Rainbow and Cloud Nails

I bought a blue Miss Sporty polish the other day that made me think of blue skies and made me want to create a mani which included clouds and blue skies. So here is my rainbow mani with blue skies.

Rainbow Nails

For this mani you will need:

• blue nail polish
• white nail polish
• selection of coloured polishes
• dotting tool
• small nail art brush

Start by painting your nails with the blue polish. I left the ring finger for the rainbow.

I got a little too into this mani and forgot to take photos for the next few steps.
Next paint your designated rainbow nail with white polish.
I started my rainbow with the middle colour so it would be easier to work out how thick each line needed to be.

Keep adding more colours to your rainbow nail, if you want a neater edge to each colour use nail art tape as a guide but as a mentioned before, I got a little too into this mani and didn't have time to find my tape so I painted each colour freehand.

For the clouds on the blue nails you'll need your white polish and a dotting tool. Using your dotting tool place a white dot on your nail.

To turn the dots into clouds, add smaller dots to the side of the first dots. Make some clouds with 2 dots and some with 3 so it doesn't look too uniformed.

There we have it! Rainbow and sky nails! There's no rainbows without rain and there's no rain without clouds.

I love the sky nails, I think they look great, it's a really nice blue!

The polishes I used in this mani are:

• Red - Barry M - Passion Fruit
• Orange - Boots 17 Lasting Fix - Tropical Island
• Yellow - Boots 17 Fast Finish - Go Go
• Green - Barry M - Neon Green
• Blue - Boots Colour Carnival by Seventeen - Light Blue
• Indigo - Models Own Artstix - Betty Blue
• Violet - Sinful Colours - Let's Talk
• Blue sky - Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours
• Clouds - Boots Natural Collection - Nail Tip Whitener

Rachel x

Summer Daisies

After painting my nails for the product review in my previous post it gave me an idea for a new mani. I love daisies and I think they look great with light blue, it's feels really summery and since the weather here in England is far from blue sky weather right now, I thought I'd cheer myself up with this mani.

Daisy Nails

 For this mani you will need:

 

• blue, white and yellow polish
• a small brush 
• a dotting tool

Start with the blue polish and paint all your nails. I used two coats with mine as I like to have a solid base colour.

 

 Then with your small brush, paint 4 white lines, in a cross shape, these will be your first 4 petals for your daisy.

Then paint another white line in between each of the lines you have just painted, it should look something like this.

Keep adding more petals until you're happy with how it looks, I keep going until I can't see too much blue in between the white.

When the white has dried it's time to add the yellow pollen in the middle of the flower. To do this you will need your dotting tool and your yellow polish. Dip your dotting tool into your polish and then dot the colour into the middle of the flower. Keep dotting until you are happy with the size of the yellow circle.

With some of my nails I started the daisies off at the side to give a little bit of variation. To do this just use the edge of your nail as the centre of the flower and work your petals out from there.

Add your top coat and away you go!

This is a really summery mani, it reminds me of blue skies and making daisy chains with my grandma as a child.

The polishes I used in this mani were:

• Boots Seventeen - Light Blue
• Boots Natural Collection - Nail Tip Whitener
• Boots 17 Fast Finish - Go Go

I hope you enjoyed this mani.

Rachel x

Polish Review: Light Blue by Seventeen

I was bought this nail polish for Christmas. It's called Light Blue and is from the Colour Carnival collect by Seventeen from Boots. They have a wide range of colours in this collection and they're selling them for £1.99!

This polish has a wide, flat brush, I love these brushes, they're great for applying polish without getting brush stroke marks.

The polish went on really nicely, it was smooth and there were no streaks. It gives really nice coverage with just one coat, it's not completely opaque with one coat, but it's not far off.

This is the polish after two coats, completely opaque and streak free! It also has a gorgeous shine to it!

I was really impressed with this polish, it's really easy to apply and it looks great. For £1.99 I really wasn't expecting much but this polish is brilliant! I'll definitely be buying more colours in this range.

I wore this polish for three days before I had to take it off to go to work and it was still looking great, there was a couple of chips but nothing major. The shine was still there, I was even asked by a friend if I had been to have my nails done professionally!

This is a great polish in a lovely colour at a really affordable price!

Rachel x