Summer Challenge

Here's a round up of all my manicures for the Summer Challenge!  To see the original blog post for any of the manicures, just click on the picture.

Summer Challenge 4: Travel

Today is the last day of the Summer Challenge being hosted by lady_flower123 over at The Polishaholic.  Today's theme is travel.

My boyfriend is a sailor, and a little while ago he told me I should have a go at painting the ship he works on on my nails (I think I've fooled him into thinking I'm far more artistically skilled than I am).  Anyhoo, today seemed like a good time to try this, so here you go:

Unfortunately, my dear Seche Vite made the black bleed a fair bit, so please excuse that!  I used Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, 17 Risky Red, and black and white nail art pens.

Summer Challenge 3: Island

Today is the third instalment of the challenge hosted by lady_flower123 over at her blog (check it out here), and the theme is 'island'.

I had a few ideas for this involving palm trees, sand etc., but I couldn't really come up with anything I could translate on to my nails.  So I cheated slightly.  I went for a British theme - Britain is an island after all...  And I wore them to a red, white a blue party that I went to on Saturday.

Anyhoo, here are the nails.

I used Collection 2000 French White, and 17 Risky Red and a blue that I've totally forgotten the name of...

I've seen some lovely skittle nail art on various blogs, so I really wanted to have a go at something like this.  I'm pretty pleased with the overall look, but I haaaate the gradient nail.  I should've just redone it as something else, but I felt I'd already committed to the gradient.  Oh well!

Happy Monday everyone :)

Summer Challenge 2: Sunset

Today is the second instalment in the summer challenge hosted by lady_flower123 (check out her blog here), and the theme is sunset.  I decided to try a gradient for my background, and then I drew in (my interpretation of...) the Liverpool skyline.

I used Rimmel Sunshine, Max Factor Bright Orange, 17 Risky Red and Barry M Bright Purple for the background (it seems all the purple ended up on my fingers rather than my nails) and a nail art pen for the silhouette.

Sorry for the late and brief post - I have a migraine and am too busy feeling sorry for myself.

Summer Challenge 1: Sunflowers

As I mentioned the other day, I'm taking part in a summer nail art challenge hosted by lady_flower123 over at The Polishaholic.  This is my first ever nail challenge, all very exciting.

So the first theme is sunflowers.  This design came out more or less as I'd pictured it in my head, other than the fact that in my head I have a lot more artistic talent than I actually do.  Anyhoo, here's what I did:

I used Collection 2000 French White and Ninja for the background.  The yellow is H&M Rising Sun that my lovely mum bought for me yesterday, the gold/brown is a nail art pen, and then I used a black sharpie for the detail.

I'm pretty happy with how these turned out :)  They possibly look more like buttercups than sunflowers, but they're all flowers...

Check out what the rest of the participants have produced over at lady_flower123's blog.