Pastel Squared

Hey guys!

I swear I'm going to run out of names for these tribal inspired posts...please comment any suggestions - all are welcome ;)

Anywho, these are the nails I wore on the first part of my summer holiday. I used a peel of base coat so I wouldn't need to lug acetone as well as other stuff in my suitcase. It lasted a surprisingly long time, considering it's made to come of easily...

These were done using my Face of Australia pastels again, and I love the way they looked. Clean and simple.

What I used:

Aside from the FoA pastels, I used

ulta3 'blue heaven', 'eighties fuchsia', 'banana split', 'lily white'

essence 'wake up!', 'viva la green', 'black is back'

Thanks for dropping in!

xNai

Aztec Love

Hey guys.

Today I have for you another foray into the Face of Australia pastels I bought a while back. This time I wanted them to be a little bit more punchy, and so did this tribal design with them.

It's quite simple, but really a striking look. What do you think? Something you'd recreate?

What I used:

ulta3 'lily white'

essence 'black is back'

Face of Australia 'boys 'n' berries', 'after dinner mint' and 'easy peasy lemon squeezy'

Thanks for dropping in,

xNai

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones!

Hello there!

Today is October 22, and as we inch ever closer to Halloween, I have some more funkalicious themed nails for you!

Today's theme is gradient.

I love me some gradient. I gotta tell you, I love that it's such a wonderful effect for so simple a technique! Aside from monstrous clean up, (like with black - could have kicked myself...), it's kinda my go-to technique.

So here we have some black and white gradient, with fading bones. I've done used this effect before, with greens and fading dots (which I'm sure you'll see sometime in the future on this here bloggyblog), and I loved the way it looked then, so I knew I wanted to do something similar. The issue then was what? I didn't want to infringe on any of the other days' themes, and so this idea was born.

I do realise, of course, that they look a bit more like dog bones than skeleton bones, but hey, you win some, you lose some, amiright?

What I used:

Essence 'Black is Back'

ulta3 'lily white'

Don't forget to check out some of the dozens of other awesome manis for this challenge!

Anywho,

Thanks for dropping by,

xNai

                                                            

Reverse, reverse!

Apologies for my absence this past week, life got in the way a little!

Also, I felt like you would need time to bask in the glory that was the Deathly Hallows nails...yeah...that's what I'm sticking to!

Today we have what I lovingly referred to as 'Inverse Nails'. These are done on Danya's nails (I swear, y'all are gonna know every one of my friends' names by the end of all this...). We decided on 5 simple different designs, and painted them in one colour scheme on her left hand, and then switched the colours around on her right.

Inverse Left

Inverse Right

Wish I could tell you which colours were used...:/

Thanks for stopping by!
xNai

It's not always black and white

Hello ladies (and possibly gents...)!

Today I have a classic black and white mani for you.

There was a competition on ig for a black and white mani a while back, so I decided to do as many variations on the theme as possible, and here's what I came up with!

If you'd like a tutorial for any of the following, let me know, and I'd be glad to oblige. I've already created 2 for the index and thumb of the left hand.

Left Hand

Left Thumb

Right Hand

Right Thumb

If you want, there's a couple bonus pics after the jump - defs my faves of these pics...:)