My little fingers are a bit out of place in this mani, I did them in BarryM Amethyst Glitter, just to see what the glitter was like! Then I just couldn't bring myself to take it off because a) it's really pretty and b) it is 3 coats of relatively coarse glitter, and I am not yet ready for the struggle of all the shredded cotton wool! I am going to leave them on until they start chipping, and hopefully come up with a few more suitable manis to compliment them when I am back in Bristol with my full collection of polishes :)
For the rest of my nails, I was just experimenting with a couple of the new No7 polishes, and how effectively they would go over each other. The colours used are Vivid Violet and Star Shower. I started off with 2 coats of star shower on my thumb, index and ring fingers, and 2 coats of vivid violet on my middle fingers. I then used standard sellotape to tape off a diagonal stripe on each nail, and painted the stripe on in 1 coat of the opposing colour. I removed the tape immediately after applying the polish, and am pleased with how clean my lines are. In future, I may invest in some masking tape or coloured tape, as the transparent stuff is tricky to place in the right place, and a couple of my lines are a little wonky. Still, not bad for a first try!
Here are my nails pre-striping -
Anyway, I am going back to Bristol tonight, and so will have access both to Photoshop, and my full selection of nail polishes, yey!
Blog you soon, S x
Masking tape works really well. I was dead pleased with my candy cane stripes at Christmas! Being low tack and clearly visible is a big plus, though I found it hard to cut thin stripes - it is fiddly! Cheap or old (tacky) nail polishes can affect the finish of the lines, or maybe that's because I didn't leave them very long to dry all the way through. I see what you mean about the Manifesto bottle (that's what I'm wearing at the moment)!
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