OPI - Liquid Sand nail art

Ever since I saw the promo pictures for the film The Great Gatsby, I loved the art in the background. I then proceeded to fall in love with the idea when Sammy from The Nailasaurus did her take on it too. Combining the idea of that and the fact that I've also wanted to try out some proper textured nail art, I put them together and came up with this!

I have to say, this is probably one of my favourite nail art looks that I've done! It turns out that liquid sand is a very forgiving texture to work with as many of the usually wiggly lines that I usually create are just hidden by the texture!

For this look, I combined my new love Alcatraz... Rocks! (of which you can check out my review of here!) with another of OPI's liquid sand shades in Honey Ryder. After adding some random lines and triangles, this is the final look!

Textured "Ruffian" style nails

I've got something a little different today nail wise. I've never tried the Ruffian look before and decided to go for something textured to try it out! Using two coats of OPI's Jinx as the base colour, I then layered over one coat of NYC's Full Metal Jacket slightly further down the nail. I really like how this look came out! This is definitely a look that is super quick to do which just gives you something a little different from a plain colour if you want a little pizzazz! The textured nature of Jinx also made the gold take on the same texture and even though it looks really rough, there is something about it that I really like!

In the sunlight

31 day challenge - Day 24 - Inspired by a Book

The challenge of inspired by a book was the most difficult for me to think of a design for so far. I went through so many options in my head but couldn't think of anything appropriate! I eventually decided to re-do an earlier look and settled on a  Lord of the Rings style look. It turned out alright, nothing incredible though! The script is very difficult to do - it's so fiddly and it doesn't help when you have wobbly hands..

31 day challenge - Day 22 - Inspired by a Song

The next "inspired by" challenge is a song! I went through my entire Spotify playlist trying to figure out which would actually work before I settled on Black and Gold by Sam Sparro. I think this look turned out pretty well and it gave me the chance to use another of OPI's liquid sand shades - this time in Honey Ryder!

Sam Sparro's Black and Gold - the inspiration for this look!

31 day challenge - Day 8 - Metallic

Today challenge was the worst so far - metallic polishes are notoriously hard to work with and even harder to think of a pattern with! I'm definitely not over the moon with this but I couldn't think of much else, however much of a cop out that sounds.