy with this manicure.
Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny (cause I love this polish)
Light Blue (which can't be seen): The Face Shop - GR501
Blue Glitter (which also can't be seen): OPI - Last Friday Night
Pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
I'm excited to do more Valentine's designs :) Yesterday was the last episode of Victorious (I'm a big kid), and I'm a massive fan of Victorious. It's kind of saddening, I will definitely be dedicating some nail art for the show (specifically my favourite couple ;)).

Thank you for reading and check out everyone else doing the challenge!!!! :)

Early V-Day Love Owls

Hey there, hope you all are doing well. I actually am, go being in a good mood!!! I didn't know what to do, so I pulled out some polishes I wanted to use, saw a picture of an owl hat on facebook and started to paint. I don't enjoy being spontaneous with my nails, I'm all about the planning but hey it's not half bad.

Also not intended to be valentine-esque either but I roll with the punches. I've done owl nails that I've preferred to these, but if better executed I think this could look way cuter.
Red: Nails Inc - Tate with OPI - I Lily Love You
Pink: Barry M - Pink Foil
White: Models Own - Snow White, Nails Inc - Sweets Way and details with Lovely Me:Ex - White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Brown (just a hint): Nails Inc - Richmond Terrace
I really like the Barry M pink, the formula is fantastic too. I put Sweets Way over white so I would use less coats but it looks nicer without something under.

I have more valentine's designs for February but this one was unintentional, thank you for reading and have a lovely day!!! :)