Home-made Foils DIY

First and foremost, apologies for my feet, I know they are disgusting, but I thought I'd share this post with you anyway!

You've probably all seen the nail foils that are about at the moment, hundreds of patterns available to stick straight onto your nails without any trouble! 

But I thought I'd try with actual foil. Yes, kitchen foil. 

I simply cut a small bit off a roll, and stuck it on the first two nails (the rest were too small) using clear nail polish. It might work better with nail glue, but after letting it dry and putting another coat on top they seemed to stick well!

I then drew around the foil with my liquid eyeliner and coloured in the rest of my nails a bit, so they didn't feel left out. 

Here are the colour, liner and polish I used for the effect!

Gradient Nails

I've been wanting to do gradient nails for ages but they look so hard! I found an easy way to do it, maybe not the best looking effect, but I intend to try other techniques soon! 

There are 2 ways to do gradient nails - one with a sponge and one without.

I did this effect without a sponge.

I didn't take photos whilst I was doing this, but I used Youtube tutorials, so I've put a few below!

I had just bought No.17 silver, so I used that with No.7 glittery black over the top to create a galaxy themed look.

I put a crackle top coat by Barry M on both ring fingers to break it up a bit.

This is the opposite way to do it, looks much more effective!

Hope you like them and give them a try! 

Nail It

If any of you have seen my Instagram, you might have guessed, I'm pretty obsessed with my nails at the moment. Boredom and any excuse for a creative outburst means I try and do them as much as poss. 

Despite my lack of funds (just paid for a week holiday in turkey- ouch) I have also recently purchased a 24 piece nail design set from eBay, so expect many more designs to come!

Here a few of my latest.

Everyone thought this colour splash design was stick on, but no! It's so easy to do as well, just dot randomly around your nails with different colours, filling in the gaps, until you have a fully covered colourful nail! 

This one was also real easy to do, start out with a base coat, I went with white, and sweep the brush diagonally across the nail to get this effect. I broke it up by using a crackle effect on one nail which really adds to the whole design. 

I did these simple metallic tips with a normal gold varnish to spice up the traditional manicure. 

And finally, I did this for the Motel Rocks Nail competition in association with Nail rocks. The theme was summer so I went with leopard print, a palm tree, daisies and tribal, using pastel base coats and decorating with different colours and the liquid eyeliner trick. I also wrote Motel Rocks just to butter them up a bit, the prize is clothes and nail wraps and it ends tomorrow so fingers crossed!

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