Guest Post with Bright With Delight - Nail Tutorials

As I'm away at the moment I asked my friend Karen to do a guest post for myself. I love guest posts they're a great way of checking out new bloggers. Today Karen will be showing you some great nail tutorials, she's awesome at them!
I hope you love her as much as I do :)

So I've known Sarah for 3 years now and she is the main person who inspired me to keep blogging! I feel so lucky to have her as a friend and I am delighted she has asked me to be a guest on her fabulous blog while she's away living the life in Florida! #welljell, so I've put together a trio of Nail tutorials were you can create the designs yourself in 5 or less simple steps.

I used fake nails because my nails are a bit short at the moment and I prefer working with longer nails anyway so its win-win situation LOL.

These are all the materials needed…

These nails are GREAT! I got them in Penneys for €1.50, bargain I know! I got the nude ones because they are easier to paint over. I picked out different nail sizes and stuck them on a nail wheel with blue tack so they would be easier to paint.

First design: The 'Yin-Yang' 

Step one: Paint the nail using a thick white polish. I used a 'Barry M' white and did 3 coats. Some whites can be watery so make sure you do enough coats to make sure no other colours are popping through. 

Step two: I got a brush and painted the swirl of the yin-yang on the nail using black acrylic paint. 

Step three: When this dried in I painted one half of the nail black.

Step four: I then got a black and white dotting tool and made a big dot in the opposite colour from the half I was painting. 

Step five: Wait until dry and apply a clear top coat 

Second design: 'Aztec'

Step One: Using a thin brush, paint two or three (depending on the length of your nail) black lines going across the nail. Don't worry if it's a tad messy we can fix it up later ;) 

Step Two: Fill in the marked off boxes with whatever colour you like. I chose an aqua green and reddish colour.

Step Three: Go over the black lines you originally painted and now try make them as straight as you can.

Step Four: Using black and white dotting tools and brushes design the colours you just painted with dots, lines, zigzags whatever you like. Get creative and make it your own! I went simple and just painted zig zags and polka dots. 

Step Five: Wait till dry and apply a clear top coat.

Third design: 'Cheetah Print' #RAWR

Step One: Pick the colour/colours you want the cheetah dots to be. Make a few scattered dots (not too thick) all over the nail. Don't be afraid to mess up because it's all trial and error and about seeing what works and what doesn't.

Step two: Make little semi-circles using a black dotting tool around the coloured dots. It looks better if the semi-circles don't meet and there's a gap between them.

Step Three: Fill in the rest of the nail with little black squiggles and dots. 

Step Four: Wait till dry and paint with a clear coat.

The end result looks a little something like this...

I would love if you tried out some of these designs and tagged me on Instagram @brightwithdelight or on twitter @karenmccord94 .

Stay tuned to my Instagram account as I will be posting a short video on how to create these and more nail designs!

Sally Hansen I Heart Nail Art Pens | Review

Sally Hansen I Heart Nail Art Pen

This was the worst nail buy I have had in a looooooooong time!!! It was an absolute impulse buy, I just saw the pictures that they had advertising the pens and thought what I saw was what I was going to get. I suppose there should be some blame on my part for buying a product I didn't know anything about but that's what happens when you’re in boots during a 3 for 2 sale and just put stuff in your basket without thinking.

Firstly I thought what I was buying was a pen with a small brush tip, because to me that’s what the pictures looked like it was but what I got was a hard tip like you would get from a felt tip marker!

When I got home and tried them out, it took me forever to get any product out and when I did it was a pretty miniscule amount.

I wish I could find a picture of the advertisement that I saw in boots when I was buying the pens to show you how I thought it was going to look because it really made it out to be a really flowing varnish with a very easy movable tip.

In the end I was just really disappointed with the pen and in the end I didn’t like them because:

They were too difficult for the product to come out

The colour came out very opaque and for a nail pen I would want something more pigmented

Too expensive, at €8.95 per pen that is just too expensive for myself, especially on something I won’t be using again.

So that’s what I think about these oul pens, I won’t be buying them again and for such a good brand like Sally Hansen I thought they would have been so much better.

Thanks for reading and if you have bought these pens too then let me know what you thought about them.

Love Sarah xoxo