Nail Art

When I was about 12, I had this lovely T-shirt from Jane Norman which was turquoise, with brown writing and a brown halterneck underneath-top-thing, and some lovely glittery bits and a brown palm tree. I adored this T-shirt because, as many UK ladies may know, Jane Norman was pretty expensive (at least to little 12 year old me!). Anyways, one of the things I always remembered about the T-shirt was how good turquoise and brown looked together. Which is what inspired this manicure. I’ll stop waffling now!

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I find I’m really getting into nail art these days, feeling quite inspired! Hopefully the feeling will last! Here are some Spring/Summer nails, inspired by one of my favourite flowers – daisies.

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I did a little bit of simple nail art this weekend using the new Barry M glitter polishes!

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Here is an easy-peasy bit of nail art for you all! Sorry about the photo quality, this was taken on my phone… I wanted to keep updating my blog as I miss it! Hopefully my new camera will arrive soon. It’s apparently at Heathrow right now, woo!

What I used:

• Models Own Pro Swan Lake
• Barry M Bright Red
• Rio Nail Art Pen in Yellow
• Medium-sized dotting tool

This look is so easy – just one coat of Swan Lake for a little bit of sparkle, then use the dotting tool to make 5 dots around a central point in a flower shape, wait for that to dry and then squeeze out a dot of yellow in the middle of each flower!

What do you think? I like this kind of simple-but-pretty nail art, it only took me about 10 minutes to do both hand and it makes stained tips look very clean and white against the red!

What’s your favourite simple nail art design?

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Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Barry M have brought us three new ‘Chameleon’ shades – polishes which apply in one colour, then, when you add a clear polish/topcoat, they change to be a different colour. So far I’ve shown you Barry M Chameleon Blue and Barry M Chameleon Pink – today is my favourite: Chameleon Lilac. This effect makes nail art quick and easy, or can change your manicure from day to night so you have a fresh new look with just one slick of topcoat – perfect!

This is the polish as it is first applied. To me it looks like a blend between Barry M Lilac Foil and Silver Foil.

Here, where the darker purple shows, is where I have added topcoat. I have one full coat of topcoat on my ring finger, and on my pinkie finger I sponged on topcoat to give a gradient effect. This is the most colour-accurate photo!

Here, like yesterday, I played around with Barry M Limited Edition Silver Glitter, which had the same effect but with added sparkle. Silver Glitter is still available on the Boots Website, and is apparently due to reappear in Boots sometime in the next 2 weeks!

 The initial lilac finish has a chromey element to it – much like the Barry M Foil Effect polishes. It looks amazing even on it’s own! Then when you add topcoat or clear polish it creates a gorgeous Cadbury-purple jelly colour.

Application:

The polish applied well – the photos all show 2 coats out of habit, but the polish was opaque at one coat. Chameleon Lilac does show brushstrokes so be careful to apply the polish in straight lines from cuticle to free-edge. It dried fairly quickly. This one wasn’t as thick as the other two Chameleon polishes.

What do you think? Will you be trying out the Chameleon polishes? They retail at £3.99 in Superdrug, and will be stocked in Boots next Wednesday (13th June!). This one is definitely my favourite of the three.

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Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.