Freehand Parrot & Feather Nail Art

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today? I hope this weekend has been going great for you so far? Don't forget to enter my giveaway if you have not already, its open internationally so everyone has a chance!

I've been having a great time with my family - I've been doing a lot of babysitting as my Niece is now off school for the Easter break however its not hard work, she may only be six but she's a delight to spend time with and what I love is that she doesn't want to sit in front of the Tv! We've been doing glitter craft projects, board games, playing in the garden!

Today I have another design for you which was created for the weekly challenge over at Tiny Canvas – I love that these prompts are pushing me to do things I might not normally do. I had a whole kafuffle over this week's bird theme – mostly as I tried to paint this just before leaving for my trip home to England.

Eventually I created something I was satisfied with however, tragedy struck. For some reason my top coat looks like it scraped away the acrylic paint.. how... why?! I have come to love and depend on my Pro-FX top coats so I am praying that it is a one off and maybe somehow I made a mistake I don't usually. Weird, right?

I was still really pleased with my parrot though (even though his eye patch had also turned pinky - why?!) so I decided to share it with you guys anyway. I am going to call him Monty :)

I didn't use anything too excited or unusual for this manicure, I began with my Mezmris Nail Lacquer base coat, Armor Up and once dry applied two coats of my Barry M 'White' nail polish. I allowed a little more time to dry and added a thin coat of my Pro-FX top coat to create a nice smooth barrier. I then moved on to my acrylic paints and brushes to create the parrot and details. Finally I finished with another coat of Pro-FX and eventually applied a matte top coat too just for shiz and giggles!

What do you think of my parrot? Have you had any random issues with products you can usually depend on?

Thanks for taking the time to stop by, come say hi in the comments! I hope you have a fantastic day and I'll catch you again on Saturday!

Love

Ithi

Bird/Feather Water Decals - Born Pretty Store Review

*This post contains item(s) that have been sent for reviewing purposes but as always will contain my full and honest opinion.

Allo polish Pals,

How are you doing today? Did you get up to anything exciting this weekend? I did some cleaning here and there... A couple of manicures. I'm currently working on a snowflake idea... but I can't use blue. NO BLUE. Can I really put snowflakes with anything but blue?!

Today I have some really cute and cartoon styled water decals to show you, I feel like these should be worn in summer but that's just me! These are 'Bird/FeatherWater Decals' from the Born Pretty Store.

Greyscale peacock

Hi everyone!

How are you all doing today? Today I have another manicure which was created TWICE. Twice! And I still didn't like the outcome!  (That's nothing... what is on my nails right now is the 4th attempt...What's wrong with me?!) Basically, I did my peacock lady just too dark, so her sparkly little head thingy-plumes didn't glisten and sparkle as I had hoped – same happened with the eye....*Total face palm in the most dramatic way*

I'm having terrible nail luck lately. Hopefully by the time I post this it has improved. I sure hope so because I find it so disheartening to keep creating things that don't make me happy or satisfied.

For this manicure I began my usual base coat of OPI's 'Nail Envy' and followed on with two coats of Barry M's 'White'. Next I created my peacock and feathers using only black and white acrylic paints and filled in certain parts with nail polishes. For the feathers I used a mixture of Hema's 'Green circus', Pretty Serious's 'Crystal lake' glitter and Model's Own 'Gold Rush'.

Its not.. really what I wanted. I hate it when that happens. Maybe you guys like it better than I do? I can only hope!

What do you think of my peacock feathers? Have you had peacock nails before?

Have a wonderful day!

Love

Ithi

As Light As A Feather - Freehand

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? I can't believe this week is almost over, eesh! Once again I am posting early (my every other day rule is working well for me) simply because last night I created a manicure I am dying to share with you. I can't wait to see what you all think of this. Again I broke out the acrylic paints because I am just finding them so much fun to experiment with!

For this manicure I began with two coats of Barry M's 'Truffle' from the silk collection and left it without a top coat. I then got to work with the acrylics to create my feathers. I was a little undecided on what to do on my remaining nails without taking too much focus off of the feathers so I added some simple polka dots. I sealed it all off with two coats of Barry M's top coat - I really want to try HK Girl top coat so badly for my acrylic nail art!

I am enjoying trying new things and I can tell you that when I started this I really didn't know how it was going to turn out. The shading was a huge learning curve but also really fun to try.

What do you think of my freehand feather manicure? Do you like to play with acrylics?

Have a great day!

Love

Ithi

The Plummy Pink Feather

Allo polish Pals

How are you today? I hope your excited for the weekend – will you be doing anything nice or taking the chillaxed approach? We're into our last week in England next week ~ boo. That does make me sad how quickly time goes but I'll enjoy this coming week. Thank you so much for all your kind and supportive words in my last post, you guys are amazing and it really meant a lot to me. I'm doing ok now and crying less, its still hard but I am keeping busy as possible so I don't think too much. Today I have a simple creation that I am really not fond of... Sadly with everything that has gone on I've not been able to create too much new nail art and I wasn't pleased with the out come of this but anyway...

For this manicure I used Nails Inc's 'Kensington High Street' on all my nails except my ring nail and created a gradient by adding China Glaze's 'Fly' to the tips. I finished these nails by simply adding a candy stud from The BornPretty Store. (Check to the left for a 10% discount on all their items) On my ring finger I applied two coats of 'Fly' and applied a pink feather on top.

I've worn feathers before but I am not too happy with the outcome of this... I don't think my feather placement was too good but I also think I should have used a lighter base colour – That said I don't have all my polishes to chose from so I did the best with what I could, so nerr :P

What do you guys think of this manicure? Have you worn a real feather on your nails; What is your opinion on this nail art style?

I'll be posting again as soon as I can get some time to create something half decent (Maybe I have my vacation head on because I am not creating things I am happy with at all!) I'm off to paint my sister's nails now :)

Enjoy your weekend!

Love

Ithi

Free Bird ~ Freehand and Feather Fail-a-cure

Allo polish Pals!

Hows the beginning of your week going? I was far less productive today then was really needed, I guess it was the Monday feeling! Today I'm going to cut straight to it and show you something I created over the weekend. I'm not loving this. I originally started with the design in reds/copper but it just didn't seem right... I then created this. I then started over with the same colours to improve what I saw as flaws... That didn't work out well and I hated the pictures even more than these ones. Eeh! So I am really curious to see what you guys think of this.

I started with two coats of Fogan's 06 on all my nails except my ring-ding finger. On top of this I created stripes using KleanColor's 'Coffee Addict' and Picture Polishes 'Sky' with a nail art brush. I later added the pattern using black Acrylic paint (which to me looks faded and patchy in places – my fault!) and Kiss nail art striper in black. On my ring-ding finger I applied Coffee Addict and added a real feather on top. You see I used no striping tape as I intended to show you just the patterned version where you wouldn't see where the colours meet..

Maybe I took too many risks... I still really like these colours together so perhaps I will try something else with them. ~ What do YOU think of this manicure?

Have a lovely evening!

Ithi

Real Feather Nail Art With Polka Dot

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today?

What the...! It's Friday again already?! I feel like there are week days that have been stolen. Somebody alert the authorities. Do you have any lovely plans this weekend? My poor Partner is sick so I've been doing my best to take care of him. I think its going to be a very warm quiet weekend inside for us. I think a few cancelled plans here and there but there's no one I'd rather be cooped up with!

Today's manicure features feathers from The Born Pretty Store. I nabbed these quite some time ago and to be honest I was a little wimpy about using them! I decided that I should finally just try it.

On all nails I started with two coats of Color Club's 'Normadic In Nude' and on my ring finger applied a topcoat of Seche Vite before carefully layering the feather down on top. I then used cuticle clippers to cut off any stray edges and smoothed off the edge with a nail file. On my remaining fingers I used W7's White and striping tape to create a diagonal French tip. I then added on top W7's Black and used a dotting tool with 'Normadic In Nude' to add the polka dots.

Ok its not perfect in the slightest but I think for a first attempt it's passable. Hopefully.

What do you guys think of this dotted feather nail art? Have you tried using real feathers in your manicures?

Have a wonderful start to your weekend!

Love

Ithi