Peacock Collection and Dreamy Beach Cremes Water Marbling

I think I may be a little addicted to water marbling now :) I used from the Peacock collection - Shed a Tear on my index nail, all cremes in the marble on my middle nail, Amazin' on my ring nail and Eye Poppin' on my pinkie

another play with water marbling and was finally getting the hang of it by the last two nails, my ring and pinkie. Thanks to @ma_tom for the tips. I've used Emma, Jacinta, Brooke and Maddison. My lighting is a bit off and I need some new bulbs so forgive the wonky colours.

Water MArble with Dreamy Beach Pastels

I've been watching the lovely water marbles that you have all been creating with the pastels. I have never had a successful attempt at a water marble but all those gorgeous photos made me have another go. It's far from perfect but this is the closest I've ever gotten to having a semi decent water marble. The pastel polishes work incredibly well for water marbling and all the problems I usually have didn't happen!! So if you have never made a great water marble try with these pastels! I used Anne, Jacinta and Maddison.

Sorry I haven't been around much but I've been working on a new collection. I love creating but do miss my nail art time. Hopefully I'll eventually find the balance between the two :)

Have a great week

Tx

Grace-full Nail Polish Creme Nail Art

This design includes all 5 colours from the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun creme collection. I'm still feeling festive so I've extended the Grace-full sale for another 24 hours. You can pick up the cremes for $6.40. https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/GracefullNailPolish

It's also a chance for international ladies to pick up some polishes, I am shipping internationally for this sale only.

Hope you're still enjoying the festive season :)

Santa and his Sleigh Nails

I've loved this design on the Moyou plate for ages but wasn't sure how I'd go just using part of the collage plate as I'd never tried before. By just applying polish to the design you want and using the small end of the stamper it was really easy. The background polish is beautiful but a one off I made for special friends this Christmas. The stars are from the same Moyou plate using the same technique and the dits are just with a dotting tool.  I sponged some white on my nails and lightly dabbed an iridescendant  glitter over it to make it glistening snow.

I love the look and loved wearing it :)

Merry Christmas Eve, Tx

Glitter Placement Bauble and Christmas Tree

I decided to try something I've never done before - glitter placement. I love the final look but take my hat off to those that do full nails and have perfectly straight glitter lines. It wasn't as time consuming as I thought but every bit as fiddly as I imagined. My base colour is OPI You're Such a Budapest.

Have a wonderful day, Tx

AN Monday theme - Santa and/or Reindeer and/or Elves

It's Monday again already and the last one before the fat man visits so he had to feature on my nails. I added Mrs Claus as she always gets left out :). It was a lot of fun to do. I used OPI My Vampire is Buff as the base for Santa and Mrs Clause, the red is OPI All I Want For Christmas is OPI. Mrs Claus's glasses have Essie No Place Like Chrome, her cheeks are Zoya Brigitte and both their noses are Zoya Rue. Rudolph is Zoya Normandi with a England Perceval as his nose and Zoya Codie as antlers. The elf is dark green Don't Mess With Opi and the bright green is butter London Jaded Jack.

Hope everything is going to plan in your house for Christmas Tx

Traditional Christmas Tree Nails

As much as I love non traditional colours for Christmas I still love traditional too. The green is one I made that has the super holographic glitter in, it never captures on camera but in real life it's just so sparkly. On my ring finger is Powder Perfect Kevin! and I made a Christmas tree with tape and China Glaze Emerald Sparkles.

Have a wonderful day, Tx

Silver and white Christmas design

I love silver and white together and I adore OPI Push and Shove when you first apply it, so I knew I wanted to add it to a Christmas look. I used China Glaze White on White, Essie No Place Like Chrome for the silver stripes and stamping with a Messy Mansion plate, obviously OPI Push and Shove for my middle finger and a England Merlin on my pinkie. I added some crystals to make a tree shape on my ring finger. It's a more classy look than normal, I just wish Push and Shove looked this good for a longer amount of time.

Have a wonderful day, Tx

Christmas Minions

I set myself a task for today's design. I decided to put Christmas nails into google and have a go at the first design to come up. @nailingstorm's Christmas minions was the first one so the challenge was set. Mine are no where near as good but I had fun doing them. The base colour yellow is Zoya Darcy, the red is a England Perceval, the white is just one I made and the the black is Zoya Raven as I find it smudges the least. I used Pretty Serious Artiste top coat again and the red and black both didn't budge at all, it's a miracle potion! Minions are just so cute :)

Hope you enjoy your weekend, Tx

Christmas Gift Wrap Nails

Hey everyone. Today it was time for some gift wrap, I always have trouble with the bows so used a template this time. Personally I prefer them as show below before the bows and just plain wrapping paper but that could just come from my dislike of doing bows in nail art :). My index is Grace-full Nail Polish Michelle, my middle finger is Pretty Serious Hell on wheels, the white is just one I made and the bright green in butter London Jaded Jack :) I have to sing the praises of Pretty Serious's new top coat Artiste, this is the first time I've done a candy cane nail and not had horrible bleeding from the red. I've used it on the last few designs and love that it stops bleeding and smearing - it's an absolute must have for nail art!!

Have a fantabulous day, Tx

Christmas Squares 3 Ways nail art

I'm a little indecisive at the moment so this designs ended up with three looks, I'm not even sure which one I like the most :). I do love geometric shapes so love the squares on the accent nails. The bright green is Grace-full Nail Polish Karen, the creme red is Powder Perfect is With My High Heels On and the deeper green is China Glaze Emerald Sparkles. I made the squares with vinyl straights on a dry white base, I then just coloured the squares in with a nail art brush. I use Shany brushes. The next look I added a gold snowflake with diamente from Emily de Molly. Then the last look I added Grace-full Nail Polish Crimson over the red and added some square diamentes to my index and pixie.

I'm still not sure what one is best so you get all three :)

Take care Tx

AN Monday (on a Tuesday) - location theme

This week's theme was he polish in the right hand front corner of your second drawer/box/row of the storage system closest to where you paint your nails. Mine was Zoya Mieko, it's meant to be a cerise colour but mine is far more orange than cerise. I used a Stuck on Love Decal I bought from Powder Perfect to make the mermaid scales using Zoya Ziv as a base. I totally love this polish and this look at it was really easy to do :)

Have a wonderful week, Tx.

AN Monday - theme - most used polish - OPI Mod About You

Today's theme is to use your most used polish. Believe it or not mine is pink OPI Mod About You (so not a pink girl). I must use it a lot in nail art as it's the first polish I've had to buy a second bottle of, not including black or white. So since it was pink I decided to go girly with some bling. I used a to be released Grace-full Nail Polish Silver for the crescent glitter and added the little pink stars and diamentes. I actually so like this one, maybe all this nail art is turning me into a more girly girl :)

Hope you're having a wonderful day, Tx

Geometric nail design

I'm wearing a geometric design today, just a little something different. I used Zoya Dove on my middle two fingers. I taped up sections to do the diamond and painted that with Powder Perfect Raspberry Whorl and again taped up for the mini rectangle. On my index and pinkie is Grace-full Nail Polish Passion Pink. I really quite like this one :)

Have a fabulous weekend, Tx

Wave of Polish Tuesday - Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness design

It's Tuesday and time for another Wave of Polish awareness design. This time I chose some cute little flowers and dots. The gorgeous blue is butter London Sprog, the light pink is Rimmel Lose Your Lingerie and the dark pink is OPI Sparrow Me the Drama. I hope you have time to join in and show your support for Pregnancy and Infant Loss awareness month.

Don't forget the Wave of Polish auctions finish tomorrow night at &pm AEST which is also the time to light a candle. 

The auctions are here http://www.myminiauction.com/waveofpolish

There are so many beauties available!

Take care, Tx

Pastel Triangle Nails - Wave of Polish

This design is not just pink and blue but I think with addition of mint green it still looks appropriate for babies. The periwnkle on my index nail is OPI You're Such a Budapest. The green on my ring nail is China Glaze At Vase Value and the pink is China Glaze In a Lily Bit. The triangles were made with striping tape over a base white colour. It's soft and pretty and I really like it :)

Hope you have a fabulous weekend, Tx

Wave of Polish - Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness

It's Tuesday so time to paint them blue and pink. This week I went for a pink accent nail with different blue dots on it. Teamed with the pale blue other nails I really love it. It's subtle and soft and just right. Leave a comment here or on the Wave of Polish page if you've joined in.

Have a great Tuesday, Tx

AN Monday - theme - black and orange

We've entered into October and for this month the AN Monday girls will be doing a Halloween theme, this week's is black and orange. I was inspired by a design I saw online but even after trying to track it down I still don't know who did it :( sorry to the unknown artist.

I used Zoya Arizone for the orange, Zoya Raven for the black and Zoya Purity is the white. I think it's a nice design that makes the colours really work well together.

Have a great week, Tx

Navy skittlette stripes and glitter

I love Navy it's such a classic colour that suits any occasion and goes with just about everything. The navy on my Index and pinkie is Navy Star by Cate Ruby, I used Zoya Dove to make the stripes and the glitter is one from my upcoming collection. I added some silver studs to complete the design. The heart is easily made with a hole punch and some tape. You then just place the tape over your dry design and paint the heart left in the tape.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, Tx