Tag Archives: Stripe

February 1, 2016

Dark Stripes

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

Dark Striped Nail Art

Here are my dark and stripy nails! This has been adorning my finger nails all weekend 🙂

Dark Striped Nail Art

I created the gradient with two polishes from Morgan Taylor. Rebel With A Cause and New Year New Blue.

Then I added the striping tape and it took ages! And I failed miserably at getting the tape even remotely spaced correctly on my dominant hand so I gave up after one nail and have been pottering about all weekend feeling very uneven lol!

The black I used is A England Camelot. then finished it off with a layer of Seche Vite!

Dark Striped Nail Art

here is a (bonus lol) photo with the flash to show the colours a little more 🙂

Comments Off on Dark Stripes   |  tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | posted in Nail Art

January 27, 2016

Teal Nails!

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

teal nail art

I was really in the mood for teal nails, but I really couldn’t decide between gradient or stripes, so I went with both! 🙂

teal nail art

The four polishes I used are from Illamasqua,

  • Nomad
  • Venous
  • Kink
  • Viridian

I also used striping tape, a cosmetic sponge, the little triangle studs and of course Seche Vite top coat.

teal nail art

Ooh some fun news I have a shiny new camera! Yay! It’s a Sony a 5000! So please don’t be to horrified by my dreadful photography while I work out the best camera settings 😀

2 Comments   |  tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | posted in Gradient, Nail Art

June 14, 2015

Born Pretty Lacy Cross Water Decal Review

By Ruth

*Press Sample*

Hey Everyone!

Born Pretty Decal

Born Pretty Decal

Today I have some lovely water slide decals from Born Pretty to show you!

born-pretty-lace-nail-art-water-slide-decal-adornedclaw-adorned-claw

The Born Pretty name for these is “Mini Bow knot Cross Lacy Design Print Nail Art Water Decals” (quite a mouthful lol) and the item number is DS-107.

They are available right here Mini Cross Bow Decal

This is how I apply water slide decals

  1. Cut each decal out as close to the image as you can. Then remove the thin plastic cover
  2. Put the decal in some water for around 15/30 seconds. I try to float them on the surface with the image facing up
  3. Carefully remove it from the white backing, with tweezers or carefully rubbing them between my fingers.
  4. Place the decal on your nail. It helps if your nail is a little wet it makes it easier to reposition the decal if needed.
  5. Wait till it’s dry and add topcoat.

born-pretty-water-decal-lace-cross-nail-art-transfer-adornedclaw-adorned-claw

The polishes I used for this look are

  • Barry M – Bright Pink
  • Rimmel – Peppermint
  • Rimmel – Ultra Violet
  • Sinful Colors – Snow Me White

As well as loads of striping tape, french tip guides and a couple of coats of Seche Vite. 😀

Pink Purple And Teal

Pink Purple And Teal

And don’t forget you can use the code RPG10 for 10% off 😀

Comments Off on Born Pretty Lacy Cross Water Decal Review   |  tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | posted in Nail Art, Review

August 21, 2014

GOT Polish Challenge – Over a Black Base

By Ruth

Hi! 😀

Today’s prompt for the Got Polish Challenge is “Over a black base”

Chanel black satin with sally hansen nail prisms

Chanel Black Satin with Sally Hansen Nail Prisms

So how could I not dig out some of my favorite polishes of all time!

Nail Polish

Black satin from Chanel is with out a doubt one of the best black nail polishes ever! the formula is still glorious (I have had this bottle for around 3 years now)

The other polish, poor thing, it’s looking rather well loved, is Turquoise Opal from the Nail Prisms range by Sally Hansen. These where first released back in 2002! I have owned this bottle for at least 7 years!

Lovely, lovely striping tape

Lovely, lovely striping tape

I used one thin coat of Black Satin, then a coat of Seche Vite, when it was dry I applied two strips of striping tape, and carefully added a thin coat of Turquoise Opal.

Then I removed the tape with tweezers and added another coat of Seche Vite.

Turquoise Opal From Sally Hansen

Turquoise Opal From Sally Hansen

This mani is more topcoat than nail polish! 😀

1 Comment   |  tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | posted in Challenges, Nail Art

August 13, 2014

Sparkly Striping Tape Nail Art!

By Ruth

Hi! 🙂

Today I have a sparkly mani I created using striping tape to show you.

Striping Tape Nail Art

Striping Tape Nail Art

for this I used

  • Rimmel Space Dust – Aurora
  • Filthy Gorgeous – Twilight
  • Striping Tape
  • Seche Vite

I began with two coats of Aurora, this is a really pretty polish! It is a slightly textured nude with loads of silver glitter, I added a thick coat of Seche Vite to even out the the texture to help stop the black polish from bleeding under the tape.

I used seven strips of tape for each nail, apart from my pinky which only needed six. Starting with my thumb nail I applied the tape, then carefully dabbed on the black polish, then using tweezers removed the tape while the polish was still wet. Then I applied another coat of Seche Vite over the top and continued with my other nails.

Glitter stripe nail art

Rimmel Aurora and Filthy Gorgeous Twilight

I never realized how much easier a decent quality striping tape is to use! There was no curling up, sticking to itself or refusing to stick to my nail!  😀

Striping Tape Glitter Manicure

Sparkly Pink And Black Nails

Comments Off on Sparkly Striping Tape Nail Art!   |  tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | posted in Nail Art

July 28, 2014

31dc2014 – Inspired By a Pattern

By Ruth

Hey everyone! 🙂

Today I have two very different attempts at the inspired by a pattern prompt!

Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to photograph my blue gingham nails  as soon as I had finished them so they all chipped and looking scruffy, so sorry about that!

Blue gingham Nails

For these nails I started out with a base of white on white from china glaze, for the gingham pattern I used a thin brush and my blue franken polish creation, you can find another post about it right here.

The black polish is Emotions from O.P.I It’s one of the Liquid sand range.

After I had finished the blue pattern I realized that I absolutely hated it! It looks like those dreadful plastic tablecloths! Ugh!

 

Purple stripe nails

Purple stripe nails

These where inspired by the pattern of my fluffy slipper socks lol!

I used two polishes for this, Poke from Illamasqua and Inkwell from Sinful Colors. I Have to say I’m much happier with this than the tablecloth nails! 🙂

I started off with a coat of Poke, then when the first coat was dry I added alternating stripes of poke and inkwell, while the polish was still wet i used a pin to break up the edges of the stripes to give it a slightly fluffy look.

It was so easy! I added a coat of Seche Vite and it was all done! 🙂

Purple and black stripes

nails inspired by stripy slipper socks lol

Comments Off on 31dc2014 – Inspired By a Pattern   |  tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | posted in Challenges, Franken Polish, Nail Art

%d bloggers like this: