Easter Eggs
9:30:00 AMMy poor Peeps only lasted about two days in total. I had painted the base coat on and wore that for a day before I painted on the nail art. Probably not the best idea because the base wasn't in the best condition when I started adding the Peeps. Then a day and a half after I had those lil guys on, they were murdered at my job. Poor guys never stood a chance =(. I miss the bright colors on my nails, not going to lie. I may have to do it one more time before Easter because it seems at the rate I'm going, I will have four Easter mani's in total.
For my second Easter manicure, I decided to do Easter Eggs. I'm not too sure how I feel about this manicure. Part of me likes it, part of me hates it. I think the hate part is taking over, but I'm going to keep them on until Monday night (painted them Friday night and tonight touched up some of the chips). I don't know what it is about it, maybe it's my designs, but I feel they look weird lol. I like the "gradient" background I attempted. They looked really pretty, then I was putting designs on and my opinions started to change.
What do you think?
This is where I normally do my "Colors Used" section, but there were a lot. I think in total I used 14 nail polishes. 3 purples, 3 blues, 3 greens, 2 yellows, 1 white, 1 glitter, 1 base. That seems right, and I just realized how crazy it seems using that many polishes to do this mani.
All were painted a base coat of French Tip White by New York Color to resemble a white egg shell. Next came my experimenting in dabbing/gradient. I do not own any of those triangular make up sponge things, so I used a napkin for my dabbing. I wish I had pictures of what the nails looked like along the way. Maybe next time.
I started dabbing the blue ring finger first. I figured if my accent finger looked horrible, I could just keep it on one hand and leave the rest white. I attempted a gradient by dabbing on lighter blue, then a darker blue towards the bottom. To get the color blended I added a medium shade of blue in between so the colors weren't so harshly divided. I loved what it looked like on my ring finger, so I went color crazy on all my other nails. In my opinion, the napkin worked perfectly. It gave each of the nails an egg dyed look which I thought was really cool.
Then came my designs, which I added with tooth picks and dotting tools. I don't know if it was the colors I picked or what not, but I think my designs are not what I like.
So, do you think they resemble Easter eggs??
Another post either Monday or Tuesday :) Hope you all are having a great weekend!
10 comments
Very cute!!! And goodness that is a lot of polishes to use! XD
ReplyDeleteIt was a bit crazy. I painted a girls nails yesterday and wanted them but omg too many polishes. we did water marble instead lol
Deletethanks :)
how cute <3
ReplyDelete:) thank you. I'm kinda happy they're coming off today lol
DeleteTo cute! I am awarding you the Butterfly award, details on my blog nailutopia.blogspot.com :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the butterfly award! totally made me happy :) I still have to respond to it though lol i'm so delayed
DeleteLove! Such pretty colors.
ReplyDeletewhyyy thank you Kristen. It was a pain in the butt putting them all on
DeleteThat is dedication!! All the different designs! And so festive! :)
ReplyDeletePS: I tagged you in my getting to know you game post, so if you'd like to participate your questions/rules/etc are on my site. It'd be fun if you participated, but it's kinda lot so I understand either way. :)
Dedication it was!!!! thank you so much!!!!
DeleteOh how I love reading all of your comments! I truly appreciate each and every single one!