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    Short Circuit

    I did these nails a little while ago when I was desperate to wear my favourite purple, China Glaze Cowgirl Up, and mattify it. To spice up the manicure a little, I added some stamping using A-England’s Excalibur Renaissance with Bundle Monster Plate BM415.

    Bit of a tangent but I feel compelled to mention that circuit is one of those words that doesn’t look like it should be a word (although I know this often comes down to opinion). A freak-of-language combination of letters that just isn’t very pleasing to the eye. I wonder how it came to be that circuit would be pronounced ser-kit? The mind boggles. Well, my mind at least!

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    Sorbet Stripes

    I wanted to do something fun and flirty today so I picked out a few sorbet colours, grabbed the gold striping tape and set about creating this banded nail art. The striping tape is holding up well so far – no peeling but there has been a bit of colour leakage! The gold seems to have seeped out of a few pieces leaving me with silver but that’s not so bad.
    I recently purchased the Straight Stencils from She Sells Seashells which save me so much time that used to be spent fussing around cutting scotch tape in to thin strips whenever I did a manicure like this with lots of straight lines!

    1. For this nail art, I used a base coat of Nicole by OPI At Least I Pink So on all nails followed by a thin coat of Glisten & Glow HK Girl.
    2. I waited 10 minutes for it to dry completely.
    3. Next, I placed some straight vinyl stencils randomly over my nails and filled in some of the gaps with NYC Peach Popsicles and Sally Hansen Lady Lavender. I removed the vinyls as soon as I was done painting on each nail.
    4. Once everything was mostly dry, I applied the striping tape using nail art tweezers. Instead of trying to guess how long my strips should be, I made sure each strip was too long and then trimmed each edge with cuticle nippers once it was already placed on my nail.
    5. Finally, I used two coats of Glisten & Glow HK Girl to smooth it all over.
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    Much More Muted

    OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts with Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    I’ve been in full on Summer mode this weekend – waking up with the sun, filling the freezer with ice cubes and, get this, wearing flip-flops! With one thing or another, it’s been almost a week since I painted my nails and when I finally sat down today, I had it in my head that I must use summery colours. I tried brights, I tried pastels but nothing stuck. In the end I opened up a drawer, pulled out the first two polishes that I fancied and it turns out that my heart was singing for much more muted tones. The resulting nail art is nothing special, just a strange mix and match but I’m happy with it for today!
    OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts with Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    The polishes here are OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts and Revlon Cloud
    I topped a few nails with Seventeen Off The Wall,  black and white glitter topper.
    The Anchor is from She Sells Seashells it’s all topped off with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.
    OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts with Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts with Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts with Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
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    Cobalt is the Colour

    Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    I’ve had this colour combination stuck in my head for a while now but I just couldn’t figure out what to do with it. Finally I sat down, got the striping tape out and came up with this simple geometric design. I’m so glad the colours match as well as I thought they would. I was worried there wouldn’t be enough of a contrast to see any details as they’re both very strong colours but luckily there’s just the right amount of complimenting and contrasting going on here.
    Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    For this nail art, I use NYC Lavender Blossom as my base colour.
    I applied striping tape in a cross at the base of my nails and filled in the triangles using a nail art brush and NYC Hudson Breeze, the most perfect cobalt blue ever!
    The glitter on my ring finger is Spell Polish Mr Spade. If you haven’t heard of Spell Polish before, don’t worry, you’ll hear a lot about them soon. Their glitter polishes are amaaazing!
    It’s all topped off with a coat of HK Girl.

    Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
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    Nice But Naughty

    Pastel Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    I was jonesing for a pastel mani today but I didn’t want to get too girly with it. As the title suggests, I went for something nice and sweet but equally naughty at the same time. I remembered this Hex nail charm and knew it would be perfect to add a touch of class badass to my nails.
    Pastel Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    The base colour for the nail charm is Barry M Heather and the Fuck You charm is from Hex Nail Jewelry.

    For the negative space cross on my ring finger, I used Striping Tape to mark off the cross on my bare nail, then painted over it with Maybelline Ceramic Blue.

    The colour block nails are a base of Delush Make Me Blush. I applied a thin coat of HK Girl and waited ten minutes for it to dry. Next I placed a strip of scotch tape over the top portion of my nail and painted over it with Sally Hansen Green Tea. Finally for those nails, I added a thin white line using the White Liner Polish from Born Pretty Store.

    The pink glitter is Sally Hansen Razzle Dazzler.

    It’s all topped off with two coats of HK Girl.

    Pastel Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    Pastel Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
    Pastel Geometric Nail Art | The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
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    Sorbet Chevron Nail Art

    UK Nail Art Blog | Sorbet Colour Chevron Nail Art
    Today’s nail art was inspired by a tablet case that I got for my birthday last month. My friends, knowing all about my love for Chevrons, picked it out knowing that it would make some great nail art inspiration! They were absolutely right, it’s so me!

    UK Nail Art Blog | Sorbet Colour Chevron Nail Art
    For the nail art, I started out by painting on a base of Barry M White and topping it with a thin coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.

    I used the Chevron Minis from Nail Vinyls to mark off the chevron sections and individually painted on each colour using a nail art brush. The colours I used for the Chevrons are Rimmel Heart on Fire, Barry M Bright Purple, Sally Hansen Back to the Fuschia, Essie Fear and Desire and Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens.

    The holographic polish on my accent fingers is Different Dimension Lucky and I added a few 1.5mm white studs.
    It’s all topped off with another coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.
    UK Nail Art Blog | The Nailasaurus | Sorbet Colour Chevron Nail Art
    UK Nail Art Blog | The Nailasaurus | Sorbet Colour Chevron Nail Art
    UK Nail Art Blog | The Nailasaurus | Sorbet Colour Chevron Nail Art
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