Hello!
I’m really excited about sharing today’s post because I love
the results, it may be my favourite mani to date!
I was really stumped for inspiration. Now that I’ve been
putting my nails on the internet I was having serious performance anxiety. I
cleaned my nails and mulled over my options for hours. HOURS.
I finally decided to interpret my Cynthia Rowley scarf. It’s
so bright and floral – perfect for spring!
I started with my go-to base, CoverGirl Silver Lining. I was getting sick of doing linear gradients so I
painted a tri-colored wheel thingy on my
sponge and rotated it for each finger. The tricky part was remembering which
way it was oriented when I went back for more layers!
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| the first stage |
The colours on the wheel are bondi nyc Teal Magnolia, Duri Showstopper
and L’Oreal Royalty Reinvented. I’ve
used Showstopper for a number of gradients, but for some reason last night it
was not behaving well. It kept balding instead of building so at the last
gradient layer I added a bit of bondi nyc Fuschia-istic
to make the pink as opaque as the other colours.
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| the final product |
I pulled out 5 different stamping plates but didn’t end up
using them all. I used Pueen 46 and bondi nyc The Limelight over the purple parts. I really love this colour
combo, I just wish it was more obvious.
The image transferred well but it’s just not as opaque at one layer, and
I didn’t double stamp for fear it would look too messy. I used the same image
and stamped with OPI Amazon…Amazoff over
the teal parts (it stamped beautifully and I look forward to using it again).
On just my thumb I used Konad m4 and bondi nyc NYPD, as a trial. I like the contrasting accent for my thumb, but I
thought it would be too bold for the rest of my fingers so I put NYPD away. Instead I grabbed Konad m53 and bondi nyc Chasing the Sun and stamped some flowers
over the pink areas. This unfortunately was barely visible, but created a
lovely shade, so not a total loss. I turned to Nyx Purple instead for the flowers. Everything got topped off with Glisten
& Glow HK Girl.
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| the mani and its muse (the scarf) |
I posted this on our Instagram account yesterday
(canvaslacquer), and was asked if I would enter it into a spring themed
contest. The prize is basically a shoutout from 3 beauty bloggers, but it would
really help the CANVAS cause so I’m going to enter. Wish me luck!
-L
