31 Day Nail Art Challenge - Day 22

Here's our Day 22 - Inspired by a Song!

Now, being a HUGE Lady Gaga and Beyoncé fan, when I first heard they were collaborating on a song I was one happy chappy! So to commemorate this AMAZING duet, as you may have guessed, the song we were inspired by was Telephone!

If for some crazy reason you haven't heard the song, check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U

Now, if you haven't seen the video, these nails don't really make a lick of sense, but we hope you enjoy them anyway!

How-To!


Thumb: one of Beyoncé's outfits

1) Paint on a royal blue base coat
2) Using a gold varnish, paint a thin strip on the tip of the nail
3) Then add some gold tassels running down
4) Finish off with some different colour jewel shapes!


Index Finger: one of Lady Gaga's outfits

1) Paint on a vertical yellow stripe
2) Once this has dried, paint on a few horizontal stripes - no need to be parallel!
3) Add a few black specks (which are supposed to be letters)


Middle Finger: Hello, hello baby, you called?

For this nail, I decided to go with the title of the song!
1) Paint on any colour background you fancy
2) Using a contrasting colour, paint on the phone shape, and the spirally cord coming off of it
3) Use a black varnish to do an outline


Ring Finger: The Big House 

Here we painted the setting of the video - prison. Nice and easy!
1) Paint on a white background
2) Paint on your prison bars!


And finally, the Pinky: another Gaga outfit

1) Paint half of your nail red, but with a slight diagonal slant
2) Paint on an over-lapping layer of blue
3) Then add the stars (or in this case dots) and stripes!


What do you think?


HanDee


xx

31 Day Nail Art Challenge continued...

As this last batch of days is a little more complicated and needs a bit more explanation, we'll be posting one by one! 

So here's Day 20 - Inspired by a Colour

As it was super sunny, we were definitely inspired by the colour yellow for Day 20! And what better way to get in the summer spirit than with Sunflowers! Laaavely!

All you need:

2 different shades of yellow nail varnish
Any colour for your base coat (we chose a sky blue for ours)
1 brown nail varnish
1 gold nail varnish
A clear cover coat


Six easy steps to achieve this design!
1) Paint your base coat
2) Using the brown nail varnish, paint semi-circles on the bottom left-hand corners of each nail
3) While the brown is still a little wet, using your gold, paint an outline around the brown, blending the two colours slightly
4) With one of your yellows, paint fairly thin petals extending towards the edge of each nail
5) Once this layer of petals is dry, paint another layer over the top with your other shade of yellow
6) Finally, finish your design off with a clear cover coat to protect it!


And voila! A lovely summery nail art design to brighten anyone's day!


HanDee


xx

31 Day Nail Art Challenge

So, being not-so-productive in the student lives we lead, we have decided instead to focus on something truly important... experimenting with as many different nail art styles and colours as possible! And what better way to properly break in the nail art pens than to take on the mammoth challenge of 31 different nail art styles in 31 days? 

Here's the list!

Day 1 - Red

Day 2 - Orange

Day 3 - Yellow

Day 4 - Green

Day 5 - Blue

Day 6 - Purple

Day 7 - Rainbow

Day 8 - Black and White

Day 9 - Metallic

Day 10 - Gradient

Day 11 - Polka Dots

Day 12 - Stripes

Day 13 - Animal Print

Day 14 - Floral Print

Day 15 - Tribal Print

Day 16 - Glitter

Day 17 - Half Moons

Day 18 - Galaxies

Day 19 - Water Marbled

Day 20 - Inspired by a colour

Day 21 - Inspired by a food

Day 22 - Inspired by a song

Day 23 - Inspired by a film

Day 24 - Inspired by a book

Day 25 - Inspired by fashion

Day 26 - Inspired by a pattern

Day 27 - Inspired by artwork

Day 28 - Inspired by a flag

Day 29 - Inspired by the supernatural

Day 30 - Inspired by a tutorial

And finally, Day 31 - re-create your favourite challenge!

To start off with, here are the first 8 days. Apologies for the quality of the first 6 photos!

Day 1 - Red
Simple, and a good way to ease yourself into the challenge - it only gets tougher from here!
All you need is a white nail varnish and a red nail art pen, and the rest is self-explanatory!

Day 2 - Orange
Deciding to take it up a notch now with tiger print!
You need: white nail varnish, orange nail varnish, a black nail art pen and a small piece of sponge.
Easy peasy really! Paint a white base coat, then, using the sponge, dab orange varnish over most of your nail, then finish with black stripes coming from either side! Easy Tiger!

Day 3 - Yellow
BANANARAMA! Though they may not look like it, these are in fact bananas on a blue background.
For this one you'll need a contrasting base coat, a black nail art pen, and if you're feeling particularly arty, TWO different shades of yellow nail art pens.
After you have your base coat down and dry, paint semicircles of the darker yellow. The next step is the paler yellow, to highlight. Then finally, there's the banana outline and hey presto, you're done!

Day 4 - Green
Feeling a manicure with a colour twist here...
Two different shades of green, simples. 

Day 5 - Blue
It was a particularly sunny day, so decided to match the weather!
Paint yourself a blue sky base coat, and then add white fluffy clouds with a white nail art pen! And if you're feeling particularly sunny, add yourself  some small rays of sunshine on the thumb!

Day 6 - Purple
You need a fairly steady hand for this one!
We used three different shades of purple, one for the base coat and 2  for the square outlines.

Day 7 - Rainbow
This is a personal favourite, being so bright and cheerful!
Red and yellow and pink and green... Well, you get the idea. Take care not to paint the early stripes too large or else there won't be enough room for poor purple on the end...

Day 8 - Black and White
There's nothing cuter or girlier than bows, so I decided to use this design to finish off the colour phase of the Challenge!
These are crazy easy, after the base coat is on, paint a small circle in the top corner of your nails. Follow this with 2 bow-looking blobs either side. Voila!

Stay tuned for the next batch!

HanDee

xx