Christmas Nails Day 5: Rudolph Nails!

Its day 5 of my nail series!
This is the last character type tutorial and the last one which will be up tomorrow is still very festive but more for being fancy than fun.

So Rudolph nails are perhaps the easiest in this series its just dot,dot,dot done.

Lets go!

Start with a brown nail

Using the black nail pen put two fairly large dots in the top third of the nail to make eyes

Next, using your red nail pen to do a big red nose in the middle of the nail

Now, you can leave it there if you like. He totally looks done already but I like to use the teeniest bit of white nail polish and dot it on the eyes (the same as the penguin tutorial)

And you're done!

So cute, so simple!

If you give any of my nail ideas a try please let me know!

See you soon,

Chloe

Christmas Nails Day 4: Penguins!

Todays festive nail tutorial is penguins!
This is a pretty easy one though I will say getting the "m" right proved more than a little challenging to me as I dont have a steady hand at all.

Lets get started!

Start with a full white nail.

Using the black nail art pen draw an "m" across the top third of the nail and fill the top third in.

Like I said - not so much with the steady hand on this bit!

Using the same black pen do a dot either side of the point for eyes

Then using the teeniest white polish dot a bit in the black to make eyes

For this last bit you can either use an orange polish if you have it or a gold nail pen.
Draw a little triangle as a beak.

All done!
Once its all dry put on a clear coat just to seal it all in nicely.

How are you enjoying the nail series?

See you soon,

Chloe

Christmas Nails Part 3: Candy Cane

Its day 3 in my Christmas Nails series and today Im going to show you how to do candy cane nails!

So start of with a pretty red nail.

For the stripes there are 2 different ways you can do it:
1)
Once your nails are dry, you can cut some tape into little stripes, put them on your nails and paint over with white polish.
Once the white is dry, take off the tape and you will be left with perfect straight candy cane stripes.

2)
Taking your nail art brush, start by doing a line through the middle of your nail from corner to corner.

Use this as your central stripe and do one more either side.

When dry, paint over with clear nail polish.

Done!

Now you have pretty candy cane nails. This would look cute on all ten digits or as accent nails.

Have you tried this?

See you tomorrow for day 4!

Chloe

Christmas Nails pt 1

Welcome to part one of my Christmas Nails series!

I love making anything festive and the top of my list is always nails. Sometimes Ill be tip tapping away on the keyboard at work, look down and remember how festive they are and it makes me happy all over again.

Here are the looks Im going through this series:

We have fairy light, candy canes, penguins, Rudolph and a snowflake.

To start off I thought I would detail what you will need.
You dont need any special nail tools for any of these looks though if you have the dotting tools you could use them for the circle work.

The base colours you will need are:
White
Red
Brown
Blue

I didnt go for any specific brand, just ones I plucked from my collection but they did the trick!

You will also need these:

 These are the nail art pens from good old Primark. They are £2 for two which is a total bargain!
One end has these little gems in, the colour in the middle is the nail polish. Now, at the other end You have these little pens that looks like this:

You just (gently) squeeze the nail polish tube and it comes out of the pen, making it much easier to do those festive designs!
But then, if you put the cap back on and unscrew that side you get the nail striper. An extra long nail brush that you can use to make straight(er) lines.

So now we have the kit out of the way, check back Wednesday to find details on how to do the first design!

See you soon,

Chloe

Crochet Hats - Autumn Edition

In January of this year I did this post about a super cosy and soft hat I had made.

Fast forward 10 months and the boyfriends mum asks if I will make her one so off to the shops I went and lo and behold the pound shop yet again had the solution. 3 for 2 on yarn. Perfect. I picked up 3 lots of blue sparkly and practically skipped home.

I made the boyfriends mums hat first and she loves it. This time I used this pattern  because I wanted something a bit more slouchy and with a tighter stitch.

Youll need to excuse the hair in these pictures it was just doing whatever it wanted!

 

 I really like the style of these hats but I have a pretty meaty head so I think when I make another one Ill go increase the stitches a little bit more. 

The next one will also have some kind of bobble on it.

These hats are so easy and quick to make you can rustle one up in a night or two depending on how fast you can crochet! 

Have you made anything recently?

See you soon!

Chloe