Swatch: A England - Crown of Thistles (Elizabeth and Mary)

[Sunlight, no flash]

Colour: Orchid Purple

Finish: Holo
Opacity: 1 Coat, but I used 2 through habit
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 11ml

[Indoors, flash]

Pick n' Mix 52 Week Challenge: Oceanic + 3 Neons

The ocean and neons aren't something which would traditionally go together. The way I tried to make the two go together was by using the neons as a very small micro French tip, over the wave stamping,

Base Polish: Perumba - Cornflower Blue
Stamping Polish: Barry M - Blue Plum
Stamping Plate: Nail Craze 02
Neon Polishes: 
Color Club - Twiggie
Color Club - Poptastic
Color Club - Wham Pow

Nails: Leopard Accent

Base Polish: High Maintenance - Black 85, Leighton Denny - Supermodel
Leopard Print Foil: Born Pretty Store - Nail Foil C17

 

Tutorial: Cloud Nails

I did some cloud nails for a nail challenge I was doing last year and someone asked for a tutorial. Cloud nails are very simple to do, and look more complicated than they are.

What did I need?

Two or three polishes (I used Yes Love - K033, Color Club - Pucci-licious)

Top Coat

   

1) Paint your base polish coat
2) Using a different polish, paint three 'clouds'
3) Using your base polish (or third polish) paint three 'clouds' leaving a small amount of second polish showing.
4) Top coat the nail art

I did originally try and do a tutorial on my nails but the colours I chose maybe weren't the best for showing the technique;

1) Base polish [A England - Crown of Thistles]

2) Using a different polish, paint three 'clouds' [A England - Lady of the Lake]

3) Using your base polish paint three 'clouds' leaving a small amount of second polish showing

Here are a couple of other colour ways I have used using the cloud nail technique;

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I think the cloud nails idea came originally from NailSide, if you know different do let me know.