The 'Billie' Manicure: Floral & Girly

Buenos días fellow lacquer lovers! I'm back today with another custom manicure. If you read Thursday's post, you'll know that I had two of my college friends over last week and I did both of their nails. Hop back a few posts if you want to see Sophie's Harry Potter and France themed manicure but hang around here if you're interested in Billie's cute, floral and brilliantly girly manicure...

After much deliberation Billie plumped for small flowers, big flowers and patchwork nails, which happen to be one of my all-time favourite discoveries. We went with a pink theme and used various shades as the bases with blue and yellow as the main flower colours. Billie is a girly girl but with an edge to me, so the inclusion of black in two of the designs helps to bring out that aspect of her personality. 

If you have any questions, you can leave me a comment below or tweet me @rachelizabethxo. I would LOVE to hear from you and find out your thoughts!

Happy painting!

Rachel xo

Best Left For the Toes... Gold Gingham

Buenos días fellow lacquer lovers! Now I LOVE gingham-esque nails and I love, love, love this design on my toes, but after loving it so much on my toes and trying it out on my fingers I have firmly decided it is best left to the tootsies...

You will need the following basic colours:
- Patent/plain pastel/baby pink
- Gold

You might think this looks fab on the fingernails but it just didn't wow me on my own nails. Maybe gold over something like black would look better on me... who knows? I do love this on my toes though so it's definitely not a design to throw to the scrapheap. I think on someone else this would be a great design to pair with a similarly coloured pink dress and gold accessories for a party or formal event - one for you freshers to consider this September!

If you have any questions, you can leave me a comment below or tweet me @rachelizabethxo. I would LOVE to hear from you and find out your thoughts!

Happy painting!

Rachel xo

Neon Tribal

Buenos días fellow lacquer lovers! So, you know when you paint your nails an obscure colour then find you're bored of them... what do you do? Well, if you're me you create some random design then try to figure out if it fits into any category. Today's design is neon tribal and came about during my peak-of-summer neon phase...

You will need the following basic colours:
- Neon yellow
- Patent/plain black
You will need the following colours for the vertical stripes:
- Neon orange
- Neon green
- Neon pink
- Neon blue
- Neon purple

Despite the autumn creeping in I don't think neons are ready to get packed away for the colder months just yet and I think this could be brilliant paired with a simple, black outfit and neon accessories. 

If you have any questions, you can leave me a comment below or tweet me @rachelizabethxo. I would LOVE to hear from you and find out your thoughts!

Happy painting!

Rachel xo