Halloween Nails: Black Cats

Leighton Denny - Leading Lady
Kiko - Black
Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Dotting Tool
000 Paint Brush

Halloween Nails: Ghosts

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
Kiko - Black

0.2mm Sharpie

Nails: Freehand Zebra

It's been a long time since I did freehand zebra nails, especially as currently my nails are a bit too long for the majority of stamping plates I have.

Base Polish: Barry M - Matt White

Models Own / Wah Nails - Black Nail Art Pen

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Kids TV

Having participated in many nail art challenges in the past I have already done a fair amount of Kids TV related nails (Sooty, Rainbow, Blue Peter) so today I chose to do Mr Benn.

Base Polish: Jacava - Vanilla Slice

000 Paint Brush
Black Acrylic Paint

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Halloween

Two years ago I attempted some eyeball nails (here), today I tried again and I think I have improved!

Barry M - Matte White
Miss Sporty - Pop Fiction
Barry M - Espresso
ELF - Dark Red

Striping Brush
Dotting Tools

Halloween Nails: Haunted House

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

Black Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint
00 Paint Brush

Pick n' Mix 52 Week Challenge: Roses, Pink + Lilac

I was going to stamp these but thought for a change I would attempt freehanding some flowers;

Base Polish: Barry M - Lychee
Floral Polishes:
Sally Hansen - Delphinium
Models Own - Pink Blush
La Femme - Mocha Pink
Yes Love - K036

Nails: Spring Lambs

Spring is officially here, and today is daylight savings. The day they steal an hour of your life and if you are lucky enough to live until October they give you it back.

Eyeko - Rain Polish

High Maintenance - Black 85

Dotting Tools
Acrylic Paints
Paint Brush - 000

Pick n' Mix 52 Week Challenge: Non-US Kids TV

For this prompt I thought I would do an English kids TV show, I don't know if the show is still on but it has been about since the 1950's although what I tried to do was from Sooty & Co. which was on from 1993 until 1998.

Soo, Sooty, Sweep and Scampi.

Base Polish: Avon - Street Beige

Acrylic Paints

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