Saturday 30 July 2011


Dallas Green - Sleeping Sickness


my sister (aka bestest best friend in the entitre world, claire at little love)
is completely and utterly obessesed with Hello Kitty! - folders emblazoned with with that little red bow, iPod and blackberry adorned with stickers and numerous pens/mugs/compact mirror shaped like that infamous feline face. so in an ode to her cutesey preoccupation, i thought i'd try out some Hello Kitty! nails and do a little Hello Kitty nail tutorial. (i know they're a little shakey and not perfect, but i sorta like how the face are slightly different - Hello Kitty sisters perhaps?)



you will need;
- a background colour of your choice (Topshop's Milkshake)
- a white (Barry M's no.66)
- a yellow/gold (17's Sphnix)
- a red (Misguided's Mischievous)
- a black liquid eyeliner (Barry M)
- a bent out bobby pin



after applying your base coat, load on your background colour all over the nail.



using your white, draw on thick white tips, curving them slightly so they're shaped like Hello Kitty!'s head. here is also where you make her ears, (but I forgot to do that till after I did the nose, sorry!) by using the edge of your brush to form tiny triangles for her ears. you WILL get varnish on the edges of your fingers, but that's easily remedied by dipping an earbud in nail varnish remover and tidying up!




take your bobby pin and dip it in the gold/yellow, and place a dot in the centre of the white bit of your nail, nearer to the tip of the nail than smack bang in the middle.




with the black eyeliner, form tiny dots for her eyes both side of her gold nose. then, pain three lines on either side of the nail for whiskers (and try and get the middle whiskers level with the eyes)




finally, take your bobby pin again and dip it in the red, and first, make a single red blob by the right ear (this is the middle bit of the bow). then, after dipping it in the red varnish, make slightly bigger red blobs either side of the first one to create the iconic red bow. finish with a top coat and revel in the praise you'll get from EVERYONE!

kitsch nails like this often spark either LOVE IT or hate it - what do you think? cutes and kitsch or tacky?


17 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOAH, get out. #1 as if Claire is your sister! Cuteee! #2 those nails, amazing! Although I could never pull them off myself, they look awesome.

New blog crush on you! x

Olivia said...

eeeeeeeeeee theyre so cute!!! :) x

Nicci St. Bruce said...

SUPER cute!

Unknown said...

Aww they look sweet! I am so impatient with nail art so i always fork out and get it done at a nail bar instead haha! your blog is gorge i couldn't not follow!!
Rachelle xxx
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♥ Sadie ♥ said...

Love these, so cute :).

Sadie x

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Joy said...

They're so cute, love the design! I wish I could be as neat as this xx

binia said...

eee, thank you for the lovely comments everyone! they're really easy to do, you should definitely give them a go!

islabell said...

those nails are amazing....seriously amazing.

Anonymous said...

hehe yay the hello kitty nails!!! you have to do these for my going away drinks and for when i actually go away! that way everytime i look at my nails (which is frequent) I'll be thinking of you!!!

xxxxxxxxxxxx

Lilmendoza said...

woweee!! so cute!!! and so neat!! mine would never look tha neat! well done!!! :) x

Temporary:Secretary said...

This is amazing! I LOVE IT!!! x

binia said...

thank you so much for the kind comments! now, less commenting, more hello kittfying your nails, people!

Anonymous said...

love this!! im new to the nail art world, not attempt anything this intricate yet! lol

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xx

Rachel said...

These are so, SO totally amazing - I can't get over how talented you are!

Hannah said...

so cute and so neat

Paige said...

HELLO KITTY NAILS! OH. MY. GOD. I used to be obsessed with Hello Kitty too, why didn't Iiii think of thissss! (Probably because I wouldnt have the patience to pull anything like this off! >.< :P) So cute! As is your blog :) x

Back to Front said...

Aah so so cute!x