This was a Pinterest inspired nail art, incredibly simple to do yet oh so pretty to wear.
The pink nails have been done using Take Action by Gelicious. The white feature nails used Sleek White by Gelish with Vegas Nights also by Gelish as a sparkly overcoat. The hearts were used painting three dots on the tips using a dotting tool then joining them together (as per last post).
Enjoy!
This was a nail design I did on a friend in the lead up to her first Valentine’s Day as an engaged lady. The basic idea was simple – four nails in Electric Melon by Gelicious with the feature nail. The feature nail was painted in Artic Freeze by Gelish with two crystal accents and a heart in Electric Melon painted near the tip of the nail.
To paint the heart I tried a new technique. First, using my dotting tools I painted three dots as seen in the picture above. Then I ‘joined the dots’ using a thin nail brush, leaving the curves created by the two upper dots to have nicely rounded tips to the nails.
This was a mani I did for a friend in the lead up to Valentine’s day. To start with we used glue on fake nails, filed down to make a manageable length. All nails were painted with Strawberry Gelato by Gelicious, with the exception of the feature nails. The feature nails were both painted with three coats of Artic Freeze by Gelish. The middle finger then was layered with two coats of Vegas Nights also by Gelish, while the ring finger featured stripes achieved using a thin nail brush and Afterglow by Gelicious. The heart was then painted using a nail art brush and Strawberry Gelato.
I find using fake nails, it doesn’t matter if there are one or two more coats of colour – the colour tends to last longer. The downside of course is the damage done to your actual nails from using fake nails.
Anyway, enjoy!
Hello! Sorry for the slackness in recent posts. I’ll endeavour to be more consistent in my posts. So, this was a simple, fun mani I did using one of my favourite new colours – electric melon from Gelicious. To do this mani I painted all nails bar the heart feature with three coats of Electric Melon. The heart feature was done on a base using Artic Freeze by Gelish, with the heart achieved using Electric Melon.
To paint the heart, I initially painted a ‘V’ on my nails, then softened the edges and rounded them out a little using the nail brush to create a heart. The other feature nail was done using a white nail art brush and painting thin lines across in different directions to achieve the look I wanted. Enjoy!
Sorry for the delay between posts! Lack of internet connection to blame 😒
This was a French manicure with a twist I did a little while ago. Super simple, super fun and super pretty. I loved how even though my nails weren’t too long, the style of mani elongated the nail.
To start with for this base I painted the base coat on then two layers of Vegas Nights by Gelish to get a glittery base. Next I painted a coat of Pistachio Parfait by Gelicious to get the greenish stripe. It’s a beautifully creamy colour that goes on well and provides a nice, rich colour. Finally I added pink dots in Strawberry Gelato using a dotting tool and topped it all off with a top coat.
Overall, loved this mani and look forward to doing it again!
This was a mani I did mid January to embrace the Summer. At first I wasn’t sure if I was 100% into the design but still it was fun to wear. The colours I used were:
Pink – Strawberry Gelato, Gelicious
White – Sheek White, Gelish
Gold – DJ Bliss, Gelicious.
For the white stripes on the feature nail, I had originally used a smaller nail art brush. I found that wasn’t getting the size of the lines as even as I would have liked though or the edges as straight so instead switched to using the normal brush that came with the nail polish. By painting a single line with the side of the brush I was able to ensure consistency in stroke thickness.
Enjoy!
Whoops! Been a while since I posted sorry! This was a simple mani that I did for a girl’s weekend and Taylor Swift concert. Good times!
The pink is a new colour I had gotten called To Help by Gelicious. If you’ve seen posts of mine with Strawberry Smoothie by Gelish you may notice its a similar colour, although To Help is a little darker and I find more consistent in application.
I prepped and painted my nails as usual, topping off the ring finger nail with some DJ Bliss, also by Gelicious. I used the normal nail polish brush for this, smoothing out the polish with my pointer finger to get the even, rounded effect. Enjoy!
This was a Christmas design I did on the nails of a good friend of mine. I had an inkling it wouldn’t be long til her partner proposed so tried to do an extra meticulous job in case this was the nail design she wore when she got engaged. The next night she had the ring. Woohoo!!!!
So, the nails. The colours used were:
Red – Cosmopolitan – Gelicious
White – Artic Freeze – Gelish
Glitter – Vegas Nights – Gelish
Dark brown – Expresso – Gelish
Light brown – a mix of Expresso by Gelish and Thankful by Gelicious
Black – Black Shadow – Gelish
Rudolph’s Nose Red – The Spy Who Loved Me – OPI
To do this design I chose two feature nails per hand. Four nails each hand, including one feature, were painted red. The other nail was painted white. Each nail was painted with three coats of the base colour. For the non-feature nails I then painted white tips and, using a dotting tool, white spots. I painted two coats on the tips as the red leaked into the colour a little.
The snowflake on the red feature nail was surprisingly easy to do. I used a nail art pen with a long, thin brush to accomplish it. First I painted a cross on the nail. Then I painted another cross, this time with slightly shorter lines going diagonally through the original one so I had an eight pronged star. For each line, near the top I did two small lines on either side. Once this was done, the snowflake was completed.
Painting Rudolph was a little more complex so I used a guide I had seen on Pinterest (picture is attached – tutorial found here: How to: Reindeer Nail Art ) I used a short, thicker nail art brush to do Rudolph’s head in the light brown, a thin nail art brush to do the antlers and the dotting tools for his eye. The red nose was done using the normal nail polish brush.
The mani was then coated with a layer of glitter polish and sealed with a top coat. Enjoy! If you try it out, let me know what you think 🙂
So, I did this nail design to match a new top I had gotten. Actually pulling off the design has no real trick. To do this it was just a lot of studying my top, trying to match up the lines and hoping it looked alright. So, while I can’t tell you how to pull off this design (apart from use a thin nail brush to do the design), I can tell you the colours. The white base was Artic Freeze by Gelish while the orange was I’m Brighter Than You by Gelicious. I then topped it off with a coat of Vegas Nights by Gelish for that hint of sparkle. Enjoy!
This was a mani I did on a friend, similar to one I had done earlier on myself. The inspiration for this came off Pinterest – she had seen a design and liked it so we just tweaked it a little.
The fluro pink used is Make You Blink Pink by Gelish. The white base for the stripes is Snow Bunny by OPI. The silver is Afterglow by Geliciois and the blue heart was done with Aztec Blue by CND Shellac (like how I managed to use a colour from each of the brands I own?). To do the stripes I painted the nails with a white base, then used a nail art brush to paint the thing pink stripes. The blue heart was done using the same style brush. Again to achieve a heart I painted one diagonal line and then another line the opposite way, making sure they met in the middle.
Pretty easy design which she loved.
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