A little late but this is the first
proper Valentines manicure I did this year and I wanted to keep
things simple. I’ve been meaning to try out the Saran wrap method,
also known as cling film here in the UK for a while now. It's fun and
super easy to master. Its interesting that something so ordinary
could create such a lovely pattern.
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| First photos taken outdoors, the rest taken indoors. Natural light. |
For the base I used two coats of China
Glaze's Something sweet which is your pastel pink crème. The colour
dabbed on top is China Glaze's Ahoy, a bright raspberry polish with
gold shimmers. If Ahoy was used as a full manicure the shimmers
would've been much more obvious but since it was dabbed on you see
very little of it in the photos and in person.
I wanted to add a bit more to it
preferably heart glitters to make it more Valentine-y, but before I
remembered to I'd already packed everything away and tucked myself
into bed with the heater on to save me from the falling temperature.
Since my right hand is the photo hand
I'm free to do some design try-outs on my left. I attempted a
tricolour Saran wrap design by adding another colour on top of Ahoy,
a red to be specific to keep with the Valentines theme. The effect
still looked cool except it seemed to overpower the other colours and
started to look a little like blood splatter nails. I might attempt
this again with other colours that compliment each other to see what
else I come up with.
Have you tried the saran wrap method? How did you spend your valentines?
- Sunday, February 17, 2013
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