Fool's penguin!

Hello nail people! Some more winter nail art to share with you today. This is a delayed one for Wednesday's Glam Nails Challenge prompt which was penguins. The base colour is one that's been on my radar for a long time and received for Christmas, so am enjoying trying it out. Penguins are such a classic and cute winter nail art theme which I have a few stamping plate options for, so I did go back and forth s bit on what to do.

I started with a blue shimmery base and then added white snowflakes from Mo You London's Festive 02 stamping plate. Next I used their Noel 11 plate for the penguins. No decals required here, just a variety of shapes to layer up to create the penguins. I didn't add all of them as I thought adding the little hats and things would make it a bit too Christmassy. They look like cute tubby little penguins I think! I did realise once I got the second plate out that it also has snowflakes so I could have used those, but never mind.

I'm pleased with these, I like the fun base colour and what's not to like about penguin nails?! Only thing I'd change is maybe adding more to the scarf so you can tell that's what it is. Oh and the strange title of this post is from the nail polish name - as you may have guessed from the pictures!

Colours used: Fool's Gold - Picture Polish, Grey - Barry M, Watermelon - Barry M, Plum - Barry M, Black Stamping Polish - Dance Legend, White Stamping Polish - Rainbow Connection, Beach Hut - Models Own

Happy Little Penguins

Hello all! I'm back with my first nail art of the year (excluding the new year looks which I actually painted on New Years Eve). I decided to do whatever nail looks I fancied this month but there were a few Glam Nails Challenge prompts I was really tempted by, one of which is penguins, so giving this one a go. I also tried out ILNP's Staying In for the first time, which is a lovely muted pastel linear holo polish.

Over Staying In I used snowflake images from the Mo You London Festive 02 stamping plate on my index, little finger and thumb nails. For my middle two nails I used their Noel 09 plate to create some penguin decals with these adorable images. You can see how here. I have used the multi penguin image once before but am glad to to a fully penguin focused nail art look with them as it was one of my intentions when I bought the stamping plate. I finished the look with a glossy top coat.

Overall I'm pretty pleased with these, they were quite easy to do and the overall look is cute - the penguins look very content! Unfortunately I smudged the end of my thumb nail a little bit, hence the angle of it in my picture below, I think I've just about managed to hide it!

Colours used: Staying In - ILNP, Black Stamping Polish - Dance Legend, White Stamping Polish - Rainbow Connection, White Horse Street - Nails Inc, Cream Soda - Barry M