Breakfast at Tiffany's inspired nail art :)

To go with my Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly outfit, I was unfortunately unable to find a pair of long black gloves in time, so instead decided to paint my nails with a design inspired by the film - as seen above!

To do this I used a white, turquoise and black nail polishes and gemstones.

I started using a clear base coat to protect my nails and give the lower section a shine. I started at the top with the black nail polish at the tip. To get the line I placed a piece of sellotape across the nail to the point I wanted to paint. Once painted I removed the sellotape leaving a straight edge.

Next came the turquoise stripe. To do this, as I don't yet have a nail art brush, I used the end of a bobby pin, stretched out to full length. I then dipped the tip in the nail polish and used this to dot a line across, underneath the black stripe. I repeated this process for the white stripe, and then coated the whole nail with a clear top coat.

I also decided to place a silver gemstone on each thumb nail to give it a bit more glitz, as Holly Golightly very much is :) I placed this on top of the wet top coat and once dried in place coated with a another layer of top coat to ensure fixed in place.

I love the results! What do you think? :)

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So recently I have really got into doing nail art. I love accessorising my outfits and to me your nails can be a further accessory to any outfit.

Here are a couple of my recent designs, what do you think? J

Pink with daisy 

           

I used classic coral pink for the main colour and then using the yellow added a small yellow circle in the middle of the thumb nail. I don’t own a proper nail art brush so I made one using the brush of an old nail varnish I was throwing away. I then trimmed off half of the bristles at the base of the brush to make it thinner. Using this nail art brush I painted the petals using two rounded strokes for each. I then repeated the yellow circle for the centre to make it more prominent. Once dried, I applied a top coat to protect the design.

Stripy Candy nails 

             

I used a bright pink, green, violet, bright yellow, royal blue and white for the stripes. After applying two layers of colour to each nail I then used my homemade nail art brush to draw three fine lines vertically up the nail from top to bottom starting with the middle one.  What do you think of the colour combination? I also did this design using the violet as base and a sparkly purple for the stripes for a cheerleading performance – our squad colours are purple, silver black J

Rainbow dots 

                   

These are definitely the most creative I’ve done yet.  I saw a similarly design online and decided to try it out for myself. I used white for the base to make the rainbow colours stand out more. To do the dots I used the tip if nail art brush, making sure there wasn't too much on it so the dots would be a nice size. A steady hand is certainly needed and concentration. I started in the lower left corner of the nail with the violet varnish doing just one dot. Then I used the royal blue placing two dots in a diagonal line above the violet, and so on, next with green, yellow, orange, pink and finally red. The amounts of dots on each line does depend on the width of you nail. I always start with the nail on my little finger when doing any nail art to minimise any smudging when doing the other nails. 
Have to say this is definitely one of my favourite designs, go with any outfit and adds a 'pop' of colour :)

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