The Lacquer Legion: Reinvention

Hi everyone, 
I've decided to take part in the challenge organised by the Lacquer Legion (click here to find out more). It was created by Sarah (Chalkboard Nails), Sammy (The Nailasaurus), Rebecca (Rebecca Likes Nails) and Leslie (Work/Play/Polish). 
The idea is that once a month, they will give a prompt, and on the chosen day everyone will post their interpretations of the prompt.

I personally think this is a great idea as it is a less intense way of doing a nail art challenge, which isn't continuous like the 31 Day Challenge.

This months theme is Reinvention. This was a pretty hard prompt, but I had a rough idea of what I wanted to do, here's what I came up with:

Freehand Butterflies

Hi everyone,

So after wearing the metallic gradient on my nails for a couple of days (read the post here) I couldn't resist adding some nail art to them! I haven't had a chance to use any of my new nail polishes from Christmas yet, so I thought this would be a great opportunity.

I decided to do some freehand nail art using my new stripers, 

here's what I came up with:

I used Models Own Magenta Pearl, Models Own Purple Pearl and No7 Sing the Blues for the gradient.

For the Butterflies I used LA Colors Art Deco Striper in White, LA Colors Art Deco Striper in Purple/Blue Glitter and LA Colors Art Deco Striper in Rainbow Glitter.

Dreamcatcher Nails

Hi everyone,

Today I decided to do dreamcatcher nails. I've seen these nails all over the internet, but kept on putting off trying to do them because I didn't think I would be able to. I eventually decided to do them, here's my design:

I used Models Own Apple Pie, Revlon Gold Coin, W7 Cosmic Mauve and Avon Nailwear Pro+ in Licorice.

Wedding Day Nails

Hi everyone,

So today, we have the nails I did for my cousins actual wedding day. I think these nails are my favourite out of all of the ones I did, here they are:

I used Rimmel Brit Manicure Nail Tip Colour in Porcelain, Avon Nailwear Pro+ in Licorice, Rimmel I Heart Lasting Finish in Your Majesty and  Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper in Purple.

Freehand Stripes

Hi everyone,

So today I thought I'd attempt freehand stripes. I've been putting this off for a while now, as I didn't think they'd turn out that well. Here's my design:

I used NYC Ink Stain, Models Own Nail Art Pen in White, Models Own Nail Art Pen in Pastel Green.

Prom Nails

Hi everyone,

So last week one of my best friends, Emily, went to her boyfriend's Prom, and asked me to do her nails for it. Here's what I came up with:

I used Rimmel Brit Manicure Nail Tip Colour in White, Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black, Revlon Gold Coin and a unnamed navy colour.

This was a great opportunity for me to practice my french manicure skills, and I think it went pretty well. It also gave me a chance to use my new nail art jewels! They were really easy to apply, but I would recommend using tweezers to position them as it is a bit finicky.

What do you think?

Jayna 

:)

French Manicure with Flowers

Hi everyone,

First of all sorry for the boring post title - I wasn't sure what to call this design! If you have any suggestions please let me know in the comments.

So, last weekend I went a wedding and so obviously I decided to match my nails to my outfit! My outfit was a pink sari with gold embroidery, so I came up with this design:

I used Rimmel Brit Manicure Nail Tip Colour in Porcelain, Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black, No7 Jammy and Revlon Gold Coin.

Explosions!

Hi everyone,
For today's nails I decided to use a metallic nail polish for the base. Whenever I go past nail salons I see all of these amazing freehand nail art designs and I always want to try and replicate them. However, whenever I search for them on the internet I can never find them, as most of the nail art at the moment has a creme base.

So I decided to incorporate this with this months colour: purple.  I have always loved freehand nail art, and decided to create one myself, I have done a couple before (see here and here) but this time I wanted to try something a little different. Here is my design:

Pretty Little Flowers

Hi everyone,

Today I thought I'd take a break from creme nail polishes and go back to metallic nail polish!

When I was little I never had creme nail polish, I always had metallic colours, it was only when I got into nail art that I started to use creme polish!

For my design today I decided to do little flowers on the side, so that I could see more of the metallic colour. The flowers are similar to the ones I did on my french manicure design before. (See the post here).

I used Models Own Purple Pearl, Max Factor max colour effects mini Fantasy Fire, No7 Nail Art Pen in  Black and No7 Nail Art Pen in Silver.

French Manicure with a twist!

This has to be my favourite nail art design I have ever done.

I came up with the design myself after getting bored with constantly having a plain french manicure on my nails.

I used Rimmel Nail Tip Whitener, Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black, Models Own Nail Art Pen in White and LA Colors Art Deco Teal Glitter.

:)