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

Q for Quilt

Hey everyone! For the letter Q i really didn't know what to do! The only thing i could think of to was quilting but i wasn't sure about doing this design on my nails. Instead i thought i would try and do patchwork quilt style nails. Although most of the designs i've seen were split into four parts but i thought this might be a bit tricky for me to do so i decided just to stick with two. I knew I wanted to do roses on one side but i wasnt sure what to do on the other side so in the end i just did polka dots. Anyway, to begin with i painted my nails with two coats of rimmel lasting finish pro wild orchid. I know i use this polish a lot but i just love the colour and it's so opaque and easy to apply- I would definitely recommend this polish because i love it! To do the roses i used a dark pink rio nail pen to create small, rough circular shapes (these will eventually turn into roses)  across the left side of each nail. I then used a pale pink accessorize nail pen to create random shapes inside each dark pink circle. To finish off the roses i used a mint green accessorize nail pen to create small leaf shapes on either side of each rose. I then used the brush end of this colour to paint the right side of my nail. Once this was dry i used a darker teal accessorize nail pen to do small dots all over the mint green section of my nails. Finally, i used a white rio nail striper to create small crosses along the join of the mint green section and the lilac section on each nail. I finished this design off with a topcoat. This was really quick and easy to do. I hope you like it. Please comment below what you think!

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

k for kitten

Hey everyone! For the letter K the only thing i could think of to do on my nails was kittens so that's what i did! I didn't want to do a kitten on every nail and have seen a lot of nail designs combining spots and a cat face so i decided to paint the rest of my nails with polka dots. To begin with, i painted my ring finger with a clear base coat and the rest of my nails with 3 coats of an unnamed coral polish from a boots gift set. Once my nails were dried i used a dotting tool and collection mardi gras white out to create diagonal rows of polka dots across all my nails apart from my ring finger. I then used the same white polish to make an arch shape on my ring finger nail  for the cats head and two small triangles at the top of it for ears. Once this was all dry i used an accessorize neon pink nail pen to fill in the ears. I used a black rio nail pen to create two small dots below the ears for eyes and a triangle in the middle for a nose. I then used the striper to create the cat's mouth and whiskers. I finished it off with a top coat.

Ellena x

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.

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.