New from Stray Nails

Hiya! 

For those of you who havent seen or heard of the sister blog to Stray Closet, Stray Nails, here's a bit of background. I post regularly about Nail Art, with designs, tips etc. So if you love painting your nails as much as I do, if you dabble in nail art or if you want to have a look at my designs, you can do so here! If you like what you see, don't be afraid to follow on GFC so you can track my updates as soon as they're up! 

Marc Jacobs Nails

So I've recently had a bit of 'Nail Block' (like writers block, but with nails). Nothing has inspired me at all, and if I'm planning on starting to sell these nails, the designs need to be innovative and different. 

We've all seen the tribal nails and dotty nails, they're just not cutting it anymore!

So like any fashion student, I turned to Vogue for help.

I have absolutely no clue why I didnt do this before!

Prints are so big in this upcoming season, so by looking at all the pre ready to wear collections, the inspiration for nail designs was screaming at me!

I started with these, inspired by Marc Jacobs Pre Ready to Wear collection, of which there were many other interesting patterns, these ones stood out and they were simple to put onto nails. 

I know I havent got quite the right green colour, but I still love the contrasting bright colours.

I even put it onto a fake nail and loved the result, contemplating putting this design on my etsy shop when its up and running, what do you guys think? please comment below if you like it!

Its pretty obvious which one is the fake nail here.

 So if you too are stuck for a bit of design inspiration, turn to the people who do it best!

I'm currently working on more designs from 3.1 Phillip Lim and ALICE by Temperley.

Photos taken from vogue.co.uk

Stray Nails

So I'm in the process of launching Stray Nails, selling my own designs from my little etsy shop.

I'm really excited about this, I've ordered a ton of stuff to get it started and I hope you will all take a look when its up and running. 

I have recently been asked to do some of my friends nails, using them as my guinea pigs, it is great practise for future designs!

Two of them are going to America next week and have asked me to do some themed nails for them, here is my test run!