Sunday 28 October 2012

Striping practice

Hey everyone! So today I have an experimental kind of design for you. The wonderful Algae Veronica recently sent me some polishes (as I showed on my instagram @onenailtorulethemall) and one of them has been something I have lusted over for a very long time - Essie 'navigate her' so of course the second I got it I had to use it, but I also really wanted to practice my brush skills. Up until about 4 months ago I had never (!!!) used a brush for my nail art, every single design was done with dotting tools, so it's been difficult for me to build up the confidence to use a brush. It sounds stupid I know, but I'm always worried that it will flick out or go splodgy and ruin my design, and this sometimes does happen, so I'm often over-cautious with my designs and I dont want to be, so I know I need practice. But this time around I wanted to practice my striping skills, so here you go, everything here except the base colour was done with a medium length striper brush or a black striper.



I used Essie - Navigate Her, Art Deco Stripers in white and black and an unnamed pink from Boots, along with a medium length striper brush

Alice 
P.S sorry for the bad quality photos, the weather was awful and I was in a rush, but I shall soon have my lightbox ready to go (yay!) and pictures should be better from then on

8 comments:

  1. This is amazing - can't believe your calling this practice; this would be the height of success in my book!

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  2. I'm still not all that confident with brushes, either. But, practice makes perfect. You look like you have a steady hand and good brush control from that design. ^_^

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  3. :O

    Even if I could do this on my left hand, my right hand would probably be a shaky nightmare.

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  4. these are awesome! i love the colors together and your line work is great! i lusted after navigate her and a crewed interest from the same collection for soo long before my mom got them for me for easter this year. such a pretty color!

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  5. This is a great mani! Your striping looks fab and I love the colors together!

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  6. These are great! Your lines came out really well and I love all of the different patterns with the same great colour combo :)

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  7. these are reeeally nice and sooo neat

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  8. Oh I love this and the colours are great :)

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