Valentines day nail wheel

So, I thought I'd give my nails a little rest from nail varnish, so instead of painting my nails I've done a valentines day nail wheel. I might do a few of these designs on my nails soon, and maybe a few tutorials. Make sure to let me know if there are any of these designs that you would particularly like to see a tutorial of.

Noughts and Crosses nails with outfit

For this design I painted my nails white and then used a black striper to draw a grid on my nails. Then I used a black nail art pen to draw on the noughts and crosses. I arranged them so that on my thumb and ring finger there was a winner so I could use a red striper to draw a line through the winning noughts or crosses. For my toes I did exactly the same thing on my big toe as I did on my thumb and ring finger, for the rest of my toenails I just did the grid. I finished everything off with a matte topcoat.

For my outfit I'm wearing my Ram.ones dress from Forever 21 with fishnet tights from Accessorize. I have long black socks and my heel Doc Martens on my feet.

On my lips I have neon red from maybelline and on my eyes I used my easiest nudes ever pallet and they're real mascara by benefit. I contoured using hoola and highlighted using highbeam. Both of those are also from benefit. My blusher is melba by Mac.

Pink and patchy tiger print

To create this effect I used nail foils. I painted my nails pink first and let that dry completely, then I put on the adhesive and waited for it to almost be dry, but not completely and then placed the foil on my nails, smoothed it over a bit and tore it off! And finished with a topcoat! Make sure not to use a fast drying topcoat with foils!

Rusty gold

I started by painting my nails gold, then using a metallic pink polish and a sponge I started to create a bit of a gradient. I didn't go to heavily with the pink though and built it up in thin layers. Once I'd done that to add a bit of extra detail I took a paisley design from a stamping plate and stamped in over the gold to carry on the gradient right down my nail, but so when you look closely you can see the extra detail. (It doesn't show in the picture :( ) 

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Fuzzy Nails

This design was inspired by a design done by one of my favorite nail artists, kirakira nail. She used the black and white Barry M fuzzy nail effects, but I got the blue and yellow one for Christmas, so I switched up the colours. She did 3 different designs using this polish, so I decided to combine 2 of them. I used the border idea from her second design, (I chose to add a nude polish under the fuzzy polish because my nails are a little stained) and the spots from her third design. If you want to see how to do this design you can have a look on her YouTube channel.

Barry M foil effects

This is another nail varnish that I got for Christmas, it's the Barry M Foil Effects nail varnish in gold. It is a very striking polish and looks very dramatic on the nails. In this picture I have two coats of it on, but you could easily only wear one. I did think this polish was quite tricky to apply, you have to be very neat with it as it does go streaky. I would also recommend buffing your nails before using this polish as it does make any uneven parts of your nail quite noticeable.  I tried to do a design over this nail varnish but apart from adding glitter and rhinestones (which I have done far too much of lately) I couldn't think of anything else that would look good over it. Suggestions? I might try it under some foils, that could work well. 

I do like this polish, although it is a little tricky to apply I think the colour and effect is definitely worth it. Just need to think of a design to use it in.