X lined nails

For the letter X i had no idea what design to do so in the end I decided to just create an X shape on my nails. This is my first ombre so I think it actually turned out ok. I really like the colours I used. 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??

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

P for Pirates

Hey everyone! For the letter P i decided to do pirates as i thought it would be a fun and easy design to do. I thought about doing an anchor or stripes on some of my nails but i thought that might be too similar to my A for anchor nails so i decided to stick with pirates on all of my nails. Anyway, to begin with as i didn't think i had the right colour for the pirate's face, I mixed two colours together-Rimmel lasting finishing pro bare naked and Technic pretty pastels bubblegum. I used slightly more of the pink polish (bubblegum) and i was quite pleased with the result. I painted all of my nails with three coats of this colour. Once dry, i painted a thick red stripe across the top of each of my nails with two small lines hanging down on the left side for the pirates' bandana using an unnamed red polish from a boots gift set. I then used a white polish and medium dotting tool to create dots all over the red part of each of my nails. Afterwards, i took a black rio nail pen to add the features for the face: an arch shape and a curved line for the eyepatch; a dot for the eye, and a curved line for the mouth. I finished off the design with a topcoat.

What do you think?

Ellena x

M for Monsters

Hey everyone! For the letter M i decided to do monsters on my nails! There were a few other designs that i thought i could do on my nails but none of them were very exciting. I wanted them to be fun, brightly coloured monsters and a different one on each nail, so this is what i came up with. I painted all my nails different colours: thumb-unnamed orange; pointer finger-george cloudless sky; middle finger-unnamed green; ring finger-unnamed red and little finger-rimmel lasting finish pro wild orchid. I did two coats of all these polishes and when they were all dry i did a range of different facial expressions on my nails. For my thumb i used a dotting tool with a white polish and a black polish to create three eyes in a triangle at the top of my nail. I then used a black nail striper to create a long thin line near the bottom of my nail for a mouth

and a white nail pen to create two triangles at each end of the line for teeth, one pointing up and one pointing down. For my pointer finger, i used a large dotting tool to create one big eye in the middle of my nail. i created a mouth in the same wayas on my thumb but on this nail i created both teeth pointing down. For my middle finger i used a white polish and a dotting tool to create ovals at the top of my nail and use a black nail art pen to put a dot at the top of one oval and the bottom of the other to create cross-eyes. I then used a black striper for the mouth and a red nail pen to create a small tongue at one end of the line. For my ring finger i created one small eye at the top left of my nail and a black cross at the top right. I then created a black line for the mouth and added three small white triangles for the teeth. For my little finger i made two small eyes at the top of my nail, a curved black line near the bottom for the mouth and a small white triangle for a tooth. I finished off all my nails with a topcoat.

I for Ikat

Hey everyone! I'm sorry it's been so long since i've posted i just haven't seemed to get around to it. For the letter I i thought a few designs that i could do on my nails but as recently i've seen lots of ikat nails and haven't had a go at them myself i decided to do ikat nails. They were really easy to do, especially as they don't need to be particularly neat or uniformed. To begin with, i painted all my nails two coats of collection 2000 work the colour-baby blue nail polish. Once all my nails were dry, i used a white rio nail pen to create a rough triangular shape from the tip of each nail and another one from the base of each nail. After this had dried i used a neon pink nail pen from accessorize to draw a smaller pink triangle inside each white one. Then i used a black rio nail striper to roughly outline each triangle using a series of tiny lines and create a small random shape in the middle of each triangle. I finished the design with a top coat.

H for hearts

Hey everyone! I stuck with the obvious for the letter H, hearts. I actually had another heart themed design in mind but it didn't quite go to plan so i did this one instead. I felt in a summery mood  so decided to use quite bright colours. It's a really simple and easy to do design and didn't take very long to do. Firstly, i painted all my nails two coats of rimmel lasting finish pro in the shade wild orchid. Next, i used collection work the colour polish in the shade in the pink to create two thick diagonal stripes in a V formation at the edge of each nail to create a heart. I then used collection mardi gras polish in white out and a medium dotting tool to outline each heart on all my nails. I finished this design with a top coat.

E for Elephant

Hey Everyone! I really couldn't think of anything at all for the letter E apart from elephants so, today's nails are elephants. I painted all my nails two coats of a George (asda) polish in the shade cloudless sky to begin with, which was surprisingly opaque. I then used a rimmel 60 seconds nail varnish in the shade precious metal with a nail art brush to shape a curved arch for the elephant's head and a curved line for it's trunk. I waited until this was dry before using a pale pink rio nail pen to fill in the ear. Afterwards, i used a black rio nail art pento create a curved line for the elephant's mouth and a dot for it's eye. I finished it off with a top coat.

D for Dots

Hey  Everyone! I decided to stick with the obvious one for this letter and do dots as i thought they would be nice and easy to do. However, i wanted to do something a little bit different so decided to do half and half dot in alternate colours. To begin with i painted my nails with two coats of collection 2000 work the colour, raspberry pink nail polish. Once all your nails are dry paint them with one coat of a fast drying top coat. After this i placed sellotape diagonally across each nail, making sure it was firmly pressed down. I then painted each nail with collection 2000 work the colour baby blue over the part of my nails which weren't covered in sellotape but it doesn't matter if you go onto the sellotape because the next step is to peel it off. Once i carefully peeled off the sellotape, i was left with my nail split diagonally into a bright pink section and a pale blue section. Afterwards, i simply took a medium sized dotting tool with the bright pink polish and painted evenly spaced dots on the blue side of my nails. I then repeated this step but using the blue polish on the pink part of my nails. I finished with a top coat.

A for Anchor

Hey everyone! So these are the first nails for the alphabet nail challenge. After a long debate of what designs I could do that begin with the letter A, i finally settled on doing an anchor themed nail design. I originally thought that i would just do anchors on all my nails but i then changed my mind as i decided i wanted to do something a bit different. Anyway, i painted my index finger two coats of an unnamed red polish and the rest of my nails two coats of Rimmel lasting finish pro in the shade bare naked. I then placed a piece of sellotape diagonally across the bottom of each of my nails (apart from my index finger). I then painted the sellotaped nails two coats of collection work the colour sonic blue. Next, i used a white nail striper to create thin horizontal lines over the blue part of my nails and carefully peeled off the sellotape. Along the line where the two colours met i added a row of silver dots using a silver nail art pen. To finish off these nails i used the red polish and a medium dotting tool to create a heart in the nude section of my nails. Finally i used a white nail striper to create an anchor in the middle of my nail on my index finger. I finished this design with a topcoat.

Owl and polka dot nails

Hey Everyone! Today's nails are some really simple and easy to do polka dots and owls. I wasn't sure how to do my nails but seeing as i love owls and have been wanting to do them for some time i decided to match them with some contrasting polka dots. I used pink and bronze for my nails but you could use any colours you want. To begin with i painted all my fingers apart from my index finger two coats of collection work the colour nail polish in the shade- raspberry pink because i just love this colour and seem to be using it all the time even though i only recently brought it. Then I painted my index finger two coats of Rimmel lasting finish pro nail varnish, bare naked. Once all my nails were dry i simply dipped a medium sized dotting tool into miss sporty lasting colour nail polish in the colour- fall. I used my dotting tool to create evenly spaced dots across all my nails apart from my index finger. For my index finger i used the dotting tool in the bright pink to create an arch shape, which should cover most of your nail, for the owls body, then create two small triangles for ears either side of the top of the body. I then used a dotting tool in "fall" to create two teardrop shapes either side of the body for wings and three dots on the owl's stomach for feathers. Afterwards, i used a white rio nail pen to create large eyes for the owl and a black nail pen for pupils. Finally, i used a bright orange nail striper to create a triangle for the beak. I finished the design with a top coat. 

sheep nails

Hey everyone, today's nail art design is some cute little sheep i wanted to do as i was feeling in a spring/ summer sort of mood.  For the base coat on all my nails i used miss sporty clubbing colours in blue bath because it is the perfect colour for a sky. Then I used a metallic green rio nail pen to paint thin lines of different lengths two thirds of the way up my nail to create grass. I then used a medium dotting tool dipped in white nail polish and made a series of dots over the grass to make the sheep's body. Finally, i used a black rio nail pen to make a small arch shape on the side of the sheep's body to create the head and made four small black lines to create legs underneath the sheep's body. I finished the design with a topcoat. 

leopard print nail art

Hey Everyone! Today's nail art is a leopard print design. I've been seeing loads of leopard print nails recently so i decided to give it a go. It is really simple and easy to do and i love it because all your nails can be different. I really like how it turned out and i will definitely do it again. For the base coat i used two coats of Rimmel 60 seconds nail polish in the colour-precious metal (810). I then used a bright pink rio nail pen to create random shapes across all my nails. After i did this i outlined some of the shapes using a black rio nail pen. I finished the design with a top coat. 

Flower nail art

Hey Everyone! Today's nails are just some simple flowers i decided to do. I used Miss Sporty crush on you nail polish in the grey shade (062) as the base coat for all my nails apart from my index finger which i used Seventeen quicker slicker nail polish in the shade mini skirt. After i'd done the base coat then i used the white nail polish and a dotting tool to create small flowers and dots all over my nails. For my index finger i did the same but used the grey nail polish to create the flowers. For the centres of the flowers i used a yellow polish and a small dotting tool and for my index finger i used a bright pink polish. I finished the design with a topcoat.