Pink & Blue Dotty Nails & Oversized Bows

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today? I hope you had an awesome weekend?

I attempted to film a nail art video yesterday and I'm still feeling the hand cramp. I am just not good at trying to paint with my hand in unusual positions although the way I do paint is probably not how everyone else does it. I think managed to get some shots in focus though so fingers crossed I'll be able to post those soon. It's all practice, I guess! I've a new tripod on the way!

I also finally decided to stop bugging myself and buy a damn desk lamp. It's getting darker earlier and earlier here in England, on a gloomy day its becoming harder to paint. Night time painting isn't even an option. So now I can actually paint whenever I want! - what an exciting life I lead, haha.

Today's nail art is actually a couple days out since I had to rearrange my blog posts but on the 15^th September it was 'International Dot Day'. Yeah, really, its a thang. I love finding out about all these wacky and unique days.

Anyway, I figured dots are something most people can do on their nails so I decided to incorporate it in to the Tiny Canvas weekly challenge for this month (I've been taking care of the theme for a couple months, its fun!) I love to join in with the members and do a design for each theme too so here is my dotty manicure. Somehow I feel like this looks rather sophisticated for someone like myself. Like... I'm used to colourful children-book nails.. It feels weird seeing such a uniform design on my nails!

Swirly, Starry 4th July Nail Art

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing on this fine Thursday?  I hope you've been having a great week. I've been busy with lots of nail art but if I am honest I'm getting a lot of epic nail fails right too - I'm still using the antibiotic eye cream and while I feel like I've got some really unique idea's up my sleeve I can not see clearly enough to do the tiny detail it requires! Still. I'm doing my best to keep the nail art coming :)

Since Monday is the 4^th July, even though I do not celebrate I thought I'd do some appropriate nail art - and I really liked the outcome!  Had I been more organized I would have loved to have done several more manicures for you guys with step by step guides... I am really going to try an start doing more stuff like this for upcoming holidays, I think it would be fun!

So rather than having my 4^th July nails on the blog on Monday when those of you who are celebrating are all off partying we'll see them now - it also means if you want to try anything from my design you've got time to play around!

I don't know about you but I'm all for the matte version over the glossy.

As always I began with my usual base coat, OPI's 'Nail Envy' and once dry began applying blue, red and white polishes to my nails. The blue is Maybelline's 'Oceanic Blue', the red is 'Alluring Red' by Catrice and the white is NYC's 'Williamsburg Vintage'. For my thumb and ring finger I decided to try and create a one-stroke like swirl using blue and light blue acrylic paint. I added some freehand stars on top with white acrylic. For my Index and pinky I mixed different shades of red to create some really rough lines across my nail to give a slightly textured look. I added a small ruffian and a single white star to each nail. My middle finger is just a good ol' dotticure using the same red and blues, I think this nail really adds a little fun to the whole manicure. Finally to finish off I then applied my Wet 'N' Wild's matte top coat.

I really liked wearing this manicure, its not often I find myself wearing blue and red together but I rather like how I paired these together!

If you celebrate July 4^th do you match your nail art for the occasion? What do you think of these nails?

Have a beautiful day! I'll catch you again on Saturday!

Love

Ithi

Black And White With Striking Dots

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? Got anything exciting to tell me? Go on, be as random as you like :D

Today I have a manicure which was created before I went to England in September... Its a bit messy, my black acrylic paint was near its death (Thankfully a new one has managed to find its way to me)

I have a confession, actually... I don't remember the coloured polishes I used for this manicure. Argh,
so unlike me not to write everything I used down but eh... Too bad!I certainly don't remember them all after this long!

This manicure began as two coats of Barry M's 'White' which I then added black acrylic on top of in various ways. I then used a dotting tool to create larger and smaller dots with white acrylic paint. (I've come to hate dotting with polish, I hate it when it gets stringy and ruins things) I then used various bright polishes and a dotting tool to fill in a few of the dots.

Its not as neat as I would have liked but I have to admit that in person it was quite striking, I did like how eye catching it was!

What do you think of my slightly different dotticure? Do you like making dotty nail art? 

Have a great day!

Love

Ithi

Simple Saturday Dotticure

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? I hope you had a great weekend so far? I had a lovely day with my sister in law, I absolutely love that lady :) She's one of the sweetest people you could ever meet. We got up early and had our hair done together and browsed through the shops. She very kindly bought be a cute pink notebook for me to swatch all my polishes in. It's going to be long process to get the book complete with my current polishes but I like a challenge. I only have a very basic and simple manicure for you today, I'm constantly on the look out for ideas for my next big freehand piece. Speaking of which... Thank you all so much! A lot of you took the time to comment on my previous post and I am so grateful for all the kind and lovely comments you left. You guys make me want to freehand paint all the time!

For this manicure I began with two coats of Essie's 'Cashmere Bathrobe'. I then used a mixture of Barry M's 'Rose Hip', Rimmel's 'Hot White Love', MUA's 'Amaretto Crush' and China Glaze's 'Pink-ie Promise' for my dots. I topped it all off with OPI's matte top coat.

What do you think of my incredibly simple dotticure?

Simple but easy enough when you have a busy day and need a nap! Haha... I do like my naps.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend, I'll try and crack out the acrylics tonight, wish me luck!

Love

Ithi

Sparkling Dragonflies

Allo polish Pals,

How are you today? I hope your having a good week. I'm still plagued by tiredness which has made me a lot less productive this week then I would have liked. But hey ho, It'll be fine! I've got a nice cup of green tea and its raining outside – I love feeling nice and snug indoors with this weather.

Today I have some Dragonflies for you, I just love dragonflies...but not this manicure.

On all my nails I started with Barry M's 'Meadow' and created a gradient using Hema's Holographic blue polish. For the dragonflies bodies I used Zoya's 'Indigo' and Color Clubs 'Harp On It' for the wings. Here is where I was perhaps a bit stupid.. I used a grey copic marker pen for a slight outline on the wings when perhaps I should have painted on a grey and dabbed the wings on... Live and learn! I finished up by adding some studs to the dragonflies.

Do you like dragonflies? What do you think of this manicure?

Have a great day, my pretties!

Love

Ithi

Dotticure Inspired By Pinterest.

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? I hope your having a good start to the week. I kicked off today with a 4 mile walk-work out DVD... ”Pfft, walking. Easy, I bet this isn't going to be much of a work out.” Man was I wrong, haha! Today I have some very simple nail art to show you, a very dotty dotticure which was inspired by this pattern *here* on Pinterest.

On all my nails I started with two coats of Yes Love's Black and proceed to go to dot-insanity by using a mixture of pinks, among them was Nubar's 'Belize Coal', Zoya's 'Cassie' and China Glaze's 'Something Sweet'. I added a few tiny blue dots here and there also, like the inspiration picture. I decided to also see how this looked matte. I think I preferred it with a shiny top coat though!

What do you think of this Dot-overdose? Did you like It better with a glossy finish or matte?

Have a great evening!

Love

Ithi