Little Rainbow Robot - Freehand Nail Art

Allo polish Pals!

How are ya all doing? I hope your week has been going wonderfully, was it a productive one for you? I've been at work for a couple days this week and I am back in today. Making customers smile and smell fantastic! And seeing my dear friends who I adore there.

I had this thought recently..I've had a feeling that's been lingering. Happiness. Like real, solid contentment. I've felt so great lately, not that I hadn't been feeling OK but I feel like everything has fallen into place a little more. I love my work, my family are amazing. It just feels like there's so much to be happy about right now. Its a complete contrast to how I felt this time last year. Do you ever feel like that?

Today's nail art is one I really enjoyed painting because..colours! All the colours! 

Freehand Alien Nail Art - Into Space!

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today? I hope the weekend was kind to you?

I feel like I wasn't kind enough to myself, too many late nights and deep thinking, sometimes deep thinking is great but you need to be aware of when its not helpful.

Anyway, today's nail art is one I am hesitant about showing you. I'm not really feeling it, I hope that maybe you guys will like it at least. The feeling of being displeased with my work has lessened than how it was a year ago. Back then I would hate everything I had created, I'd create a manicure three times over and still be unsatisfied with the results and not post any of them – I credit my turn around to you guys because while I was always so hard on myself you showed me nothing but kindness and encouragement. So.. I'll share it because you guys always seem to like what I hate. Ha.

Today's nail art was created for the weekly challenge over on Tiny Canvas, our current running theme is 'Into Space' – I had big hopes for this nail art.

Ithi In Space! DIY Dry Marble Decals & Freehand Nail Art!

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today? Do you have any exciting plans this weekend?

Today I have a manicure to share with you that probably isn't the greatest but it was a lengthy process to get to its completed state! I have a before and after, then I'll explain what I did!

          *How do I manage to cleanup all the decals but leave traces of the freehanding paint?! Duhhhh

So I began this manicure by applying some regular top coat to an old piece laminate flooring. Its my poor man's 'Uber Mat' but you know what, stuff peels off so it'll do! I then began layering a mixture of Barry M's 'VIP', Fogan's glitter I forgot.., Lady Venezia Don't remember the name also.. (When I am sick I get stupid-brain) Color Club's 'Eternal Beauty' and TipTop Polishes 'Jazz Berry'. Next I took a tooth pick and began swirling the polishes around in no real order what so ever – skills, bahaha. I left all of this in a safe place to dry over night.

The next day I painted my nails with just my base coat of OPI's 'Nail Envy' and carefully began to unpeel the decals. I trimmed them down to fit my nail length and rubbed them gently onto the nail. I used nail polish remover and a fine square brush to gently remove any excess from around my nails and cuticles.

I then added some freehand planets, stars and a little Ithi floating around in space (she looks nothing like me) I'm quite blah about the freehand stuff but I love the concept. I'll be doing more decals like this in the future, they look so interesting!

What do you think about this manicure? Do you like to mix up technique together?

Have a gorgeous day,

Love

Ithi

Wishing On A Star - Freehand Fairy

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? Are you enjoying some nice warm weather this week? So... Here's a question for you, Little Theodora here is sat wishing on a star, but do you think she had her wings before or after she made the wish? If she already had wings I wonder what she was wishing for....

I'm quite displeased with her face, as you can see she kind of has...mutant bumps on her face. That was from me making a huge mistake but I tried to fix it. For this manicure I began with two coats of Barry M's 'Mist' and created a gradient with Barry M's 'Cobalt Blue'. I then used tiny pieces of sponge to dab on H+M's 'Blue Metal', Color Club's 'Winter Wonderland' and for glitter I used OPI's 'Snowflakes In The Air' and Collistar's glitter. Everything else was freehand with my Oumaxi paints

What do you think of my mutant fairy? Have you created any fantasy-type nail art?

Have a beautiful day!

Love

Ithi

Day 19: Galaxy Nails (A very poor attempt with pigments)

Allo polish Pals,

How are you today? I hope your having a sparkly week so far? This is just going to be a quick post for me tonight since I am feeling a little worse for wear and I am utterly ashamed at this manicure! Day 19 of the 31DNAC means galaxy nails and I love creating pigment nails so I assumed I could combine the two however the end result has me just...horrified...

On my thumb, index and pinkie I applied two coats of Barry M's 'Plum' gelly polish. My other two fingers began with two coats of Barry M's 'Blackberry'. While applying my second coats I added my pigments (From Pureluxe and Meow cosmetics) I finished this with a top coat and added some 'stars' with my white acrylic paint from Oumaxi (Via SammyDress)

There's no two ways about it. I hate it. I don't know what happened, I've created some really striking pigment manicures before and while this looks so nice in natural light my pictures just look... bleh. The colours just look murky in my opinion..I guess you can't win always.

What do you think of this attempt at a galaxy? Do you think pigment shadows are a good way to create the look?

Enjoy the rest of your evening.

Love

Ithi

A Little Galaxy

Allo polish Pals!

How are you doing, did you have a good weekend? For once I am excited its Monday because that means Mr Bravo will be home in a couple of hours, wahoo, I can't wait :) Today I am showing you a light pastel Galaxy manicure. Inspiration came from thenailasaurus tutorial which is brilliant. I am looking forward to trying some darker and deeper galaxy nails in the future.

For this manicure I used the following polishes: Barry M 'Prickly Pear', Essie's 'Mint Candy Apple', Model's Own 'Banana Split', Picture Polishe's 'Twinkle' and 'Mirage'. I added acrylic stars (Next time more stars!) and Nyx's 'Dreamy Glitter' minus the star glitter. I finished it off with a coat coating of Hema's Matte top coat.

What do you think of my subtle first attempt at a galaxy nail? I think it could be more galaxy-ish but hey ho!

Time to go finish the laundry and wait at the window like a sad little love-puppy!

Have a great day!

Love

Ithi