TMH Fashion Week : House of Holland

So hello and welcome to this week's new series : Try My Hand Fashion Week ! I have a full seven days, from Monday to Sunday (whilst I'm preparing my move to uni in the UK), of nail art inspired by fashion designers either fresh from the runway at New York fashion week, or way back from Spring 2012 ! So prepare yourselves for a week of funky prints and bright patterns, it's TMH Fashion Week !

Hey there guys ! So today marks the last day of this TMH Fashion Week of scheduled posts, and I'll be back tomorrow with a brand new NOTD for you all ! I've chosen a British designer I really love for this last post in the series, and I hope you all like it !

So as you've probably seen, this is a design by House of Holland from Fall 2012 ! Okay so my zigzags are a bit wonky, but I loved how this turned out ! I really need to practice my nail art brush skills some more, but I'm happy with how this looks all the same ! I had a hard time choosing which design I was going to recreate, because all the House of Holland Fall 2012 collection was full of bold patterns that would look great on nails, by I ended up choosing this one, as it's simple yet stunning !

For this design, I started off with a base of Butter London Royal Navy, this is my first ever Butter London nail polish, and I can tell you, I'm in love ! It practically painted itself, the formula was amazing (best ever) and this is the first navy polish I've had that hasn't stained my nails to death ! LOVE ! For the zigzags, I started off with a big chunk of which zigzags so that all the colours on top would show up well, and for the colours I used P2 Flirt With Me, Kiko Electric Blue, OPI Big Apple Red, Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream and P2 Summer to Go !. I could have done with slightly more opaque colours, so they could have all shown up, but I still like how it looks.

And that's it everyone ! Can you believe it, the end of another series ! I'll be back tomorrow with some brand new nails, no doubt in tune with the theme for the Freshers Week event for that evening, so make sure you tune in for that !

See you tomorrow everybody !

TMH Fashion Week : Marc Jacobs (again)

So hello and welcome to this week's new series : Try My Hand Fashion Week ! I have a full seven days, from Monday to Sunday (whilst I'm preparing my move to uni in the UK), of nail art inspired by fashion designers either fresh from the runway at New York fashion week, or way back from Spring 2012 ! So prepare yourselves for a week of funky prints and bright patterns, it's TMH Fashion Week !

Hey everyone ! So today is moving day on towards Bath to start my course at university (after Freshers' Week, that is), so today and tomorrow I expect to be pretty busy, but never worry, I have today and tomorrow still at the ready with scheduled posts ! And without further ado, today's nails !

So I know I've already done a Marc Jacobs design in this fashion week series, but I couldn't resist this one after seeing it showcased at the New York Fashion Week ! This design is for Spring 2012, and although it seems kind of gloomy for Spring/Summer, I really love the pattern on this dress ! I concentrated on the bottom part of the dress, mainly because I was too lazy to do plain black and white checks on one nail !

Creating this design was very simple : all I used was American Apparel T-Shirt for the white base, then using my Models Own Wah Nails nail art pen in black, I drew on the pattern on each nail. I started by doing triangular shapes coming up from the tip of each nail, then alternated stripes and checks between each section of triangle. I must admit, my hand was pretty achy at the end but it was totally worth it !

So what do you think ? Do you like this design as much as I do ? I actually kept this design on my nails for quite a while (over 12 hours, which is pretty good, considering I didn't keep on any of the designs I featured in this series), which just goes to show how much I love it !

So just one day left in my TMH Fashion Week series, I hope you're enjoying it ! Tune in for more tomorrow, and enjoy the rest of your day !

TMH Fashion Week : Betsey Johnson

So hello and welcome to this week's new series : Try My Hand Fashion Week ! I have a full seven days, from Monday to Sunday (whilst I'm preparing my move to uni in the UK), of nail art inspired by fashion designers either fresh from the runway at New York fashion week, or way back from Spring 2012 ! So prepare yourselves for a week of funky prints and bright patterns, it's TMH Fashion Week !

Hey there everyone ! I've got a great design for you all today, as you've probably seen in the title, inspired by Betsey Johnson ! Now although I don't own anything by Betsey, I have been a fan of her designs for quite a while now, they're so bright and fun, and super cute when you recreate them on your nails !

Awesome, right ? This design is from Betsey Johnson's Fall 2012 range, which was full of bright (well, for fall awyway) and bold prints, and I had a hard time choosing which design I was going to recreate in nail art, seeing as I knew from the beginning that I was going to do a Betsey design ! I thought this look was good because I was able to keep it simple on each nail, and not just do the same (plus it had some leopard print in it, always choose the leopard print) !

So to recreate this Betsey design, the polishes I used were American Apparel Hassid for the black, 17 Baked Cherry for the red on my middle finger, P2 Elegant for the nude colour on my thumb and little finger, then I (obviously) used my Models Own Wah Nails nail art pens in black and white for the detail on each nail. I tried a new style of leopard print on the middle finger to represent the shoes, and I was expecting it to turn out slightly bigger than it did, but I think it looks fine how it does, if a little bit small !

I hope you like this Betsey design, I have a feeling I'll be doing more nail art inspired by her designs in the future, I now have a stock in my "inspiration folder" from when I was trying to decide which outfit I would recreate for this series !

Have a great day everybody !

TMH Fashion Week : Matthew Williamson

So hello and welcome to this week's new series : Try My Hand Fashion Week ! I have a full seven days, from Monday to Sunday (whilst I'm preparing my move to uni in the UK), of nail art inspired by fashion designers either fresh from the runway at New York fashion week, or way back from Spring 2012 ! So prepare yourselves for a week of funky prints and bright patterns, it's TMH Fashion Week !

Yeah ! Hey everyone, it's day three of the series ! I hope you're enjoyed seeing all my different interpretations of looks on the runways, old and new ! Today's featured designer is a British designer, so one who will be appearing this week at London Fashion Week (but I obviously did these designs during New York Fashion Week, so I couldn't put any of his new collection in), it's Matthew Williamson !

So you may be able to tell from the long nails in this photo that this was the first design I decided to recreate ! It's a pretty rough interpretation of the original look, but I think it's pretty close, given the tools I have and the polishes I own (can you believe I don't own any orangey-red polishes ?) ! This design is from Fall 2012 by the way, just in case you didn't see it in the corner of the image !

The polishes I used for this design were Barry M Bright Purple for the base, I would have been better off with a more reddish-purple, or even with more stripes on top of the base colour, but oh well ! For the stripes I used OPI Big Apple Red, P2 Hug Me ! and OPI Skull and Glossbones. All I basically did was paint the different coloured stripes in different directions to eachother, and I do really like how it turned out, even though it's really quite different to the original design.

And that's it for today guys ! I hope you liked my loose interpretation of this design ! I can tell you it took forever to do (partly because I was watching a marathon session of Desperate Housewives on TV, but that's beside the point) but I think it was definitely worth it ! Come back tomorrow for more fashion nail art !

Enjoy your day !

TMH Fashion Week : Marc Jacobs

So hello and welcome to this week's new series : Try My Hand Fashion Week ! I have a full seven days, from Monday to Sunday (whilst I'm preparing my move to uni in the UK), of nail art inspired by fashion designers either fresh from the runway at New York fashion week, or way back from Spring 2012 ! So prepare yourselves for a week of funky prints and bright patterns, it's TMH Fashion Week !

Okay so here goes for day two of my fashion series ! I was originally only going to feature designs I had seen for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013, but when I saw this design from Spring 2012, I knew I had to include it ! I've done a pretty abstract interpretation of the design, but I still think it turned out pretty well !

So as you can see from the photo, title and what I said previously, today's nail art is inspired by a print from Marc Jacob's Spring 2012 line, released a whole year ago ! I only realised after finishing this design on my nails that the print is supposed to represent bird-like shapes, as opposed to what I thought was an abstract floral print ! It must be my floral obsessed nail art mind that persuaded me to turn it into a floral, oh well !

For this nail art, the polishes I used were American Apparel Hassid for the base (seriously, this polish is a-mazing, words can't describe how happy I am to have purchased it), then for the bird/flower things, I used OPI Strawberry Margarita, P2 Artful and then 17 Baked Cherry. Considering I messed up on what the design was supposed to represent, I'm really happy with how it turned out !

So I hope you all liked this second post in the fashion series, I certainly enjoyed making all the nail designs, even though it's been hectic trying to fit in writing all the posts this week !

Have a great day everyone !

TMH Fashion Week : Kate Spade

So hello and welcome to this week's new series : Try My Hand Fashion Week ! I have a full seven days, from Monday to Sunday (whilst I'm preparing my move to uni in the UK), of nail art inspired by fashion designers either fresh from the runway at New York fashion week, or way back from Spring 2012 ! So prepare yourselves for a week of funky prints and bright patterns, it's TMH Fashion Week !

Hey there everyone, it's kickoff day for my new series of fashion-inspired nail art, and to start it off off it's Kate Spade ! I love the bright patterns and great inspiration you can get for nails from her clothing and handbag range ! So without futher ado, the nails !

So this design is, as I said before, by Kate Spade and was recently featured for the Spring 2013 release in New York. I love this type of gingham design and I can't believe I haven't done anything similar before ! I haven't concentrated on getting slightly darker colours where the lines of a same colour cross, but I think it looks fine as it does !

For these nails, the polishes I used were American Apparel T-Shirt for the white base, then for the plaid/gingham colours I used P2 Flirt With Me for the pink, Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream for the blue and 17 Baked Cherry for the red lines. I love the way these colours work together. I did contemplate doing the really faint tiny lines between the big pink stripes, but decided against it as I think it would have looked far too busy on my nails !

And that's it for today's first installment in this new series ! I hope you enjoyed this post, and look forward to plenty more during this week ! Enjoy the rest of your day !