Another Bridal Nail Art idea: Something blue....

This will just be a quick post because I'm not really into these nails, I'm short of time and have a massive back-log of other nail art that I haven't posted (Uh oh!!).

Anyway, I had an idea to do 'something blue' nails as a wedding nail art idea. I am getting married in like.... a year and a half, so naturally I am already trying stuff out. (Here's a link to all my other bridal nail posts.)

I recently purchased 5 new stamping plates from Mo You London and they arrived about a week ago. I will do a review of them soon! Anyway one of them, the Kitty collection 02, has lots of really pretty single flowers, so I decided to use one of them- I think it's a poppy.

I made a blue flower decal with the flower from the stamping plate using this technique  (with China glaze kinetic candy and sally hansen pacific blue). I left the others plain to keep the look simple. The base polish is OPI Barre my soul for which I had to do about 4 coats to cover the green stains that were on my nails from wearing turquoise polish =( 

As I said I'm not a big fan....but I really like how the blue flower turned out. I will have to do it again with a coloured background I think (maybe a pastel purple?)

Thanks for reading :)

Turquoise and Ocean Coloured Ikat Nail Art

Yay! So today I'm very excited as I have a manicure to share with you that I think is one of the best I've ever done! (Get ready for an excessive amount of images). I'm calling it an Ikat design.... but I'm actually not 100% sure what Ikat means.... I've just seen other similar designs called that.

Oh well....I won't keep ranting on about it..... so here's some pictures =D

But please scroll down for the polishes used and inspiration :)

 

Ok the polishes

The lovely lovely blue background is China Glaze "For Audrey" (can you guess how much I love it?)

And for the ikat design in my best attempt at lightest to darkest:

1. (Yellow) China glaze "Lemon Fizz"

2.  (Turquoise) OPI "fly"

3. Sally Hansen Xtreme wear "Pacific blue"

4. (Metalic turquoise) Revlon "Ocean Breeze"

5. (Greeny dusky turquoise) China Glaze "exotic encounters"

6. (Royal bright blue) OPI "Eurso Euro"

7. (Darker blue) OPI "Road house blues"

I didn't think up the idea all by myself- I was inspired by this lovely image on Pinterest. Unfortunately I can't find a reference for it, so please let me know if you know who painted it originally.

I used a small Loew-Cornell 6/0 liner brush to paint the design- which was just lots of little dashes in the same direction.