One ring to rule them all

Ok not the best picture...
  I did this design a while ago when The Hobbit was just being released and thought I'd share it with you. For this design I only used Barry M's 'Gold' and black acrylic paint for the inscription. The gold colour on its own is not one that i like to wear on its own, especially on my own nails, simply because I'm not a huge fan of gold anyway. The formula like most Barry m nail paints are smooth and are opaque within a few coats, making them one of my favourite brands along with the fact that they are affordable.
 
  The picture I used for reference:

To create the inscription I found that acrylic paint worked best for me and used a small paint brush to draw the fine lines and flicks.
  I'm happy with the way it turned out but it could be neater, constructive criticism welcome :)

Vintage effect roses and pinstripes

For my latest nail art manicure, I used Barry M's Strawberry Ice-cream and their Blue Moon on my ring finger. The colours themselves I think are great, the formula is smooth and leaves no brush marks when applied and are very opaque after just 2 coats.

For the flowers I used the same pink colour and regular acrylic paint and a thin nail art brush. Also the lines were painted with the white acrylic paint. The technique is great as I always found it difficult to remove the nail polish from the brushes and ended up replacing the brushes more often then I should. The paint, as a bonus, is inexpensive and the brushes come clean almost instantly.

  Lastly, for the leaves I used two different shades of green of standard nail art pens/brushes that I purchased as a set from eBay awhile ago. The glitter was just from a pot of loose silver glitter from a craft store. I find this for me works well and use a fan brush to apply it and manipulate it, although like any pure glitter polish i can be difficult to remove when large amounts are used.

This is no where near perfect and constructive criticism is welcome.

Next goal: Practice straight lines.

You've no idea how much the wonky lines irritated me when I wore it haha, MAJOR OCD!

If anyone was wondering the bottle I'm holding is Nubar - Indigo Ocean :)

First Post!

 Somewhere between watching Big Brother and pining over wanting the new Animal Crossing game, I decided to create a new blog to upload my manicures, new colours and a few other things.

 I'm looking to put together a wish list in the next few weeks and any suggestions will be appreciated :)

E-mail me suggestions, nail art ideas ect: kim_williams@hotmail.co.uk