Everyone has noticed lately that celebs are getting into the nail art trend.  Rihanna, Katy Perry, and even less daring celebs like Zooey Deschanel are getting in on the fun.  In fact Adrienne Bailon even chronicled her nail polish line debut on her television show, Empire Girls. So with everyone getting in on it, there are more and more fun polishes coming out (Barry M Chameleons, Ciate Velvet Nails, etc) and art supplies are getting easier and easier to find. Minx has even released their infamous nail strips to the public recently.  So with all that going on and all these awesome designs showing up on celebs Twitter accounts and television shows and even on the red carpet...I decided to have a little fun with it myself!  I'm starting a blog series called, Who Are You Wearing?  In each WAYW post I will be copying the nail art of a famous person for you to see.  Even though these celebs are getting their digits professionally dressed up, most of the art they're getting is totally accessible to even  beginner artists!  I'm going to show you the celebrity nails, tell you what you need to have and do to achieve them (in extreme cases I'll be telling you how you can wear the trend at home) and then show you the recreation of the nails.  So here we go with the very first in the series!!

This gorgeous nail art was sported by Busy Phillips recently and posted on Instagram. Other than the colors, which are fab, I love that this mani is both unexpected and random but also classy and wearable at the same time.  The pattern is simple, the lines are easy to achieve and the overall effect is eye catching without being flashy.  You could easily wear these to work without drawing too much attention to yourself.  So what do you need to get the look? First you'll need two contrasting colors of polish.  I'm copying this look to the T so I used A-England Galahad for the teal tone and Barry M Navy for the deeper blue.  You'll also need some thin gold striping tape and some gold half studs.  If you can't find these or don't want to order online you can substitute a gold striping polish and use a dotting tool to replicate the studs.  Here are the nails I did to match Busy's:

Since she isn't showing her thumbs, I did this hand with a solid teal thumb and the other I did a half and half with the gold tape.  I started by polishing my index and middle finger with A-England Galahad and the other two fingers with Barry M Navy. Both are basically one coat polishes so I didn't need a second coat but if your colors do be sure to get to full coverage before going to the next step.  For the stripes you have two options.  I'm pretty steady with my hands so I free handed the teal and blue stripes but if you're not then use some tape to tape off the area you don't want polish on (make sure the bottom layers are TOTALLY dry) and then add the blue stripes on the first two fingers and the teal stripe on the ring finger.  Last I used my striping tape to section off the striped areas and then added the gold studs.  Follow with two coats of top coat (I used Seche Vite) and voila!! Celeb worthy nail art. 

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Today is a special day for the nail blogging world!! That's because today is one of my very best polish buddies, Debbie of The Crumpet's birthday!  To celebrate her birthday with her, I've done up some very Crumpety purple nails!  If you follow Debbie, you probably already know that in honor of her special day, it's purple week on her blog! So what better way to celebrate with her than with this gorgeous holo purple from A-England.  I know what you're thinking...holo?  Yeah...well it seems the weather decided to celebrate England style 'cause there's not a drop of sunny sunshine to be found.  This is Lady Of the Lake though, and if you Google some swatches of her, be prepared to drop about £9 on a bottle.  You won't be able to resist!!  I used a Lilac Plate stamp to add some little candies and ice cream cones to the accent nail.  It felt a shame not to add some fun birthday flare, but it's also a crying shame to cover the beautiful Lady!  All my colors used are English as well. 'Cause anything worth doing, is worth doing right!!  Seriously though, if you haven't checked out her blog yet, please do.  It's very worth the look and you can leave her some birthday wishes!! 

Colors used: A-England Lady of the Lake, Barry M Silver Foil, Lilac Plate A01, Seche Vite topcoat.

A few weeks ago I was perusing some of the blogs I follow and I spotted a swatch for a GORGEOUS color from a brand called A-England.  I did some research online and it turns out that they have a whole line of beautiful polishes.  I chose a few of them just to see how they perform before I invested in too many of them. I have to say, I'm thoroughly impressed.  I got Tristam and Galahad (which is the base coat above) and they were both opaque in two coats, performed great with my Seche Vite, AND were smooth, shiny and free of chips for days. If you haven't invested in any of them yet, I highly reccomend it.  They retail for £9 each which I feel was very reasonable for the level of quality (though I was a bit disappointed in the design of the bottle!) Of course, I was lucky enough to have a friend in the UK who was more than happy to send me some of them but if you're not the shipping on them is very reasonable (just £4) and there's no minimum purchase which is nice when you're trying out new brands.  Enjoy the simple art for today (and the Sir Galahad the Brave quote from my favorite Monty Python movie!!) :P

Base: A-England in Galahad

Tips: Barry M in Indigo