These nails were supposed to be...well...more exciting. I was watching QVC this morning (I know, summer 2012 is sooo going great!) and the girl selling purses had the best nail polish ever! So I decided it was time for a well deserved manicure.
The picture does not do the teal justice--its got this cool slight shimmer to it that I love. It's Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in "The Real Teal" color 480. I started with that as a base coat and it did beautifully! Then I cut tiny strips of tape and used my Sally Hansen nail art pen in silver to draw in between the tape pieces. I later realized there was a MUCH easier way to do this. You know those kits for french manicures that come with the curvy nail stickers that you use for the french, and then the straight ones that you have no idea what to do with? They now have a purpose. Use those instead of sweating while cutting straight pieces of tape like me.
The intent was to then go over and have a small stripe-within-the stripe of glitter, but my silver stripes were too thin. I'm thinking I might go over with a glitter glue pen perpendicular to my silver stripe and have a cool little Mondrain-esque thing going on.
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