Pastel Fun

Before I ever ventured into real nail art, I have played around with painting each of my nails a different colour.  I think a even a single accent nail in a different colour can really pull a manicure forward and make it a little more exciting. This is a more subtle way to do nail art, and I feel more appropriate if you don't want to go too far with it or can't for work etc.

I had usually done multi coloured nails picking one  colour, and then painting my nails variations of that colour. This time I went a little bolder and chose just pastel as the theme, with completely different colours on each nail.

I love pastel nail polish and I love this mani. I would like to get hold of a pastel yellow and green, I think it would be nice to switch out the pink on my pinky for a colour like that.

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M

Mini Polka

I have played around with my dotting tools quite a bit, and decided to try a slightly more difficult polka dotted pattern (just smaller dots really). I selected black as a basecoat and paired it with a soft pink, as I wanted it to almost appear as black and white, but maybe a little warmer in colour. Please ignore my cuticle on my thumb, TERRIBLE!

I liked how this mani reminded me of close up pictures of fly's eyes, (weird huh?). 
It was difficult to keep the polka dots uniform, and I think occasionally I ended up with slightly larger dots, as you can probably see in the pictures. Despite that, I loved this mani, I think it was quite eye catching from far away, and close up quite impressive. It wasn't too difficult to do, but required quite a bit of time and concentration as well as a steady hand! Well worth the effort though!

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M

Geo

This is my first attempt at using taping to create a geometric multicoloured pattern. It was a slow and quite difficult process, and I can’t say that I loved the outcome, but I am most definitely going to be trying it again, as I know this mani has lots of potential.

As with all manis I do that require taping, I use just regular tape that I cut into strips, as I have yet to find a nail tape that is not too sticky (I feel like really sticky tape tends to mess up manis I do with them).  However, this means that often times the width of any stripes are not quite the same, so I am still on the hunt for perfect nail tape that doesn’t hold on too strong.

Anyway, I do quite like the finished result, I like the colours I put together here, and I am excited to try this again with a new colour palette.

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M

Pink and Sparkle

I've played with gradients a couple times before, but have never previously tried a glitter gradient. It is much easier to do and I think produces a better result. Here I mixed a soft pink with a silver glitter polish. The first picture on the left is without flash which looks more like the mani in real life.

I would have prefered to pair this soft pink with a silvery/gold glitter polish with bits of glitter of varying size, however I have yet to find a nail polish that looks like that... Despite this, I kinda love this mani, it feels very cute and girly, and also quite summery.

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M

Dotty

Ever since I bought dotting tools a couple months ago, I've really enjoyed creating different looks with polka dots as well as more complicated designs. Here I combined one of my favourite colours at the moment, a baby blue with pastel pink (which looks quite a lot brighter in this picture than in real life!)

To mix it up a bit I added an accent nail, which reversed the colours of the polka dots... Definitely something I want to try with a few other colour variations.

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M

Queen of Hearts

I recently bought dotting tools and after playing with polka dots muchly I decided to try out something a little different!

Et voila! Lots of little hearts...

I started with one of my favorite colours as a base coat, an egg shell blue from Barry M, and using my dotting tools topped it with lots of multi-coloured hearts, overlapping each other... This mani was quite difficult to do on my right hand.

I was unsure of the result at first, but fell in love with it eventually.... pun intended (hehe).

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M

Neon Stripes Yo

After seeing the virtues of taping techniques I decided to give it a go, and decided to pair neon colors with a black topcoat. The finished result was sleek black with a bright pop of neon colour coming through underneath.

I absolutely LOVED this mani, the whole time I wore it, each time my nails would catch my eye I would admire them and think, 'dayum, this is what nail art is about!' Tehehe.
It was also an incredibly difficult mani to create; not only in terms of time, but also getting it to look as I wanted. Very pleased with the result though, so definitely worth the effort.

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M

Hello...

I'm a twenty-six year old living and working in central London. I am passionate about fashion, nail art, art, and food, and this is where I want to share these things I love... Oh, and for the record, I'm Melanie J.