33 Day Challenge day 4 - tribal!

Hi all!

Day 4's challenge was tribal, and I have sooooo many tribal mani's pinned, screencapped and saved to my 'nailspiration' folder you'd think it'd be easy to chose. Well no. However, I did decide to go for a gradient base (holy neon gradient Batman! This has to be one of my brightest.) My gradient consists of a white base with China Glaze Creative Fantasy (purple), Japanese Koi (orange) and Hanging In The Balance (blue) sponged over the top. I added a topcoat and once it was completely dry I went at it with my Barry M White Nail Art Pen. Tada! Proud of the result, which is a bloody good job as in total it took me two and a half hours!

I even managed a different (read: slightly more wobbly) pattern on the other hand!

I can't wait to see everyone else's tribal manis today :)

Hx

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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means...

Hi!

Today's blog post comes to you courtesy of Barry M and his fabulous new nail art pens. May the cack-handed among us rejoice! These babies are virtually fool-proof. My previous attempts at tribal prints have been, well, pathetic to say the least. But as soon as I got these babies out of the packet, the pattern magically appeared on my nails, they're THAT good! Ok, so they're not THAT good, but pretty damn close... I started with black and white bases and then went to town with the black and white pens.

I even managed my left hand, albeit slightly more uneven!

I would highly recommend these pens, you can't really go wring with them. They come in black, white, silver and pink and cost £4.99 each wherever you can get Barry M. I want MOAR colours!!!

Hx

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Welcome to HoloWeek!

Yes, that's right, it's holo week here at The Nail Newbie! I'm going to post every day with various holo polishes and designs, and hopefully it will get me out of my funk...that's the plan anyway!

We're starting the week with a fairly simple design using two of my favourite holo polishes. I started with 2 coats of charcoal holo Color Club Revvvolution, and then freehanded a tribal accent nail on ring finger and thumb using the new GOSH Holo Hero and my new nail art brushes. The dots were added with a dotting tool, but if I'd had big enough loose glitter I might have used those instead.

I need more practice with the brushes, but I liked using them. Compared to my old nail art brushes they're 100 times better! And thank goodness for a sunny day :)

Coming up this week - stamping with and on holos, a GOSH Holographic Hero wear test and tomorrow, Adventures in Stamping goes holo! Wish me luck!

Hx

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