Twinsie Tuesday: Mattify!
9:00:00 AM
Good morning polished world! How are you all today? I hope every one had a very calm and relaxing Memorial Day weekend! I skipped posting this weekend because I was fully enjoying the weather and the three day vacation.
Today is Tuesday (which feels like a Monday), which means it is time for another Twinsie Tuesday. Our theme today is "mattify!" which means it's time for some good old matte nail art! Now, I love matte nails on other people, but on me I feel like they just look odd. Maybe it's my nail length or shape. Maybe I'm just overthinking it. Who knows.
I was going to do a floral design today, but then I saw this cute tribal looking manicure by Nail That Accent. I just had to re-create it!
Let's take a look!
Today is Tuesday (which feels like a Monday), which means it is time for another Twinsie Tuesday. Our theme today is "mattify!" which means it's time for some good old matte nail art! Now, I love matte nails on other people, but on me I feel like they just look odd. Maybe it's my nail length or shape. Maybe I'm just overthinking it. Who knows.
I was going to do a floral design today, but then I saw this cute tribal looking manicure by Nail That Accent. I just had to re-create it!
Let's take a look!
Colors Used:
- Salon Perfect - Tickled Pink
- Salon Perfect - Sugar Cube
- Black Acrylic
- Out the Door Matte Top Coat
I used Tickled Pink from Salon Perfect. It's such a pretty neon pink polish which is a lot brighter than what it is photographing as. It had a weird formula like most neons do. I had to use 3 coats to even out all the patchiness. Honestly, I think the topcoat was the real reason as to why it evened out. Despite the bad formula, it's a gorgeous color and I think it will be great to create gradients with. Maybe even water marble. It dries matte on it's own, but I added a matte top coat because there was a tad bit of shine finding it's way through.
For my matte top coat, I used INM Out the Door Matte. I used this once before and had an awful experience with it and refused to ever try it again. Since that time two years ago, I have received two other bottles of the top coat. I decided to give one of my newer bottles a try to see if it did the same awful shrinking and shriveling the other did. This one was great and I have zero complaints.
Just like when I use my OPI Matte top coat, I first went through and added a shiny topcoat. This way the designs are sealed in, and I think it prevents the shrinking too. For my shiny, I used plain old Out the Door. When it was completely dry, I used one coat of the Matte and everything turned out well!
What do you think? Fan of this manicure? Think I should do more matte designs?
Don't forget to check out the other Twinsie's posts!
Amanda at Amandalandish
Amanda at Fashion Footing
Amber at Nails Like Lace
Bridget at A Painted Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer
Kristine at Pink and Polished Nails
Lakeisha at Refined and Polished
Lisa at The Polish Playground
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Savannah at Addicted to Polish
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