Allo polish Pals!
How are you? I hope your going to have
an exciting weekend! As you are reading this I am probably on the
plane, or have arrived in England! Yaaaay! That doesn't mean I don't
have a good post to show you. I've been in talks with the lovely
Robin of Roaring Nails – Have you seen her blog? She is an
incredibly sweet and lovely lady who comes up with nail art designs
that always blow me away. She has such precision and her nail art is
always flawless in my opinion. Skills! I recently discovered we share a
love of sushi – sushi lovers unite! Of course I had to ask her if
she would be interested in doing a manicure swap with me and I was
delighted when she agreed. Robin decided to recreate my pigment nails
and in turn I chose to recreate her beautiful 'Minty Window' Nails.
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| To start us off on this epic adventure we have ABOVE my pigment nails on the left, and Robin's beautiful creation on the right. Her version is so beautiful and I just love it! Robin did something SPECIAL to add to her pigment manicure. I could tell you everything but I really advice you go visit her blog to see what extra detail she put into her manicure. You've seen my tutorial but Robin stepped it up! Much loves! |
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| Left: My recreation of Robin's Minty Windows. Right: Robin's stunning and original design. |
I have to say I found this manicure
really challenging, it was really hard to get a perfectly neat square
on the nails so I really admire how amazing Robin's original manicure
looked. I was up for the challenge but I really don't think I could
have done these nails justice. I did one thing slightly different to
Robin's Minty Windows. The square was supposed to be negative space
which means removing all the polish within that square but I hate my
stained nails so much that I added a very thin layer of nude polish.
I think this is where my lines became unnecessarily messy.
For my recreation I used two coats of
Essie's 'Minty Candy Apple' and once dried I then used tape to create
my square window. I then removed the polish within that square using
nail polish remover. I then added a very thin coat of Paris Memories
nude polish and added my gold flakes with Nails Inc's 'Fleet Street'.
I'd like to say a massive thank you to Robin, it's been great getting to know her and to take on her beautiful and challenging manicure. If you have not already checked out her blog please, please, please do! You will fall in love with her designs as much as I did :)
Have a great day my polish Pals,
Much love from England!
Ithi
fantastic idea, I know and love Robin designs. All designs are fantastic Ithi, really gorgeous nail art :)
ReplyDeleteGreat jobs, both of you :)
ReplyDeleteGreat mani! I really like them both :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat manicure again! Cool to make a mani swap! :-)
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll have a wonderful stay in England! Take care! <3
wow these manicures look so cool indeed!
ReplyDeleteI love this mani swap, such an unique idea! :)
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oo , yes , you both did fantastic manicure ! it is so cute to see all of them ! bravo !
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