Sinful Colors "Hazard"
Sally Hansen's "Limestone"
Color Club's "Almost Famous"
Santee's "White"
Sinful Color's "Dream On"
Sinful Color's "Aquamarine"
Forever 21's "Neon Pink"
I have been MIA again. For those of you who are mom's out there maybe you can sympathize with me. My son will be a year next month and I breastfeed him. He's a big boy! And literally taking ALL of my vitamins along with any energy I may have left. And being my second baby along with work, I am just drained. I haven't painted my nails all week. As much as I want to, I choose sleep and rest over my nails. Anyway I really couldn't stop thinking about this new trend and really wanted to try it. I started with my new base coat of OPI Nail Envy for Thin and Peeling nails, then 1 coat of white. Next with a black acrylic paint and a thin nail art brush, I lightly painted random horizontal and vertical lines. I find that when I use acrylic paint I have more control over it and it dries much quicker. Next I took a small dotting tool and filled in each square, I have more control with that too. I tried it with a brush and it was streaky and I had to go over it multiple times, so using the dotting tool took just 1 application. Once all the blocks are filled in I went back over each black line. That covers up any mistakes I made while filling in each block. Lastly a coat of Orly Sec'n'Dry top coat. I still fully intend to post the giveaway I've had ready for the last 3 weeks on Tuesday, my day off. Thanks for visiting!!
this is a really cute design! it totally reminds me of the rubik's cube!! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks!!! My sister said the same thing lol. Im not even sure if this qualifies as color blocking, but it's all I could think of to call it.
DeleteThats freakin awesome!!! I've been blogging all morning instead of working :oP and this is the coolest manicure I've come across today.
ReplyDeleteI've got to try it. Must of been alot of work
You know what, it wasn't too bad. It took a while but it wasn't complicated. So that's never too much. I dread doing my right hand with each manicure I do lol. It looks like a wreck compared to my left.
DeleteI know I hate that too. I usually just do my left hand to start. If i really like it I'll do my right but if I know its not going to last I don't even bother doing the right ;o)
DeleteLol i laughed when i read this. Its so true! If its just too hard i dont even bother doing the right hand. Which i hate to admit having a nail art blog and all lolol.
DeleteI am a new nail blogger as well! I love that you get inspiration for manis out of all kinds of stuff, I am sooo not the creative type so this is a lot of work for me, haha. After looking at all your awesome ideas I decided I should broaden my horizons a little bit and look for inspirations all over the place : )
ReplyDeleteOh i hear you! I'm not too creative either so when i see patterns that i can easily create on my nails i take a picture and try it out. I envy those people who can always come up with new techniques. Im more of a recreater lol. Thanks for the comment though! BTW I love your tribal!!!! Im so afraid of the tribal. I really want to do it but i dont even know where to begin lol
DeleteHi, I'm new and I was wondering if you could follow me and give me a shout out to help me get some follwers. Love your blocking design!
ReplyDeleteYes of course, what is your blog name? Im new as well so i know how that goes lol
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