Happy Easter Sunday all! Whether you celebrate over Easter time or not, this super easy nail design is perfect for springtime and can be done with whatever colours suit you!
| SPRINGTIME FLORAL NAILS… |
I used four different polish colours, two nail brushes and a dotting tool to create this nail look.
After using my favourite Barry M base coat, I started with two layers of the Primark P.S. Love Beauty nail polish in this cute mint green. I picked up this polish because it was a complete bargain at £1 and because it was a colour I felt I needed to try first before committing to a more expensive version, and I have to say that for the price point I’m impressed. It took two coats to get a nice opaque finish (but that what I’d expect with a light coloured polish like this) it applied easily and dried quickly. It is probably chipping a little easier than some more expensive brands, but it’s done me well nevertheless. In honesty, this is not the kind of colour I’d keep on my nails for more than a few days so I think buying a bargain version was a good option for me. I’m looking forward to trying out more of the P.S. Love Beauty range in the future.
Using my nail tools, which I picked up from Topshop; a dotting tool and seven brushes for £7, I got to work on the design. Taking my dotting too land my Barry M polish in NP119 Baby Pink I created 3,4 or 5 baby pink dots on each nail, spreading them out so they didn’t look too uniform. When the dots had dried I took one of my brushes and my Christian Dior polish in 274 Simply Pink (which I’ve had for far too long and is definitely out of date but I love the colour, oops) and painted in swirling lines on and around the dots. I think the best method for doing this is making a little C over the dot and then adding a small line across the bottom. Hopefully you can see from the images above what I was going for here. I finished the design with another brush and my Zoya polish in Tangy, just delicately painting some little leaves for added effect. I’m not usually one for D.I.Y nails but I think these turned out nicely.
Happy Easter! xxx
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AnxiouslyBold 
Your nails look amazing. And you make me feel like I could manage this!
I was recently nominated for a Liebster Award and really enjoy your style, so I’d like to nominate you too!
Check out my post: http://bubblewrappedblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/the-liebster-award/
Thank you lovely, I’m glad you like them. I recently took part in the Liebster Award so I won’t be doing one again but thank you so much for thinking of me. xx
Glad someone beat me to it! You’ve got a great blog.
Very pretty nails! 🙂
Caryl – http://carylalmelor.com/
Thanks lovely xx
Ok Anxiouslybold I have been searching the internet forever looking for the lone bottle of my all time favorite Dior polish ” Simply Pink”. So much so I still have a empty dried out bottle trying to match the exact color. So on my recent search I found you still have some. My question to you have you found another polish that come close??
Unfortunately I don’t know of a good dupe for this polish and as I said I’m pretty sure they don’t make it anymore. I would say that the Rimmel Posh Pink isn’t far off and there are some really gorgeous pink shades in the Zoya range of nail polishes. Other than that I’m out of ideas. Sorry darling! xx
http://www.makeupalley.com/product/showreview.asp/ItemId=146625/330-Posh-Pink/Rimmel/Polishes
http://www.zoya.com/content/Search/?Description=pink
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