Beauty

[WhateverLolaWants]

On 12/12/2014 NC Bandwagon said:

On 12/6/2014 WhateverLolaWants said:

Hello, Lovelies, and Happy Saturday!

I was a bit late in realizing, it's been four weeks since I last posted a NOTW. I'll show you my favorite of the past month's mani's, although it's not Holiday-themed, I may post again this month to show you a more seasonal look.

This is what might be called a "skittlette" mani since each nail is different-but-related to the others.

I began with Nailtiques Formula 2 as a base coat (Formula 2-Plus on one fingernail, which seems to need extra TLC); then, OPI "Ridge-Filler" base coat to level out the nail surface.

On thumbs, middle and pinky fingers, OPI "Pink-ing of You", 2 coats,

Ring finger, OPI "Alpine Snow", 2 coats,

Pointer finger, Wet 'n Wild "Black Créme", 2 coats,

Seche Vite top coat.

Then, the fun and experimentation began: I bought a new striping brush as well as nail striping tape for those nail designs. I watched some YouTube videos and did some practicing with the striping brush, and thought I might be able to get a "good enough" result, but ended up re-doing a couple of nails and starting over with the striping tape, which gave a clean, crisp look but even with top coat and daily applications of Nailtiques, the tapes wanted to curl up at the naii edges, so I finally pulled them off and went back to the striping brush, which got this mani through the week.

I used Konad M79 image plate to stamp the thumb dots, Konad M3 for the middle finger bow, and hand-dotted the pinky.

Inspiration credit: @Lisa Mullins

Tell me, what have you've been wearing?

Oh, how lovely! It looks beautiful! You did that yourself? I just got some new nail polishes, too. I'm not able to paint it on as nice as you, but I like my new polishes a lot.

Hi NC Bandwagon, thank you, yes, I did that myself, but I admit, with some trial and error. Isn't it fun to find new polish colors to try? I always enjoy that too, and have quite a few new ones lined up awaiting their turn. Have a great weekend and put on something festive for the Holidays!