Taped Pastel Nails

I quite liked how these nails turned out, and they were pretty simple to achieve. I thought I would use some spring type pastels, to try to encourage the spring to actually happen but alas, no such luck. It even snowed this week, who'd have thought it's nearly April?! Anyway onto the nails.

What I used - 

• Constance Carroll Base Coat and Nail Hardener
• 17 Lasting Fix in Sherbert Lemon
• Constance Carroll Diamond Gloss in 365 Pastel Green (it's blue though really..)
• Collection 2000 Frosted Nail Polish in 183
• 17 Slicker Quicker Colour in Navy Glint
• NYC Top Coat in Grand Central Station
• Masking Tape

To start off I painted my nails with base coat and hardener, and left to dry. I then painted on random blobs of my pastel colours, just using the nail polish brushes, and this is how it looked at this stage -

I quite liked them just like this, I like the yellow more than I expected too :). While I was waiting for this to dry completely, I cut thin strips of masking tape, and lined them all up ready for the next step. For this step, I just placed the masking tape on my nails in various directions/ patterns, and painted over the lot with 17 Navy Glint. I removed the tape while the polish was still wet, and left the design to dry for a while before finishing with my topcoat. Here is the finished look -

I'm not sure if I preferred these nails before or after the final colour was added! I quite like both ways. The lines of the Navy Glint aren't as neat as I'd have liked, but the slightly wavey lines grew on me in a design that doesn't need to be perfect. If I did this again, I would try using striping tape instead perhaps, I don't think I cut the masking tape quite thin enough.

Anyway, I hope you like these nails :) the next post I've got for you is probably my favourite manicure to date.

Until next time, S x