Damask Wallpaper

Needed something a little more delicate looking after my last mani and also needed to make my nails shorter! Feels so much better :)

I painted my base coat first as always. Then on my thumb, middle and ring finger I painted 3 coats of Barry M Coconut. On my index and little finger I painted 2 coats of A England Lady Of The Lake.

On the nails painted with Barry M Coconut I stamped this damask pattern from Pueen plate Pueen14 using Kiko 617 Taupe.

I then painted a coat of Seche Vite on all nails and that is the mani done :)

As always thank you for visiting and if you have any questions or anything to say then please comment below :)

Bridal Nails

Hey everyone! So I wanted to do some french tip nails as I haven't had white tips for ages now, but I also wanted to have some stamping on my nails too.
Once I had finished my nails I realised that they kind of look like bridal nails lol!

First I applied my usual Seche Clear base coat. I then applied 2 coats of Essie's Mademoiselle, I was going to do 1 coat but I thought 2 coats looked a lot better.

I then used Konad's white special polish and plate m19, this plate has the plain french tips on and really helps to get a nice crisp line. I stamped this along the tip of my nail, and I then used W7's white to paint over some more after, as the initial stamping wasn't bright enough.

I left my ring finger as it was with the 2 coats of Mademoiselle.

I then used a sticky paper reinforcement ring, these can be easily found on ebay and amazon and general stationary stores. I made sure the nail polish on my nails was completely dry and stuck this so that the top of the inner ring was against my cuticle.

While this was stuck on I painted with W7's white polish all along my nail then removed the ring once I had enough coverage of the polish. This creates the half moon effect.

Once all my nails were dry I then did some stamping!

On the ring finger with the half moon, I used another sticky paper ring and lined it up so that it was in the same place as when I had painted with the white polish. I then used Barry M's gold foil to stamp this swirly leaf sort of pattern from my Pueen33 stamping plate.

On my thumb and middle finger I again used the gold foil polish and stamped a rose from my Pueen14 stamping plate. I stamped this rose on the right side of the nail and so that it slightly went onto the white tip.

I then used some pearl studs, I placed one in the middle of each rose and one in the centre of the edge on the half moon. To place these I put a small blob of clear nail polish on where I wanted the pearl to be. Then to put the pearl there I just put the pearl on a flat surface so that the pearl side was facing up and pressed my finger onto it. When I press my finger on it, it usually just sticks to my finger and I can then place it where I want it on my nail.

I do have one of those pencil things that is meant to pick up studs and stuff, but it doesn't work for these pearls, maybe because they are quite shiny. But I find my way quite easy anyway.

I then applied a coat of Seche Vite and that is the mani finished!
I wasn't starting out to create a bridal look, but I think this would be quite a good mani for that.

As always thank you for visiting and if you have any questions or anything to say then please comment below :)

Phone Case Inspired Lace and Half Moon

I got this new phone case yesterday, so I thought I would do a mani to match it :)
And yes I know my phone isn't in the case, that's because I am using my phone to take the picture :P

First I applied my usual Seche Clear base coat, and then I applied 2 coats of Essie's Mademoiselle.

Once that was dry I then painted 1 coat of Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure (this is the new version that has the number 419 also on the cap).

I then used Konad stamping plate m57 along with the Konad black special polish. I stamped this netting pattern on my index, middle and little fingers.

I again used Konad's black special polish along with Pueen plate Pueen14 and I stamped this damask print pattern on top of the netting stamping.

I then cut out from a sheet of label paper these small pieces with a slight curve to them and stuck them near my cuticle on my thumb and ring finger to create a half moon.

I then painted with W7's black and removed the stickers.

I appled a coat of Seche Vite to each nail and here is the finished mani :)

This is it against the phone case and I think that's not too far off really.

Also in the post yesterday I got some more nail mail!
The centre image plate is from MoYou and it is plate number 03 from the Roxy Collection.

The plates around it are from Bundle Monster and they are the CYO set.

Very excited to start using these!!

As always thank you for visiting and if you have any questions or anything to say then please comment below :)