W for Witch

Hey everyone! For the letter W, seeing as it is nearly halloween then i thought i would do a witch themed nail art design. I used orange and black to create stripes and then added a black cat and witch hat to make it a bit more unique. What do you think?? Ellena x

V for Vintage

Hi everyone! For the letter V the obvious choice was a vintage themed design. However, although most vintage manicures are based around pastel colours and roses i thought i would do more of a retro design including cherries and black and white polka dots. These were really easy to do! What do you think??

U for Union Jack

Hey everyone! I am sorry that it has been so long since i have posted! From now on instead of telling you how i did my nails i am just going to show you the steps.  For the letter U i thought i would do union jack nails. I was fairly pleased with how they turned out?? What do you think??

Please comment your thoughts

Ellena x

By the way esmithy88 was my instagram account name that's why it says that on my watermark.

T for Teenage mutant ninja turtles

Hey everyone! For the letter T there were a few things i wondered about doing on my nails but in the end i stuck with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle nail art. I also thought this would tie in quite well with the new film being released here in the UK in a week or so. I am desperate to see this film! Anyway, back to the nails, they were really simple and easy to do and i am pleased with how they turned out. I made them quite sparkly and girly as i used glitter but i'm sure they would look good without. I have got quite a lot of new nail varnishes recently so i have used a few to create this design. Firstly, i painted all my nails-apart from my thumb-with  two coats of Rimmel london 60 seconds Sky High. I really like this polish and it was really opaque and smooth. Next i painted these nails with one coat of Jess-tiger lily. This is a gorgeous green glitter polish which i love, it was from poundland and is a real bargain. I then painted my thumb with two coats of miss sporty funtasy 020. This polish is a shimmery dark silver with iridescent glitters and i think it is really unique and fun! I then used four different colours to create a thick stripe across the top of each of my green nails for the masks. Little finger-flashmob, turn up the juice; ring finger-collection 2000 work the colour, sonic blue; middle finger-rimmel lasting finish pro wild orchid and pointer finger- unnamed red polish from a boots gift set. To complete these the TMNT nails then i used a large dotting tool and a white polish to create eyes on the masks and a small dotting tool with a black polish for pupils. Then i did the pizza on my thumb nail. I used george-fortune teller to create a fairly wide stripe near the top of my nail for the pizza crust. I then used miss sporty-popcorn to draw a large triangle shape from the crust to the end of my nail. I found that the easiest way to do this was to put a small dot where you want the triangle point to be and then join the edges of the line and the dot together and fill it in. Once this was dry, i used and unnamed red polish and the green polish with a medium sized dotting tool to create the pizza topping by placing random dots all over it. I finished this design with a top coat!

                                         What do you think? Hope you like. Please comment
                                                                             Ellena x

S for Sugar skull

Hey Everyone! There were quite a few things that i could think of to do for the letter S but i decided on doing sugar skulls. This design was inspired by Cutepolish. These were really simple and easy to do! To begin with i painted all my nails with two coats of flashmob white lightning. I got this polish for my birthday and i really like it, it is really opaque. Once all of my nails were dry, i used a black rio nail pen to create two large dots at the top of my nail for eyes. I then made a nose by creating an upside down heart in the centre of my nail for the nose. After this i made a straight black line near the edge of my nail for the mouth and created five vertical rectangles around the line for the teeth. I then used a toothpick and four different nail polish colours-an unnamed orange polish; rimmel lasting finish pro, wild orchid; collection 2000 work the colour, baby blue and a fuchsia primark polish to create small dots all the way around both eyes. I finished all my nails off with a topcoat. This design was really simple and easy to do!

I hope you like them. Please comment below!

Ellena x

R for rabbits

Hey everyone! For the letter R I wasn't really sure what to do! The only thing i could think of was rabbits so that is what i did. I didnt want to do all rabbits on my nails because i have already done that before so i tried to think of something a bit different. In the end i decided on doing a girl and a boy rabbit on my middle and ring finger, and flowers on the rest of my nails. Anyway, to begin with i painted all my nails with two coats of george-cloudless sky. Once this was dry i used technic pretty pastels bubblegum and an fuschia primark polish with a medium dotting tool to create flowers over most of my nail-leaving a small space near the cuticle of my nail. Once this was dry i put a small dot of the other colour in the centre of the flower. I then used a mint green accessorize polish to fill in the gaps with leaf shapes. For my middle finger nail i used collection 2000 white out to create an arch shape near the edge of my nail for the head and a dotting tool to create two long ear shapes from the head. I then used technic pretty pastels bubblegum to fill in the ears, leaving a small white gap around the edge and create a small dot for the nose at the edge of my nail. I then used a rio black nail art pen to draw in eyes and a mouth. I repeated the same steps for the outline of the bunny on my ring finger but using the opposite colours (pink for the bunny's face and ears and white for the middle of the ears). I then used a black rio nail pen to create two thin arch shapes on the bunny's face for the closed eyes. After this i used a bright pink accessorize to create a small triangle for the nose and a small flower next to the bunny's ear. Finally, i used a small dotting tool and a white polish to fill in the centre of the flower. I finished off all my nails with a topcoat.

What do you think?

Please comment!

Ellena x