Saturday, October 6, 2012

pastel tribal nails

Not feeling too talkative so I'll get right into my notd. I was feeling very inspired last night. I originally planned to do a solid nude color with black stamping, but I saw this manicure using the exact same stamp I planned to use and I loved this way more.


 

For this manicure, I started off with a base of OPI Alpine Snow- just one coat. I then painted on stripes with my three pastel colors. Using white under any polish will simply make it brighter on the nail. I started painting without a white base and I just didn't like how it looked. 

On the bottom-most part of my nail near the cuticle is Piggy Polish Poet-tree. The middle is Essie Tart Deco, and the top (and bottle shown in my pictures) is China Glaze For Audrey. I started with the green, then did the blue. I then went halfway between the two to add a stripe of the coral. All of that polish looked pretty clumpy, but I smoothed it out with a coat of Seche Vite (after letting it dry a long time; no way was I gonna mess this one up). After waiting a while, I stamped using Fingerpaints Black Expressionism with bundle monster image plate #315. I love this image! Absolutely love it.

All of the polish I used cooperated quite well. I have no complaints with this manicure. In some areas my stamping was a little funny but I've gotten so many compliments on this manicure; others don't really notice the imperfections quite like your own self does. 

What do you think? Do you like my color choice? What about the tribal look?

17 comments:

  1. I love this! The colors are fantastic and I love the stamping!

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  2. Tribal is one of my favorite prints for nails..love this!

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    1. I agree! I'd love to try this mani again with different colors.

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  3. Ooo, this is haute! I really like this!

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  4. This looks great! I did not even think stamping when I first looked at it - I am so not able to do decent free hand tribal manis...too much going on in too small of space I guess. Love the colors - shades of the Southwest feeling.

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    1. I have a hard time with free hand anything and no matter how easy people tell me tribal print is, I decided to go with the safety of my stamps lol!

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  5. So cute! Thank you for tagging my blog to this, it makes me happy to know my nails inspired such a beautiful mani!

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    1. I was going to do something plain & your mani inspired me to go outside of the box, so THANK YOU!

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  6. Wow, these are one of the best tribal nails I have seen yet!!! They make a statement bit are not too busy or over the top.. LOVE!!!

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  7. You did a great job, those colors and stamping go together great! I am impressed with your CC quote up there, she had some really great ones!

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  8. Great design! Love it! I love the color combination and the tribal design. This looks complicated so I really adore your creativity and patience. I wish I have those too.

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