Allo polish Pals!
How are you doing
today? Did you have a great weekend? I didn't really get up to much,I created some nail art that basically took all day. I was about 60% done on my first version before I messed up. I then started again. I took pictures, I was sort of satisfied with my freehand but the accent nails didn't please me at all so I ended up redoing three fingers again and finally.. I was happy with it!!
Today's manicure was
created after some brain storming and planning. I wanted to do
something that involved acrylic and freehand with the combination of
nail art stamping. I'll explain below how I actually created this! Its not the neatest looking manicure but I feel like I could maybe take this idea and go in different ways with it!
For this manicure I
began with my usual base of OPI's 'Nail Envy'. I then proceeded with
two coats of NYC's 'Williams Vintage'. I allowed this to dry and
then created a wavey line with grey acrylic paint – I did these
lines from one side to the other on each nail. Next I used black,
grey and white acrylic paint to 'shade' one side of each nail,
leaving the other side plain and white. I then used Born Pretty
Store's 'Black Stamping Polish' (review and info here) and tried to
stamp mainly my black and white side of each nail. Some stamping
overlapped onto the white side but that doesn't matter. I allowed
that to dry and then created a pinky/purple gradient with my acrylics
and fave brushes – this also took care of any stamping that had
strayed over my original grey line. I finished up by adding a line
between the greyscale side and the coloured side, cleaned around the
edges using my clean up brush and applied my Pro-FX top coat to seal
it all in. Of course I had to try matte, matte certainly one!
I really like how
effective it looks. It could be better but I
really liked experimenting with combining different things. I can see
more manicures like this in the future. Its a nice mix and quite an
enjoyable process for when I don't feel like doing full on freehand.
What do you
think of this acrylic/stamping combo? Do you like mixing up
techniques?
Have a wonderful day,
I'll catch you again on Wednesday!
Love
Ithi
Hi dear! You've done a great work it! I like the 3 dimensionality! Kisses
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Zauberin, It was fun to play around! <3
DeleteVery pretty! Yeah, I sometimes combine stamping with freehand.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, A.notcopyacat! I'm a big fan of your stamping! <3
DeleteIt's really gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, Maria! <3
DeleteI love the mix of softness with the gradient, with the contrast of the geometric design!
ReplyDeleteLove it! For me the contrast between colorful and black-and-white is what stands out most, closely followed by the contrast between gradient and geometric. Definitely a winner :)
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