I'm Back!!! :D - Cherry Blossom Tree Spring Nail Art

Howdy folks!

I came over a little Spring-esque today and wanted to create some nail art featuring one of my favourite things about Spring... Cherry Blossom trees! I knew I wanted it to be a flowing-across-the-nails sorta thing, and absolutely love this gorgeously detailed Autumn styled design which fit what I wanted perfectly!

They've come out real pretty, though perhaps not as detailed as I'd originally planned for :)

I'm also working on my nail shape... again :D I had stiletto style when I last posted., while I was away I trimmed em all right down back to my natural shape. A couple of weeks ago I decided I wanted 'em stiletto again so now I am now training 'em back up, haha!


S x

Experimentation and shades of pink

Howdy folks!

Yesterday, at the end of my failed 'messy mani' post, I mentioned that I was considering trying out using acrylic paints for nail art as it was meant to be easier to handle. As I am an artist and therefore have a ton of acrylic paints in a box, I thought I would give that a try today. I went with a pretty simple design which can be seen below:

This 2 coats of Barry M Fuschia on my mains, and 2 coats of Barry M White on my accent nails.
I used the same white and a large dotting tool to create the dots on my index and pinky fingers, and added a pale pink and a silver gem to the upper centre of my middle finger.

I used a mixture of sap green, titanium white, lamp black and crimson red to freehand the roses with a very fine paint brush, and topped each nail with a liberal layer of topcoat.






I'm super proud by how well the roses came out, and I was quite happy to find that the acrylics were loads easier to use in comparison to nail polish. I will quite likely use acrylics a lot from now on!

That's all from me for now, catch ya again soon!

S x