Halloween Nails: Haunted House

Eyeko - Cosmic Polish
Max Factor - Odessy Blue
Ciate - Big Yellow Taxi

Black Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint
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Nails: Acrylic Paint - Why I Use It

While I use a lot of nail polishes in my nail art I also really like to use acrylic paints.

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I use them for a couple of reasons:

- You can mix custom colours, so I don't need to have a million polishes
- Acrylic paint dries slower than polish, which means you have longer to do your designs and it doesn't go thick, gloopy and stringy

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- If you mess up it is easy to wipe off with some water and start again, without messing the base polish
- The pigmentation of the paint is good so you don't need to go over and over the same area

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- The acrylic is thinner than normal polish and because of this you can achieve thinner more delicate lines and details

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The acrylic paints that I use are from Wilkinsons, I first got this set of twelve paints

I quickly went through the black and white paints and so have purchased these ones which have 75ml in each bottle compared to the 12ml in the mini tubes.

The assorted pack of paints (12ml x12) was around £2
The individual bottles (75ml) were around £1 and the metallic paints are around £1.25

Nails: #EDAW2015 - Sock It

23rd February - 1st March 2015 is Eating Disorder Awareness Week, a chance to raise awareness and understanding. Sock It is a fundraising event, wear funny socks and donate £1 to BEAT. As I am more about nails than actual socks, I thought I would wear socks on my nails for today's event.

Polishes Used:
Barry M - Matt White
Barry M - Confetti - Marshmallow
Ciate - Cupcake Queen
OPI - My Silk Tie
OPI - Lincoln Park at Midnight
Max Factor - Blue Odyssey

Black and White Acrylic Paint

Pick n' Mix 52 Week Challenge: Domestic, 3 Blues

Polishes Used:
Maybelline Color Show - Cool Blue 651
Yes Love - L011
Barry M - Blue Grape
Collection 2000 - Sherbet Lemon

Black Flocking Powder
Black Acrylic Paint

Pick n' Mix 52 Week Challenge: 1960's Matte

I had originally planned on using a stamping plate to stamp this design, however I was having one of those 'everything I try fails' days so ended up free-handing the design with acrylic paint.

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
George - Matte Top Coat

Black Acrylic Paint
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GOT: Lime

These watermelon nails were inspired by the Nailasaurus.

ELF - Gum Pink
Color Club - Twiggie

Acrylic Paints

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Pink, Grey and Brown #3

This month the colours are Pink, Grey and Brown. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use Barry M Buzz, La Femme Grey Cream 100 and ELF Smoky Brown.

Polishes used:
Barry M Buzz
La Femme Grey Cream 100
ELF Smoky Brown.

Black Acylic Paint

Winter Nail Challenge: New Year's Eve

2013 is almost over, quite a year. Still 2014 is a new one and with that comes new opportunities, experiences and chances. Something sparkly was called for the end of 2013 nails:

Happy New Year!

Base Polish: Leighton Denny - I AM Diva

Acrylic Paints

33 Day Nail Challenge: Recreation

This is the last challenge! Technically this recreation wasn't one from the 33 Day Nail Challenge, however it is a recreation none the less, I followed the tutorial for this from Adventures In Acetone.

Base Polish: Ciaté - Fade to Greige 071
Other Polish: Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Black and White Acrylic Paints

33 Day Nail Challenge: Lines

La Femme - Jupiter 84
Black Acrylic Paint