feelin blue

Let me tell you, when you spend 8 hours painting your nails and three weeks later they have yet to chip...it's a bit difficult to take the acetone to them. I almost kept the stripes longer but I needed a change and without any nails to paint other than my own, I was left to take off the old design and start fresh. This particular look is a sort of art deco style utilizing negative space yet again and taking advantage of the butter LONDON for Ann Taylor collaboration. 

For this look I started with one coat of butter LONDON's Horse Power Nail Fertilizer. Like my other design featuring negative space, I forwent the Nail Foundation in order to preserve the natural shade of my nail for the unpainted part of the nail. Next I painted a half-moon outline on each nail in white with butter LONDON's Cotton Buds to distinguish the part of the nail that was going to be unpolished from that which was going to be polished. I added a line down the center, then painted some diagonals to be filled in with different colors on each side. 

After I had the basic outline painted in white, I began adding in the different colors. I decided on a blue color pallet. The colors I selected were actually ones that were being featured at Ann Taylor stores for the fall to go with their seasonal collections. I liked the freshness of the color combination so I decided to incorporate the color scheme into my design. I kept the first diagonal unpainted, then painted the second with the beautiful periwinkle Sprog. I painted the following stripe with another Ann Taylor feature color, and a classic neutral shade with a slight shine, Yummy Mummy. For the small triangle on the tips I used a soft grey (not a part of the 3 polish set for Ann Taylor) Lady Muck. Lastly, I filled in the center diamonds with the beautiful Royal Navy and used a dotting tool to add the three dots along the edge of the half-moon of negative space. 

After the spaces were filled in, I used my dotting tool to add a dot of Yummy Mummy in each of the Royal Navy dots...something which I later regretted and covered up with Royal Navy. There are times when I definitely over do things, and that was one of them... it may have actually looked even better without the navy dots, but too little to late for that. 

Sometimes I make mistakes. 

After I fixed the dots, I painted over the white lines and cleaned up the edges to it looked a but sharper. Lastly, I applied one coat of SV Topcoat for a nice lasting shine. I was pretty pleased with the overall look of the design. Thoughts? 

        Cotton Buds                        Sprog                       Yummy Mummy                     Royal Navy                 Lady Muck