I'll admit, I had a bit of trouble coming up with something for today's challenge. I don't feel like my landscape painting skills are good enough do Ireland justice and apparently I'm just not feeling that creative today. Luckily I saw this super cute clover manicure by Concrete and Nail Polish and then I found this absolutely stunning version by Gnarly Gnails. I had to try it myself and it's perfect for today's theme because to me Ireland seems very green and alive so putting real clovers on my nails is a great way to represent that.
I started with two coats of both polishes- Orly Jealous, Much? and OPI Love.Angel.Music.Baby from the Gwen Stefani collection. I know it's supposed to be satin, but I had to top coat it to stick on the clover. Luckily (pun intended) it's still really gorgeous shiny. I pressed the clovers overnight in the pages of a magazine to flatten them. I think this is the key to getting them to stay down properly. I added a layer of top coat on my already painted nails, then immediately stuck on the clover. Because the ones I chose were so thin and small I had no trouble getting them to lay down flat in the wet polish. I added two more coats of top coat to make sure they're really stuck in there and to smooth everything out. This was really fun and easy and I love that I got to use something from around the house (or back yard in this case) to create a slightly unusual manicure. What's the craziest thing you've ever stuck to your nails?
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Love this! Awww everything's still frozen here with a chance of more snow tonight. Maybe next year I can try this, genius!!
ReplyDeleteThis is just perfect, I love the colors you've used! :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't really tried anything else to my nails, but I may have to give it a try! Your's look great :) Very clean and refined!
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