Rose Floral Nail Art | Barry M Black Multi Glitter

I'm quite excited about today's post because it's my first proper attempt at freehand painting on my nails with acrylic paints! I really fancied some black nails yesterday (because it's totally normal to get colour cravings, right?) but decided to go all out after spotting my floral scarf hung up neatly on the floor.

I'll be honest with you, I really just winged this. I didn't use a reference other than my scarf.. which I ignored anyway. I've taken step by step photos so I might post a tutorial later on this week. But this honestly was just a case of dab paint around, swirl it a bit and hope for the best!

I used Barry M - Black Multi Glitter as a base coat which applies like a dream. I was a little disappointed that the glitter doesn't show through very well, but none the less it's a pretty polish.

Now on with the photos!

I had to post a picture with the scarf in the background! £4 from Primark if you're wondering ;)

And here's a close up of the Barry M polish.. It literally looks like the galaxy in a bottle!

So there we go! I wont mention that these took two hours last night, and only two minutes in to my shift at work to chip.. But hey ho, an excuse for more nail art tonight! Is this something you'd like to see more of? Let me know in the comments, any requests always welcome :)

Becky x

33 Day Challenge: Chinese

Dàjiā hǎo, Hello everyone!

So i'm getting better at posting these challenges on time! The past couple of weeks have been spent training up in my store to become a key holder, so needless to say i've been a pretty busy bee. However i had my interview today and i'm happy to say i passed! So i should hopefully have more time to do my nails from now on.. hooray!

Anyway less chat, more challenge! Today's theme was Chinese and i immediately knew i wanted to do cherry blossom nails. It's obviously not an original idea but they look so pretty and i'd yet to try them out so thought why not! To achieve this look i used a beige Claire's Accessories base (2 coats), a beige/gold shimmer polish; again from Claire's and Seche Vite to seal. For the branches i used Barry M Black Nail Art Pen and a red polish for the petals from, you guessed it, Claire's Accessories. (Can you tell i own pretty much every colour from my work lol?)

So here are the pics!

Tadaa! Hopefully you like them, and if you'd like to create them yourself then i've put together a little tutorial below!

That's it for today, hopefully will post tomorrow otherwise it'll be on Wednesday for the next 33DC post!

Becky x

33 Day Challenge: Flowers

Hello there!

So today's challenge is flowers. For those of you who don't know me, i'm not a big girly girl. It's only in the past few months that i've broken out of my comfort zone of black clothes, hair up in a pony tail and no accessories. Whether it's my job (Claire's Accessories), my partners influence or just me branching out on my own but i've started injecting colour and *gasp* jewellery and actual hair styling in to my life. Now that being said, seeing the theme 'flowers' still really didn't excite me. Truth me told i was pretty stumped on this one. I'm not overly happy with the finished result but hopefully you'll like it more than i do!

I used quite a few polishes to create this look, and i really can't remember all of the names! Most of them were old bottles from Claire's (what a surprise!), i used my black Barry M nail art pen for the outlines and the base coat is by Sally Hansen.. but i'll talk more about that in my £1 Wednesday post in a couple of days.

On with the pics! If you can't tell (and i wouldn't blame you if you couldn't) i was aiming for bouquets of flowers. Heh.

And here's a weird little GIF thingy showing you the steps..

Anyway let's move on from this less than impressive mani.. i'm looking forward to Wednesday's challenge which is 3D!
Becky x