Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (with Ebalay Crackle Nail Paint)

This is the last week of the Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge. And the theme this week is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I decided to have some fun with the Ebalay Crackle Nail Paint that I got from KKCenterHK.com

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (with Ebalay Crackle Nail Paint)

The nail paint from Ebalay is a lovely flesh pink shade - it is a very pretty shade numbered 028. Now this is a crackle nail paint which basically means it cracks on your nails as it dries up.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice - Sugar Spun Nails Tutorial

This week's challenge is sugar spice and everything nice. I am doing a quick photo tutorial of the sugar spun nails taking inspiration of a small clutch clip that I have!

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

The first step is to paint your nails in the base color. I chose white.

Then take out the nail paint in a darker color (I chose red) and take out a few drops on a sheet of paper (a plastic sheet is better as it won't soak up your nail paint).

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Who Inspires You

This week's theme for the Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge is Who Inspires You. If you are a regular blog follower you must already know that I am inspired by both my mom and my sister - for their simplicity and the way they lead their lives.

Now my sister is into scientific research while my mom is now retired but used to work in foreign affairs. Nail art depicting any of the two was very difficult especially with my chopped off short nails. So I decided to pick something common to them - that is simplicity. I chose soft pastels to do the nail art and I hope both of them like it!

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Who Inspires You

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Who Inspires You

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Who Inspires You - TUTORIAL

 And here is a quick tutorial on how to create this nail art. Step by step picture explains the whole thing.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Gotta Love Chick Flicks - Devil Wears Prada Nail Art

This week's Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge is all about chick flicks. I have many in my list but for a nail art inspired by a chick flick I picked The Devil Wears Prada. The colors red and black, the devilish heels - just what I picked for the nail art this week!

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Gotta Love Chick Flicks - Devil Wears Prada Nail Art

I think this nail art is pretty simple to understand just from the pictures and hence I have not done a picture tutorial for it.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Gotta Love Chick Flicks - Devil Wears Prada Nail Art

I used a bright red nail paint for the base and the pattern is created using a black nail paint. I am not very comfortable drawing neat lines with the brush yet so you will notice the lines are extremely straight. But overall I like this look on my nails (specially when the nails have grown a bit longer)

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Gotta Love Chick Flicks - Devil Wears Prada Nail Art

Here is a picture of my inspiration - the famous devil heel from the book cover of The Devil Wears Prada.

image source: ego-living.com

The heels of Devil Wears Prada are upside down (while on the first finger I've made it the opposite). You can do the same nail art reversing the heel pattern if you like.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Gotta Love Chick Flicks - Devil Wears Prada Nail Art

Hope you liked this simple yet bold nail art. Oh and I finally found an easy way to do this watermark around the nail. The method of Gimp was very tedious and finally I found something that doesn't take ages to do. Comment below if you would like to know what I'm using now.

You can buy nail art tools easily by visiting bornprettystore.com

What is your favorite chic flick?

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Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Inspired By The Runway - Fishtail Braid Nail Art Tutorial

Its the fourth week in the Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge and I just realized I haven't posted details about this challenge at all! Silly me - well better late than never. Below is the details on the mani that we are supposed to do every week.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge

 1. Think Pink

Wear your favorite pink nail polish and nail art.

2.       Gimme That Bling

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, so put some sparkle on those nails!

3.      Delicate and Elegant

Adorn yourself with a lovely pattern, color or technique

4.      Inspired by the Runway

What is your favorite trend this season?  Show us your stylish nail designs!

5.      Gotta Love Chick Flicks

We can’t resist!  Wear a nail design inspired by your favorite chick flick.

6.      Who Inspires You?

Show some love to your favorite female role model by creating gorgeous nails in their honor.

7.      Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

That’s what little girls are made of!  Show off your sweet (or spicy) inspired nails.

8.      Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

It’s true, we do!  Let your nail designs show us how fun-loving you are!

Originally created by Neverland Nail Blog

This is week 4 so the topic is Inspired by the Runway - in the recently held Lakme Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2013 I saw a lot of beautiful pastels and what also caught my attention were the dresses in black and white geometric patterns. And in last week's challenge I really liked the fishtail braid nail art done by Shilpa from Love For Nail Art blog. So I took my runway inspiration and the fishtail braid nail art - put them together to create my runway inspired nails.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Inspired By The Runway

This nail art is simple to create (and I now realize I smudged the still wet nail paint while taking pictures, oh not again!)

First of all you need a handful of your favourite nail paints. I chose pastel pinks for the fishtail braid and the accent nail has the black and white geometric pattern.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Inspired By The Runway

Let's take a look at how I created the fistail braid and then I'll show you how to do the accent nail.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - 3 - Delicate and Elegant - Floral French Tips Tutorial

So this is the third week of the Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge and the theme this week is Delicate and Elegant. I know stamping would have been a good choice but since I had never tried using a paint brush before I thought let me try it this week.

So my nail art design is a Floral French Tip. And this week I have a tutorial for it as well!

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Delicate and Elegant - Floral French Tips

Before you take a look at the pics I am extremely sorry for the unclean edges - I did not notice them until it was too late and I was watermarking the photos!

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Delicate And Elegant - Floral French Tips

Things that you need for this nail art

• Two nail paints of your choice - I have used Lotus Herbals Colordew nail paint in white, and Sally Hansen Salon Manicure nail paint in a deep mehroon color
• A stripping nail art tool or painting brush - this has to be the thinnest possible - what you see in the pic is a number 0 brush and I have snipped off the bristles to reduce it to a very thin shape (will do a tutorial on how you can create your own stripping nail art brush sometime later)
• Top coat - used here Orly Top 2 Bottom
• Dotting tool (or a tooth pick)

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Delicate And Elegant - Floral French Tips

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - 2 - Bling Nail Art

Hi Friends

Here is my post for the second challenge in the Girly Girl Nail Art Series. I just almost burnt my eyelid - splattered boiling oil on the eye-lid so a short post this time with only pictures. No tutorial but if you want to see a tutorial please do leave your comments and I will try and do the tutorial in the coming week.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Bling Nail Art

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Bling Nail Art 

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Bling Nail Art 

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Pink Nail Art

Along with my other friends who love to do nail art I am doing a nail art challenge called the Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge. Basically every Friday starting today we will post a nail art  based on some theme. We will continue this for the next eight weeks.

Today's Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge is Pink Nails. Below is my nail art for this challenge.

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Pink Nails

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Pink Nails

Girly Girl Nail Art Challenge - Pink Nails

This nail art is pretty simple - take your favorite pink nail polish and paint all your nails. Once this dries up follow the below steps to create the focus nail.