Striping tape and gold foil

So I have lots of striping tape and thought I could finally do something with it! Aaaand this is what I came up with :) It actually looked better in real life but oh well, I'm better at doing my nails than taking pictures heh :D The only annoying part in striping tape is that I just cannot get it to stick properly! They start peeling off by the end of the day and I just tear them off cause they're annoying! :D:D

 Here is a design I did for when I went to my friends party, something more flashy for that occasion ;P

 And what I didn't know was how slippery the gold foil was! It was really hard to print on top of it because the image kept on smudging :( But otherwise I liked these alot :)

Butterfly and Totoro nail art

So for these nails I got my inspiration from the wings of a butterfly :) And below you can see how I did them step-by-step

 Not quite as I had expected, somehow I didn't get the black areas right.... but practice makes perfect!

 For these nails I (obviously) got my inspiration from Totoro (who is the cutest ever! :D) and for those of you who haven't heard of Totoro, it's a cute Japanese anime film :) On the thumb I have Totoro, on the middle finger one of the smaller white animals that walk around now and then, and on the pinky the black small puff balls that are in the house :D

Matte top coat

So I have just fallen in love with matte, and I happen to have bought a matte top coat, which basically turns any nail polish under it into matte :D

Here I just used a dark blue and used the matte top coat on top :)

 I then added a coat of nail polish of the same colour on the tips, giving a nice effect :) although the picture doesn't really do it justice :P

 And just a pic of matte pink :) I actually used my bm plates to print little bells in white on top but they didn't really come out looking that good so I just let it be :D

A spacey design and a pastel gradient

I have no idea how I came up with these nails, just randomly made it up as i went along :D I did want to use my foils however, so here I just painted a stripe with the adhesive, although the result wasn't always very smooth so I guess maybe a thin paintbrush would have been better :D

 I then used bm 14 to do the stars on one side and added one or two small silver plate things (can't remember what they're called!) too :D

 Here I  thought a pastel gradient would look very pretty and it did, although I didn't get it to be as smooth as I would have wanted :/ It was fairly easy, I just started off with a layer of pink nail polish and then used a small sponge to do a stripe of yellow, on top of which I did a stripe of green and so on, trying to get a smooth gradient effect as I went along :) I just added a coat of sparkly see through nail polish and top coat and that was it :)