40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Inspiration

The prompt for this week was Inspiration - it comes from all sorts of places: sometimes it feels like it won't come at all and other times I have so many ideas I can't choose.
For this mani I decided to use my recent holiday for inspiration. We went to Lanzarote and although I knew it would be beautiful and there'd be volcanoes, I wasn't prepared for the cactii - I have never seen so many and while we were there we visited the Jardin du Cactus where there are 7,000 cactii, 1,400 varieties!
I took a lot of photos! Don't worry, I won't post them all!
Anyway, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to use the Uber Chic: Uber Mini Succulents plate, so I stamped with Colour Alike's new wonderful neon Green Light over a red, yellow and green fanbrush mani.

Uber Mini Succulents with Colour Alike Green Light

 

 

 

 

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Orange and brush strokes

The most recent prompt for 40 Great Nail Art Ideas was orange and my pattern prompt was brush stokes.
I decided to do mine over my fanbrush mani since the main colour on that was the gorgeous China Glaze Riveting.
I think I need to practice brush strokes - they look more like blobs than brush strokes but I did try! Next time I think I'll do a few practice runs on my Ubermat first.
I used Virtuous Polish Diligence and Colour Alike Juicy Tangerine as I don't have a lot of orange polishes. It's possible using stamping polished didn't help my attempts!
Anyway, despite my reservations, they got a reasonable number of likes on Instagram so hopefully not a complete failure. I was more disappointed that the camera failed to pick up just how neon Virtuous Polish Diligence was.

Orange with brush strokes

 

 

 

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Things in the water

Really quick post for this this.
I used Bundle Monster Fuzzy and Ferocious BM-S166 and Avon Iceberg White over my blue smoosh. The little sea animals on this plate are so cute and they stamped really nicely.
I thought they looked great over the blue, grey and silver smoosh.

Bundle Monster Fuzzy and Ferocious BM-S166
and Avon Iceberg White

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Yellow and Silver - Aztec

I am a bit behind with this challenge, so this is from 2 weeks ago - Yellow and Silver was the colour and Aztec was my pattern prompt.
I decided to stay just with those colours but I didn't think silver and yellow would be enough of a contrast so I used the darkest polish that I thought I could still call silver, A England King Arthur and stamped with Esmaltes da Kelly Bee and MJ XXVIII.
I have to say, although neither yellow or silver would be colours I would rush to wear, I really liked this combination and this is a really pretty aztec pattern on the MJ plate.

MJ XXVIII and Esmaltes da Kelly Bee over
A England King Arthur

 

 

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Festivals / hippie travels

This weeks prompt was festivals / hippie travels - clearly this was an opportunity to use some of the Bundle Monster Festival Collection.
I used BM-S301, BM-S305 and BM-S308. How cute is that little camper van? I stamped with Colour Alike Sunset, a pretty corally pink which I think contrasted really nicely with my three green smoosh from the previous weekend (OPI Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow, Virtuous Polish Green Pastures, Barry M Bikini)

Bundle Monster Festival Collection

 

 

 

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Nude + a colour with accent nail

This weeks prompt was Nude + a colour and my pattern prompt was "accent nail". You'll notice if you look regularly at my manis I really don't do accent nails, I just don't feel comfortable with them but anyway - that was the prompt so that's what I did.
I painted all my nails except for the ring finger with Nails Inc Montpelier Walk and the ring finger with Nails Inc Sugarloaf Sunset.
Then I used one of my newest plate Dixie plate DP01 and stamped an abstract pattern using Esmaltes da Kelly Chuoisco over the nude nails and Esmaltes da Kelly Doguito over the pink nail.
Despite my reservations I was quite pleased with how they turned out.

Esmaltes da Kelly Chuoisco and
Doguito with Dixie Plates DP01

 

 

 

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Insects

I am not sure what I would have done for this prompt if I hadn't bought the Bundle Monster Fuzzy and Ferocious set 2. BM -S170 is perfect - its full name seems to be Fuzzy and Ferocious: BM-S170, A Bug's Buffet and it is cute collection of little bugs. I left the spider and caterpillar for another time but stamped the ladybug, bee, ant and grasshopper over a splatter mani I did earlier in the week.

Bundle Monster BM-S170