40 Great Nail Art Ideas- Hobbies

Hi there everyone! Today is the first nail art challenge -40 great nail art ideas.  I have been excited to join in this challenge becasue I need to do more nail art really.

The first challenge is Hobbies.

This was a hard one really....do I do my papercraft hobbies?? or do i do a hobby as in what I collect. So I asked my daughter zoe what she thought my number 1 hobby is. And she said.......LOKI!!!

Well she is true. I have been collection Loki comics etc for many years and my love of the character Loki has been since the early 1990's. As you all know my cat is called Loki and my blog and all other hobbies I name after Loki too!!!!

My latest obsession tho has been the Loki Pop Vinyls. I have 5 Loki ones all up, but there is still the illusive all gold one I don't have :(

So I decided to do some Loki nails. Ill be honest the stamping did not turn out how i would have liked, but over all they are ok. I used Color Club Artsy Crafty for the green. Zoya ziv for the gold and Pretty serious cosmetics absence for the black.  I also used He He superhero plate 04 for the loki image.

I loved that I could do Loki as my first challenge. Every week I think will be fun.

 Make sure you check out everyone's nails each week via inlinkz or pinterest.

Until next time....

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Nail Art Spam.

Hi there everyone!

Today I thought I would share some nail art I have done recently. I tend to share on Instagram but forget to share here!

Lets check them out!

Femme Fatale Cold Wraith and Scorched nebula

Daisy nail art with Born Pretty place and yellow,orange and pink gradient.

Galaxy mani- Using Various Celestial Cosmetics 

Femme Fatale Loki Dokie and fools paradise and stamping plate.

OPI Do I take lei away

OPI Suzi Shops and Island Hops and Loki's Nail Vinyls

OPI Pineapples have Peelings Too with stamping plate

OPI Thats Hula- Rious and Lokis Nail Vinyls

OPI Just Lanai-ing Around and stamping plate 

Celestial Cosmetics Don't tinker with Bell and nail water decal.

Until next time.......

May the 4th be with you........ Star Wars Nails!

So today is #starwarsday so I figured I would do some cool Star Wars nails.

Out came my OPI's and off I started.

I used OPI Black Onyx, Alpine Snow, Don't mess with OPI, 50 years of style and a bunch of acrylic paints. Oh and some brown flock from my craft stash!

I hand painted all the of the images my self.

I even did both hands different!!!

Lto R - R2D2, C3P0, Bobafett, Darth Vader, Storm trooper 

L to R- lightsabers, Jawa, Greedo, Chewbacca and Han solo

As you can see my left hand is not as good as the right as I am left handed, but I gave it a good go!!!!

I hope you think they are as cool as I do! Especially the fuzzy Chewbacca!!!!

Until next time...

Minion Nails!!!

Hi there everyone! 

Today I have some nail art. My girls love minions. they really do! well who would not love them?? they are so cute!! Anyways I was sent some neon polishes for testing by an indie brand and I thought I would use them to do minions. Now to be fair im actually gutted this indie brand is not releasing them. Apparently there were a few issues with the pigment but OMG these polishes were opaque in 2 coats and there was no need for a white base either!!!

OK Anyway's...... check out the mani. I used the neons and some acrylic paints.

before nail art.

minions

under UV light

I also did a water marble on one nail too which turned out ok.

Until next time.....

Born Pretty Store 3D gold stickers review.

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Hi there everyone! Today I have to share with you some "3D"stickers from Born Pretty Store.

I was asked by Born Pretty Store If I would like to review and try some of their new products they currently have in their store. Over the next week I will be sharing some of the products they sent me.

Today I have the 3D gold stickers from their store.

The pack consisted of a large sheet (bigger than an A4 sheet) with 12 different designs on it. I was very impressed that you got so much for your money. The stickers are described as 3D, but I would not describe them as this. they are slightly raised but when you put a top coat on they are not raised at all.

They are very easy to remove from the backing sheet and the parts that are not gold have a clear backing. I think that some of these designs would be good for stain glass effect with thinner polishes like the OPI sheer tints or even the new OPI that are getting released.

I decided to try them over the new Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Spice age. The gold looked great with the colour. The stick well and did not peel off or shrink when I placed a top coat over them.

They gave a quick and easy mani for the price.

You can purchase them from Born Pretty Store for $4.34 and free world wide shipping. 

Postage with Born Pretty Store can be a little hit and miss as I have had parcels come with in a week and others take up to 4 weeks. but shipping is free so I cant really complain!!!

Don't forget that if you are making an order to use the below code to get 10% off your order!!!

Until next time.......

A SensatioNail Summer Tutorial.

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Hi there Everyone!!!! Today I have some great nail art for you with a little tutorial. 

Summer is here and if you are like me, you will love bright colours on your nails for summer. So today I am using SensatioNail Gel polish for this mani. 

 SensatioNail Have just released 5 new colours for summer and boy oh boy they are bright and awesome!!!! With all  SensatioNail Gel polishes they take only 1 min to cure under LED lamp and their top coat only takes 30 seconds. and their gel will last up to 2 weeks with out chips!

OK! So lets check out what we need to recreate this summer fun manicure.

Flower Nail art.

We will need- 

*  SensatioNail LED lamp

*  SensatioNail gel polish in - Teenie Bikini, Cabana Boy, Beat the Heat, Ride the Wave, Sun Kissed, White Lily and Glitter Silver.

*  SensatioNail Base/Top coat

* SensatioNail primer

*  SensatioNail cleanser

* Lint free wipes

*Acetone based nail polish remover.

* Black stamping polish (I used one from the Nail Stamping Queen)

* Stamping plate (Messy Mansion number20)

*stamper and scraper (i use an old store card as my scraper)

* fine paint brush

*nail Aprons (i used lokis nail vinyl ones)

You can change the brand of stamper or plate to any pattern really and recreate this effect with  SensatioNail gel polish.

Step 1-  Prep your nails with the primer. Place one coat of base coat and cure for 30 seconds. 

Paint a coat of lily white. Cure 1 minute. Repeat.

Step 2-  With the lint free wipe and acetone, quickly wipe off the sticky layer from your gel nails. This gives the stamping polish a base to adhere too. If you do not wipe the sticky layer your stamping will smudge.

Step 3 - Once you have cleaned your nails, place your nail aprons around your nails and cuticle. This is not essential as you can clean up the excess stamping with acetone, but I like to use the aprons so I don't have to worry about clean up. You can also use masking tape or even liquid latex to do the same thing.

Step 4- With the black stamping polish, stamp your nails with the flower pattern. You will need to work quick as the stamping polish will dry quickly. this is why its great to use with gel polish as it will not react when another coat goes over it.

Step 5- Remove nail aprons. If there is any excess black stamping polish clean it up with a small brush and acetone. Paint 1 coat of  SensatioNail top coat on and cure for 30 sec. Wipe off the sticky layer.

Step 6- With a fine brush carefully paint the flowers leaves with different coloured gels.

As a tip I try and paint all of one colour on all the nails then flash cure for 10 seconds. Then I move onto the next colour.

**Did you know that if you don't have the colour you need to paint your nails you can mix 2 different SensatioNail colours to create a new colour!

I mixed Teenie Bikini and Ride the Wave to make the purple you see in my manicure!!! 

Step 7-  Once all the colours are on cure for the full 1 minute. Then lightly paint a very fine coat of the glitter silver over the pattern. Cure for 1 min.

Step 8- Finally, pop on a top coat, cure 30 sec and wipe off sticky residue.

Here is the final result!

What do you think?? It is great for a summer manicure and it gives a great effect! Plus it will last for up to 2 weeks. If you are after a more subtle effect why not try some other  SensatioNail gel colours??!

You can pick up the complete range of  SensatioNail online or at Priceline. Prices start from $19.95 a bottle but keep your eye out on some great offers that  SensatioNail have on their Facebook page  Plus if you go online you can use the code LOKI20  for 20% off all of their products!

Make sure you like them over at Instagram as well!

Until next time........

Fire Inspired Nail Art For Day 19

Hi there everyone! Todays challenge is Fire. So I was going to do the basic fire as in flames on my nails but then I thought I would get out a classic polish from 2012.....Yep....the black crackle polish!!!!

So together with OPI over and over a Gwen, Hot and Spicy and I Just Cope-acabana, I did a trio of gradient then topped off my mani with OPI black crackle!

I actually do not mind the finished result. It reminds me a little of lava!

What do you think? is black crackle going to make a comeback *giggles* No I don't think so but I will forever keep it just in case!!!

Make sure you check out everyone else's mani's for today!

Until next time.......

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The Starry Night painting manicure.

Hi there everyone!!!

So I have finally caught up!!! yeah!!! and today's challenge was the theme Artwork. I decided on going with Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night. This is an amazing picture plus it is used in Doctor Who so Its a double whammy for me!!!

Here is the painting.

 Stunning right?!?

I decided to use a base of Essie Avenue Maintain then paint over that with acrylics the painting. It took me 3 hours (with a few interruptions from children) to paint them. they I popped on a top coat of Seche Vite.

I am so happy on how they came out!

I hope you love these as much as I do!!!!

Make sure you check out everyone else's mani's from todays challenge.

Until next time....

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