Bathroom Tiles Part 3: The Bathroom Strikes Back // White & Blue Tile Nail Art

I'm back for another addition in the Bathroom Tile series! It's been a while since the last one (August last year 😯) and I've been wanting to do the whole blue Moroccan tile art for ages but I never did because I didn't want it to turn out awful. Does that make sense? I always put off doing things I want to do just because I'm afraid I'll do it wrong. It's so weird.

Before Pinterest I always envisioned myself having a stark white clinical bathroom with black subway tiles but now all I want is blue Moroccan tiles and monstera plants everywhere. One day...one day. For now living those dreams on my nails will have to do.

Polishes/Tools Used:-
- Cuccio // Mystery In Milan (off white)
- MoYou London // Surfs Up (blue)
- Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine // Berry Sorbet (pale blue)
- MoYou London Stamping Plate // Summer Lovin' 05
- Revlon Colorstay Gel Envy // Diamond Top Coat

Bathroom Tiles Part 1
Bathroom Tiles Part 2

Bathroom Tiles 2 // Green Mermaid Scale Nails

Remember way back in the early days of the blog when I did a post called Bathroom Tiles? No me neither, I had to remind myself lol. Well it can be found here, and it was some basic stamping on a white polish. This is some basic stamping on a green polish. I switched things up.

I did this look a month ago and I've been umming and ahhing other whether or not to post it because it's not great but it's not awful. It is it not however what I set out to do. 

I saw these fantastic tiles on Pinterest (where else?) and I love the wash of color and various shades of green and set about to recreate it. This was the result.

I really tried but my nail art skills are severely lacking. I tried smooshing with several different greens and a white but the Kure Bazaar just overpowered everything and it doesn't have that variation/watercolour feel to it. It still pretty though just a bit bland.

So I tried to add the darker greens via handpainting...it did not go well.

What even is this? It looks like I splashed some sewage water on top of my nails. I probably should've used acrylic paint instead of nail polish. Then I became more unsatisfied because there was still no depth and my clean white lines had been ruined. So I thought "frick it" and stuck a holo top coat on top.

I don't feel it salvaged it but I now know where I went wrong so hopefully when I attempt this again I'll get that beautiful wash of colour...the greens need to be darker as well. From afar though it kinda looks like the image, I'll just make sure to have people view my nails from three feet away when I do this type of mani again.

Polishes/Tools Used:
- Kure Bazaar // Hope (emerald green)

- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #4 (white)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #333 (Mint)
- Barry M Nail Paint // Diamond Glitter (scattered holo)

- Born Pretty // BP-109 Plate

Bathroom Tiles // Born Pretty & MoYou London

Not my favourite look I've ever done but I thought I'd post it regardless because we can't all be painting Monet for our mani's (well apart from piggieluv...that woman is insanely talented). This was also done a while ago, I'd say the end of September, so it's an oldie.

I love the Arabesque plate I got from MoYou mainly because it reminds me of all the blue Moroccan style bathrooms doing the rounds on Pinterest right now. And can you believe it I even attempted the other hand * le gasp *.

It was not a good attempt though. This right here was my very first attempt at reverse stamping while the design was still on the stamper. I used a small brush to paint on the other colours and I couldn't quite keep it in the lines and I didn't leave it to dry enough on some and smudged the base design. 

As you can see the designs don't quite fit some of my nails either. I didn't realise that MoYou do duplicate versions of most plates. I was wondering why some were called 'XL', I just thought it was a bigger plate but instead it has larger versions of the same designs featured on the normal plate. On my other hand these ones were fine as I tend to keep that hand quite short but my left hand is normally a medium length.

I really wanted to do a tile design with 4 designs on one nail however, I didn't have enough time and I was a little unsure of how to execute it. But there may be a Bathroom Tiles part 2 soon....

Polishes/Tools Used:
- Essie // Blanc (white)

- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #17 (deep blue)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #284 (sea blue)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #333 (Mint)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #271 (lilac)
- Avon Gel Shine // Moondust (pale grey) (used on other hand)
- Revlon // Colorstay Diamond Top Coat

- MoYou London // Arabesque 05 Plate