If you guys haven't learned that doing art work for your nails with acrylic is possibly the best idea ever, you need to figure it out girlfriends. I wasn't quite sure why so many people didn't use polish for their art work until I heard that you could do clean up with rubbing alcohol and it wouldn't affect the polish. What better way to screw up artwork and not have to redo the entire nail again! I tell you what. Learning this has saved me hundreds of tears!
finished product
Three coats inside with flash
Three coats outside with no flash
Base Coat-Avon Smooth Beginnings
Base Color-Phoebe by Zoya - 3 coats
White tips and black stripes - acrylic paint
Top Coat - LA Colors - was only place on the ring finger. I didn't put a top coat on the other nails because I wanted to keep the matte look on the other nails.
What do you guys think of matte finishes? Yay or Ney?
I personally love matte nail polishes! Especially matte glitter or matte with shiny accents. I really like what you did with the stripes, it looks really nice with that blue!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the complement. :-) Matte glitters?!?! I need to try some of those. I don't think I have seen any of them. Mainly because I just started looking into them. What are some good ones?!
ReplyDeleteLove how this looks with the designs! And I love matte polish but only if there's shimmer in it. I don't like when it looks like paint.
ReplyDeleteBTW I tagged you for an award! Yay :P
Maybe the reason I like this look much more than just the basic matte mani is because it doesn't look like paint. :) I think you have unearthed my subconscious reasoning for not enjoying matte polishes as much as everyone else.
ReplyDeleteYay for my first blog award! I am very excited and will be doing the post next! Thank you so much! You have made me so happy. I have been waiting for today so that I could get around to doing it! :)