NOTD: First try at Japanese inspired nails

Friday, July 27, 2012

I’m not sure if I wanted to post this up. I’m not really pleased with it but I figured whether the outcome was good or bad I should. It’s something I can look back on and learn from my mistakes. It’s part of my journey to learning different types of nail art.

Let me tell you I LOVE Japanese nail art. A lot of you may think they’re over the top but I admire the design and skills you need to come up with them. What I realised is that their nail designs mainly consist of bright, fun, girly colours, loads of rhinestones and stripes. I remember going through a phase of loving 3D nail art and attempted some myself. I might want to go back to self learning those again. I wanted to have a go at a Japanese design I saw in a Japanese nail magazine and I’ll be doing a whole load of those designs so I think you’ll need to get used to them.

My attempt at this turned out frustrating. I had to redo my index once and my thumb three times! I didn’t wait until the polish was fully dry before applying the scotch tape and it ended up pulling half of the polish off. The other times I accidently smudged them. After trying scotch and masking tape I ended up using striping tape to keep things straight. I had to be extra careful because striping tape is mainly used for nail art so it’s pretty thin.

All photos taken indoors, natural light

What I did:

Applied The Edge base coat
Three coats of Essie’s Blanc
Added a thin layer of China Glaze’s fast forward top coat and wait until it dries PROPERLY
Using striping tape to line where I want the stripes
Applied China Glaze’s Urban night carefully then quickly removing the stripes
Add rhinestones and pearls on the top right of the thumb, ring finger and bottom left of the middle finger
I added a small bit of striping tape to the pinkie which was a right fail. It looked like the tape was soaked in polish having that greasy paper look
Add a thin layer of China Glaze’s fast forward top coat
I added the petals on the index and pinkie finger the next day because part of it was looking empty. I even thought of adding a rhinestone in the middle of the flower. In the end I left it as that.

I tried to make it look like the design I saw in the magazine but it just doesn’t look right on me. I think I’ll have another go at Japanese nails though; I just love them too much to give up on them now.

3 comments

Jel27 July 2012 at 07:46
i love japanese nail art, especially the 3d ones. i admit they are a little too overboard at times especially with the 3D things they put on the nails but i must admit they are really amazing to look at :) and i love what you did on your nails :)

following you now :)
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The Sneakerette30 July 2012 at 19:19
this is super cute! you did an awesome job on the stripes :D
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