Flip Flop #1: Skittle

Hello lovelies :)

Today's the first day of the Flip Flop Challenge created by Jillian at Jilltastic Nail Design.  There are two challenge prompts for each day, the idea being that one's a little easier for beginners and one's a bit more difficult for those wanting to push themselves a bit more :)  We'll see which category I end up falling in to.  

Today's choices were Gradient or Skittle.  I went for a skittle manicure, as that's something I really can't get right!  Not that my gradients are any better, but there we go.

I decided that my problem with skittles is that I have too much going on, so I decided to strip it back a bit.

I had a full on Barry M fest, using Matt White, Teal, Gold Foil, Aqua Glitter and Gold Glitter, with a Saffron glitter on my little finger.

I'm loving the glitter gradient on my middle finger!  What do you think??

Animal Print

Well thank goodness it's Friday.  Ugh.  I've had a migraine since Tuesday and I'm exhausted.  I could do with just sleeping until Monday morning, but I need to pick up my Seche Vite from the sorting office, so I'll have to surface at some point tomorrow.  I also need (read want) some new clothes.

As you'll know by now, I do love my animal print.  So today I have a selection of animal prints for you in this safari skittle!

The elephant skin was a bit of a fail...I tried using cling film for it.  In hindsight, it would've been better to have just painted it one shade of grey, then when it was almost dry pushed it so it all wrinkled up (as I'm oh so good at doing unintentionally).

Not too many polishes to list!  Hopefully...erm...Max Factor Bright Orange, Barry M Grey, Matt White and Black, China Glaze Kalahari Kiss, and OPI Warm and Fozzie and Skull and Glossbones.

You can see my tutorials for leopard and zebra print here and I have one on the way for the tiger print :)  The giraffe print is one of the water decals from Born Pretty Store that I reviewed here.

What are your plans for the weekend? :)

Nail Night

Happy Sunday lovely people.

As I said yesterday, last night I went to my auntie's house and drank lots of wine, ate lots of nibbles and painted some nails :)

Here are photos of everyone's nails - sorry they're not great quality, they're all taken with a flash.

These are my auntie's nails; she wanted a purple leopard print design :)

My mum was feeling a little indecisive, but eventually settled on a recreation of my rose nail art.

My little sister got no say in what she had, other than choosing the colours.  She was also the last person's nails I painted, and therefore I'd consumed the most wine by this point...

 From thumb to little finger, I did zebra print, leopard print, a lightning bolt, glitter and what's supposed to be a gradient...  This is the first time I've tried doing leopard print with a dotting tool - sooo much easier with a nail art pen!

If you want to know what any of the particular polishes are, just ask in the comments.  Also, I'm thinking of doing a few photo tutorials, including ones for the leopard and rose print.  Let me know if this is something you'd be interested in seeing!