Sunday 11 May 2014

Nails: Daisy & Polkadot




Hi lovelies, how are you? I've decided for now that my Little Five Friday posts are going to be fortnightly instead of weekly, I'm so busy studying/working at the moment that I'm not getting up to much exciting stuff in a week!

I've got a lovely nail art post for you today, featuring some pretty daisies and polkadots. Bare in mind, I'm not a professional and I don't even have proper dotting tools as you can see, I used cocktail sticks!! The photos are of my right hand, my left hand is wobbly so my right hand always looks a bit messy.



I chose my favourite nude polish, Dulce De Leche by O.P.I. (available here) for the base using just one coat, then dotted a few spots on each nail as a guide to where my daisies were going to be. For this I used a nail art pen I got from Topshop ages ago (Same here).



Next, using a cocktail stick and a big splodge of white nail polish (in a set here), I dabbed five petal shapes around each dot. None of my daisies on this hand look the same, but I think that just adds to the charm of them. You have to be quite quick so the splodge of white polish doesn't dry up and go gloopy. If it does, just wipe the cocktail stick clean and start again.



The last step of the daisies is the yellow middle. I did this using Barry M Yellow (similar here) and my cocktail stick.



The finishing touch to these nails is the little gold polkadots dotted around the daisies. This gold polish is quite subtle on the nude base, but it looks lovely when it catches the light and is one of my favourite polish combinations.



Would you wear daisy nails? I think they're lovely for Summer!

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12 comments:

  1. So pretty! These are so well done. If I tried to do this mine would look like fried eggs...

    Emma x

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  2. Ahhh so cute! I haven't done anything interesting with my nails for AGES! This reminds me of Alexa Chung's nail art the other week, I think she had a navy base though. I need to try... xx

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  3. What a cute tutorial! I'd love to try it. Your nails look great!

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  4. Eeep, your nails are so pretty! Really impressive, I wish I had such a steady hand because my flowers would never look that perfect haha.

    Tara x

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  5. Ooh, daisy nails! My Nan is called Daisy so I definitely approve of these! They are so cute. I really suck at any type of nail art though unfortunately - I wish I could get to grips with it! xxxx

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  6. These are so cute Hannah, you did a wicked job! I think this is such a cute look for spring xxx

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  7. Why are these so beautiful!? Whilst I hold no artistic skill whatsoever, I really think I might actually give this a go! They just look so perfect! Good job on being perfect H xoxox

    Other Infinities

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  8. Aw, this is so perfect for spring <3

    http://venus-fleurs.blogspot.pt/

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  9. Perfection! Those are soooo adorable :3 Wish I could do stuff like this

    http://bcfactor.blogspot.com/

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  10. this is great idea to create flowers on nails :) thank you for sharing <33
    http://coeursdefoxes.blogspot.com/

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  11. So so cute! And not that I'm biased or anything because my name is Daisy *ahem*
    Don't think I'd have the steady hand for this though- really impressive.
    Daisy xxx
    hoyden-blog.blogspot.com

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