Designs in May

I’ve just gone to download the images from my phone and the Micro SD card has died. Valuable lesson learned… back up daily! I’ve now lost all my images from September. So… still catching up here are May’s nails. Soon be up to date!

Gelish Rendezvous with Passion Glitter

A little One stroke

Rose gold gel chrome

Red geometric with gems

Glitter and angel paper

Coral and white nails with flower detail

Neon nails with swirls in pigment

Grap gel with glitter and pigment

Holiday pink nails with flowers

Pink acrylic with confetti glitter

Neon Ink London Disco Collection with butterflies

Ink London i27 with pigments

Purple ombre with foil

Starburst with glitter

Starburst with onestroke

Mother of the Bride Nails

Lilac nails with foil and 3d gel filigree

Lilac nails with foil and 3d gel filigree

Watermelon pink for cancer relief at Tesco

Ink London blue shimmer and one stroke

Ink London i28 blue shimmer and one stroke

November Dark Nights

November Nail Designs. Shades are getting darker ready for the cold dark nights but the bling is starting to appear more and more.

Matte black, deep red and glitter nails

Cashmere eyelash extensions, so light

Animal print over Gelish Tiger Blossom and nude gel polish

One stroke over black gel to match a party dress

Gelish Caution with glitter and sparkles

Gelish with striping tape and glitter

French nails with orange 3d detail

French nails with silver swirl

Illumina gel with bronze and gold foil

Cats eye, stockig effect and bling nails

Pigments and glitter for a sparkly ombre

September Nails

Some of my September finger nail and toenail designs. Still catching up! What else to do on a rainy Dorset Sunday afternoon?

Pigment over gel polish toes with 3d petals

Acrylic extensions, aqua background with pink one stroke

Acrylic extensions with pink and gold sparkles

3d silver detail over black nails and a blingy glitter ring finger

Assymetric french with silver accents

Black, silver, chrome and Rockstar nails

Gelish Shake it til you Samba with 3d designer gel detail on fingers and toes

Gelish Tahiti Hottie with 3d designer gel detail on fingers and toes

Ink London Gel with Holgraphic pigment

Forbidden love with silver stamping

The Gel Bottle 146 and one stroke petals

Gelish with 3d silver gel and glitter on purple

Gel polish french with chrome silver swirls

Peach cobbler with onestroke and bling

Starburst with one stroke, holo pigment and gems

Starburst, Lilac with one stroke, holo pigment and gems

One stroke on french nails

Gelish Tahiti Hottie with 3d designer gel detail on all nails

Tahiti hottie with bling

A Short May

Back to Work – a short month of May

I returned to work May 13th and suddenly summer was here! It’s always a squeeze after a holiday – everyone is reading for their infils, both nails and lashes, brow top ups and suddenly everyone wants to bare all as the sun shows it’s face!

Just a few pics of some of May’s work.

Reverse french acrylic infil using Sparkle Cover Pink, Snow white and 3d lace effect embellishment.

French Acrylic infil

Reverse French glitter mani with one stroke flowers. My holiday nails had seen better days, they lasted so well on holiday but on returning, unpacking, loading suitcases into the attic etc, it was time for a fresh set. I couldn’t decide what I wanted so this was the result of my playing, and a glass or 2 or wine!

Acrylic reverse french with one stroke

Reinforced Gel Polish nails with individual rhomboid glitter on ring fingers and pink chunky glitter on remaining fingers and thumbs. This really sparkles!

Harlequin Glitter Nails

Turqouise Cat Eye Effect with gold tear drop diamanté detailing on ring fingers

Turquoise Cat Eye effect

Elegant French with One Stroke flowers and diamanté detailing

French with One Stroke

Illumina Gel from Germany. This is a lovely gel, there are 7 colors in the range and they change colour depending on how the light hits them. They’re like exotic beetle jackets! Here I have used number 1 with a sliver of silver thread to accent the sides of the nails

Illumina Gels with silver thread

Colours starting to go light for summer. Pastel gels with co-ordinating pastel glitters over.

Pastel Glitter

Matte Gelish Night Reflection with dew drops over the top. A popular design

Night Reflection with dots

French with hand panted little roses and colourd diamanté details. Client’s pictures, I forgot to take a pic. I love the way she’s used the buttefly backgoround!

Flying Visit, more Onestroke and a New Table!

Frantic February!

In between nails, brows and lashes I’ve been housesitting again as well as practicing more OneStroke designs and having new furniture built for my studio. I’ve been looking after some beautiful Labradors and a lovely cat, and with the help of my colleague, have been able to run back and forth between appointments!

Spring seems to be on it’s way and lots of nails and even a few toes have been gelled this month! Glitter is still being requested, I suppose as an antidote to the awful weather! Lash Lift is again proving very popular and the Cashmere Eyelash Extensions are so soft and light, clients don’t know they’re wearing them!

French with one stroke butterflies

Ink London i67 with Onestroke

L&P scuplted enhancements over badly bitten nails – clients own pic!

Having made prototype nail desks a few year ago, my husband has been busy again – I now have a custom made L shaped nail desk covered in glass with chrome legs. Pics to come once it’s finally finished. He’s working on conduits for wires and cables to keep me tidy and stop my chair rolling over them and pulling my gel lamps off. Another coat of paint and I’m good to go! My studio is looking sleek – as sleek as it can get in a rural 17th century thatched cottage! New windows and doors are also in the pipeline. This will all give me more room for Nail Classes… still in progress!

I’ve just received some BrillBird Designer Gel and have been having a play with that, no images yet but I can’t wait to use it. It’s lovely and really finishes off some of my designs. There are so many fabulous products out there to embellish nails, we’re really spoiled for choice! I can’t make it to Pro Beauty next weekend so I will have to have a play online and order some treats! I have my eye on a few new ideas…

Onestroke Sample Sheet

I printed blank black nail shapes onto a plain piece of paper then matte laminated it to have a working surface similar to buffed nails. I still haven’t got round to doing them on tips yet though a few clients have had some onestroke this month. As a bonus, it’s a handy way for clients to be able to choose what’s available.

I finally finished the sheet of Onestroke samples.

Gelish My Forbidden Love with stamping

Mermaid glitter ans stamping

Gelish Shake it til you Samba with bling and holographic glitter

Black Gel Polish with pink glitter lunulas

Blue Pink Glitter Ombré

French with lace stamping

French with Handpainted Fine Lines

Ink i55 with one stroke

February Blues

The weather is appalling, thick white frost at 7am this morning which had disappeared by 8 then it’s hammered down all day! Seems to be a lot of blue nails at the moment, no one feels like Spring is anywhere near.

My new Nail Art books have arrived, I need to take a pic, loads to do in them. They’re in German which is a bit of a challenge but I have a handy translator in the house. I’ve been invited on another advanced nail course which looks really good. I’m upset not to be able to attend the Pisut Masanoung classes in May (first time ever in the UK), unfortunately I’m busy but they will be great. These have been organised by Karla Giles and Kirsty Meakin. See https://www.facebook.com/pisut.masanoung?fref=ts for details of his work. This guy is brilliant and it is a real honour to have been invited onto the courses. His attention to detail is second to none and I am hoping he will come back to the UK and do another class very soon. His work is absolutely out of this world, if I can learn even a fraction I would be so happy! Fingers crossed for another course. Karla and Kirsty are on the ball and organising future events.

Pisut Masanoung nail samples. Hand painted

Pisut Masanoung 3d acrylic. Stunning attention to detail

I’m off to bed now, off to Pro Beauty in London tomorrow to have a look at what’s out there and get some new gels, lashes and generally swot up on what’s new in the industry! Got my comfy boots ready as it’s going to be a long day.

Gelish Starburst nails with foil and some hand painted swirls

Gelish Starburst with foil and some hand painted swirls

Gelish Sea Foam base with pigments and foil highlights

Gell ll Baby Teal with foil and stamping accents

Acrylic French with metallic smile line and dots to match

Ink London i37 with pigments and gold detailing