Guest Nails - Summer Prints

Hi everyone! Guest nails again tonight. These are some I did for my friend Jess as she was going to a wedding. Please excuse the mess around the edges, I find it harder to do clean up on other peoples nails! Plus with both agree it's actually pretty satisfying getting the mess round the edges off in warm water!

We started with a pale pink base, and stamped a few images in white from my Doodles 01 plate from Mo You London. For a few other images I created decals and added a pit of a darker pink in some of the patterns. I used my Uber Mat for these, you can see how here. For the accent nail I used the lovely rose gold Halcyon from Cirque Colors. I really liked these, I like how her nails are small enough for the whole doodles designs to fit, and I think it's very fitting for a summer wedding :)
Colours used: Surfboard - Barry M, White Knight - Mo You London, Acai Smoothie - Barry M, Halcyon - Cirque Colors

Stamping Sunday: Leafy Green

Today I am showing you some last minute afternoon entertainment in the form of doing my sisters nails! She wanted something green to match the logo at the charity shop where she's currently volunteering so we decided to go with something leafy. We looked through my stamping plates and chose Mo You's Pro Collection Plate 06. The leafy pattern is in a subtle silver polish and the floral accent nail is in a metallic rose gold type shade from Nails Inc (details below pictures). I particularly like the accent nail, it was an unexpected hit paired with green.

Here is the design below. Two things to apologise for, firstly the incomplete clean up and secondly the poor picture quality. I still haven't mastered my light box (images come out really bright) so I tried just in normal evening light but it was hard to get a clear detailed image without blurring.

Overall I like the design and look forward to using more leafy patterns in the future, especially now I have my clear jelly stamper to play with too :).


Colours Used: Key Lime - Barry M, Soho Silver - Nails Inc, Kings Road - Nails Inc

Snowy creatures on a mild Boxing Day

I hope everyone's Christmas was grand! Today I have guest hands again. These are the nails I did for my sister Imogen, and finished yesterday morning. The snowmen are freehand and were done using small brushes and dotting tools. I was going to add snowflakes or dots on the plain nails, but we quite liked it the way it was. Also decided against little snowman arms as we weren't sure how well they would show up against the background colour. So they are snow creatures rather than snow men!

I always find it harder doing other peoples nails, as I'm used to doing my own. I think it's due to the angles. It won't stop me though!


Colours Used: In the Navy - Colours By Llarowe, Coconut - Barry M, New York Noir - Nails Inc, Dazzle - Orly, Antique Coral - Natural Collection