Hello lovelies,
Happy Friday! This short week has definitely flown by but I do feel like I have aged 10 years this week. It’s been such a busy week. I have so much to do. I know I don’t HAVE to do it but I want to and when I don’t get through it all I get so twitchy. I’ll have to put my big girl panties on power through 😛
This wasn’t the post I had planned for today. I had hoped to show you some Essence range update swatches but I just didn’t finish in time. I’ll have to save it for next week and in the mean time, I’ll show you some nail art.
I started with 2 coats of China Glaze – We got the beet on all my nails. Once it was completely dry I did some dry brush in gold and black using China Glaze – Passion and Sinful Colors – Black on black. While that was drying I used vinyls on my mat to make straight black lines and I used them individually to make the random stripes on each nail. I topcoated and that was that.
What do you think? I really really like how this came out but I wish I could’ve showed off more of the We’ve got the beet shimmer. I’ll just have to use it again when I can really show it off. I am also surprised how much I like the gold and black paired with the purple. Can you think of anything I can change or improve on? Have a fabulous weekend! I’ll see you on the other side.
Thanks for reading,
Painted Fingertips
I love this nail art SO MUCH!
Michelle Roberts
Yay!!! Thank you SO much!
Joyce
Gorgeous!! I might have made the black strips a bit thinner but I think my nails are more narrow than yours. Just wondering, does the shimmer in We got the beet show up on your nails like all the time? Not just when you bend your fingers backwards under a 35 degree angle when it’s overcast and a rainbow is showing and you’re making sure the sun hits your nails from the north?
Michelle Roberts
Hahahaha…now that you mention the angle and the rainbow………
I do find the shimmer visible but it is much more subtle and ‘dull’ in normal indoor light. I find mine has a LOT of shimmer. I do agree about the black strips too. When I made them using the vinyl I was very worried about them being too wide. I actually wanted just a black strip straight up the centre of my nail but I was worried the strip would be too wide and too little of the background would be visible. I think it would’ve been ok now when I look at it but I do think it could’ve been a bit narrower (Heaven help me with that)