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

Nails in April

Geometric pink and grey nails using Ink London Gel polish

Ink London i42 with Chinty’s glitters

Shimmery nude

Inspired by Anita Podoba, lemon and daisy nails

Red Cat Eye effect gel over natural nails and flitter glitter

Neon rainbow with stamping

Pastel nails with silver glitter

Acrylic nails with dusky pink gel and glitter with little hearts

Gelish Starburst with glitter

Gelish Starburst with holo pigment fade

Shellac Tropics

A few from March

I’m now only 4 months behind! Here are a few from March.

These nails were created after Cath’s husband sent a pic of what they’d like on her nails. Cath has The Gel Bottle Builder in a Bottle on her natural nails. These nails were created with Black Gel polish, Gold pigment, gold glitter and hand painted clock faces.

Ink London Blood Diamond with glitter and 3d swirls

These nails are gel polish over natural nails. Using Ink London’s Blood Diamond for the main manicure, I added chunky and fine glitter in Champagne gold o the ring and index fingers and added 3d detail to the red nails with gold 3d gel.

Coral and turquoise seaside themed nails

Daisy the Lancashire Heeler comes to visit!

Gel polish over natural nails

My nails for the English Hair and Beauty Awards

Mermaid flakes over pastel Gel polish

Dark nude with champagne glitter over acrylics

Ink London Watermelon with a little sparkle

New Year New Nails

It’s New Year 2017. New Year, New Nails. It’s actually July but I’ve just got round to posting. I’m gradually catching up!

Here are some nails from January.
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Natural nails with acrylic overlay, pink with handpainted flower

Pink gel, pink glitter and and holographic pigment

Foil and Gelish Night Reflection

Foil and Gelish Rendezvous

Night Reflection and sand flowers and bling

French with butterfly stamp and glitter

French with flowers and silver

The Gel bottle sparkly blue nails

Gel painting practice

Ink London gel polish and fireworks over natural nails

Silver and purple Glitter and striping tape

Matte cashmere lashes

Red gel polish with gold lines

Teal bubble nails, matte base with a dew effect

Wedgewood design on velvet

Wedgewood on velvet swatches with flash

Christmas Nails

Yes, I know I am six months late publishing these nails to the blog! What can I say… events overtook me 🙂 These are some of my Christmas designs.
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Jewelled xmas swatches

Xmas design over red gel with hand painted trees and glitter baubles

Xmas stamping over blue gel

Blood diamond with 3d gel

Acrylic frost with stamping and hand painted icicles

Ink London with glitter and handpainted 3d gel xmas nails

Felicity the Fairy ready for a trip to Lapland

Christmas nails in red and green glitter with stamping

One stroke presents, baubles, bells and tree on xmas nails

One stroke presents, baubles, bells and tree on Christmas nails

Frost and baubles swatches

Holly and music One stroke swatches

Blood Diamond with bling. Xmas Design

Sparkly pink nails with 3d christmas detail

Green and red festive glitter snowflake nails

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

October Autumn Nail Designs

Autumn Nail Designs

Ink London Blood diamond with Swarovski. Beautifully rich red

Ink London Blood diamond with plaid

Cat eye effect gel polish and one stroke

Cat eye with sheer stocking effect gel polish and detailed bling

Pigments and stamping over pale blue gel polish

Magpie Eadie Glitter

Gelish caution with stamping

Nude polish with copper glitter

One stroke Poppy for Remembrance Day

Kruger national park nails pigment neon leopard

Nail ready for a Safari to Kruger National Park

Matte stocking effect nails with 3d detailing

Halloween nails in black, red and silver

Pastel animal print nails

Pink nails with 3d detailing, glitter and holographic pigment

Script stamping over french nails

Striping on navy nails

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

Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is here again! Lots of hearts and flowers on the nails. Have you any plans for tomorrow?

I’ve taken a day off as I have the house to myself so it’s going to be a play day, this time I need to get ahead so probably do some Easter themed nails, Spring nails… summer… I can’t wait!

Valentine Nails with hearts and foil detail

Red and Black ombré Valentine Nails with hearts

I took part in an online course yesterday via Periscope with Dega Mosane in which she showed various One Stroke, Zhostovo and Foil techniques. That’s on the agenda tomorrow too. I have a set of lashes to do later this afternoon then no more clients til Wednesday so lots of time to get messy and get all my pretties out! Pics to follow.

I’m also working on my new site www.lcbta.co.uk which was launched last week. You will find nail and beauty training courses here which I am adding to all of the time. I’m off to Plymouth on Friday for advanced training in various techniques and skills, more details to come! I also have a new Facebook page linked to that site. Come along and have a look.

Paw Patrol Nails

The Brief

Marshall from Paw Patrol Nails. Anyone who knows me knows I do not do Cute! I had to do minions last year and hated every minute of it. I’ve painted penguins, snowmen, reindeer all under duress.

This time I was sent a picture and asked to create a picture on a lady’s nails for her son’s birthday party. After a quick Google I discovered it was Marshall from Paw Patrol. There’s so much merchandise for this and I had never heard of it!

The Preparation

I figured I really needed to practice on swatches first, glass of wine in hand, Netflix playing Sons Of Anarchy… I was all set! NOT as easy as I first thought! The eyes. So hard to get them not looking cross-eyed. The position was hard too as I kept making it too far over so his fireman’s hat was hanging off the nail. Eventually I created these 2.

I chose a black and a white gel base for contrast. Painted using acrylic paints and a size 0 brush with details painted using Team Gorgeous Dita brush.

Marshall Design on the Nails

Natalie came in Friday for the actual nails. She decided to have the other nails in the colours of the other Paw Patrol Characters with little paw prints on them. The end result was very bright and met with her son’s approval. Can’t wait to see the party pictures!

Bespoke nail art is always a pleasure, I love a challenge and trying new ideas. I wonder what’s next? I flat out refuse to do minions though!