She's Back! And she brings flowers.

I'm back! After a HUGE hiatus. Mainly due to University deciding that it hates me and doesn't want any one to graduate from my degree. I went for nearly a year without doing any make-up at all! But I'm back and I've been looking at various nail blogs and figured I might as well start posting once or twice a week for no real reason.

So let's have some flower nails to get the blog started again.

Now I'm not sure why but my Seche Vite top coat has randomly started to turn this nail polish a red-ish colour in some parts. It confuses me greatly.

So we've got American Apparel - Hassid as the base colour, China Glaze -Solar Flare as the flower petals, a combination of Nubar - Reclaim and China Glaze - Paper Chasing as the green leaves, China Glaze - GR8 as a highlight and a random, no name white for accents.

Start by doing the under/base colour, then the petals, leaves, centre of the flower, then finish off with the white highlights and any other accents you think might look good. I had the flowers in different positions on the nail mainly because my nails are different lengths.

I did get the inspiration for this design from some where on the internet, but these are my nails and my interpretation of that design. I'm also not nearly as good as the original artist.

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.