Nail Fun - The Volcano!

Nail Fun

Nail Fun is all about having fun with your nails.  Layering it, splattering it, making pretty patterns with it … it’s the most fun you can have on your own with a child in the house !!  J 

CREATIVE LAYERING – The Volcano !

I have been striving for a cool volcano style look for a while and MAY just have made myself happy.

The colours used – for my red, I used Ruby Pumps, a little extravagant, but I felt at least one of the polishes needed some lava-like glitter.

I used a plain black base and then the cling film splatter technique (see Cling Film mani blog).   This made a wonderful swirly mess which was ALMOST good enough … but hey, what’s life without a little tinkering ?

I then added a coat of KleanColor Chunky Holo in Poppy – this gave it some sparkle and looked really cool.  It also made the oranges really pop.

The coup de grace though, was a 2^nd top coat – this time KleanColor’s  CHUNKY COPPER – bright coppery round pieces of glitter.  Simply too yummy for words!!!

I am BEYOND happy with this mani – it’s also versatile.  Icy blue version next !

Happy nailing J  xx

Nail Fun - The Cling Film Splatter Marble Mani

Nail Fun

Nail Fun is all about having fun with your nails.  Layering it, splattering it, making pretty patterns with it … it’s the most fun you can have on your own with a child in the house !!  J 

CLING FILM SPLATTER-MARBLE

So, splattering I love, and I play away to my heart’s content, and marbling I love but oooooh no no no no no cannot master.  Grrrrrr.  Then, last night as I was falling asleep I had a master idea ….

The plan was to splodge various blobs of colour on the nail, and then squash them down with cling film so that they bled into each other, creating something a little more random than a marble, and a little bit more “spread” than a splatter.  And actually, it didn’t go badly at all ….

So, step one – apply base coat and blob your nail.  Blobs should not be too small else they won’t bleed into each other, and partly you’re trying to achieve some sort of artful swirly mess !

Next, press down with a small strip of cling film.  This does require care – you can leave fingerprints in the varnish if it’s too thin (although that did look cool too).  A tried to avoid leaving fingerprints by prodding with a pencil, but that tended to lift off the colour AND the base coat, so Don’t Do That !

You’re then left with a lovely splodge on your cling film which you can then apply to the next nail … clever huh.

Mostly, I was experimenting with fire colours, and it still needs some finessing.  But it’s a good start.  On Monday I’ll show you how it looked when I wowed it up into a finished look J

Happy nailing J