26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pastel Christmas

6th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this week is Pastel Christmas.

I did this manicure a week before the last challenge here.  This was going to be Christmas Preparations, then I read that the next one was Pastel!  So I saved this for now :)

I loved how this turned out, love all the snowflake decals on the nails, so very christmassy, don't you think.

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Christmas Preparations

5th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The challenge this week is Christmas Preparations.

I think of wrapping presents while it snows outside (not that it snows an awful lot here in the UK at this time of year).  But that is my theme for this challenge.

I used one coat of OPI and then on top a coat of the Color Club glitter.  For the ring finger I painted on a bow for the present and used the Milani glitter on the white.  For the index finger I used snowflake decals and voila...

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Winter warmth

4th manicure of the 26 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Challenge this week is winter warmth.

I was stuck on this one - so just did plain gradient warm nails.

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Black Base - Marble Nails

Challenge number 3 of 26 Great Nail Art Idea's (done every fortnight) this week the theme is - Black Base.

I have seen many many marble nails recently and so decided to do some for this challenge.  For the ring accent however I did a white base.  It still counts, right? :)  Anyway I painted on the black and white nail lacquer and did the marble effect with watered down acrylic paints.  I then used the silver for a little accent.

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Halloween In The Wrong Colours

Challenge number 2 - Halloween In The Wrong Colours.

This was hard to think of in terms of colours, as most colours can be used for Halloween, green, orange, blue, black, white, red and purple! The only one I could think of was pink not really Halloweeny :)

So here is my sparkly, blingy pink Halloween manicure. I think simple but effective?

For the silver nails I used an Orly silver as a base then put the LA Girl glitter on top.

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Blue and Silver

The 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge finished a few weeks ago.  It was so much fun doing that, a new nail art every week, and I managed to finish it too.

A New challenge starts this week.  Instead of 52 GNAI's, its been cut down to 26 GNAI's, to be done every fortnight.

The first challenge is Blue and Silver.

Mine was simple enough, but I just could not get the two accent nails right.  It took me two tries and over an hour to do!!

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Earth Tones - Nude Base

The last manicure for this challenge! YAY I have managed to complete it.

Week 52 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

Challenge this week is Earth Tones and my personal pattern prompt of Nude Base

I can't believe a whole year has passed by.  Although this has been challenging at times, I am so proud and pleased to have taken part.  A big thanks goes to Debbie of Crumpets Tarts for organising this for us.

I did a saran wrap manicure with earth tone colours and for extra bling I added some studs.

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Autumn - Saran Wrap

The penultimate manicure for this challenge!

Week 51 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

One  more weeks to go ......

Challenge this week is Autumn.

I did a saran wrap manicure with autumn colours.

I did a base of Elf Mango Madness to start with and then on top of that I added a coat of CG Fire love.  When this was dry, I painted on a coat of SH Haute Chocolate and with a rolled up piece of saran wrap, sponged off some of the colour to bring out the orange base.  On some nails this method took off too much top colour, so I went back and added the brown on the saran wrap and sponged it back on ... and voila.

Simple but effective.

 

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