Saturday, 19 January 2013

Nails of the Day // Barry M

I love painting my nails. I know not everyone enjoys it as it can sometimes be a massive pain waiting for it to dry etc, but when I have the time, it is one of those tasks I really enjoy.
 
Today I had some time on my hands, and decided I would experiment with some scotch tape - I have tried before but it didn't end well!
 
(apologies for the picture quality - there's literally no natural lighting at the min!)
 
The colours I used were both by Barry M - 272 'Shocking Pink' and 293 'Grey'. The tape I used was Scotch tape as I've found it's less sticky than normal sellotape so it doesn't seem to pull your nail polish off as much!
 
I was going to do a sort of "half and half" effect on every nail, but decided that was too time consuming so just did it on both my ring fingers.
 
I painted my nails with 2 coats of Shocking Pink, and waited for it to completely dry. Then I stuck a small peice of tape on my finger so that the bottom of the nail was covered and the tip was showing. I then painted the Grey over the ring finger nail, and waited until that was completely dry before removing the tape.
 
This was what I ended up with!
 
 
 
I know it's not the neatest manicure ever, but I am quite pleased with how it turned out!
 
I think I will try this again with different colours to see what works together :)


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7 comments:

  1. I really like this look, such a simple yet really nice idea! And love the grey and pink combo xx

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    1. I'm quite pleased how it turned out really! I've tried something like this before but didn't wait until the polish was fully dry so it ended up looking a right mess! haha xx

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  2. i can't belirve i've never thought of this before, i'm going to have to try it out maybe with red and yellow!
    http://cloudsandcuticleoil.blogspot.co.uk/
    xx

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    1. Ooh red and yellow sounds nice :) it's really easy to do too! Xx

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  3. That's such a good idea!
    And the colours go so nicely :)
    xo

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  4. That's such a good idea! may try that myself! :) x

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