Monochrome Geometric with a Splash of Purple

Hi everyone!

Today I have a this geometric design for you, along with a little secret about me!

I'm going to start by telling you my secret: I love socks. Yes, socks. Socks are amazing. But not just any socks - I love socks with weird or eye-catching patterns, with funny animals of fruit on them. I own a lot of socks, all of which are wonderful and a bit weird - I have socks with owls, with hedgehogs, with pugs listening to a walkman, and so on.

Hehe, okay, I'm not sure if loving weird socks is a bit crazy or if there are a lot of people that like funny socks - do you like them?

Now, why did I tell you that, you might think. And maybe you might have guessed it already: today's design was inspired by my new socks! I bought a bunch of socks a few days ago and one of them has this lovely geometric pattern on it - it's absolutely gorgeous!

Fun fun! When I saw it, I not only definitely wanted to buy these socks, but I also immediately knew I wanted to make this design into nail art.

The colours I used here are: 

Black on Black - Sinful Colors

Alpine Snow - OPI

Ate Berries in the Canaries - OPI

At first I thought to do the geometric pattern on all of my nails, but I quickly decided that sometimes, less is more! Plus less work, haha.

I started out by painting my pointer finger and little finger with three coats of Alpine Snow.

I also painted on two coats of Ate Berries in the Canaries on the rest of my nails. When that had dried, I painted two coats of Alpine Snow on my middle finger, but not starting at my cuticles of course, because I wanted to leave a spot of purple visible.

Then I added some triangle studs to my pointer and ring finger and voila!

I then started to do the geometric pattern: now I haven't copied the pattern exactly the way it is - on the socks, the black lines and triangles sort of meet, but I kept it a bit simpler. I just painted on the triangles, added some "teeth" to some of them, and coloured the other ones in with black.

The geometric design isn't as neat as I wanted it to be - I mean, some of the lines aren't very straight and the triangles aren't all the same size - but for my first attempt at this design, I'm very satisfied!

Plus I got compliments about these nails in real life - I mean, like someone from my class noticed my nails. I always think it's so fun when people in real life notice my nails - it's only normal that everyone here notices them because I put up extra large pictures of them on my blog :D And although in real life I'm often positioning my hands a certain way so people can see my nails (do you guys do that too?) it's always lovely when people notice them :)

And to finish, I have some more lovely pictures for you:

Are you a fan of funky socks? And do you like this design? I'm very proud of myself for keeping it so simple - sometimes I overdo a design and it becomes a bit too much, but this time I really kept it clean!

Thanks for reading! :)

Houndstooth!

Hi everyone!

Today I have a houndstooth design for you. Houndstooth is one of my favourite prints ever - possible even my favourite!
I'm not yet so skilled as to make perfect houndstooth print, I never manage to get the white to look houndstoothy as well, if you know what I mean.  But I think they look pretty decent, no? :)

For this design I used:
FM1 - D'Orleac
Black on Black - Sinful Colours
DS Pewter - Opi (Raw Granite)

I started by painting my two middle nails with two coats of white.
Then I used a small brush to create the houndstooth pattern with black polish.

I always start by painting all the squares onto my nails. When I'm satisfied with the squares, I make the little triangle shapes on all of them (on the picture below, those shapes are at the bottom/left side of the squares).

After that, I add the two straight lines (in the picture below those are at the top/right side of the squares).

Then I used Opi's textured polish DS Pewter on my other nails, and added a topcoat to make it shiny since it's normally a matte polish with sparkles in it
(I have some swatches of this polish here, but it's from when I first started with this blog so they aren't the best swatches ever. Or even the sharpest pictures ever. But I guess you have to start somewhere right haha)

I did this design on both of my hands, here's a picture to prove it:

I know only my right hand is in focus here, but you can see that I did the design on both hands so that's good enough :)

What do you think of houndstooth print? I always love it, I think it looks so classy but special at the same time - the only downside is that it's a bit difficult to make. But it was worth it in my opinion!

Thanks for reading!