So, my mani is based on a band I discovered quite recently, Straight Line Stitch. Although I haven't been listening to them for very long, I fell in love with their sound, and their vocalist, Alexis Brown, is just awesome :D
The patchwork nails started off as a tape mani over a white base, and I just went in with black polish afterwards, and added the stitches with a black Sharpie. For the ring finger and thumb, I just sponged the colours very lightly in random places, leaving a bit of white showing. I was aiming for a kind of graffiti vibe for the background. The lettering was drawn with a Sharpie too. I totally messed up the writing on the thumb, but I think the ring finger came out pretty well.
I think it would have came out better if I had done the outermost letters first, then the middle one, and then filled in the rest, but I guess I'll just have to remember that next time.
Apart from the thumb, I was really pleased with this mani. After all, it's based on a band I love, in colours I love, and it was matte......what more could a girl wish for :p
Now, of course I can't leave you without a couple of SLS songs, but don't forget to check out all the other pop culture masterpieces at the bottom afterwards :D (ps. if you don't like growly vocals, skip to the last video, 'cos Alexis is a bit of a bad-ass!)
I really like this. It's so different and I would never have thought about using a Sharpie before. Now that you say it, it makes so much sense! I'm a bit clumsy with a nail art brush. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteThanks, this is one of my all time fave colour combos! :) Sharpies are fab for nail art, my wonderful brother bought me a pack of 24 colours a while back - bless him :D xx
DeleteThis is SO cute! I love the colors!!
ReplyDelete:D Yay, thanks hun, I love this colour combo so much! xx
DeleteWhat top coat do you use?
ReplyDeleteWhen I tested sharpies to use as nail art pens I had some colors disappear & others smear when I added Seche Vite.
I used SV too, the black one is totally fine, but I have had some other colours kind of sink in to the base a little bit. I guess each colour is different :) xx
DeleteI love how many colors they offer over nail art pens, but the hit & miss aspect keeps me from using them. Methinks I need to revisit my pen testing posts to see what pens worked again. LOL
DeleteI will have to go through and test all of mine at some point too, but I am a lazy girl, so I'll probably just end up trying them in a proper mani lol :) xx
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