RAAWRRR nails!

We just arrived in the South Wales town of Merthyr Tydfil last night. We have two days off, so this morning, after I finished my two hours in the Booking Office, I headed into the Town Centre. After getting a little bit lost and driving around for twenty minutes I eventually found the car park and walked into the main high street. Its not such a big town centre. There are lots of small shops and a small market. I've been wanting some nail art pens for a while now and went to Argos where i purchased two Rio Proffesional Nail Art Kits. One in Pastel and the other in Neon. They were £25.49 each and you get 8 colours in each. Each bottle has a double ended application with a fine line brush and a detailing pen tip. You also get a full bodied nail brush, glitter and a pack of nail rhinestone jewels.

I couldn't wait to get these colours home and try them out! I had a quick google of "tropical nail art" to find some summer themed inspiration and found this design at sharihearts blog. Have a look at it to get a step by step tutorial!

Heres a photo of my attempt at the design.

Using two shades from the neon collection and one from the pastels I applied the base colours to my nail, then after it dried I created the black tiger stripes using the fine line brush in the black polish. Then I applied the clear top coat to protect them. 

I keep my nails short as I suffer from eczema and this helps to reduce scratching but nice bright nails keep me feeling like a girly girl!

Here are all 16 colours from the two collections.