Category Archives: Nail Art

Grüß Vom Krampus

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krampus nail art

Grüß Vom Krampus or Greetings from Krampus!

Here are my nails form the weekend.  As Krampusnacht is on the 5th of December I just had to wear some Krampus inspired nail art! 🙂

If you’re not familiar with the legend of the Krampus, he is the devilish companion of St. Nicholas.

St. Nicholas brings gifts and rewards to good children each year on December the 6th and leaves punishing the bad children to The Krampus! The wicked child would be beaten with a bundle of birch sticks, whipped with horsehair, then thrown into a wicker basket and taken down to Hell for a year.

If nothing else it’s definitely a terrifying way to get your kids to behave! Lol!

krampus nail art

I spent ages trying to draw a tiny Krampus on my nail, but it really didn’t go well :/ I decided to see if I had any stamping plates with suitable images, and I did! 🙂

The goat skull is from Plate MM11 from Messy Mansion and the tree branches are from plate 14 from Moyou mother nature collection.

I used Lots of Red Polishes for the base of this Manicure

  • Barry M Red Glitter
  • Chanel Dragon
  • Chanel Rouge Noir
  • Color Club Rad-icle Gypsy
  • Illamasqua Scarab

I smooshed them all together on the back of a stamping plate then used a stamper to splat it onto my nails! It’s a really fun technique, but it is incredibly messy 🙂

for the stamping I used Hit The Bottle Black and Seche Vite to finish it all off

krampus nail art

Have you been good this year or did the Krampus Come to get you?

😀

 


Black And White Candy Cane Nails

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Black and White Candy Cane Nail Art

I have to admit that I’m feeling so incredibly un-festive, I have been trying to create christmasy nails but it’s just not working…

I think I’m going to stick with winter nails for now 🙂

Black and White Candy Cane Nail Art

This is a base of Snow Me White from Sinful Colors, with a coat of China Glaze Make A Spectacle.

The tape decided that it didn’t want to play nice, it kept curling up at the edges, and generally not sticking to the polish, in hindsight I should have added a layer of topcoat over the glitter… :/

Then I added a coat of Camelot from A England and removed the tape, then added my topcoat to smooth it all.

Black and White Candy Cane Nail Art

Yay for non christmasy candy cane! 😀

 


Born Pretty Lace Stamping Plate Review

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Hello! 🙂

Lace Flowers Leadlight Nail Art

Here is a pretty lace stamping plate that has been sent to me from Born Pretty!

You can find the plate right here Lace Stamping Plate. The first thing I have to mention is the image on the Born Pretty store page is a slightly different plate, so for my review I’m using an image that’s the same on my plate BP-L020 and the one on the website.

Born Pretty Lace Stamping plate

There are loads of really lovely images on this plate, a lot of them perfect for leadlighting and reverse stamping.

While I was playing with this plate I noticed that to fit the images on my thumb I had to stretch the image, for the most part it was fine but the the images with more detail ended up looking rather distorted.

Lace Flowers Leadlight Nail Art

Another thing I found, was that I got a much cleaner image pickup by scraping across the plate, so side to side rather than up and down. I have no idea why!

Lace Flowers Leadlight Nail Art

The polishes I used are

  • A England Jane Eyre
  • Illamasqua Load
  • Illamasqua Muse
  • Illamasqua Omen
  • Illamasqua Ouija
  • Illamasqua Prosperity
  • Hit The Bottle Black
  • Seche Vite

Lace Flowers Leadlight Nail Art

This is a really pretty plate, if the images where a couple of mm wider it would be the perfect size!

You can use the code RPG10 for 10% off your Born Pretty order!

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A England Houndstooth Nail art

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A England Houndstooth Nail Art

I wasn’t planning on posting anything today but… I just had to share this with you!

I picked up some A England polishes in the Gothic weekend promotion and they arrived this morning, so of course I had to have a play with them. I tend to swatch one nail so I can get a vague idea of what a polish will be like.

So, I try the lovely dark blue Queen Of Scots, this has to be the creamiest, highly pigmented polish I have tried in a long time! It’s lovely!  My next polish test is to see if it’s going to be good for stamping…

A England Houndstooth Nail Art

Just look at it! The purple is Elaine also from A England.

I would think that Queen Of Scots will be just as vibrant over black polish!

The houndstooth stamping image is from Moyou Pro XL 07

A England Houndstooth Nail Art

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Neko Atsume Inspired Cat Nails!

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Neko Atsume Nail Art

Today’s nails are inspired by probably the cutest phone game ever! Neko Atsume

Neko Atsume

Neko Atsume Nail Art

All you do in this game is you use silver and gold Niboshi (dried fish) to buy food, toys and furniture to attract cats to your garden, you can take pictures of the cats to add to your cat book!

Then when the cats leave your garden they give you more Niboshi, then you can buy more stuff and get more cats. 😀

There is even The Neko Atsume Europe Facebook group!

Neko Atsume Nail Art

I used a lot of different polishes for this

  • Illamasqua – Blow
  • Seche – Nouveau
  • Sinful Colors – Snow Me White
  • Illamasqua – DWS
  • Barry M – Peach Melba
  • Color Club – Nomadic In Nude
  • Illamasqua – Harem
  • Rimmel London – Ultra Violet
  • Barry M – Blueberry I/C
  • Illamasqua – Nomad
  • Seche Vite Topcoat
  • Illamasqua Matte Topcoat
  • Fine Tip Permanent ink pen

I ended up making decals for the cats as painting them directly onto my nails really wasn’t working out.

Neko Atsume Nail Art

I really do like these little kitties! 😀


Brown Pin Marble

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Brown Pin Marble

Here is another brown autumn nail art look, this is really quick and surprisingly easy to do! Rather than me explaining (badly) there are loads of really good tutorials on pin marbling over on youtube!

Some slightly annoying news, my camera has decided that taking photographs is something it no longer wants to do (Gaaaah!) So for the foreseeable future I’m going to have to use my phone camera…

Oh yeah, I have decided to sort out my Instagram account! I’ve actually had one for years, I just haven’t really used it, so do go check it out! 😀

Brown Pin Marble

Back to the nails lol I used two polishes for this look Hot For Chocolate from Revlon and Diablos from above the curve.

Hot for chocolate is the brown cream, it’s easy to apply and is almost opaque in one coat. Diablos is a brown/red holographic polish, and for a brown polish I think it’s actually rather pretty!

Brown Pin Marble

I hope that one day a brown polish will come along that I really like, but until then brown nail polish is just not for me!