Completely dotty

So after I cut my nails off I was a bit stuck with what exactly I could do with them. Cause they're TINY now! (For me, anyway) They haven't been this tiny since November last year when I had to cut them off for hospital placement.

Eventually I remembered that I had wanted to do a polka dot look, but I couldn't do what I originally had wanted with nails this short. So I thought "Hm, why not just do lots of dots?". The result was something that someone's mum said was "aboriginal art" but I thought just looked cool.

Now for the big question: What did I use? Base colour is Color Club - Fashion Addict. Going from the bright green (that you can barely see on the edges of the nail) China Glaze - Paper Chasing, China Glaze - Frostbite, China Glaze - Hey Sailor, China Glaze - Purple Panic (Neon), China Glaze - Solar Power (that's the yellow, so you can tell where we are in the progression), Revlon -  Tidal Wave and Essie - Limited Addiction.

How did I do it? With a dotting tool that I got for super cheap from Crown brushes. (I also have one somewhere that I got from ebay for super cheap) Then all you need is a bit of patience. I placed the colours out in the order that I needed them, about one drop per colour, then I dipped the dotting tool in it and dotted it on my nails. Keeping the lines straight is the biggest challenge. 

Sparkly gunmetal

So this another older manicure that I've had saved waiting to be posted. Every time I look at my nails at the moment I feel sad because they are so short.
Also I've found that as much as I love some of the Color Club colours they really don't have the same staying power as China Glaze. My absolute favourite colour of all time is Color Club and every time I wear it I can barely make it last for the 7 days I like to wear a manicure for. The most recent one I've tired is Fashion Addict and it's already chipped and peeling 4 days in.
Oh well.

I really liked how sparkly this manicure was. You can't see it in the pictures but it is SUPER sparkly.

I've used: OPI - Suzi Skis in the Pyrenees Suede, with a silver glitter art deco nail art on the corner with China Glaze - Nova over that. Then topped off with a top coat.

Something less outrageous

Today I've got something more subtle. Or subtle for me, anyway. Nice and purple, which I think looks good with any eye colour. I haven't done my eye brows because I forget to do them most of the time. 

I actually did this ages ago, so I'm unsure of exactly which colours I used but I do remember that two of the purples used were from a Maybelline duo (or trio?) that had a light silver purple that was shimmery and a darker purple. It was the first purple eyeshadow I ever found. The eyelashes I'm wearing are from Chi Chi.

No one is safe!

My brother's girlfriend suffers so much! Poor girl. I keep her from spending time with my brother just so I can do her nails whenever she comes over. Something fairly straight forward this time and quite easy to do, but it looks really effective!

This hasn't been cleaned up properly yet because I'm really bad with that. I don't colour within the lines so to speak. I always make sure to give the cuticles a really good moisturise before I start to help the nail polish come off without killing the cuticles. 

I've used OPI Designer Series - Desire, OPI Designer Series - Sapphire, Color Club - Wild at Heart. Then I used a plate by Bundle monster #21 for the lace pattern with American Apparel - Hassid. 

I don't think this picture does it justice. It looks AMAZING on her nails. I almost wish I had done it on myself (I would have done something similar if the plates had designs big enough to cover my whole nail). 

Birthday nails revisited

So I said in my birthday nails post that I would do another post with the actual birthday day nails. And here they are!!

I quite liked them. It's a more spiced up version of the original. To do these yourself you can use pretty much any colour, too, which is great.

I ended up using: OPI - Designer Series Sapphire as the base with a coat of Nubar - 2010 over the top for extra sparkle. Then the balloon's are China Glaze - Frostbite, China Glaze - Solar Power, China Glaze - Ruby Pumps,  China Glaze - Paper Chasing, China Glaze - Kiwi Cool-ada and Revlon - Orange Flame. Art Deco nail art lacquer in Black for the strings and another coat of Nubar - 2010 over the lot. Easy!

Two for Tuesday!!!

Two manicures today!! One is my nails, the other is my brother's girlfriends that I did for her. She's just starting to grow her nails so it's all very exciting. I think I might post my Mum's nails as well a bit later on this week.

So her nails are just a basic coloured French manicure. Pink and blue!!

I used China Glaze - Purple panic (neon) for the pink/purple and OPI - Frostbite for the blue tips.

This week my nails have gotten a lot of comments. Normally I can have whatever outrageous nails I want and no one says anything, but these seem to be particularly eye-catching. I actually did this manicure originally back in 2007 but I didn't take pictures of my nails then. 

So we've got China Glaze - Solar Power for the yellow, China Glaze - Purple panic (neon) for the spots and American Apparel - Hassid for the black. 

It's really easy to do. Just do all the nails normally with the yellow. Then randomly spot the Purple Panic (I just used the polish brush), then do to almost half circles on either side of the spots. I also tried not to have the gap in the same area. And a couple of tiny random black only spots.

Something easy...

A quick and easy one this time. My camera went missing after I went to take pictures of the Queensland floods and I've only just found it! I've gotta get into gear and upload the rest of the pictures I have on there. 

This is a really easy manicure. Pink with pink french tips with a gold highlight line and a gold feature nail with a pink highlight line. The highlight line is something that I haven't done in ages. It can make a plain manicure look more interesting. I used to do it with black and have a gunmetal grey highlight line.

Colours used: Nubar - Brilliant for the shimmery-holo pink, Sephora by OPI - Shopping Frenzy for the tips and China Glaze - GR8 for the gold.