Nails: World Diabetes Day 2020

Dark Holo Polish | A England - Spirit of the Moors

Light Holo Polish | Moyra - Aquarius 254

Cream Polish | Barry M - Damson

Black Acrylic Paint

White Acrylic Paint

Sharpie

Striping Brush

000 Brush

  

26 Great Nail Art Ideas: Insects or Bugs

Red | ELF - Light Red
Matte | Barry M - Matte Top Coat

Black Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint
Striping Brush
Dotting Tool

Halloween Nails: Beetlejuice

After I did the skull nails the stripes really screamed out Beetlejuice to me so I had to do these nails.

Polishes Used:
Essie - Licorice
Barry M - Cotton
Top Coat: Glisten and Glow - HK Girl

Black Acrylic Paint
Green Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint
Striping Tape
000 Paint Brush
0.2mm Sharpie

Halloween Nails: Dusk Graveyard

Base Polishes:
Kiko - Violet Micro Glitter 255
Sally Hansen - Carnivale 843
Color Club - Almost Famous

Stamping Polish: MoYou - Special Nail Polish - Black

Stamping Plates:
MoYou London - Gothic Collection 01
MoYou London - Gothic Collection 04

White Acrylic Paint
000 Paint Brush

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Things in Water

This week I decided to do mermaid inspired nails for things under water prompt.

Base Polishes:
Kiko - Pearly Ocean 521
Leighton Denny - Leading Lady
Sinful Colors - Verbena
Stamping Polish: MoYou - Special Nail Polish - White
Stamping Plate: MoYou 128

White Acrylic Paint
Black Acrylic Paint
Paint Brush 000

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Music

I had a one-way ticket to a place where all the demons go

Where the wind don't change
And nothing in the ground can ever grow
No hope, just lies
And you're taught to cry into your pillow
But I survived

- Sia

Essie - Fiji
Champneys - Nude

Black Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint

Sharpie

Halloween Nails: Haunted House

Eyeko - Cosmic Polish
Max Factor - Odessy Blue
Ciate - Big Yellow Taxi

Black Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint
00 Paint Brush

Nails: Acrylic Paint - Why I Use It

While I use a lot of nail polishes in my nail art I also really like to use acrylic paints.

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I use them for a couple of reasons:

- You can mix custom colours, so I don't need to have a million polishes
- Acrylic paint dries slower than polish, which means you have longer to do your designs and it doesn't go thick, gloopy and stringy

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- If you mess up it is easy to wipe off with some water and start again, without messing the base polish
- The pigmentation of the paint is good so you don't need to go over and over the same area

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- The acrylic is thinner than normal polish and because of this you can achieve thinner more delicate lines and details

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The acrylic paints that I use are from Wilkinsons, I first got this set of twelve paints

I quickly went through the black and white paints and so have purchased these ones which have 75ml in each bottle compared to the 12ml in the mini tubes.

The assorted pack of paints (12ml x12) was around £2
The individual bottles (75ml) were around £1 and the metallic paints are around £1.25

31 Day Challenge: Complement and Contrast

Polishes Used:
A England - Ophelia
A England - Jane Eyre

White Acrylic Paint
Striping Brush

GOT: Lime

These watermelon nails were inspired by the Nailasaurus.

ELF - Gum Pink
Color Club - Twiggie

Acrylic Paints