water marble

 These are my Water Marble nails.




Step 1 First of all, start off with a base coat to protect your natural nails. 

Step 2
Paint your ring finger nail white. 
Step 3
Paint your remaining fingers a bright blue.I used blue but you can use any colour you want.

Step 4
Wrap sellotape around your skin around your ring finger as this will make the cleaning up easier later on. 

Step 5
Fill up a bowl with room temperature water. Pick any colours you want and have them next to the bowl. Its better to have the caps open for this as you will need to work pretty fast.

Step 6
Drop one droplet of each colour into the water, alternating the colours. (I used one blue, one orange, one purple. One blue, one orange, one purple.) 

Step 7
Use a toothpick to create a design in the water. 

Step 8
Dip your finger into the water and leave for about 10 seconds, while blowing on the water. This will quickly dry the nail polish on the surface of the water. 

Step 9
Gently swirl the toothpick around the surface of the water, to clean up the excess nail polish. 

Step 10
Slowly remove your nail from the water.

Step 11
Remove the sellotape to reveal your design. Use a clear top coat to seal in your design.

Voila :)

Products Used:
Essie 'grow stronger' base coat
Essie 'mint candy apple'
Essie 'tart deco'
Essie 'splash of grenadine'
Essie 'good to go' top coat

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sahara beige

These are my Sahara Lace nail design.

Step 1

Use a base coat to protect your natural nails.
Step 2
Paint your nails two coats of a light beige or sand colour.

Step 3
Once dry, use a white nail varnish to create a diagonal french tip.
Step 4
Use a dotting tool to create white dots along the french tip.

Step 5
Use a smaller dotting tool to create dots the same beige colour as earlier inside the white dots. 

Step 6

Use a clear top coat to seal in your design.

Voila :)


Products Used:
Essie 'Grow Stronger' case coat
Chanel 'Sahara Beige'
Sally Hansen hard as nails 'White Tip'
Essie 'good to go' top coat

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leopard print

These are my leopard print nail design.

Step 1

Start off with a clear base coat.

Step 2
Paint your ring finger nail two coats of gold.

Step 3
While leaving to dry, paint the rest of your nails red. 
Step 4
When your ring finger nail is dry, use a dotting tool to create a few red heart shapes and dots.
Step 5
With a very small dotting tool, outline random parts of the dots and hearts with black.
Step 6
Use a clear top coat to seal in your design.
Voila :)


Products Used:
Essie 'Grow Stronger' base coat
Sally Hansen complete salon manicure 'All Fired Up'

Lola 'Alto Brillo'

Sally Hansen complete salon manicure 'Midnight In NY'

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ombre nails

These are my ombré nail design.

Step 1
Use a base coat to protect your natural nails.

Step 2
Using a foundation sponge, paint a stripe of pink nail varnish (the size of half your nail) and a stripe of blue nail varnish (again, half the size of your nail) onto the sponge.Step 3Roll the sponge from left to right on your nail and dab gently. Don't try to be too exact when you are dabbing, because you want a blended effect.

Step 4
Repeat step 4 until you get a more opaque finish.

Step 5

Add some top coat with glitter. (The glitter is optional.)

Voila :)

Products Used:

Essie 'Grow Stronger' base coat

Essie 'Lovie Dovie'

Maybelline New York 'Forever Strong'

O.P.I 'Polka.Com'

Essie 'Good To Go' top coat

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Girly French manicure

Step 1

Use a base coat to protect your natural nails.

Step 2
Paint your nails a very light pink (you might need two coats).
Step 3
Use a white nail varnish to paint the tips of your nails. 
Step 4
Use a thin brush to create a black stripe under the white.

Step 5
Again, using the thin brush, create an 'X' shape at the side of your nail.

Step 6
Join up the edges of the 'X' together and fill in with black nail varnish.

Step 7
Use a clear top coat to seal in your design.

Voila :)

Products Used:

Clarins 'Smoothing Base' base coat

Sally Hansen 'Hard As Nails White Tip'

Sally Hansen complete salon manicure 'Midnight In NY' (no.670)

Essie 'Sugar Daddy'

Essie 'Good To Go' rapid drying top coat

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pink an white dalmatians...with a twist

Step 1

Use a base coat to protect your nails.

Step 2
Paint your ring fingers two coats of white.

Step 3
While leaving to dry, paint the remaining fingers a bright pink.

Step 4
When your ring finger nail is dry, use a dotting tool to create a pink love heart, using the same pink as the other fingers.

Step 5
Create the black dots by using a dotting tool of various sizes randomly. 

Step 6
Use a clear top coat to seal in your design.

Voila :)

Products used:
Clarins 'Smoothing Base' base coat
Sally Hansen 'Hard As Nails White Tip'
Sally Hansen complete salon manicure 'Midnight in NY' (no. 670)
Essie 'Lovie Dovie' 
Essie 'Good To Go rapid drying top coat'

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