Saturday 15 February 2014

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go - Day 15 - Round & Square

 Hi guys and welcome to Day 15 of the NAGG challenge.  The prompt for today is Round & Square, which seemed like the perfect prompt to bust out the circle glitters.  Unfortunately, this seems to be one of those manis that looks better in real life than in a macro photo.....

This was quite a simple idea, I started with a base of Sinful Colors - Black on Black, then added a coat of Indy's Indies - Baubles, and fished for a few extra glitters to get a pretty dense coverage.  (By the way, Indy's Indies is shutting down for a while by the end of the month, so if there's anything you want, you may want to grab it soon!)  Then I added a few coats of Gelous, some Seche Vite, and let it dry completely.  Once it was dry, I taped off opposite corners of each nail, and filled the rest in with black before peeling the tape up.  Another top coat, and some more drying time, and then I added some striping tape down the divide.
Annoyingly, it looks pretty lumpy and bumpy in the photos, but in real life that wasn't very noticeable.  I think the shine from all the top coat, and the holo from the circles was too distracting for anyone to really notice.  Lumps and bumps aside, I liked this mani, and think I will definitely be trying something similar in the future. (Maybe with a couple more coats of Gelous this time though :p)
What do you guys think of this design?  Is it a bit too lumpy for you, or, like me, do you love circle glitter too much to care?
Don't forget to check out the other Round & Square mani's in the thumbnails below!




8 comments:

  1. Looove the circle glitter! There are just some things that won't come out in the pics how it looks in real life. And that sucks! But I think these look great in the photos and the whole design looks like a set of perfectly wrapped presents :)

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    1. Aww, thank you hun :) They did look really pretty IRL - it's so annoying when you see the pics afterwards though! xx

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  2. Oh man I LOVE the circle glitter, it is worth WHATEVER bumps may occur Looks great!

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    1. Thanks hun, I totally agree, circle glitter is always worth it :D xx

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  3. Some glitters are just too fab to lie down flat...they just have to party in 3D! What the hey, I like textured nails. LOL

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    1. Yay, that's fab, as by about the 3rd coat of Gelous I was like 'aaaah, screw it!' :D x

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