SPRING BREAKERS

Last week, my friends and I went to a Halloween party. We decided to dress up as the girl gangsters from the film Spring Breakers. We wore bright pink balaclavas, baggy joggers and tiger swimsuits from Missguided. I'll definitely be wearing my swimsuit again - it was extremely comfortable.

I obviously had to paint some nails to match my outfit and to tie in with the theme; this included a dollar sign, palm tree, glitter, gems and water marble art.

Water marble art is the process of dipping nail polish in to water to create a pattern. In order to create this, you will need:

- White polish

- Pink polish

- Yellow polish

- Turquoise polish

- A bowl of water at room temperature

- A cocktail stick

Step 1: Paint the selected nail white and wait for it to dry.

Step 2: Fill a bowl with water at room temperature.

Step 3: Have the 3 coloured nail polishes at the ready - quickly place a drop of each one into the water.

Step 4: Use the cocktail stick to create a pattern in the polish.

Step 5: Place the white nail onto the pattern.

Step 6: Lastly, apply a clear top coat and remove any excess polish with nail polish remover.

This is a quick vine that I made of the process:

Hope you enjoy...

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN

It's Halloween today and I decided to create some spOoOoOoky Halloween themed nails. However, this year I felt as though I had to up my game because last year I won and OPI competition for my Halloween nails...

So, this year I decided to ditch Frankenstein and the scary tree and, instead, replaced them with a witch's hat and Scream. I revamped my pumpkin and eyeball but the blood drips remained the same (not much you can do to spice up blood, unfortunately).

To create my Halloween 2013 nails, I started off by painting the base colours:

Next, I painted on the simple shapes:

And, finally, added in the details!

In terms of costumes, I've had quite a few events to plan for... 

First off was my house-warming in London. We had a red carpet themed party and I decided to dress up as Gwen Stefani from No Doubt. And yesterday, at last minute, I fixed together a ghost costume for a Uni Sport's Social (pretty much just snipped a few holes in a mattress cover and I looked like an absolute idiot). Tomorrow, my friends and I are going to a house party and we're dressing up as Spring Breakers - might have to create some nails for that outfit...

Happy Halloweeeeeen.

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TO DYE FOR

It's been a couple of months since my last post... decided that I need to start this up again.

I bought a dress from Topshop this week and was inspired to emulate the tie dye pattern on to my nails.

I love the colours on this dress and thought they looked even better together on my nails.

In order to create the blurred tie dye lines, I lightly blended the blue, white and purple polish using a sponge. Next I used an acid yellow colour and a striper to create the little spirals...

Voilà!

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