Field of tulips nail art

 

I decided to paint a field of flowers today. We've got some red tulips with some random yellow flowers thrown in to mix up the colours. Everything was done with acrylic paint with a top coat. To be honest, I'm not too sure how I feel about this one. From a distance it really looks nice because of the colours. However, I didn't do a very good job with the details. I tried to do some shading, but it didn't really work out, especially on the largest tulip. Hmm... oh well. They're still really colourful and make me think summery thoughts!

Van Gogh Starry Night Nails!

I'm back! Exams have been over for a couple of weeks now, but I've been so tired and uncreative, I haven't touched a bottle of polish in so long. But I'm back now, and (hopefully) better than ever! It's the summer holidays, and no school means more time for my nails.

So my nails today are inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night. I can't quite say how long they took me to do in total, but I would say about a couple of hours, maybe three.

I tried to recreate the piece as faithfully as I could, but it was kinda hard stretching it out to fill all four fingers. Of course, the main difficulty was trying to get all of the detail, which is always the case when you're using a canvas as small as your nails. That was why I chose to do a Van Gogh, his impressionist style means that it isn't too detailed, you just have to follow the lines of the brush strokes. However, as tough as it was, I don't think I did too bad a job trying to recreate it.

My thumb was a bit of a fail - oh well!

I think I'd like to do some more nail art similar to this, trying to recreate the works of various artists. What painting do you think I should try next? Leave me a comment if you have any suggestions!

Cute Animal Nail Art

I've been feeling a bit bleugh recently, so I thought to cheer myself up, I should do some cute animal nail art!

So, from left to right, we have a pig, a cat, a panda, and a little dog! I was inspired by random photos off of Google for the designs. Thinking about it now, it might have been more effective to do only one animal instead of four, but oh well. :) Which is your favourite?

Togepi Pokemon Nail Art!

So originally, my line of thought was it's Easter, let's do Easter egg nails. However, I ended up going from Easter eggs, to Pokemon eggs! So here's Togepi, an egg pokemon, and one of my favourite pokemons ever, hence why I have the toy that you can see I'm holding here!

The white polish I used for the background is from Natural Collection, and the pattern and detail is done in acrylic paint.

Hand painted water lilies!

 

I am so in love with my nails this week! I spent absolutely ages on them, but I think I can definitely say it was worth it. Water lilies are one of my favourite flowers, and now I can wear them on my nails too.

 

I did this design using acrylic paints and some nail art brushes that I bought recently from Born Pretty. They were perfect for getting all of the detail I needed.

I think it's fair to say that these are my best nails yet, and I won't be taking them off any time soon!

Nude blossom

This week's nail art is inspired by some of the amazing designs by kimiko7878 on instagram. She has done so many beautiful hand painted floral manis which I absolutely adore, so I decided to try and do something similar. The base is Rimmel London 60 seconds Caramel Cupcake 500, and the rest is hand painted using acrylic paints. Unfortunately, my brushes were quite thick, so it was very difficult to get the delicacy I was after. Will need to buy some proper nail art brushes soon!

Spring florals inspired by OOTD!

Hello! So this week's nails are inspired by this cute skirt that I bought from Asos a couple of weeks ago. I absolutely fell in love with the pattern, and decided to recreate it on my nails! Here's the original pattern:

It's really put me in the mood for spring! I used acrylic paints and an old paintbrush that I had trimmed. This is the most detailed nail art I've ever done, so I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, even if it is a bit messy. I should probably buy some proper brushes, but till then I will make the best of what I've already got lying around the house.

Blue Ribbon

Decided to try my hand at using acrylic paints on my nails! So I dug up my old tool box full of paints from GCSE art, and came up with this! (I must apologise for the lighting, all the daylight had gone by the time I finished.)

So, I know it isn't great, I had quite a few moments of accidentally pressing the brush down too hard and making the lines too thick. But, I'm still pretty pleased with it for a first time using actual paint on my nails.

Also, I had a bit of trouble removing the glequins that I used in my last post. Does anyone have any tips? Or do I just need to attack my nails with remover?