Hi guys, today I have a mani that I have been planning to do for ages now. You may remember my Abstract Foil Mani from Day 14 of the Crumpet's Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. It's one of my most popular mani's to date, as well as being a personal favourite of mine. Well, this is a festive version of that mani!
I actually started with a gold base for this mani. I know it sounds kind of weird, but I was only going to use blue and silver foils for this, so I figured, use a gold base in case it shows through anywhere, just to add a little bit more interest to the overall colour scheme.
I used a plain metallic silver, holographic silver and light blue foils for this. The snowflakes are actually stickers I've had laying around for ages, and the white outline was free-handed with my Konad White. I really need to get a plain white polish for nail art, I had super-bad tip wear on these within a couple of days. Hopefully I can find the Sinful Colors white in Boots after Christmas :)
Can you see where I scraped away a little bit of the white border on my ring finger? I was quite annoyed about that, but at 2am, I was not about to try and fix it! I can live with a little imperfection anyway. Whilst I do like this mani a lot, I still prefer the original version, the colour scheme is a lot more me. To be honest, I would probably love this a lot more had I never done the original version. It had all my favourite colours and textures, so I'll be hard pushed to top that one now.
Anyway, I'd love to know what you guys think of this festive foil mani?
Don't forget I'll be back tomorrow with another Sunday Spotlight post, this week will be a couple more La Femme bargains, I do own a lot more of this brand than most of the others (barring Barry M, of course!)
Hiya girls and guys! I can't believe we're already at Day 14 of the #33DC already! This is my first challenge, and I'm really enjoying it : D I'll be sad when it's over. The prompt for today is Abstract. This was one I was a little dubious about at first look, but to be honest, I think this is my fave challenge mani so far!
I decided to do an abstract foil manicure, and you can see the base I started with above. I just applied the foil glue, and randomly applied the foils in different areas. Then I applied more glue, and did a second random layer. The photo above is without topcoat and the foils were really shiny. I don't have a proper foil sealer top coat though, so my foils went a little crinkly and lost some of their shine when I top coated. I wasn't too bothered though, as I knew I wanted to do some textured hearts in gold, blue and fuchsia over them anyway.
I painted the outlines of the hearts with acrylic paint, then applied 1 more topcoat so the black wasn't really dull. Then I filled in the hearts with Rimmel Space Dust - Luna Love, Barry M Royal Glitter - Majesty and Seventeen Rock Hard Couture - Cameo Crush, then while that was drying, I added the borders with Rimmel 60 Seconds - Black Out and a striper brush.
I really like the way the background looks a bit like a stained glass window, and the little silver star that's just visible on the middle finger near the cuticle. I loved everything about this mani really, even the lopsided hearts (intentional, to keep it abstract feeling, of course) ; D
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