Hi there lads and ladies!
I hope you're having a great weekend? Mines gone really well, only a teeny tiny bit of shopping, despite it being payday, so I'm back on track with my low-buy. Which is a good thing.
Todays nailart idea came a little bit out of the blue. I was just sitting here wondering what to put on my nails (as you do), and I decided I was in a neon mood today. You'd think that I would have thought this while the suns shining, but oh no, not me, I had the idea in a torrential storm.
So anyway, I do have a few neons, but they're all sheer and need undies, which gets on my nerves. I only have a couple which can hold their own. This is one of them, Pixi No.14.
In real life this is so much brighter. Almost hurt to look at it, bright. This is only one coat, which is why there is VNL, but in 2 it's opaque. However I knew I'd be going over it anyway so didn't bother.
I took a make up sponge and dabbed a gradient with OPI Alpine Snow on the tips of my nails. I despise sponging as it's so messy, but I couldn't get around it with this idea I had:
And then, the tip of my nail wasn't coming out white enough, so I went over it again just using Alpine Snow with the brush from the bottle to get it properly white. This shows the most on my little finger.
So, once I was satisfied I stamped over the white, using the same Pixi polish, with Gals stamping plate GA14. How weird that they're both number 14? I never realised until now, it must have been meant to be.
So after a coat of Seche, and some clean up, this is how they turned out:
They actually came out nicer than I thought they would. I thought they were going to look really messy, but they don't look too bad.
But then, I still wasn't satisfied! I've rekindled my love for matte top coats at the moment (expect to see more soon) and so I decided to give this one the un-shining treatment. Here's how it looks:
Yep, that's better! And because the only camera in the world that seems to be able to pick up colours properly is my rubbish resolution phone camera, here's what it sees:
Bright eh?
So, I'm liking this alot, just what I was in the mood for. I love it when that happens.
What's on your nails today? Do you know of any opaque neons I need?
Until next time...
MASPOOASE x x x
~Wendy~
Hi there!
Hope your weekends going well? I haven't got much planned, I spent all my polish budget last week, so this weekend I'm on a ban! Have got tons of swatches to do for you, hurry up light nights and get here! Every night on my way home from work I'm trying to judge whether the suns still high enough or not to give me time to take some decent photos, so far it hasn't been, but it won't be long I'm sure.
I finally got my broken tooth filled, it actually wasn't too bad, she had to replace the whole filling, but she knows (somehow) how to do injections without hurting, so I love her! I wouldn't want any other dentist now, I had a nightmare of a time with other dentists before I found this one. I actually wrote to my MP about one who was particularly terrible, but despite that going on to be an official NHS complaint, nothing was done.
Anyway enough about teeth, lets get on to nails! The lovely Claire at MAYBELATER challenged Catrine at UNNAKED NAILS and myself to produce some 'Neon and Nude' nailart. Well, who am I to resist a challenge? This is what I came up with:
No I don't have giant hands! This is a mini bottle of Nails Inc Cadogan Place. This is part of a minis' set I bought last weekend that I have in my 'ready to swatch' pile. The set has some really pretty colours in it, and this challenge was a good excuse to break this one out.
I've been wanting to do a design like this since I saw THIS ONE from The Little Canvas. This challenge seemed like an ideal time to try it out. Now I do own some of that foil striping tape, and I hate it. It goes curly and seems fiddly and impossible to work with. I know other people don't seem to have this problem, so maybe it's just me. So I was in Rymans Stationers getting some art stuff and I saw this GRIDDING TAPE and I'm happy to report that I've found this much easier to work with. It does still go a little bit curly, but it seems to stick down and peel off better. Yes it is a bit more expensive, but personally I think it's worth paying that bit more. Am tempted to try the 3mm tape too, I used the 1.5mm tape for this.
Then I used some fluorescent acryllic paint that I think I also got in Ryman, and blobbed it on all over. I couldn't do it thinner because then it would lose its brighness as it dried, so I decided to make a feature of the texture. Her's another pic:
Typically of me, I see that a couple of pieces of the tape weren't quite straight, but never mind. I used two coats of Seche over everything to smooth out the surface, but I'm glad that it still kept its textured look as my nails actually feel pretty smooth. Here's a final pic:
All in all, I'm quite pleased with how this came out, and I'm definitely pleased that I've found some striping tape that I'm able to use. I'm thinking I might quite like to put this paint over a silver holo, and see if I can't get the look of a hi-vis jacket haha!
You can see Claire's Neon and Nude nails HERE and I'd love it if you could carry this tag on! Let me know if you do.
Until next time...
MASPOOASE x x x
~Wendy~
