Hello, all! I have yet another nail art post to share with you all today! Tonight, I turned on Battlestar Galactica (I'm watching it for the first time and loving it so far!), and started painting! The beauty of tonight's mani is that I did it just for me. I felt like doing nail art, so I did it :) that is a feeling I've been missing for awhile and I'm loving that my mojo is back.
Today's mani is inspired by this pretty salmon colored button blouse that I wear to work. It's covered in black outlined white flowers and has sort of a retro feel to it. It's a pattern I've loved for a long time but haven't made the time to attempt to paint.
Today when I was at the store, I was chatting with the checkout girl about my nails and she mentioned that I should paint my shirt...so I did!
I started with a base of Zoya's Wendy and then used white acrylic paint and a trimmed down Atlas No. 58B Red Sable brush to paint the basic shapes of the flowers I wanted to recreate. When I did this on all my nails, I came back in with black acrylic and carefully outlined and detailed everything. If I made an error and my black lines got too thick, I painted over them with white to fix the mess up. I finished with a coat of regular top coat, followed by a nice matte top coat.
Overall, I really like how these turned out, though I'm not a huge fan of what this color does to my skin tone. Regardless, I'm happy to be sporting this mani for the time being and I really enjoyed the relaxing process of painting these.
How do you like these? I'd love to hear what you think? Do you get inspired by your clothes very often?
Happy Polishing!
