Nail Anarchy: Summer Skittle

Hi loves! *waves* Urmegerd! I am running another post today! *gaaaaasps* IT IS THE END! It is the end of all humanity as we know it! Whyyyyyyyyyy Thea, whyyyyyyyy??...okay no, not really! It’s the Nail Anarchy Challenge day today and I am actually taking part! Who would’ve thunk?? 

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I’m actually not too sure how this challenge came to fruition but all I know is a bunch of my nail art loving friends wanted a challenge and then suddenly it was like Oprah stepped into the building because next thing I know is “YOU GET A MONTH’S THEME, YOU GET A MONTH’S THEME, ER’BODY GETS A MONTH’S THEME!”. There might’ve been some tears, there might’ve been some gross jumping and hugging and there might’ve been some weird “OMG” silent mouthing...I don’t know! All I know is I didn’t take part the first few months and decided it’s high time I get my butt back into gear and this was the perfect way to do it! January was Mama Zombie Mumble’s theme month and she chose Summer Skittle...okay...so mine is a skittle but it looks more like easter. Not on purpose though mkay?? I had the mother of a nail breaks on my smexy hand so no way could I do my cute chibi ice cream nails like I wanted to so I decided to use my Cinderella hand for this challenge. So dots and zig zags (or chevrons) is what I went for! Also, please excuse my weird hand look and noob-esque photos! I am not a lefty at all!

I started by laying down bases of the following colours on my nails: Index finger – Essence Love Is In The Air, Middle finger – OPI Do You Lilac It?, Ring finger – Tip Top Nail Chic Beach Babe, Pinky – Tip Top Nail Chic Melting Marsmallow. With a dotting tool I then made the dots on my ring and index finger using L.A. Girl Glissand and L.A. Girl Green Sand. Lastly, I layed down some zig zag nail vinyls on my pinky and middle finger and added Essence L.O.L. over my pinky and OPI If You Moust You Moust. 

Ok, so this feels insanely “Meh” to me. I really wish I could’ve done this mani on my left hand because I could’ve done so much more but for now I’m working with what I got. My ring finger LOVE though! The colours just pop against each other! Love it!

Please go have a look at all the other lovelies taking part

Lots of mad love...

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Minty Marble

Hi there lovelies! We’re halfway through this lovely, wet, rainy week and man, am I looking forward to the weekend. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job but I need sleep so bad! I’m yawning as I’m typing this post out! It’s ridiculous! And it’s been miserable and rainy here since last week Friday. Weather like this should not be spent in an office, people! I need to be in bed with a book!

But anyhoo, mid-week medium rant (or moan fest) over. Let’s get on to "Le good stuff" shall we? 

As you guys know, I have an unashamedly big love for water marbling. I am constantly looking for ways to bring it into my mani’s and what better way is there than with a skittlelette mani?

I started by laying down a base of Sinful Colors Snow Me White on my middle finger and water marbled using Sinful Colors Island Coral and China Glaze Re-fresh Mint. On my ring finger I layed down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Island Coral and simply took 2 gold heart shaped studs and colored them using China Glaze Re-fresh Mint. To finish off the look, I added 2 coats of L.A. Girl Green Sand on my thumb, index finger and pinky.

I really loved how this came out! It’s the type of mani I could easily wear for 2 days AND I got to scratch my water marbling itch, even if it was only slighty. Hmmm...now to ponder on my next water marble mani without making you guys sick of them!

If you would like me to swatch any of the colors you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige! 

Lots of mad love...  

 

Textured Nail Art

Hi there lovelies! Gosh, It's been over a week since I last posted! Not intentionally though. The PC screen died on me last week but all is sorted now and I can continue on my quest to take over the world! Muhuhahahaha So yeah, basically I post nail art again!

Today's mani is a little creation I came up with after I've seen a few textured nail art manis floating around the blogiverse and I love them! A little honorable mention I have to give is to Painted Fingertips! This lady knows exactly how to take texture nail art to a whole new level! If you ever need any inspiration in this field, definitely go take a look at her blog! Here is my little take on this type of art...

I started out by laying down 2 coats of OPI Atomic Orange. When this was dry, I placed some Sellotape over the base color to form the geometric shapes on my nails and layed down a thick coat of Essence Here's My Number over the open areas, peeling the tape off immediately before I moved on to the next nail.

At first I wasn't insanely happy with how this came out because when I swatched Essence Here's My Number, it dried looking quite a bit more gray than it did over the orange. But it did grow on me and I quite like the pattern that I made with the tape. ...Also, my better half to be said it reminded him of Deadpool and well, that just absolutely made me love it! I will definitely be doing some more textured nail art in the future!

If you would like me to swatch any of the colors you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige! 

Lots of mad love...