Paint All The Nails Presents Marble

Paint All The Nails Presents Marble

black and white China Glaze half and half Marble Nail Art Nails paint all the nails saran wrap Studs

Hey everyone! Today is Paint All The Nails' link up day, and this month we're doing marble nails. There's so many different ways to interpret this prompt, there's water marbling, or stone marble nails, but both of those involve water. Instead I wanted to create something that wouldn't make me want to flip my desk over, so I went with my old favourite: saran wrap. It's such a quick way to get the look you want. I wanted to try something a little different so I went with this half and half look. I also create a tutorial for these over at Divine Caroline so you can see that here if you want to create these yourself.

You can see all the colours I used in my tutorial here. 

What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

Alice

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Paint All The Nails Presents Pantone Colour Of The Year 2016

Paint All The Nails Presents Pantone Colour Of The Year 2016

Barry M Blue Essie Glitter Nail Art Nails paint all the nails pantone pantone colours of the year Pink saran wrap seche vite

Hey everyone! This is a very late post from me tonight (although when I was a student I would probably have considered this early) as I've been out for drinks and food for my friends birthday and I've only just had a chance to edit and post these. Today is this months 'Paint All The Nails' challenge and we voted to do a Pantone themed design based on this years colours. Each year Pantone normally chose the year's colour, but for some reason this year they chose two, but they are very lovely colours! My manicure did end up looking more blue than blue and pink but I still really liked it. Check the inlinks at the bottom of the page for everyone's designs.

I used the Barry M - Supermani 7 in 1 Base Coat*, then I used the saran wrap method with Barry M - Rose Hip as my base and Barry M - Elderberry over the top. Then I used Kiele - Liquid Pallisade French* to mark out my triangles and I filled in the centre with Essie - Beyond Cozy, touched up with a nail art brush. Then I finished off with a coat of Seche Vite

What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

Alice

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Negative Space Saran Wrap

Negative Space Saran Wrap

ard as nails chelsea queen Glitter Indie inspired by Loose Glitter Nail Art Nails negative space Nude Purple saran wrap

Hey everyone! I hope you're all managing to stick to your new years resolutions so far now that the first week of January is officially over. I haven't actually started my 'get fit' resolution as my birthday is next week so I want to be able to eat as much cake as possible. However, second on my list of resolutions is to try more indies, and this is exactly what I've done for this design. I've been trying out some Ard As Nails polishes, and for this design I used Olly* and Sharona*, but you'll see the rest soon too. 

For these nails I was completely inspired by this design by Chelsea Queen from ages ago (took me forever to find that link!), but rather than doing watercolour nails I wanted to do saran wrap. I also tried to make it my own a little bit so of course it's nowhere near as gorgeous as the original, but I'm still pretty happy with how they turned out.

This is my first manicure using Kiesque's Liquid Pallisade*, and it has absolutely revolutionised doing nails for me. I know it's been around for a while but I've not really dipped my toe (or should I say finger) in at all and I can tell I've definitely been missing out. I've already done 4-5 designs using it and I'm sure there will be more, but this is the first to be posted. No more faffing around with tape (although I'm sure it will still get use somewhere). I'll be doing a full review on it soon but I think it's clear that I love it. 

For the purple base I used Ard As Nails - Olly*, and the nude base is Ard As Nails - Sharona*. For the negative space I used Kiesque's Liquid Pallisade French*, which has a thin brush for precision.

Then I used Mavala - Petunia, Barry M - Sugar Apple, and OPI - Just A Little Rosti At This for the saran wrap, topped with OPI - Pirouette My Whistle and loose glitter that was gifted to me by Very Emily. Finished off with a coat of Seche Vite.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

Alice