Gels and dots are the perfect match!

Hi everyone, I know I have been away for while but I haven't had a minute to myself! But don't worry, I haven't let the nails go bare!!! 

For Christmas I received my very own gel kit and if you know me, you will imagine how excited I was!!! I am absolutely in love with gels now! 

I'm always doing them on myself and some friends (for only £10!) and yesterday I did my first nail art on one of my amazing friends!!! Of course I had to try it out on mysel first just to check they looked alright and I can safely say that this is such a simple yet effective nail art that I will always love! 

As I have my summer ball this weekend I had to coordinate with my dress which is why I chose a lovely neon pink from the bluesky range and my lovely friend chose another favourite of mine.... PURPLE!!!

To do the dots I simply used a dotting tool which is so easy to use! 

I absolutely love this design and it is so easy to do on yourself or others!!!

Diamond Quilted Nail Art

I am absolutely loving this nail art! Be warmed though it does require time and patience but it is worth it!!! 

The first stage is simple, just paint one coat of your chosen base colour (the colour the stripes will be) and let it dry. Once they are all dry you can start the taping process! (Can be very tricky and fiddley so you may need to use tweezers but make sure all nails are 100% dry) thin tape can be bought online for less than £1 and you get about 10 roles of different colours! Brilliant!!! 

Cut a reasonable length of tape and carefully place the tape into your nail to where you wish to place it but leave some tape hanging off the edge of your nail so you can peel it off later, then keep cutting and putting strips onto your nail to eventually created the diamond pattern. Once all th strips are in place, paint over the srips with your other chosen colour (the one that the diamond will be) and make sure you cover all the strips on the nails and the base colour coat. 

Once this is done, when the nail varnish you just applied it still wet, carefully peel off the strips starting with the strip you applied last and ended with the strip you applied first 

Complete this for all the other nails, once dry apply a top coat and there you have your diamond quilted nail art!!! 

Candy cane nails

Everyone has to love christmas nails! Here is one of my christmas nail arts with candy canes!!!! 

Start off with a base coat to avoid damaging or standing you're nails then apply two coats of white nail varnish and leave to dry 

The next stage is creating your candy cane stripes which can be tricky but I used nail art pens by rio which you can buy online or at Argos. For my candy cane nails I used the first colour on the left and the green one in the picture below.

For the red stripes you can alter the width of the stripes simply by adding more stripes to make them look thicker, I find these nail art pens so easy to use and they give a great effect!! 

Once the red stripes are done, you can add the green stripes if your wish to (not all candy canes have green on too) and simply do the same as the red stripes but Inbetween

Once dry apply a top cost to seal the nail and tah-dah! Candy canes nails!!! 

Dry marble

Dry marble nails are surprisingly easy!! Just choose a few colours (no more than 5) to marble up! Here's my step my step tutorial on how to create the unique marble effect!

First paint your nails a base colour of your choice 

Then once applied but not completely dry  yet, put several large dots on your nails of your chosen colours to look like this (do this quite quickly to avoid the first dot to dry) 

Once all your dots are on, grab something to swirl them around, this can be a tooth pick, a hair grip or a dotting tool or anything like that! And go mad! Do whatever pattern or style you want! There are no rules for marble nails!!! 

Once that's done you may need to remove some of the nail varnish from the sides as there will be a lot on there so may take a while to dry, this can simply be done by pushing you're finger along the side of you nail to take away the excess, if you don't want mucky nails, ou can use a tissue :)

Once dry, apply a top coat and there you have your unique and creative dry marble nails!!!

Love Hannah xxx

I'm back!!!

I know I've had a huge lack of posts lately... Assignments and christmas did take over my life for a month or two!!!! But don't worry... The nails have still stayed nice!!! Here's a few I've done over the Christmas period :) 

The step by step blogs will be back very soon!!!! 

Hannah x