Stamped Bird Manicures

Hello!

I've been lacking in inspiration a little recently, so I went back to some of my favourite manicure ideas and recreated them! These three all involve birds - a Bird & Lace mani, a Birdcage mani, and a Bird & Glitter mani. They all use Moyou's Kitty 11 stamping plate, plus plate Tourist 07 for the lace xx

I'm thinking of recreating an antique butterfly mani next!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Charlies Nail Art Manicures

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Charlies Nail Art is the UK website that I use to buy things like water decals, rhinestones and charms for my nails! They're a really lovely company so I'm more than happy to show my support for them, and in return I have a discount code especially for my readers: GNAF10 xx

This post is a collection of manicures done using bits and pieces I've bought from Charlie's. Do let me know if you check them out! ^_^

1. Strawberry Manicure! This is the mani I'm wearing right now and it's cheering me up a lot with its bright colours. They are full cover water decals.

2. Bunny Manicure! I applied rabbit water decals over Models Own Utopia, with a golden accent nail of Models Own Chrome Olive.

3. Dried Flower Manicure! I started with a delicate sheer purple base of OPI's Care To Danse, then applied two mauve dried flowers. I added two layers of top coat to make them look like they were under glass.

4. Boudoir Manicure! I painted my index, pinky and thumbs in pastels, then used my MoYou Flower Power plate and stamping mat to create dark floral stamping decals for my middle nails. I finished the mani with a sinle rhinestone and a perfume bottle nail charm.

5. Beach Manicure! These are also full-cover water decals, creating a bejewelled seashore across my nails ^_^

I hope you like my manis; I had lots of fun making them xx

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Essie Bling Manicure

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For this manicure I decided to pair a classic French manicure with an ultra-sparkly accent nail. My polishes of choice were two Essies - the sheer Mademoiselle and the chrome-purple glitter Stroke of Brilliance.

One of the best nail polish "cheats" I've learnt is how to turn a top coat glitter into a full-coverage glitter bomb! All you do is paint the polish onto a washing-up sponge and then dab it onto your nails. The sponge soaks up the excess base, so on your nails you end up with all the glitter and not a thick mess!

So, I used this technique on my ring fingernail as an accent and applied two coats of top coat for a smooth finish. I would recommend using a peel-off base coat if you're doing this on more than a couple of nails, removal is tricky! I used French tip guide stickers and a plain white polish to do a French mani on the rest of my nails. Here is the result...

I hope you like it! I loved seeing the hit of sparkle ^_^

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Dozy Owl Manicure!

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In my water decal collection I have a few sheets of YRNails owls that always look cute on short nails! I chose the purple dozy owls since I'm a dozy sleepy Lisa, and I applied them over Barry M Cotton.

 I bought the decals from YRNails here ^_^

Zzzzzzz...

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Star Trek Uniform Manicure

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Sorry for being so quiet on my blog ~ I have lots of pictures of my nails up on Instagram but I've been too tired to keep up the full written posts. That said, I'm trying out designs on my newly short nails and wanted to show you this one!

I love Star Trek so I've done a half-moon manicure with glossy black and metallic colours representing the uniforms. My black is from Xtras and my colours are all Models Own Colour Chromes: Red, Olive, Turquoise and Grey. I used page reinforcer stationery stickers to create the curves.

I also added a MoYou Hand Tattoo for a technological finish to my mani!

I hope you like it!

Hugs,

Lisa xx