Beauty LLB: Let Them Eat Cake...

So as you may have gathered from my previous posts my second passion from Make Up is baking! I am baking mad! I love decorating cakes too, its like make up for cakes! True story. So this blog is my favourite where I am combining cake and nails to show you how to make your nails look tasty!

This weekend was the first London cake show: The Cake Decorating and Baking Show at ExCel by from ICHF Events. It is now over in London but it is going up north to Birmingham this November so start booking your tickets! First I want to give a couple of shout outs to some really amazing people that I met at the show and at the end I will post some amazing pictures of cakes from the show.

Hello and a massive THANK YOU to Susan from Cake Craft & Decoration Magazine who helped me and my Mum look for my Mum's purse when she lost it. Thank you so much for all your help and giving my mum extra hugs when she was worried, you were amazing.

Also to the mystery person who handed in my Mum's purse and didn't steal a penny THANK YOU xxx

Another HELLO to the amazing girls at Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes, Valeri & Christina . These two girls are seriously talented check out their cakes below! All hand made with butter cream (I think its called butter frosting in the USA). Both are nurses with talent for cake decorating they do cakes to order and they run classes throughout the year check out their designs and classes HERE. This is one class I would love to take, maybe they can teach me how to do a make up inspired cake. Here are some of their creations that were on display:

So on to the nail art inspired by all the cakes I saw (and ate). You will need the following:

Natural/Neutral nail polish

Tan or Brown nail polish

A darker tan/brown polish or Black nail polish

Bright colour nail polish

A darker similar shade to your bright colour nail polish

Either a Nail Art Brush or unloved make up brush

A smooth piece of paper (usually junk mail work best)

Here are my chosen colours, I am using an eyeliner brush that came in a set that I didn't like. The brush was not that great for eye lining but is perfect for nail art.

BLURRY Photo sorry. From Left to right: BarryM- top and base coat,Nails Inc -Jermayne Street, 17 -Grapefruit, Sinful- Stiletto

Bad eyeliner brush makes amazing nail art brush.

1. Paint your nails with a natural or natural tone just to fill in any ridges and give a nice background to your nail art.

2. Put a small dot of your Tan or Brown nail polish on to your piece of paper and with the brush paint two lines one shorter than the other, the shortest line will be the bottom of the cake so make sure there will be enough room to paint some butter cream/ frosting. Join the two lines together so it looks like an outline of a flower pot and paint it in. You may need two layers.

3. When dry put a small dot of your bright colour polish on the paper and then paint a semi-circle and add a little point to the top of the semi circle. Again you might need two coats so don't worry if it is not perfect the first time.

4. Put a small dot of your darker polish on to the paper ( I am using black nail polish) and then draw little lines vertically on the brown flowerpot like base to give the appearance of the creases in cup cake cases.

5. Next put another small dot of your darker but similar shade to your frosting on the piece of paper and paint an out line on the semi circle don't worry if it is not smooth, in fact it will look better as it will give the appearance of the lines when piping on frosting. Then using the same colour draw two short broken lines going diagonally on the frosting to give the appearance of shading.