Hi guys, and welcome to Day 14 of the NAGG. I can't believe we're at the halfway point already! Today's prompt is sweets, and I decided to attempt a mani based on Blueberry Sour Candy Belts. It;s not exactly perfect, but I think it came out OK.
This was the picture I took my inspiration from, and as you can see, the polish colours I had were a little bit too light, but I think if the colours were right, this would have looked very much like the sweets themselves. Maybe my mani could be a new type of candy belt - blueberries and cream ;) Mmmmmmm.........
I started out with a base of Sinful Colors - Cinderella, a lovely pale blue full of glass fleck shimmer. Then I painted 2 stripes on each nail with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue, and gave it some time to dry. Then I added 2 more coats of Cinderella, to blend the stripes together a bit, and 1 coat of La Femme - Fairy Dust to look like sugar. Then when it was all dry, I added a matte top coat to finish. It didn't really resemble the sweets very much when glossy, so I only have matte pictures today.
Overall, I was quite pleased with this mani, it looks pretty much how I imagined it would.
I am really looking forward to the next 2 weeks mani's though - the prompts are getting even harder, and I have painted all but 3 of them now. There are a few that I am really looking forward to posting, some designs I have been meaning to do for ages but never gotten around to, and, as always, a few that looked a bit better in my head :D
What do you guys think of this mani then? Also, what are your favourite sweets? I am partial to literally anything with chocolate or peanuts :D
Don't forget to check out all the other candy-fingered ladies in the thumbnails below!
I love all the blues! This looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteSince you're in the UK I wanted to invite you to a challenge to do your country's flag.. maybe after you're done with the rest of your prompts LOL.. here is the link http://obscenelyblue.blogspot.com/2014/02/nail-art-challenge-represent-your.html
Thanks :) If I have the time, I'd love to jump in on this - call it a maybe though :D xx
DeleteThe darker blue you used is a perfect match for the lighter blue in your reference pic. I think your sweets turned out might tasty looking!
ReplyDeleteaww thanks hun! luckily I managed not to lick them :) x
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