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Allo polish Pals!
How are you doing
today? I hope you are looking forward to a fantastic weekend, any
nice plans? I'm not really up to much. The house will be mostly empty
tomorrow so I am going to enjoy some chilled painting time. I've had
a big of artist block lately so I will try and de-funk it.
Today I have a really
unoriginal manicure but I am really happy with how it looks. I will
be showing you 'Gold/Silver Sea Horse/Coconut tree studs' from the
Born Pretty Store. I think a more appropriate name to quickly sum up
this nail art wheel would be 'Beach Studs'.
I absolutely love these
studs. I opted for gold as I felt it offered a more..'sun kissed'
look.
Before I tell you about
these studs let me own up, its confession time. I totally forgot to
take pictures of the wheel before I dived in and started using them
so one of the compartments is missing studs and a few of the others
are missing a few – oppsie. I couldn't contain my excitement!
These studs are a
perfect size, as you'll see on my nails it is easy to feature 1, 2 or
even more on a single nail. This wheel contains sea horses (looove)
seashells, palm trees, star fish, feathers and what I want to call..
conch? Shells. I think there are so many ways to wear these decals,
you don't have to go down the ocean route like I have, you could
totally mix these up with other styles. I think the feathers would
look super cute for a dream catcher design. Overall I am extremely
happy with these studs and will have to stop myself from using them
all the time.
I started as usual with
a coat of OPI's 'Nail Envy' and once dry (that's like counting up to
4, btw) I then began with two coats of NYC's 'Williamsburg Vintage'.
I then sectioned off a black section and a blue section on my nails
using acrylic paint. I used browns and grey to create some rocks (I
attempted to shade these!) Next I created an acrylic gradient with my
water section. Once I completed that I added a sparse amount of
Zoya's 'Maisie' to the water section for some pretty blue flakies.
Next I sealed it all in with my Pro-FX top coat and carefully placed
my studs alone the shoreline.
I'm personally really
fond of this manicure. I know there are a lot of seashell stud
manicures out there but I've always admired them and wanted to create
one myself! This is probably one of my most loved nail art wheels in
my collection.
What do you
think of my finger-tip beach? How do you feel about seashell
studs?
Have a beautiful
weekend, sweeties! Lets start the week together on Monday? :)
Love
Ithi
