Learning New Things!

Hello everyone!  Yet again it's been quite a while since I wrote a new post here *slaps wrist*  So what have I been up to?   If you've been following me on Facebook you'll see most up to date pics there!  Yesterday we started doing sculpted gels!  It was actually really good fun and I'm looking forward to trying it with acrylic too.

These were my first 3 tries and I did ok!  Practice makes perfect right?

I attended a ladies night at my local Golf club to do some nail art.  I had loads of interest which was great and manged to fit in quite a few people on the night.   Those pics can all be found on my Facebook also.  The lightning wasn't that great combined with my rubbish camera phone but you can still get an idea of what I did!

I did a set of french acrylic on a hairdresser at the college and ended up adding some nail art!

Cute right? :)  There is silver zebra striped lines over the french tip which might be hard to see in the pic.

I also had my mum come in to college to help me pass my gel marble assessment.

Here is the result and then the nails when I removed it the following week.  If hard gel is removed correctly there is no harm done to the nails underneath!  I have been trying to marble with nail polish, which you can do, but it's more fiddly and I'm not getting exactly what I want!  I've done water marbles in the past too but I have to be in the mood to get messy when I do those!

This is the design I was wearing for the past week.  It was really fun and got loads of compliments!  I had those little diamonds for years (so many infact that I could not tell you where I got them from!) and I wanted to use them in a design somehow so this is what I came up with!


I have been shopping at banggood again so lots of goodies arrived!  Part 1 of the haul is up and I am just finishing rendering part 2 which I think will be posted on Saturday.

These glitters are SO amazing!  I just love the prices on there too.
Also in the shopping theme.....

Yep!  Matching new zebra trolley and brush case!  So excited to finally have these.  I have the trolley nicely packed with my art goodies now :)  I also did a video on it showing it off for those curious about getting one themselves.

In terms of other nail related videos I've posted since my last blog, check these out!

A mini haul from Claire's Accessories

Some funky black and white nails!

A striping tape star tutorial!

*phew*  Think thats the videos caught up now!  I had good fun creating this next nail art which I was inspired by an eeyore tshirt!

Cure right?!  You know, sometimes I think before I start writing out these blogs that I don't have much to talk about.  Then I  go through all my facebook pictures and realise I actually have far too much to talk about!!  I am going to end it here for now, thanks for reading if you got this far!  
Until next time~

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It's February already?!

Where does the time go to so fast?  Here we are into February already!  Soon enough it will be June and I will be fully qualified!  So I have been doing a few assessments recently trying to work my way through what I need to cover for my portfolio.  Yesterday I did this set of acrylics on a nail biter so it was a technique called a dropped smile line.

 I also added some art to the ring fingers.  I painted 4 lines coming from the side of the nail, then a series of dots and to complete it; a silver rhinestone :)

I was playing around with some acrylic colours too trying to find a nice pair to make a blended set and I think I found a winner!  These are NSI It's a boy! and Lilac and I think they go really well together!  I'm looking for someone to come in and have a full set of these done for another assessment :)

This was an acrylic overlay and then painted french finish on top.  The client has weak nails but wanted to avoid having tips on so we did the overlay instead.  I actually still have an acrylic overlay on my thumb which has been holding together a split I got at the side weeks ago that was halfway down my nail.  My nails grow so slowly it's gonna be a few weeks yet until I can stop wearing the acrylic!

 
I was playing around with some gel last week and came up with these designs.  Top down we have: 3 colour marble with painted design, two tone glitter with painted design and rhinestone and lastly 3 colour drag marble.  I'm using the middle one as one of my three designs for a college project.  My main design is going to be masquerade though!  I'm on hold working on that for now as I ordered some items from Banggood that I want to use so can't really do anything until that arrives!

These polishes were a good find!  I always check out the polish selection in the local Poundland (UK shop for those reading my blog outwith) and this is the first time I've seen them stock Sinful Colors.  There was a few different colours but I had to behave and not go too crazy so I walked away with these two and then had to make a design with them!

Everytime I come to update this blog I realise how far behind I have fallen!  I find a zillion things on my facebook I haven't yet shared here and takes me longer than I expect to update!  Video wise I have these for you guys:

This is a small haul of some items I got from Sally's and ebay.  As mentioned earlier there will be another haul soon when I get my banggood items and I also am going to film a quick haul I got at Claire's!

This is my Rita Ora vid that I had shown you a picture of in my last blog!  It turned out really good and I got told it was a perfect recreation!  I am looking for more celeb art to copy but it's very hard finding decent pictures.  I have also recorded a Rihanna one (you can see the design in that haul video above).

More videos?!  How  do I get so far behind?!  I'm really bad at this stuff!  This was my funky bright, in your face, leopard print design!  The camera doesn't do the colours justice, they are sooooooo bright!

Last one I promise!  Here is a valentines design for you guys!  I LOVED wearing this!  So much so I almost considered keeping it on for a second week but then I ended up doing something else :)

Thanks for reading/following/supporting me!  My youtube channel just passed 400 subscribers and I am so happy and thankful to each of you who are supporting and enjoying my work!  I try to update this blog as best as I can weekly but I seem to be averaging 10-14 days xD.  For more regular updates on my work you might wanna consider checking me out on instagram, twitter or facebook as I post my work as I do it on there.

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