Inside Out Nails

I recently saw the movie Inside Out with my parentals and what a hoot! Seriously a great film, super funny and wonderful for helping children regulate their emotions. Love a movie with a witty script and psychological benefits!

Any the who, obviously a nail design must ensue, capturing the quirky characters Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust.

You will need:

Sunshine yellow polish - O.P.I I Just Can't Cope-A-Cabana

Moody blue polish - Essie I'm Addicted 

Very violet polish - Covergirl XLPlumped-Up Plum  

Blood red polish - O.P.I Big Apple Red

Grass green polish - O.P.I You Are So Outta Lime

Dark purple polish - Barry M Indigo 

White polish - Face of Australia Cool Cotton

Black polish - Essence Black is Back

Base coat - Revlon Quick Dry Base Coat

Fast drying top coat - Essence quick dry topcoat 

Top coat - Seche Vite

Dotting tools

Striping brushes

Start with a base coat and then paint each nail a different colour to match the 5 emotions represented in the movie

Add a layer of fast drying top coat to ensure the white we use for the eyes over the colour isn't blended

Take your white polish and use dotting tools and striping brushes with white polish to create the different shaped eyes. 

Now add details to the eyes to really show their personalities. 

Joy - oval eyes with a blue outline, blue iris and arched blue eyebrows 

Sadness - round eyes with blue iris and black glasses frames

Fear - round eyes with purple iris and concerned purple eyebrows

Anger - trapezium eyes with red iris and frowning eyebrows

Disgust  - cat-like eyes with green iris and fluttering eyelashes

Leave plenty of time for the designs to dry and add a glossy top coat taking care to glide, not drag, the brush across the nail

Inspired by Jen Goode's Inside Out nail design

Candy Hearts

Regardless of your plans or feeling towards Valentines Day it's a perfect excuse for 

some cute and sweet nails!

Cupcake Nails

Sweet enough to eat

Recently I turned 21 on the same day my gorgeous sister turned 24! Yeah, it's pretty cool, we're not twins but we get to share a birthday! It's legit the funnest, greatest, most special thing ever getting to celebrate a double birthday with my best friend every year!!!

Birthday Buddies 

As part of the birthday celebrations we had some of the cutest cupcakes from a fabulous store in Sydney called My Little Cupcake. Their cupcakes were so delicious and adorable and inspired these cupcake nails

Pastel Dream Catcher Nails

Seriously McDreamy nails with a splash of glitter!

Pineapple Nails

Of late I have been really appreciating fruit, the sweet juicy taste of the flesh and especially how aesthetically extraordinary they are! This has sparked an insane amount of inspiration for fruit themed nail art. Earlier in the year I did these Watermelon Nails which I adored so I want to do a few more starting with the delicious pineapple!!!

Cherry Blossom Nails

How beautiful are cherry blossoms! They are too divine and I've seen some really elegant cherry blossom nail designs around, especially this one by Nails by Kayla Shevonne, so I wanted to have a go

PRISM

Katy Perry
Prism Album Cover inspired nails

I have been blasting Katy Perry's PRISM as my car dance tunes and been loving it! Despite the odd looks I get when getting my shimmy on in traffic I don't care cause This is how we do! and I feel like Walking on air with the windows down and my hips shaking.

Not only is the music on this album majestically whimsical and awesome so is the album cover art

For this nail art I am focusing on the delicate rainbow ombre that is dancing over her shoulder, glinting in the sunlight, with silver lines and accents echoing the album borders and triangular track list