Hey guys,
Happy Friday. Even better, happy public holiday if you’re in SA! It’s been a loooooong week and I am happy to just have a long weekend of nothing but stuff I enjoy. I don’t know who is going to clean and wash dishes and cook (probably still me) but I can at least pretend right? What are you doing this weekend?
It’s time for another Friday Triad with Juanita and Joyce . So once a month we will make turns choosing someones nail art to use as inspiration for this post. You can look forward to these posts on the last friday of each month. This month we had a stunning choice from Joyce. Joyce chose this gorgeous nail art design from Sassy Shelly. I absolutely love this and immediately had a few ideas but when it came to actually doing it, it didn’t go so well. In the end I went in a completely different direction. Let me show you what I did,
I started with 1 coat of Sinful Colors – Black on black on all my nails and let that dry for a little bit. I then used 2 coats of ILNP – Electric carnival over the black on each nails and left that to dry completely. Once it was dry I stamped on my middle and ring finger using BP-L015 and Mundo de Unas – Black. I topcoated everything and then went over it again with a matte topcoat.
I don’t know how I feel about this. I know what you’re thinking. How does this go with the original inspiration right? Well, pretty polish with some colour shifting – check. Black stamping – check. Matte twist on the base polish – check. Ok so it’s not really a great match but it was completely inspired by the original. I absolutely love how beautiful that polish looked matte and I actually think electric carnival looks amazing matte as well. The colour shift is beautiful. What do you think? Does it qualify? I won’t say I am crazy about this but at this point I had already started getting the break and I just wanted to get it done. Can you at least see the connection? What do you think about Electric carnival? Don’t forget to check out Joyce and Juanita, I can’t wait to see what they come up with!
Thanks for reading,
Oh my gosh! You totally nailed it! You checked all the relevant boxes and I think it totally goes.
I love electric carnival, I don’t think it’s one that I would get, but I’m sure if I had it I would use it a lot!
Thank you so much! I don’t really think I showed it off at its best here. I think it looks much better as a topper but it is really gorgeous.
I can only agree with Juanita: you nailed it!
Of course inquiring minds want to know what your original ideas were, but I’m not so sure any other ideas would have been better. I love the flakies base (can you imagine I have exactly ZERO multichrome flakie polishes?) and the stamping shows plenty of it… great job!
Hahaha I actually had a polish in mind but when I used it it was incredibly hard to see the stamping. I then tried another one but it was also a bit too dark. I tried a few other images to stamp as well. Someone suggested I try this polish and I liked that it was quite a bit lighter so I just had to use it.
Also, I can highly recommend the multi chrome flakie polishes. They are so gorgeous. I actually got the loos flake powder about the same time as my flakie polishes and I actually think the flakie powder is very nice for variety. But the polishes are just gorgeous!