Tuesday 17 July 2012

Nails: Electric Lines


My first nail post- woo!
This is a first for a design like this for me. Usually I use nail art brushes for different patterns,but today I grabbed some masking tape (after Mum's precise 'freshening up' of the living room at the weekend) and pretty much made this one up as I went along. So, if you're interested in how I did this then have a butchers below!

What I used: Rimmel Lasting Finish: 080 Black Cab| Maybelline Express Finish : 862 Turquoise Lagoon|  Barry M : Instant Foil Effects| Rimmel: 5 in 1 Base & Top Coat (excuse the tatty bottle..haha)  Masking tape and scissors!


Thought I'd take a sneaky shot of the colour individually with my new nail wheel (look at me, trying to look all professional!..)
Firstly I applied the base coat and had to wait about a trillion years for it to dry. Then, I applied Turquoise Lagoon, which took a while to dry because of the base coat- I always mentally moan at myself about this base coat, I think it's had it. Does anyone have any base coats they can recommend me?
Then, I cut small strips of masking tape to create the gap for the lines I would fill in with the Foil Effects. I then left these to dry for a while and peeled the masking tape off. I then repeated for the black nail varnish, this time in different places- as the picture above shows quite unsuccessfully. 

I found that leaving the nail varnish to slightly dry before peeling off left a much cleaner, sharper edge that otherwise was pulled off by the tackiness of the masking tape.

I wanted to finish off the nail with my matte top coat, but me being me, I smashed it on the floor and it went everywhere! *Mental note to self to buy a new one*


I'd like to appologise for the sparse posts, I've been quite busy the last few days and my cats poorly :( She's got a ulcer in her eye which means trips to the vets everyday watching him poke around her eye with tweezers. Very gory, very unpleasant but Bellas being a brave girlie :D haha. 

Another appology also for the shoddy quality of the pictures, at the moment I'm stuck with my rubbish broken little camera, but when my Dad's back from Manchester I shall be nabbing his camera off him ;)

More posts to come very soon, a little haul on zee way :)

Do you think you'll try out this nail look? What's your favourite nail art at the moment? 
Any suggestions for other posts? Let me know!

Thanks for reading guys!

Sam xx

8 comments:

  1. Such cool nail art! I really like your blog, we should follow each other xx

    http://what-evie-wore-next.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. Thanks! Checked yours out and love it, now following :) xx

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  2. great post!
    I must try this out myself x

    cute blog btw xx

    www.divagirlstrikesagain.blogspot.co.uk

    Natali xox

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    1. Thanks! You should give it a try, it's so simple to do :) Thanks very much xx

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  3. Great nails! I love the clash of colours. I tried something similar with selotape the other week, but it ended up pulling off the under layers of nail varnish. Not a good look xx

    OutsideBeautyInsideHealth

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    1. Thanks! Oh that's a bit of a pain in the bum! aha, I thought of using selotape because I thought the colours may not bleed so much! xx

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  4. omg this is so nifty. i moan about my nails all the time because i always mess them up but this looks like an easier way to do them :D and I'm sorry to hear about your kitty :( i hope she's better!

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    1. It's such an easier way to do them, the colour does bleed a teeny bit but nothing a bit of touching up can't help with aha :) She's a lot better now thanks! Took her a while but her eye's normal again haha bless her x

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