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.
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| 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.
- Friday, July 27, 2012
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