4th of July Manicure!

Hello!

So I got out my supplies popped in Breaking Bad Season 5 and started on my 4th of July nails. 

I still am not really good at this but having this blog is making my try and try again!  (I use the Hallmark Crown Rewards card to scrape the plate by the way - I'm not super into greeting cards or something).  I also had a bottle of polish remover near by!

My biggest "challenge" was painting the star plate 3 colors and then stamping 2 of my fingers.  You can see the 3 colors in the background, and the residue from swiping the plate on the paper towel.

And here's how it turned out.  The colors didn't stamp quite as clearly as I would have liked - but it worked!

And here's the rest of my hand I did a star on my pointer finger, and eventually added glitter to the light blue nails.

And here's the final result!  I of course can see a multitude of imperfections.  But from a distance they look good!

Jasmine

Nail Stamping - First try!

Hello!

So I finally pulled out my supplies and decided to give it a go!

I have had this Konad kit and plate for about 18 months.  About that time is when I started reading The Nailasaurus and saw nail "stamping" for the first time.  I was at the mall a few weeks later and saw an actual Konad "booth" and I picked up these goodies for like way to much but I didn't realize you could buy this stuff anywhere else at the time. 

Since my nails are still really short I decided I could use my feet as my first palette.  I still wanted to do a 4th of July thing - but simple. (So beware if you don't like feet, there are pictures of toes ahead!)

The little plate "holder" is useless - as I've mentioned before RainySunRayNails has some wonderful videos on her site on how to stamp so I ended up following her method and just placing the plate on a paper towel.  I made sure to "rough up" the stamper a bit and clean the plate and the stamper with acetone.  The Konad scraper is also hard to use and I felt like I was scratching the plate.  I used an old gift card instead.

It took me a few tries to get it down - and I can tell it will get better with practice.  And wa-la!

Toes are soooo frightening close up!  Sorry!

 

And then I grabbed some more patriotic colors and my dotting tool and added some "flair" :)

 

 

The dark blue looks almost black in this picture - but as you can see in the polish picture above it's a true blue.  I actually really like how it turned out.  I think I should be able to do my poor little nail stubs on Wednesday. 

Hope you are having a great weekend and please follow me on Bloglovin' - because GFC is going away at the end of July and I want to be able to connect with all you!

 

 

 

 

Jasmine