Showing posts with label Nails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nails. Show all posts

Friday, 12 September 2014

Poka-Dot Pastel Nail Tutorial


This post is another follow on to the nail tutorials I have been recently posting about. If you have been reading my past few blog posts, you will know about my bad habit of bitting my nails. I've only recently discovered that the crave for nail bitting goes away when my nails are painted and comes right back when there not painted, so, now I have to wear nail polish all the time! 

Tip: If you're going through the same habit of bitting your nails as I am, try and paint your nails and see if that stops the crave to bit them!


To achieve the look of poka-dot pastel nails you first of all, need to use two colours for an under coat, the first colour I used was a blue nail polish called "Uptown blue" super stay 7 days and is from the brand Maybelline


The second colour I used was a purple nail polish called "Surreal" super stay 7 days, again, this nail polish is from the brand Maybelline.


I painted each colour on alternative nails, so, the colour patten would goblue, purple and so on...

✮ The Purple nail polish is called "Surreal" ✮ The Blue nail polish is called "Uptown blue" 



Next, I painted the little pink dots on each nail, this can be done randomly and the dots can vary in size. I quite like the look of the dots varying in size instead of all looking the same size it gives a little edge and creativeness to the look. The nail polish colour I used was a pastel pink, I can't seem to find the brand name on the container, it must of rubbed off, but, I did find the same colour. Its another nail polish from the brand maybelline super stay 7 days.



Then I finished off the look with applying some clear shiny nail polish. I always finish off with a layer of clear nail polish for any look, I just like the look of shiny nails especially in the sun, when it glistens


Thursday, 7 August 2014

Green Sparkly Nail Tutorial



Ive recently been trying to stopped the terrible habit of bitting my nails! which has been a long tough struggle for me. I guess, I picked up the habit of bitting my nails from a young age and the habit has stuck with me. My progress of not bitting my nails has come pretty far, but, I still get annoying little urges to go back to my old ways of bitting my nails, the crave to do so hasn't over whelmed me yet! so, hopefully this will be the end to my nail bitting stage of my life! fingers crossed. 

This nail tutorial is going to be how to achieve green sparkly nails! 



This nail kit I have mentioned before in my previous blog post "Friday haul" Click On Here To See.. The nail kit is from "New Look".  I brought this nail kit out of curiosity, because, I felt like a change in nail style, instead of my normal one solid colour look. It only costs £3.99 (UK Pounds) So, I thought I'd give it a go! Below are the steps I took to get my green sparkly nails!!!


Firstly, I painted my nails in the solid colour provided by the nail kit, which was, the green colour. It took a couple of appliances to make the green colour show up on my nails, if you only paint one coat of this nail polish on your nails, it would come out pretty weak in the coloration.


Secondly, I dipped my nails into the glitter which came in the nail kit. Be cautious, the glitter gets everywhere!!! To stop the glitter from going all over the place, I laid down a piece of paper beneath where I was using the glitter, so, any execs glitter would fall onto the paper, which, I could later on empty into the bin.

The last step of this look is to go over the sparkly glitter with clear nail vanish to seal the glitter onto your nails, again, I put servile coats of clear nail vanish onto my nails, just to make sure no more glitter would come off! and Wola! Baboom! the look is finished! the picture you see above this text is the final look.