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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Vintage effect roses and pinstripes

For my latest nail art manicure, I used Barry M's Strawberry Ice-cream and their Blue Moon on my ring finger. The colours themselves I think are great, the formula is smooth and leaves no brush marks when applied and are very opaque after just 2 coats.

For the flowers I used the same pink colour and regular acrylic paint and a thin nail art brush. Also the lines were painted with the white acrylic paint. The technique is great as I always found it difficult to remove the nail polish from the brushes and ended up replacing the brushes more often then I should. The paint, as a bonus, is inexpensive and the brushes come clean almost instantly.
  Lastly, for the leaves I used two different shades of green of standard nail art pens/brushes that I purchased as a set from eBay awhile ago. The glitter was just from a pot of loose silver glitter from a craft store. I find this for me works well and use a fan brush to apply it and manipulate it, although like any pure glitter polish i can be difficult to remove when large amounts are used.

This is no where near perfect and constructive criticism is welcome.
Next goal: Practice straight lines.
You've no idea how much the wonky lines irritated me when I wore it haha, MAJOR OCD!

If anyone was wondering the bottle I'm holding is Nubar - Indigo Ocean :)

2 comments:

  1. Are your stripes free hand? That's way better than I did my first time free handing (which was a few days ago!)

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    1. Yeah they're free hand. Just takes a really steady hand which I don't have when I'm doing my own nails haha

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