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Tutorial Tuesday: Glitter Jellyfish

Hey everyone! Today I have a brand new tutorial tuesday for you, this time for some cute little glittery jellyfish. Don't forget to check out the tutorials tab at the top of my blog to see my previous tutorials! I've wanted to do jellyfish for ages, and I was really tempted to do them with needle dragging but I was in one of those 'it will probably fail so I wont even try' moods, and I'm quite glad because I like how these turned out. Perhaps I'll try needle dragging some time in the future instead. I'm starting to run out of ideas for tutorials, what would you'd like to see on future tuesdays? I only have a couple more tutorials left to post before I need to make some new ones, so any suggestions are welcome. Just don't ask for Christmas tutorials, I'm one of those spoil sports who doesn't even like the mention of Christmas before December begins. Anyway, the rest of the post will be after the jump! I've seen a few of you saying that you prefer it that way, as you can scroll through my blog much easier



The base for these nails was 2 coats of the gorgeous Orly FX - AquaPixel*, from the Pixel FX collection. As you can see in the difference in the photos above and below, topcoat transforms this polish, but it is also as equally as beautiful on its own. This polish is vaguely textured, but not to an extent that it's irritating. I really love this polish, and I think it really suits the underwater look too.



And now for the tutorial...

Step 1: Paint your nails with your base colour, preferably blue.
Step 2: Paint semi-circles in white, this can be either acrylic paint or white nail varnish, and fill them in for the top of your jellyfish
Step 3: Using a thin brush, paint wiggly lines down from the semi-circle for the tentacles
Step 4: Paint on eyes using a thin brush or dotting tool, I used acrylic paint but you can also use polish if you'd prefer
Step 5: Finish off with a topcoat to seal in your design

What do you think? Let me know in the comments!
Alice

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Orly Black MegaPixel FX Review + Nail Art

Hey everyone! Today I have another review for you (I have a lot to get through), using the new Orly Black MegaPixel FX polish*, but this time I've included a bit of nail art. I'm actually really proud of these nails and I kept them on for a whole 3 days! Hopefully you will like them as much as I do. There's quite a few pictures in this post so I'm going to put them after the jump.


First up: the nail art! These nails were inspired by some shoes Cherry Healey posted on her Instagram, I screenshot them and when I was scrolling through my photos a couple of days later I saw them again and knew that I just had to recreate them, and I'm so happy with how they turned out. If you'd like I'm thinking about doing a tutorial for these nails, rather than explaining how I did them now, so let me know in the comments. The colours I used for the dogs were Butter LONDON - Cuppa, MASH - White, Butter LONDON - Cuppa mixed with a bit of MASH - Black for the grey, and black acrylic paint. Topped off with a coat of Seche Vite. 


The MegaPixel FX collection was released for Spring 2013 and features 6 'textured' glitters, although this is the most textured of the bunch. However, unlike the rest, this polish comes to life with a coat of topcoat, as you'll see below.  


This was 2 coats without topcoat and whilst it is textured it's not that textured. It's not uncomfortable and you could easily get away with wearing it just like this. 


Then I added 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat, and I was in love. I've been lusting after Zoya - Storm for ages and I think I found the perfect replacement. 


Of course I couldn't resist the temptation of nail art on such a blank (albeit pretty) canvas, and along came the dogs!


What do you think? Let me know in the comments. 
If you like the look of Black MegaPixel you can find it here with free shipping worldwide!
Alice

*some of the products in this post were provided to me for review but all opinions are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way

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