Little Nails – Nail art

I Know What Pandas Like

18 July, 2013 By Rosie 3 Comments

Deborah Lippmann I Know What Boys Like, OPI Panda-monium Pink

I’ve been a little obsessed with the ‘solid colour pointer finger accent nail’ recently. I couldn’t help but add some stripes to this mani also, which are unfortunately a bit streaky. I was too keen on the topcoat!

Navy & Gold Madeline Poole Nails

3 July, 2013 By Rosie 5 Comments

Orly Glitz, OPI My Vampire is Buff, China Glaze First Mate

I’ve been eyeing off this Madeline Poole mani for what feels like forever. I finally got around to recreating it!

It’s been so dreary in Sydney and it’s been raining for what feels like forever (seriously, there was something on the news about only having had 7 hours of sunshine in the past week). There was some kind of miracle after I finished this mani and the sun was out for about 15 minutes. Just enough time to take some photos!

Pink and Navy Flowers

26 June, 2013 By Rosie 4 Comments

OPI Ate Berries In The Canaries, OPI My Vampire Is Buff, China Glaze First Mate

It’s been a while since I’ve had any kind of freehand nail art on my fingers and I was in the mood for sitting in front of a trashy TV show and playing around with a nail art brush. This is what I ended up with at the end of it.

And can I just say how much I love My Vampire is Buff? I’ve really been developing a taste for off white polishes over the past year or so. Every time I get a new one I think it’s the be all and end all of off white polish then a new one comes along that seems to be even better. I think I’ve worked my way through a good chunk of OPI Skull & Glossbones, My Boyfriend Scales walls got quite the workout, and now I seem to be reaching for MVIB every time I sit down to paint my nails.

Lunar Love Song Chevrons

17 June, 2013 By Rosie 10 Comments

OPI Can’t Find My Czechbook, OPI DS Extravagance, Orly Glitz, My Ten Friends Lunar Love Song

I’ve been eyeing off some Hare Polish pretties for quite some time and finally bought a couple from Femme Fatale Cosmetics here in Australia. On a bit of an impulse I added My Ten Friends Lunar Love Song to the order. Gosh am I glad I did. It ended up being the polish I was most excited about and I had to try it out first.

I layered it over OPI Can’t Find My Czechbook and added some Chevrons for good measure (also because I hate having to take glitter off all ten fingers).

I have a feeling my next little polish order will have a couple of bottles of MTF in it (Hailing Frequencies Open, I’m looking at you). Although I may have to wait for the new collection to come out to get Space Opera and Starry Night.

New Polish Mani

6 June, 2013 By Rosie 7 Comments

OPI My Vampire is Buff, OPI Can’t Find My Czechbook, China Glaze Man Hunt

I haven’t bought nail polish in such a long time, but recently I updated my stash just a little bit. OPI My Vampire is Buff, OPI Can’t Find My Czechbook and China Glaze Man Hunt are my newest additions and I couldn’t wait to use them in a mani.

Sparkly Ozotic Chevrons

28 May, 2013 By Rosie 2 Comments

OPI William Tell Me About OPI, Ozotic 908, Ozotic 903

I wore this crazy chevron mani a couple of weeks ago and I have to say that glittery, shimmery polishes are fast becoming my favourite polishes to make these little chevron stickies with. They seem to be a lot more flexible and easy to work with. These photos don’t do these Ozotic polishes justice (check out 903 in action here), it was so sparkly!

For this mani, instead of using a base colour and having it show through between the chevrons, I completely covered my nails with chevrons and alternated 908 and 903 chevron strips.

New Blog Design Nails

20 May, 2013 By Rosie 9 Comments

OPI Ate Berries in the Canaries, Orly Glitz, OPI French Quarter for your Thoughts, OPI The Man with the Golden Gun

Little Nails has had a makeover! Hooray! I tend to get bored quite quickly of how my blog looks, and while I never play around much with the structure and layout of the blog, I like to mix the style of it up every now and then. And when I saw this glitter background I couldn’t help myself!

Now, on to the nails… I decided to match my nails this weekend to the latest look of the blog. I used the same polish that I used to make the stripes along the sidebars; OPI’s Ate Berries in the Canaries and French Quarter for your Thoughts and Orly’s Glitz. For good measure I threw on some Man with the Golden Gun.

Space Jam Zig Zags

13 May, 2013 By Rosie Leave a Comment

Australis Space Jam, OPI DS Extravagance, OPI Ate Berries in the Canaries, OPI Simmer & Shimmer, China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic

I bought this amazing looking Australis polish a few weeks ago, and after lurking in the bottom of my handbag for ages I finally added it to the stash and gave it a test run! It’s super pretty, but man it was a pain to apply. I added some thinner, which helped it out but it was still quite thick and gluggy, which made the application difficult. It works fabulously with just one coat over a dark polish. I’ve settled in a quite a solid chevron phase ever since the purchase of the Ikea Scissors from Heaven and couldn’t resist adding some colour matching zig zag feature nails to the mani.

Goodbye Summer Stripes

10 May, 2013 By Rosie Leave a Comment

OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, OPI The ‘It Color’, OPI Dating A Royal, OPI Mermaid’s Tears, China Glaze Kinetic Candy, China Glaze Electric Beat

I was in the mood for one last summery hurrah before we settle into brisk Autumn weather, and these stripes were what I ended up with.I usually love the crisp lines you get with tape manis, but this time I painted the stripes freehand with a nail art brush. It’s so much easier than waiting for a million coats of polish to dry enough to be able to put tape on!

The next day I was in the mood for something a bit more edgy, so I added some Orly Liquid Vinyl, which has become my holy grail black nail polish. This was one coat people! One!

OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, OPI The ‘It Color’, OPI Dating A Royal, OPI Mermaid’s Tears, China Glaze Kinetic Candy, China Glaze Electric Beat, Orly Liquid Vinyl

Day 23 – Inspired by a Movie

5 May, 2013 By Rosie 2 Comments

Orly Androgynie, piCture pOlish Heavy Metal, Spectraflair Topcoat

Finally, day 23! Posted 242 days after day one, but let’s not dwell on how long this thing is taking me (to be honest, I kind of forgot about it for a while). Fingers crossed I’ll get all 31 days done within a year!

Day 23 is Inspired by a Movie. Saturday was May the 4th, also known as Star Wars Day. I originally attempted a mani with a Stormtrooper, R2-D2 and C-3PO, but it was a giant fail and I gave up half way through. I settled for painting my nails with Orly’s Androgynie, which is the most space/galaxy looking polish I own, and then later in the day I added some piCture pOlish Heavy Metal and spectraflair sparkles!