Waterfall

Howdy and happy Saturday!

Today I went with sparkle waterfall nails. I have never done waterfall nails before, they look pretty in general on other people but I don't think I've done 'em very well.

I went with Barry M 'Watermelon' as the base colour, with L'oreal 'Exotic Canaries' yellow on my accent nail. To create the waterfall on top of the 'Watermelon' colour I alternated lines of 'Mango', 'Grapefruit', 'Pomegranate' and 'Fushia', all by Barry M. I created an edge to hide their ends with metallic gold and added some clear gold glitter to the top to add a little sparkle. For the accent nail I used 'Kensington Park Road', 'Haymarket', 'Chelsea Physic Garden' and 'Baker Street', all by Nails Inc. I added metallic silver to hide the edges across the top and some clear glitter silver to add the sparkle on that nail.

The colours all look weird together as I just grabbed whatever I fancied out of the box and whacked it all together. Not particularly happy with them, but not so unhappy that I want to take it off and replace it straight away. I need to come up with some new ideas of stuff to try as the ones I've gone for lately I seem to have ended up doing a really bad job of it :S


Anyhoo... curry time!

Byes for now,

S x

Rush job...

Happy Friday folks,

Kinda disappointed in myself a little today. Had a view of how I wanted a nail design to be, and considering it's quite a simple design, I knew it was within easy reach. However, I was a bit lazy and in a rush last night so it's come off messier than I had hoped. I will quite likely take it back off today and put something new on instead!

But until then, here is my messy mani for last night/today:

This is Essie Aruba Blue as a base on all but my ring finger, which has Barry M White on it. I used the alternate colours for the stripes on each nail, the Aruba Blue to dot my ring finger and Barry M Foil Effects silver to do the dots on the others, plus a few little nail gems to finish it off. It looks as though I've got silver on the edge of my index nail but it's actually just the reflection from the window. They look quite crap so I have got my thinking cap on for something new to replace them.

In other news, I have ordered a couple of Konad plates and their double sided stamp. I'm going to try out stamping as it's something I've not done before, and may help to alleviate some of the free hand work I do. I'm also considering trying out using acrylics to create designs instead of nail polish as it's meant to be easier? I guess I shall see how I go!

Anyhoo, until later!

S x