'Arry Potter!

Hey gang!

Looks like I'm back to posting for a while!
I've had these stored up for a while, about 3 weeks I think and I'm very excited to show them!

As a wonderful three year anniversary present from my boyfriend, I got tickets to go to the Warner Bros tour of the Harry Potter sets in Watford. Now, I am a COMPLETE Harry Potter geek and was so super excited to go to this as I had been wanting to go for ages!
To celebrate the occasion I decided to do some Harry Potter themed nails for the trip, now I don't know if anyone has ever googled 'Harry potter nails' or something along those lines, but there is some seriously impressive stuff out there! I feel like the nails I did are a bit bland in comparison but I did only have limited time in which to do them (... yeah, yeah any excuse!).

Indoors, natural light.

Indoors, sunlight.

For these I did three coats of OPI's Alpine Snow.  Being a white it was surprisingly unstreaky upon application, although it did take 3 coats to get to full opacity with no bald patches!
I think used my Model's Own black nail art pen to do the H and P from the DVD covers and the deathly hallows sign on my index finger.
On my little finger I used an old sally hansen polish I found that was silver before taping off a strip and painting over with China Glaze - first mate, a smooth navy blue polish. This finger was meant to represent the Ravenclaw flag, since that's the house that I was sorted into on Pottermore (what did I tell you?! I am a geek...).
Sadly I found that the addition of my NYC quick dry topcoat did a great job of smearing the black everywhere even though it was completely dry, which is such a huge shame! On my other hand I left out the topcoat and I think it looked better that way as there was no smudging.

Coming up over the next few weeks are a few neons from China Glaze and some blood splatter style mani's!
Stay tuned!

Long time..

Hi guys!
I really feel like I need to apologise for how long it's been since my last post... I've been sitting my final year exams over the last few months and so haven't even thought about blogging! Although I did still do my nails pretty often...!
However, I have now finished uni completely (how OLD do I feel right now?!) and managed to wind down and rest up a bit after all the stress. I even have a back log of cool nail art to say sorry! :D

Let's start with this shall we? Today it's the diamond jubilee of the Queen here in England - that's 60 years on the throne! 60! And since we get two bank holidays (whoopee!) I though i'd celebrate the monarchy on my nails!
These are pretty awesome and I'm genuinely so proud of myself! Over the last few months I have been getting much better at intricate designs, both with my nail art pen and a paintbrush. I've also had a huge improvement when painting my right hand with my left - this totally shows that practice really does make perfect :)

I spent Friday night drawing out designs on a piece of paper until I knew what I wanted on each nail. I then painted the base colours on each nail and today did all the extra work and layers that I needed!

I am a little disappointed however, as I was just finishing these off I checked my blogger roll and saw that Sammy from The Nailasaurus had done jubilee nails that were very similar to my designs i'd drawn up! There I was thinking I was being all original...! It doesn't matter though, I'm still very proud of my execution and to be honest seeing Sammy's was a great help as I had no idea how to get the crown right!

Anyway the colours I used were:
Little finger: Model's Own - Pink Fizz
Ring finger and thumb: OPI - Alpine Snow, Barry M - Cobalt blue and Illamasqua - Throb
Middle finger: Barry M - Cobalt blue
Index finger - Illamasqua - Throb, Colour club - Worth the Risque, China Glaze - Nova and my Model's own/Wah nail art pen.

I used clear tape to mark out the diamond on my ring finger and gold and purple bullion from ebay stuck to wet polish for the crown.

Well that's all for now! I'm gonna go rock these at a few celebratory barbecues over the weekend :)