Diamonte flowers!

My amazing mum bought me some lovely diamonte pieces for nail art and I finally had the chance to sue them! So here they are: flower nails!!! 

First apply a clear base coat and then apply your chosen base colour (two if needed), I have chosen a lovely gel finis pink by Avon 

Once that is dry, you can create your flowers!!! 

Using a hair grip carefully just put a drop of nail varnish on your nail and that is the centre of the flower 

Then add 5 dots around that dot to create your flower using the hair grip 

Once that is done, you need to add your diamonte to the centre of the flower before the nail varnish dries otherwise the diamonte will not stick. I used a special tool to pick it up with but it can be done with a toothpick 

Apply it carefully and the middle of the flower and lightly press down to fix it in place 

Do this to all your nails and there you go! 

You can add small dots around the flower to make it even more creative if you wish! 

But there you go! Creating flowers with hair grips and diamonte!!! 

Creative leopard nails

I've done a normal leopard print before but this is a different take on it in a different pattern and different colours (on my housemate) 

The basics of the design are the same, start with a base coat and colour on your nails but with this design you can choose several colours (I would advise no more than 4) 

Once your base coat is dry apply your colours using a bobby pin or dotting tool and shape them to look like a leopard print. Spread out the colours too so that you don't have too many of the same colour near each other and only apply the dots diagonally across half the nail. 

Do this to all your nails so it looks like this 

Let this dry then do the black outline (I use a nail art pen) 

When you have finished this stage you can draw dots in between the leopard prints to create more of a distinct effect 

Once they have dried, apply the top coat and there you have a creative way of doing leopard print nails!!! 

Pandas!!!

Ok so my housemate is obsessed with phone cases and her current one is a pig but she wants to change it to the panda.. This was the inspiration for these nails!! 

These are the things you'll need to create the panda nails 

If you want you can have a base colour but you don't have to. 

The first part of the panda comes from the face so paint half the nail In a large semi-circle 

Fill in the semi circle so that half the nail is painted and do this for all the nails till it looks like this 

The next stage is the ears which you can do once the face has dried. 

One it's all dried get some nail varnish on your bobby pin (or dotting tool) and put a dot on the nail in the position and size of an ear, you can always make the ear bigger by spreading the nail varnish around 

The next stage is the eyes and nose! (This can be very tricky if you have small nails but it can be done!!!) 

Put 2 small dots on the face for the eyes and one below in the middle for the nose 

Let these dry then you can add detail to the eyes if you wish

This stage is super tricky if you don't have the right tools and for this I use a nail art brush but even with that it still takes a steady hand and a lot of patience 

Once you have added detail to the eyes you have completed your panda nail art and there you have it!! (apply top coat after painting nails) 

Animal lover nails!!

It's nail time again!!! This design was inspired by my close friend Sophie who is a huge cat lover and I am a massive dog lover and these loves has resulted in paw print nails!! 

As always apply a base coat so it doesn't damage or stain your nails then apply your base colour (2 coats if it isn't that thick) 

Then choose your colour for your paw prints!! And make sure you have something to apply them with, either a hair grip or a proper nail dotting tool

The first part of the paw print is the bottom part, you can do just a large dot if the actual shape is too tricky but to do the proper paw shape draw two small diagonal lines upwards and meeting in the middle then fill them in so it looks like an upside down heart 

Then to finish off the paw print draw four dots above the part you have already painted so they should end up like this 

You can do as many paw prints in any pattern as you like to make it look as creative as you want 

One you have finished all your nails and let them dry, don't forget to put on a top coat so it won't chip 

But there you have it! Paw print nails!!!