Disney: Up! Nails

So it's one week until we're off to Florida! Here's another Disney mani for you. I love the film UP! It's such a lovely story. That's the film that has been the inspiration for this mani.

Up Nails

For this mani I used:

• small nail art brushes
• dotting tools
• blue, white and black nail polish
• a make up sponge
• a selection of bright polishes for the balloons

I started by painting all of my nails white so that I had a solid base for my gradient. To do a gradient with nail polish it's easiest to use a make up sponge. To make it look like it's really high in the sky I wanted the tip of my nails to be white and the part near the cuticles to be blue. To do this, I painted a stripe of blue polish and a stripe of white polish onto a make up sponge.

I then dabbed the sponge onto my nail a few times until I got a colour I was happy with.

Using my brightly coloured polishes and my dotting tool I placed random dots on all my nails except my ring finger.

For my ring finger nail. I starting by dotting random balloons in a triangle shape, with the widest part of the triangle starting at the cuticle end of my nail and the point being about a third of the way down my nail.

For the house, I used black polish. I started by painting a black rectangle, I then added the roof.

I then painted a few thin black lines from the roof of the house up to the balloons to make it look like the strings.

There we have it, my Up mani. I'm so excited for Florida now!

The polishes I used in this mani were:

• Miss Sporty - Blue
• Miss Sporty - Black
• Boots Seventeen Colour Carnival - White
• Boots Seventeen Colour Carnival - Light Blue
• Kiko - Green
• Barry M - Shocking Pink
• Barry M - Passion Fruit
• Make Up Time - Bright Yellow

Rachel x

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

Disney: Winnie the Pooh Nails

At work the other day I was showing my manager some of my manis and she was like "it would be great if you did a Pooh mani" Luckily I know she loves Winnie the Pooh or this mani could have turned out completely different!

Winnie the Pooh Nails

 For this mani you will need:

• yellow polish
• red polish
• black polish
• nail art brushes 

 Start by painting all your nails yellow, or if you prefer, some yellow, some red, as long as the finger you're going to paint Pooh on is yellow, it doesn't matter what colour the rest are. As you can see, I started with all yellow and changed my mind later on.

Now to draw Pooh, it took 3 coats of yellow to get the colour I wanted so I had to wait quite a while for my nails to dry.
Start with the eyes and the nose. Paint two little black dots, about half way down your nail for the eyes. Just below them, place a bigger black dot for his nose.

Next I painted on the eyebrows. To do this, paint 2 curved lines about half way between the eyes and your cuticles.

He's really starting to take shape now! Next is the mouth. Paint a curved black line just below the nose with each end of the line in line with the eyes. Then at either end of the mouth, add a little curve.

As you can see, my black polish got a little over excited so I had to thin the line with some more yellow polish.
Paint a "V" shape on the tip of your nail with the red polish, this is Poohs' shirt. Then outline it with your black polish.

There you have it! Winnie the Pooh on your nail! I thought there was a little too much yellow going on on my nails so I painted two of them with the red polish.

I'm really happy with how this mani turned out! It went a lot better than I expect!

The polishes I used in this mani were:

• Boots Fast Finish - Go Go
• Barry M Gelly - Passion Fruit
• W7 - Matte Black

Have fun trying out this mani!

Rachel x

Chrome Love

I wanted to use my new chrome polishes in a mani and since Valentines day is coming up and I love these polishes what better way to use them?

Chrome Love

For this mani you will need:

• white polish
• 3 shades of pink/purple polishes
• dotting tool

Start by painting all your nails white.

Then with your first pink/purple polish start dotting your nails, do this one colour at a time to build up the dots. Start with bigger dots at the tip and smaller dots towards your cuticles.

Keep adding more dots in the different shades and sizes until you're happy.

On my ring finger, I first painted a pink heart outline. I then randomly filled this in with different coloured dots.

And there we have it, a quick and simple valentines mani using my fave polishes.

I love the shine the Models Own chromes give off!

The polishes I used in this mani were:

• Boots Natural Collection - Nail Tip Whitener
• Models Own - Chrome Cerise
• Models Own - Chrome Rose
• Models Own - Chrome Mauve

Much love!

Rachel x