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

O for Owls

Hey Everyone! For the letter O i instantly knew what design i wanted to do as I love owls. I have done a similar owl design before but only on one nail and in different colours (fuschia and gold). I decided to do this design in pale pink and blue and alter it slightly from my previous design by doing hearts for feathers  and owls on all of my nails apart from my little fingernail which i just did hearts on. Anyway, to begin with I used collection 2000 baby blue to create the owl's body on each nail. I did this by painting an arch shape that covered most of my nail apart from a small gap near the cuticle. For the ears i used the same polish and a medium dotting tool to create two small triangle shapes at the top of the owl's body. For the eyes I used a white polish and a large dotting tool to create two large dots just below the ears, then I used a smaller dotting tool and a black polish to add pupils to the centre of the eyes. For the wings and feathers i used a pale pink nail art pen from accessorize. I made the wings by creating two curved shapes at either side of the owl's body. I then created three small hearts in a triangle formation in the middle of the owl's body for his feathers, I also made hearts all over my little fingernail, once i had painted it with two coats of the blue polish. Finally, i used a rio silver nail art pen to create a small triangular shape, in between the eyes, for the beak. I finished the design with a topcoat.

N for notebook

Hey everyone! For the letter N i thought i would do lined notebook paper on my nails. As i went back to school today i thought that this would tie in nicely. However, i thought that plain lined paper on my nails might be a bit boring so i decided to mix them up a bit by adding doodles onto the paper design and doing some of my nails as the eraser end of a  pencil. They were quite easy to do and i'm fairly pleased with how they turned out. To begin with i painted my ring finger and my pointer finger with three coats of miss sporty clubbing colours, popcorn. I then painted my little finger, middle finger and thumbnail with three coats of white- I used collection 2000 mardi gras, white out. Once all my nails were dry i used a light blue rio nail striper to create thin horizontal lines across all of the white nails. After this, i used a bright pink rio nail striper to create a horizontal line near the edge of each white nail. I finished off the notebook paper nails with different doodles using a black rio nail pen: for my thumb i created a smiley face and a kiss (X); for my middle finger a small heart and for my little finger i wrote LOL on one of the lines. For the pencil nails, i used an orange rio nail striper to create thin vertical lines across all my yellow nails. I then used miss sporty clubbing colours baby pink to create a stripe at the end of each yellow nail, about two thirds of the way up each nail. Once they were dry i used rimmel 60 seconds, precious metal to create a thin silver line over the join between the pink and the yellow. I finished each nail design with a topcoat.

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.

C for cupcakes

Hey everyone! After much deliberation, i decided to do cupcakes on my nails for the letter C because i thought they would look pretty but be fairly easy to do. However, they didn't turn how quite how I wanted them to and I'm not that happy with the way they look but i do think they still resemble cupcakes so i decided to post them anyway. I used a new nail polish from bodycare for the base of all my nails, it's a technic nail varnish called seashell, it's a kind of metallic pale pink/lilac and i really like it. I then used a revlon nail polish in the shade sweet tart to paint roughly a third of the way up all my nails. After that had dried, i used maybelline fuchsia and a thin brush to paint stripes vertical on the pink part of my nails. I then used a white rio nail pen to paint a curved line at the top of my nail and filled it in, slightly overlapping the pink part of my nail and creating drips to look like icing. To finish it off, i used a dotting tool with technic's flamingo to create a small heart on the top of each nail. I finished it off with a top coat. By the way, on my thumb i did dots for "sprinkles" but didn't really like them so i decided to leave them off the rest of my nails.

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.