Free Hand Nail

Evening all...

I took GSCE art when I was at school as I loved to draw, in my final year of school I had the root of all evil as my art teacher! He was a horrible man who seem to find great pleasure is belittling everybody and he completely put me off.

Fast forward about 5 years and I just getting back in to painting, only on a much smaller scale.

I started off with some one stroke nails on my friend Lauren:

Then to some doodles on myself last night:

And then the flower that I did tonight: 

I'm really happy with all of the both, I used acrylic paint for the art rather than nail polish and a detail brush which I have cut to make it finer.

Please let me know what you think in the comments :)

Kim xXx

One Stroke Nails - first attempt!

Eveing all!

Last night I did my lovely friend Lauren's nails. I love doing her nails as she is pretty much my nail art guinea pig, she let's me have full rein on what ever I put on her nails from a full gel manicure to fancy nail art.

This time I opted to have a bash at one stroke flowers, now there are quite a few tutorial kicking about on YouTube but the one I found the most helpful is this one:

http://youtu.be/gZjYp65iAQY

It shows lots of differnt ways to do differnt flowers and she does it on a bit of paper so it nice and big so clear to see. 

Here is my attempt at them:

I used OPI nail envy for the base, Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream and them just acrylic paint for the flowers, with a gel top coat so they last a little while longer!

I'm pretty happy with them if I'm honestly and I really enjoyed creating them! Please leave me a comment on what you think! 

Kim xXx

Saffron London - Nail Polish Remover (My First Review)

Good evening all!

I have deciding to take blogging back up as I quite enjoy rambling on about either my horse or my nails. So I'm going to start with a review (exciting right?)

Today I bought a Saffron London - Dip and Clean (I believe that to be the correct nail) from my local beauty shop, I've been using the Bourjois one which, although isn't great for glitter bombs is still pretty damn good for regular polish! 

Here is what it looks like:-

It only cost me £1.50 which is why I wanted to try it as it much cheaper than the Bourjois equivalent and there is a reason for that!

Although this product is good and does work it takes a lot longer to remove the polish than the others do, which is a shame as the pink one I bought has a nice smell to it. Another down side is my fingers do feel abit dry a few minuets after being soaked which is something I've not noticed before with the Bourjois. 

Hoof rating (yes I'm making it a thing!): 2.5/5 as you need to have your nail in it for longer and this seems to have a drying effect on my nails. 

Let me know what you think of my first review!

Kim xx