Friday 27 September 2013

Nail Art & Water Marbling

Last night at college our tutor demonstrated how to do water marbling. It was lots of fun albeit a little tricky as the polish dries so fast that you literally have seconds to get it done.

You start by filling up a plastic cup / bowl with warm water (not too hot, not too cold). You then add drops of nail polish into the water as fast as you can before using the end of an orange wood stick to swirl the polish to make a pattern before dunking the nail (or a nail tip in this case) into the part of the pattern you like best. You then need to use a cotton bud to remove the remaining traces of polish from the water surface before taking out your nail.

We also had to work on more detailed nail art. I decided to do a spooky looking tree with a cat sat in it, a paisley pattern with gold accents and a funny shaped black cat (inspired by these water decals I found on Ebay).

Here is what I created. Overall I was pleased with the results seeing as this was my second attempt at nail art. I shall be ordering some nail tips and orange wood sticks to practice the water marbling at home.

Nail Art Water Marbling

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Nail Art

I have been practising my 'perfect polish' and also basic nail art on my hands, my sisters hands - basically any nails I can get my grubby perfectly polished mitts on!

As my kit still hasn't arrived yet I don't have any tools to do a proper manicure so I'm literally just filing and painting the nails for now...

Products Used
Opi Flip Flop Fantasy
Skull Nail Transfer
2 Blue Rhinestones
Seche Vitae Fast Dry Top Coat

Products Used:
Nails Inc - Black
China Glaze - Matt Magic Flat Finish Top Coat
Seche ViteFast Dry Top Coat


Products Used
Rimmel Polish - Colour TBC
Rhinestones
Black Glitter
Seche ViteFast Dry Top Coat



Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog!

I've just started a nail technology level 3 at college and this is my place to share some pictures, talk about my course, share inspiration and generally gush about my love of nails!

The course started last week and so far we've learnt a file and polish, a basic manicure and this week it was all about the introduction to nail art. We were introduced to the striping brush, dotting tools and mini stub brush to cate lines, dots and painting with nail art paints and lose glitters.

Here are the nails I created during Thursdays session. We had to use stripes, dots, glitter, rhinestones and leopard print.

Overall I'm pleased with how these turned out, especially as its my first ever attempt at nail art.