Requested Nail Art - Xbox Nails

Hi Guys :)

This was requested by my gorgeous hubby Gary on the facebook page :)

 

He has obviously already seen them and said he loves them, so I am chuffed to bits :)

 

Here is a list of the undies used:

 

Thumb, middle and pinkie, La Femme - Ebony, 

Index finger is Franken - Graphite,

and Ring finger is, believe it or not, ridge filler! lol!

 

I don't actually own a 'tipex' white so use that instead because I don't have ridges.

 

The logo colours are:

 

Thumb, middle finger logo and some swirls on the ring and index fingers, Vollare - No 96

Swirls on the index and ring finger, Vollare, - No 99

Swirls on index, Sally Hansen - Emerald City

Pinkie, Pink Tease - Red

 



Above is a slightly blurry but less shiny photo to let you see the ring finger a bit better. I didn't get many good pics of this :( But for those of you who want to know what the doodles mean, read on...

The thumb is the simple Power symbol.
The index finger is the current Xbox woosh logo.
The middle finger has gone a bit retro with the original Xbox X logo.
The ring finger is the Xbox ring/ripple/swirl logo.
And finally the pinkie is the dreaded RROD (Red Ring Of Death)!

Also, I tried something different with this mani. My lovely reader Bug had recently tried the dry marble technique and when I came to do this mani, I was reminded of it. So, The index, middle and pinkie were painted straight on the nail but the thumb and ring finger logos were painted onto a sandwich bag. I peeled them off when they were dry and then placed them onto the nails and covered them with clear polish. I tried to do all the logos this way but they ripped as I peeled them off the bag. But, nevertheless, I'm happy with this mani. :)

Hope you like it
Ellie

Requested Nail Art - Guinness Nails

Hi guys :D

These nails were suggested by Colette on facebook. They were for Arthurs day (27th) but I'm only getting to post them now.

When I started planning Guinness nails, I knew straight away I was going to do the harp but wasn't sure how... I rummaged around in my box of tricks and found my little yellow paisley gems. I knew they wouldn't be perfect but they were the closest I had to anything harp shaped. I think they turned out just fine. :) I also used single silver holo glitters to spell out Guinness on the pint glass :D

I knew the pint wouldn't look right on the Biletto (baby stiletto!) so I decided to do a gold glequin harp on it. Harder than you'd think...

Don't forget... update on the Biletto on Wednesday!

Pixie~Nails

Requested Nail Art Pics - Argyle

Hi guys :)

This is a suggestion by Sharon On my facebook page. She asked for Argyle. I hope you like it :)

I googled argyle nails and most people had the basic argyle print on most/all nails, so I decided to do something slightly different. I put the basic design on my ring finger and put 1 huge diamond on the rest. I chose these colours as I have a pair of argyle socks in this combo. :D

I didn't want to use striping tape as I like to do completely free~hand stuff but it was late and my first attempt to do a straight line with my art pen ended in disaster... So out came my tape for this part.

I quite liked the look of these nails and will definitely do them again. Thanks Sharon for a great suggestion! :D

P.S. sorry for the blurry pics, I was up late and had bleary eyes so they looked sharp to me at that point! XD

Pixie~Nails

You Named It What?!

Hi guys :)

Don't you just hate it when a company brings out a gorgeous colour and gives it THE most pathetic name?

Well, how about this...
This gorgeous little polish has the uninspired name of REDDISH PURPLE... o_O
Seriously... And what a beauty!

 

The above pics where taken with flash.

It is a super dark (magenta?) base, almost black, with a cerise glitter. It's awful with 1 coat, I mean, I actually grimaced when I saw it but drooled once I had a second, thicker coat on. The one coat kinda looked like a streaky sheer grey with pink glitter. I finished this off with black french tips and clear top coat.

The above picture was taken in artificial light (kitchen) and the picture below was taken in the bathroom with flash. 

This polish deserves a better name but the company who make this also have polishes by the names of Dark Green and Dark Blue... Believe me, both are stunning.

OOOOH! As you know, if you read my ramblings, I had to file my nails down due to having too much fun and not looking after my nails. Ah well, it was soooo worth it! Anyhoo, I decided to use one as an experiment.

This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the STILETTO NAIL CHALLENGE!!
I filed this thumb into a small baby stiletto... ish shape. I plan to grow this nail as much as I can as a stiletto to see just how practical it is. Will I stab myself in the eye? Will I stab someone else's eye? Are my children's lunches safe with this (soon to be) stanley knife thumb or will I send them to school with holes in their sandwiches? We'll soon find out I guess :)

I am going to post weekly pics and reviews of the Eye Putteroutter.... Stayed tuned :)

Bye Nailies
Pixie~Nails

Fakie Flakie Foils and Wotnots

 

Ok, remember a while ago in the homemade crackle post, I mentioned something about a *whisper whisper*?

Well, here it is.....

Fakie Flakie Foils and Wotnots. TA-DA!! lol!

For those of you who read all my ramblings (and bless you, if ya do, lol) you will probably have come to realise, I love to experiment. I love to stick random things on my nails to see how they will affect the polish/shade/look etc. Well, today's post is no different.


I found this little beauty when I was clearing out my
bathroom cabinets. It seems to be an iridescent crinkle paper, the kind you'd get in a christmas box.  Instantly, things started running through my head... 'what could I do with this? FLAKIE POLISH!' I ran downstairs to my polish box and completely forgot about cleaning the bathroom! hehe!


I rolled up a small amount and trimmed bits off and poured into a bottle with clear nail polish. Eagerly, I waited......

 

 

While this was 'brewing', (or leaving to see if it'd sink) I decided to see what else I could do. So, I cut a small nail shape out of another bit and stuck it with clear polish to my nail. Meh, so I stuck another nail with black polish... OOOOOOOOH! PRETTY!

Seeing how pretty the crinkle paper was over black I decided to see what else I could do...

 

black polish with crinkle stripe

black polish with random shapes

black polish with crinkle tip, this kinda reminds me of a beetle.

This wasn't the tidiest mani I've ever done but it was fun! I kept it on overnight and when I came to take it off the next day, that's when I discovered something else! (Ooooooh, I love discovering things!) lol! The finger that I had painted black and covered completely in the crinkle paper, was hard getting off. I had to get tweezers to pull up the corners but when I did get it off, the black polish that was left looked just like (kinda) OPIs spotted.

 

 

For some reason, I decided to paint over it with a neon yellow.... I have no idea.... I was just looking a sheer polish and this was the one I lifted. Wish I had lifted a nicer colour, this makes it look zombie-ish ha! Anyways, great for halloween!

 

The whole hand again but I mattified it to see what would happen.

 

 

Oh! The flakie polish... well, it worked.... for all of 1 day. After a couple of days I came back to it and it had lost all its rainbow colours. It was basically clear crinkle in clear polish... :( Here are 2 shots of it before it faded. The nail wheel still has it's colour til this day.



held over black background

held over white background

I can still cut up bits of crinkle paper and put it on like glequins, it keeps its colour that way but not in a franken, ah well. And I will definitely be trying the full black polish and crinkle mani again... but tidier!

More experimenting another time :)

Hope this inspired you,
Pixie~Nails

 

 

Butterflyawaywithme!

I know people have done this mani loads but I don't have the stamps (or any stamps for that matter) so I decided to try and do it free~hand.

In this mani I used, a base coat of Beauty UK - Turquoise Shimmer (which is a gorgeous creme) with a coat of Sally Hansen's HD in Spectrum over this. I then used my black nail art pen to draw the wing shapes and a butterfly on the accent nails (I painted a blue wing on top of the white (ridge filler!!) to show the wing on the accent nails). I finished of with white nail pen dots on all nails. I didn't wait long enough to finish off with a topcoat as the white was dragged into the black in some nails. Ah well... lol.





I didn't want to do wing overkill so I gave each hand a butterfly accent nail.





Blurred to show the flecks in Spectrum

Hope you liked
Til next time

Pixie~Nails x


Franken - Midnight Kisses

Hi guys! :)

Today, I'm showing you another franken I made, called Midnight Kisses.
This was made by mixing a lot of black with some drops of red and a good helping of purple/pink glitter. It came out very dark in the pics but IRL, it's not so dark, you can make out more of a reddy tinge in sunlight (something we are not having much of lately!)

bottle in bathroom

indoors, no flash

indoors with no flash

This was a terrible picture post! haha! I really need to make some kind of light box to take my pictures but I'm not sure how to. If I get some decent photos of this, because it is lovely, I will repost them.

Til next time
Pixie~Nails x

It's a sad day for crackles, shatters and spotteds....

(In my house anyway!)

(Of course I'm not going to stop buying them... I'll eventually give in to their ways!)

But for now, I've discovered something that may just interest you if you are a lover of said polishes...

Behold, the wonder that is....

HOMEMADE SHATTERS AND SPOTTEDS!!!

Yes, you read correctly, homemade, simple and most importantly, FREE!!

Versatile effects!

So simple to do!

Crackle effect homestyle!

So, if you like what you see and want to know how to do it, read on...

First, choose what colour you want as an effect colour...

I chose basic black (I'm hoping brand shouldn't matter, I used LaFemme)

I put a few drops of this on an old plastic lid with a few drops of water and a few drops of baby oil.

Mix this together with an orange stick or similar.

Water, oil and polish mix

Working quickly (as I didn't know how long this would 'keep') I painted it on a ready painted, and dried, nail, just as you would ordinary crackle (I just used the previous rainbow manicure). The difference being, as it has baby oil in, it will 'crackle/shatter/split' straight away so no waiting. You see the effect so can manipulate the look with the brush. Also, as its got oil in it, it won't dry super fast like Barry Ms nail effects.

This one looks like butterfly wings... Idea for future post!!

When I first painted it on, I couldn't believe my eyes! But I also thought it wouldn't work with having oil and water in. I thought it wouldn't dry.

So... gutted but amazed, I got on with messing about with other effects...

Some look like crackle, some like shatter... some like a mess!

I then tried something else. I painted my nail black and while it was still wet, swabbed over it with a cotton bud.

This is the result...

Just after I swabbed with bud

With top coat

This made me actually say the word 'meh'

Ok, so try something else....

I then remembered something that happened when I *whisper whisper* <~ (secret for another post!!)

So I tried something like it for this....

I painted plain, ordinary black polish (no oil) on top of 2 shades of pink (brand names and colour names don't matter to me in this post, just the amazing effects) and placed plastic, like sweet wrapper plastic on top, much like you would with foils. I forgot to take a picture of this step... whoops!

Then I poked the top with an orange stick to make little 'indents'. I left it over sized so I could get it off as I found out when I *whisper whisper* (heh heh, bet you hate me, but you will find out soon!) it stuck good!

After about 20 minutes I slowly peeled off the plastic and discovered FAKIE, HOMEMADE SPOTTY NAILS!! This excited me greatly as I had recently spotted, well Black Spotted by OPI and oh how I craved it! This wasn't totally dry so I waited another 5 mins to do a top coat.

Strange shaped nail! lol!

Trust me, this looks SOOOOOOO much better in person, blame the camera!
I wish I had discovered this first but will do a full mani soon in it.
So, there you have it, homemade spotty/crackly/shattery nails...
It may not be OPI or Barry M standard but it works (kinda) and I like it.
Oh!! And it dried properly and quickly, just like regular polish even with the oil and water in! The two just dried up as the nail polish dried and the effects were unharmed! I don't think this could be a bottled franken as the mixture would, over time, go funny, so I am just going to make a mini mixture as and when I want it.

Best of all... you can use ANY colour, ANY finish and did I mention... it's FREE!!!

P.S. please excuse any dry, tired and/or ugly cuticles. I wasn't expecting this to be a real post!

Hope you like it as much as I do.
Have a go at home and link me with results.

Pixie~nails x

Franken~licious

Well, I don't know about you but I just LOVE frankens!

To date, I have 27.

I've given them all names but no doubt will have stolen a name (by accident) so if anyone knows of a polish with the same name lemme know, ta, and I'll revise it.

Anyhoooo, on to the babies.
I won't be swatching on my nails in this post, just posting pictures of the bottles. I will do each one separately in future posts.
If there is one in particular that you would like to see, message me and I'll swatch it for you sooner.

(click to enlarge)

From L~R:

Midnight Kisses ~ A deep Burgundy Red with Cerise glitter mix
Ruby's Shoes ~ A bright Red with Red glitter and Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure mix
Graphite ~ A Med Grey with an opalescent micro~glitter mix
Twilight Mauve  ~ A pale Mauve with mixed micro/glitter mix
Cornflower Creme ~ A simple blue mix
Rainbow Nights ~ A sheer Black with multi~coloured glitter mix
GlitterBall**REVISED BELOW ~ A super~sheer silver shimmer with large Hex holo glitter mix
Son Of Zeitgeist ~ A Duochrome based purple franken with green shimmer mix

So there you have it.... my babies :)

I have a few more in production/near completion.
And like I said, if you see one you like, message me and I will do a post on it :)

THIS IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, I WILL UPDATE EVERY COUPLE OF FRANKENS

UPDATE!!

Black Diamonds**REVISED BELOW, Shlurple, Moonlit Ocean

S-Late Night, Barbie Shimmer, Fuzzy Peaches, Mother Of Pearl

Magic Forest

UPDATED 25/09/2012
L-R
**ALL NEW GLITTERBALL, a clear base with holo glitter
White Noise, a black and silver holo glitter in Fairy Dust base
Deep Space, a dark grey with silver holo glitters
Rainbow Dust, a mini-micro fine holo dust (eyeshadow powder) mixed with Fairy Dust
**ALL NEW BLACK DIAMONDS, black holo glitter in a Fairy Dust base
Let's Party, a multi-coloured glitter mix in a pink base

L-R
Un-named, a dark dusky rose with Fairy Dust
Ruby's Shoes ~ A bright Red with Red glitter and Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure mixture
Black Cherries, a vampy red/purple mix
Un-named, a dusky pink with pink and purple glitters
Tangerine Blush, an orange shimmer base with pink and red glitters

L-R
Autumn, a tinted base with diamond holos, orange round glitters and micro gold glitters
Autumn Leaves, a brown base with diamond holos and orange round glitters

The above 2 polishes look identical but I can assure you, they couldn't be more different. Autumn started off a clear base with brown diamond holos and orange and gold glitter but the colour ran into the clear base and give it stunning tint. With the Autumn Leaves being in a brown base, the colour of the holos stayed a bit better but faded slightly. Here is a pic to show the difference. Autumn is on the left and Autumn Leaves, the right.

Til the next update :)
Pixie~nails x