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!

Bonnies rendezvous and passion

Gelish Rendezvous with Passion Glitter

A little One stroke

A little One stroke

Rose gold gel chrome

Rose gold gel chrome

Red geometric with gems

Red geometric with gems

Glitter and angel paper

Glitter and angel paper

Coral and white nails with flower detail

Coral and white nails with flower detail

Fran neon nails with swirls in pigment

Neon nails with swirls in pigment

Neon nails with swirls in pigment

Neon nails with swirls in pigment

Grape with holo glitter and pigment

Grap gel with glitter and pigment

Holiday pink nails with flowers

Holiday pink nails with flowers

Pink acrylic with confetti glitter

Pink acrylic with confetti glitter

Neon Ink London Disco Collection with butterflies

Neon Ink London Disco Collection with butterflies

Ink London i27 with pigments

Ink London i27 with pigments

Purple ombre with foil i35

Purple ombre with foil

Sb with bling

Starburst with glitter

Starburst with onestroke

Starburst with onestroke

Sue chinn wedding nails

Mother of the Bride Nails

Tgb lilac with foil and filigree

Lilac nails with foil and 3d gel filigree

Tgb lilac with foil and filigree 2

Lilac nails with foil and 3d gel filigree

Watermelon pink for cancer tesco

Watermelon pink for cancer relief at Tesco

Ann blue shimmer and one stroke

Ink London blue shimmer and one stroke

Blue 28 with mono onestroke

Ink London i28 blue shimmer and one stroke

Nails in April

Geometric pink and grey nails

Geometric pink and grey nails using Ink London Gel polish

I42 with chintys

Ink London i42 with Chinty’s glitters

I45 with pearl and little gold bits

Shimmery nude

Lemon and daisy nails

Inspired by Anita Podoba, lemon and daisy nails

Cat eye with flitter

Red Cat Eye effect gel over natural nails and flitter glitter

Neon fade with stamping

Neon rainbow with stamping

Pastel with glitter

Pastel nails with silver glitter

Acrylic nails with dusky pink gel and glitter with little hearts

Starburst and glitter

Gelish Starburst with glitter

Gelish Starburst with holo pigment fade

Gelish Starburst with holo pigment fade

Coral nails shellac tropics

Shellac Tropics

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

Matte black, deep red and glitter nails

Cashmere eyelash extensions, so light

Cashmere eyelash extensions, so light

Animal print over Gelish Tiger Blossom and nude gel polish

Animal print over Gelish Tiger Blossom and nude gel polish

One stroke over black gel to match a party dress

One stroke over black gel to match a party dress

Gelish Caution with glitter and sparkles

Gelish Caution with glitter and sparkles

Gelish  with striping tape and glitter

Gelish with striping tape and glitter

French nails with orange 3d detail

French nails with orange 3d detail

French nails with silver swirl

French nails with silver swirl

Illumina gel with bronze and gold foil

Illumina gel with bronze and gold foil

Cats eye, stockig effect and bling nails

Cats eye, stockig effect and bling nails

Pigments and glitter for a sparkly ombre

Pigments and glitter for a sparkly ombre

Susie’s Nail Art

Floral Design Hand Painted Custom Nail Art – Susie Edwards

Susie’s always loved Shellac Hot Chillis, and being a florist, began having hand painted flower nail art on accent nails. Over the years these have progressed to ladybirds, robins, toadstools and even a painting of her little dog Nutty. One Stroke poppies, pansies, seasonal designs with holly, ivy, Halloween designs and her favourite classic Dior Half Moons which she used to practice in the sixties, also being a model for the Dior School.

With reinforcement over her natural nails and regular IBX treatments Susie’s nails have remained strong and healthy and her nail art is a talking point wherever she goes!

Ladybird Nail Art on a leaf

Ladybird Nail Art on a leaf

Holly Nail Art just in time for Christmas

Holly Nail Art just in time for Christmas

Halloween Nail Art - pumpkins and spiders webs

Halloween Nail Art – pumpkins and spiders webs

Cat Eye effect polish with Dior Half Moons and silver accents

Cat Eye effect polish with Dior Half Moons and silver accents

Handpainted butterfly nails on teal

Handpainted butterfly nails on teal

Red nails with hand painted floral accents

Red nails with hand painted floral accents

Shellac with ladybird nails

Shellac with ladybirds

Shellac bare lunulas

Classic bare lunulas with gold accents

Robins painted onto an ombré base

Robins painted onto an ombré base

Poppies shellac hot chillies

Shellac with Poppies

Pansies and shellac

Pansy nail art

Ladybug shellac nails

Ladybugs on a leaf nail art

Ladybird nails shellac

Ladybirds on classic red

Ivy nails

Seasonal Ivy Nail Art

Frog nails

Little frog nails

Dior half moons with silver

Classic Dior half moons with silver edging

Butterly nails

Butterfly Nail Art

Bee nails with shellac

Bumble Bees handpainted onto accent nails

Susie was off on a holiday and wanted a reminder of her little dog Nutty. I painted a few samples first before attempting it on her nails. Remembrance Day was also coming up so I did a One Stroke poppy on her right hand accent fingernail.

Nutty Cockerpoo on Ipad with Susie holding it showing her accent nails

Nutty Cockerpoo on Ipad with Susie holding it showing her accent nails

Practising painting and drawing Nutty

Practising painting and drawing Nutty

Nutty Cockerpoo and Handpainted Poppy Nail Art

Nutty Cockerpoo and Handpainted Poppy Nail Art

Poppy Nail Art for Remembrance Day 2014

Poppy Nail Art for Remembrance Day 2014

Handpainted Robins on a twig nail art

Handpainted Robins on a twig nail art

Handpainted Robins on a twig nail art holding twigs

Handpainted Robins on a twig nail art

One Stroke Poppies

One Stroke Poppies

Snowdrops hand painted onto accent nails

Snowdrops hand painted onto accent nails

Toadstool Nail Art

Toadstool Nail Art – or is it mushrooms!

Practising shamrocks and Guinness designs for a trip to Dublin

Practising shamrocks and Guinness designs for a trip to Dublin

Dublin nails - with shamrock nail art

Dublin nails – with shamrock nail art

 

It’s Officially Summer – Get Your Toes out!

Summer Toes

Pastel toes with diamantes square

Pastel Gel Polish on toes with diamantes

We’ve had the longest day, things get shorter from here. Even with all this wet weather you can still have some bling and pretties on your toes! Mine are covered in little crystals to cheer up the cold days. I’m sat here with boots on as my feet are freezing but my toes look fab! Cat Eye Effect has been popular on toes this month but the favourite has been the pastel toes on Carley in the picture on the right. I rebuilt her big toenails as she had dropped a cast iron pan on her foot last year and it’s still growing out!

Mole End Design News

Time’s been short this month, lots of nails, lashes, brows, toes and threading. Monday is day 5 of Holly’s  Gorgeous Nails UK Signature Acrylic Course. She’s doing really well and I have no doubt she will be a great Acrylic Nail Technician. More courses will be coming soon. I’m off on an Educators’ Course later in July so I hope to be bringing fresh skills back to Dorset! For more info email me.

I’ve been playing with 3d acrylic and 3d gel lacework. My favourites are the daisies. Still need lots of practice but it’s lovely to play. It’s always hard to find the time, but I love putting on Netflix and grabbing a glass of wine and having a go! More glitters and sparkly things have arrived and I have loads of ideas, just need to knuckle down and get on with it!

3d practice sheet

3d Acrylic and 3d Gel practice sheet

Ink London with Angel Magpie Glitter

Ink London with Angel Magpie Glitter

Bubblegum pink with diamantes

Bubblegum pink with diamantés

Pigment fade over Acrylic with double stamping

Pigment fade over Acrylic with double stamping Design supplied by client via Pinterest

Cat Eye Effect in Emerald

Cat Eye Effect in Emerald

Cats Eye and Stamping

Cats Eye and Stamping

Cats eye effect nails

Cat Eye Effect

Reverse French Acrylic Overlay turquouse and lilac with swirls

Reverse French Acrylic Overlay turquouse and lilac with swirls – Design supplied by client via Pinterest

Nude Gel Polish over Acrylic Enhancements with Daisies and glitter

Nude Gel Polish over Acrylic Enhancements with Daisies and glitter

 

 

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.

3d lace french

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

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!

Alison harlequin glitter

Harlequin Glitter Nails

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

Fran cat eye warm

Turquoise Cat Eye effect

Elegant French with One Stroke flowers and diamanté detailing

French with flowers and diam jayne

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 2

Illumina Gels with silver thread

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

Pastel glitter

Pastel Glitter

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

Purple dots night reflection

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!

Laura french roses Laure fench rose butterfly

It’s Been a While!

I can’t believe the last blog post I did was back in April! Now it’s summer already… according to the calendar at least! Things have been hectic for me. I’ve been on holiday, teaching, petsitting, nursing and of course doing my nails, lashes and brows. I really have neglected all social media.
Facebook reachFacebook reach is appalling and it seems such a waste of time to post on there as no one seems to see it anymore. Other places I post get a much better response so I have let it slip! Find me on:
Instagram www.instagram.com/moleenddesign
Twitter: @molenaildesign

I had a lovely holiday in Barbados then it was back to work with a vengeance. Summer had sneaked up on us so suddenly everyone wants to get their fingers and toes fit for summer airing and holidays are looming! Lash and Brow Treatments have been popular for holidays, Lash Lift especially with it’s zero maintenance appeal. Lash Extensions are a must if you want the full on fluttery glamour, with a few coloured lashes added to the outer sweep for the more adventurous.Green lashes Ink disco fever collection

I have new gel colours and effects in for the Summer months, with Cat Eye Effect being most popular at the moment followed closely by pastels. Neons are always great for the beach or even just fine days!

Special Offers

All new Special Offers and Discounts will be emailed out to members of the Special Offers Newsletter Club. Click here to join. I will send a voucher each month to be either printed or downloaded to your phone, just present it to me and receive your discount. Join now and get ready for July Special Offers! I’m off on an advanced Nail Course at the end of July so look out for August Offers incorporating this!

I have a long list of ‘Things To Do’ still, Stationery and Loyalty Cards being top of the list. The website Galleries still need to be sorted out and organised in a way which works.

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