26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Dotting tools, not just dots!

Oh my word...this has got to be one of the worst manis I have done haha! Today's prompt for 26 Great Nail Art Ideas was dotting tools, not just dots! I don't like dotting tools as I don't really use them for actual nail art. They are great for picking up things like studs etc but for actually nail art...not for me.

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - The end of summer

Oh..mmm.geee it's finally Friday! My work colleague has been off this week and it's been soooo lonely sat on our desk on my own lol so I am glad this week is over! Today's post is another 26 Great Nail Art Ideas and this theme was a bit random...The end of summer.  I like posts like these as they are totally down to your interpretation. So off to Google I went to get some ideas and came across a gorgeous picture that I based my mani on!

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Colour Explosion

Happy Friday guys and welcome to another 26 Great Nail Art Ideas! Today's prompt is colour explosion. I'm not really sure this can be classed as a colour "explosion" but my thought behind it was to use a pastel base and then add some neon stamping!

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Sunshine

Today's post is a hard one to write but I feel I need to do it. This week's 26 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge is Sunshine and I had this idea right from the start around a year ago when the themes were first announced. My Gran and Gar always called me their Sunshine, mainly my Gran, and she would sing this song to me when I was little. I even have an Elephant teddy that used to hum the tune. I wore it out so much my Gar fixed it a few times it but it broke a long time ago. This Monday he passed away unexpectedly and we are all so heartbroken.

26 GNAI - Beach

Happy Friday everyone! I have another instalment of 26 Great Nail Art Ideas and this week we had a choice of two themes. Beach or Animal Silhouettes. I have been looking the Uber Chic Vacation Mode plate so I had to choose Beach!

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Water

Hey guys. Hope you've had a good week. It was my first week back at work after a week off and it was ok lol back to the grind stone eh?! This week's 26 GNAI was water so I attempted to try watermarbling again...with a twist!

26 GNAI - Yellow and one bold colour

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Hey guys. Hope you are all well today. Today's 26 Great Nail Art Ideas is all about that yellow, and a bold colour. I actually used the yellow as my bold colour I guess as this neon is so damn bright! Then I stamped in black which is also a bold colour right?!

26 GNAI - Work appropriate nail art

When it comes to my nails and work I am very lucky as I can do what I want. Heck.. this week I had one polish on the fingers of my swatch hand, a nail art design on my thumb and then a different colour on my Cindy! It's safe to say I have freedom when it comes to my nails at work but some people aren't that lucky. So for today's 26 GNAI the theme is work appropriate nail art.

26 GNAI - Pastel to Bold with something on top

Wooo it's Easter Friday and that means I've had the day off work and chocolate lol! I hope you've had a great day and are looking forward to the nice long weekend. I have a new mani today as part of 26 Great Nail Art Ideas and the theme was pastel to bold with something on top. I don't actually have neons that would have been suitable for the pastels I wanted to use so I kept it simple with similar colours. 

26 GNAI - Spring Animals

Don't you think that we sometimes take ourselves too serious?! So with that in mind I wanted to do some silly nail art with this week's 26 Great Nail Ideas prompt, Spring Animals. I did a fluffy chicken and a very questionable sheep lol!

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Mixed Tape Mani

Happy Friday guys!! How quick has this week gone?! I was quite excited to share today's post with you as it's something a bit different. The prompt for this weeks 26 Great Nail Art Ideas is Mixed Tape Mani. If you're like me you probably would have thought of nail vinyls and striping tape but my lovely friend Kirsty of Fairytales Nails thought of a mix tape! You know...like the old cassette tapes we used to listen to music on back when we were kids! We decided to do a triplet mani and each do the same nail design. Unfortunately Becca, from A Certain Becca Nails, and myself didn't have any stamping plates with tapes on them :(

So we went with plan B!! 

26 GNAI- New Year, new me.

So excited to show you my mani for New Year, new me as it's my first successful drag marble!! Yaay go me! I was so happy with this, especially my ring finger. I've tried to do it a few times before but could just never get it right.

26 GNAI-Pastel Christmas

So it's Christmas Eve tomorrow...are you prepared?! All my presents were wrapped up last weekend, I can't be doing with all the last minute rush! It's my last 26 Great Nail Art Ideas of 2016 today and we're ending it with something fun...Pastel Christmas!

  

26 GNAI - Christmas Preparations

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Today's prompt for Christmas Preparations was another random one! I just instantly thought of decorating the tree and wrapping all the presents. So that's what I went with :) and I even got two of my lovely nail friends on Instagram involved on this one. Keep reading to see all our manis together.

26 GNAI - Winter Warmth

I have another post today from 26 Great Nail Art Ideas and this week it's Winter Warmth! I had loads of ideas in my head about doing a lovely scene by the fire getting all cosy and warm for winter...but I stuck with a plain Christmas jumper design. I just didn't have the time to try anything more ambitious than this lol.

For my base I used two coats of Rudolph Red from For Your Nails Only. A gorgeous bright red with lots of flakies!!

I stamped some Christmas jumper designs from Uber Chic Christmas 01 as that's what winter is all about to me. Getting those big winter knits out and getting warm!

What would you do to represent winter warmth?

Bye for now x

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26 GNAI - Halloween in the wrong colours

I'm not much of Halloween lover and I never really go all out with my nails but this weeks 26 GNAI was Halloween in the wrong colours and it was so much fun doing this! I wanted something easy and simple so I went for pastel sparkly ghosts.

26 GNAI - Blue and silver - Uber Chic Far East

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Yey the nail art challenge is back but this time it's 26 Great Nail art ideas! I managed to rope a few more bloggers/instagrammers into this challenge so hope you're ready to see lots of cool manis. The prompts are a bit easier to follow this time and have a lot of room for interpretation which I think is great. Today's prompt is blue and silver. I was sent the Uber Chic Far East 02 plate to review by Alex from Nail-Artisan and as soon as I saw the little bird images I wanted it on my nail in blue...don't ask me why lol I just did!