Galaxy nails have featured heavily on blog posts around the world for the past year or so.
I've never actually tried it as I thought it would be far to complicated but after trying out a few other designs I've decided to up my game!
Having already started out our 21 Days of Nails and then also seeing that Fee at Make Up Savvy has started a 15 Day Nail Challenge I thought it would be a great idea to combine the two and test out a Galaxy nail design today.
Hopefully she will link us in her post, but her blog can be found here for any other posts she puts up :)
Onto my designs....I decided to do two as I really got into the swing of things after trying out the dark galaxy nail design:
I started by painting my nails with a very thin coat of No7 Beautifully Black which is a silver glittery black, and then using Max Factor's Fantasy Fire and Odyssey Blue to create a dark glittery base representative of a mystical night sky.
After this I used my latest purchases of the China Glaze Neon colours, Pool Party and Turned Up Turquoise to create swirls and patterns along with Nails Inc's Cambridge Terrace to give a starry effect.
I then finished this with a top coat of China Glaze's Hunger Games edition of Luxe and Lush which will feature in an upcoming post also.
After I managed to cope with my attempt at galaxy nails for the first time, I removed my first attempt and thought I'd go for a more summery edition.....even though the weather isn't really reflecting the expected season! Sigh!
I started by using a pale blue base (Rimmel's Sweet as Sugar) and also the same Max Factor Fantasy Fire and Odyssey Blue, and Nails Inc's Cambridge Terrace to create a similar effect as before but in a lighter colour palette.
After this I used a coat each of the Saffron glitter nail polish in both silver and gold to give the best starry effect you could ever want with different shaped and sized glitter particles.
I actually found this polish by reading Fee's blog in the first place so I owe her this big time, you can find it on ebay here for £2.20 delivered and here are also some fabulous dupes of other polishes...bargain!
What do you think of my attempts? Are you a fan of galaxy nails?
I'm so impressed with myself, gone are the days when I stick to my simple manicure. The world is my oyster now ;)
Take a look at Make Up Savvy's blog, it's amazing!
L xxx
