Hello lovelies!
I thought I would share with you some of the nails I have done at work over the past couple of months.
Good evening my lovlies!
In tonight's post i thought i would share with you all some of my recent nail designs from work that i have done over the past couple of months.
Let's start shall we?
In tonight's post i thought i would share with you all some of my recent nail designs from work that i have done over the past couple of months.
Let's start shall we?
I love creating different designs for clients!
Hope this also helps to inspire any fellow nail art lovers out there.
Thanks for reading.
1. Always use a base coat! This gives your polish something to adhere to making it last a little longer. A base coat also helps to prevent the coloured polish from staining your nail plate especially colours such as red, yellow and black.
2. Apply thin coats of polish. When painting your nails always apply thin coats for example 3 thin layers of polish instead of 2 thick, gloopy layers, if you do this the thin layers are more likely to dry faster than the thick layers.
3. Always use a top coat! When applying this make sure to swipe over the tip of your nail to seal the polish in place. Using a top coat will help to make the polish last longer and prevent chipping of product.
4. Use non acetone nail polish remover. Non acetone polish remover isn't as drying on the nails.
5. Never shake your nail polish bottle. Roll it back and fourth in your hands holding the bottle upright. This ensures that there are no air bubbles in the bottle
6. Thin out thick/gloopy nail polish with thinner. Got an old nail polish? Or a polish that has just got thick all you need to do is buy a nail polish thinner and add a few drops into the bottle.
7. Store polishes in a cool, dry place. Keep all of your polish upright and in a cool, dry and dark place to help the formula last longer. Heat and sunlight can alter the thickness and colour.
8. Hold your hands under cold water. Yes doing this helps! Once you have finished applying your polish to your nails hold your hands under cold water to help them dry faster!
9. Repurpose an old lip brush or nail art brush. Whenever we paint our nails we always get the polish on the skin surrounding the nail so why not use and old lip brush or a nail art brush to remove the traces of polish, just by simply popping it into some nail polish remover and clean up the edges and voilà all done.
10. Allow drying time! Make sure you leave enough time to allow you nails to dry! You don't want to go to all that trouble of painting your nails all lovely and done nail art etc to then go and smudge them! Nightmare.
Here we have my Mermaid style nails that i created on myself. I am in love with this theme!
Heres how i created this look:
To start of with i made sure all of my nails were prepped correctly by this i mean buffed lightly, cuticles pushed back and cut if nessecery and then using a lint free wipe i cleasned each nail with scrubfresh. This helps to clean and dehydrate the nail plate to improve adhesion.
As
these are nail extensions i first started off by sizing my tips and
fileing them to the correct shape i'd like. I then glued on my tips with
nail glue and finished off filing any little edges that needed it.
I chose my 3 glitters that i liked, which was purple, blue and white and then i mixed each one of these with a bit of acrylic powder.
I started off by applying the purple glitter acrylic in zone 3 (above the cuticle area), then the blue glitter in zone 2, then to finish white glitter in zone 1 (the tip). I waited for this to dry and i sealed the whole nail with a thinish layer of clear acrylic. Once all of my nails were dry i filed and buffed them all until the surface was smooth. I then gave my hands a wash to remove any dust.
On the ring finger and thumb i created scales using a white nail polish and striping brush. Once this has dried i then applied my NSI Glaze n' Go top coat to all nails.
To decorate my nails i added gold and silver caviar beads, blue rhinestones, gold seashells and a mermaid ( all these can be found on ebay.) I placed these on the nails and cured them under my UV Lamp for 2 minutes.
Once they had cured i applied a second layer of the Glaze n' Go making sure i covered all the gems/beads to make sure they are secured well. I then cured them under the UV Lamp again for another 2 minutes.
And that's how i created my Mermaid style nails!
Here are my valentines themed nails that i have had on this week!
It's the Eve of Christmas Eve and tonight i will be showing you more of my latest nail art designs!
Pink and Black with glitter. I used a thin nail art brush to create this.
Ho Ho Ho Christmas design - This is Shellac and i used silver for the base and red as the tip, then using a thin nail art brush i wrote "ho ho ho" on the nail in black.
Acrylics with red polish and silver glitter.
Red glitter Shellac.
Look out for more nail art posts in 2015!
Hello!
Ooh it's getting closer to Christmas, is everyone getting excited?
Today I have another nail art post for you showing, showing off my work that I have been doing recently in the salon.
I have been doing more snowflake designs again! To create these I used a thin nail art brush and a dotting tool.
Snowflakes and Christmas tree with added glitter.
Almond shaped acrylics with glitter.
Acrylics with purple polish and gold glitter.
Hello lovelies!
I thought i would start posting photos of my nail art designs/acrylics that i do on my client's at work and on myself and share my ideas and hopefully spread some inspiration for you all out there. I will sometimes give the nail art design a name, tell you what i used to create this look etc.
Winter Wonderland - For this design i used Shellac, Shellac Additives and silver glitter. I used a thin nail art brush to create the snowflake and used a dotting tool to create the snow.
White tip acrylics with Black and Gold Bows - For the bows i used Shellac. To create these i used a thin nail art brush.
Acrylics with CND Vinylux polish and gold glitter fading out on the ring fingers.
Keep an eye out for Nail Art #2
Wanting to find some inspiration for your Christmas nails this year here are some that i found on pinterest!
Also whilst i have been at work i have been busy doing my own Christmas nail art designs, check out the ones i have done below
Hope his has helped you!
