NOTD: Vday Funky French + Tutorial

Well, this turned out sloppier than in my head, but practice makes perfect as they say & overall I'm really quite pleased with how it turned out.  I got a little bit of streaking from the black on a couple of nails where I was a bit impatient with my sparkly topcoat, but that's what I get for doing my nails right before bed I guess.  I was also dissapointed that Orly Twilight, which I used as a base color as well as over the design, didn't show up a little more - it's so pretty in the bottle.  You can see it a little in the shot with flash but overall it didn't pop as much as I wanted.  White is Color Club French Tip, black is Color Club Black:

And here's the tutorial =)



Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Vday Inspired Funky French

I've been seeing Valentines manicures starting to pop up around the blogosphere.  I saw Brooke use this plate a few days ago & thought I'd give it a try.  I had a really short time frame for this mani, so I had to work quick, but I'm actually really pleased with how it turned out, almost exactly as in my head =)

A lot of the time when I do a french manicure I don't feel the need for anything other than my normal base coat, but since my nails have a little yellowing right now I dug through the unworns for a sheer pink & came up with L'Oreal Bijou Facets B. Sweet.  I didn't really notice in the bottle, but once on the nail I saw that this slightly frosty sheer pink has tiny pink bar glitter in it, adding a little bit more bling.  I used one coat of that, then free handed my tips (messily I'll admit) with Color Club Black.  Then I used Psyche Pink Konad polish & image plate m73 to stamp the heart design on the tips:

Not bad for what was actually about a 20-minute mani start to finish LOL.  Plus I came across a lot of pinks in my search, so now they're cluttering up my desktop & I think I'll try & use more of them coming up to Valentine's Day since during the rest of the year I'm probably less than half as likely to wear pink LOL.

Thanks for reading =)

~Colette