Hi! It's been so long since I have blogged! Since I blogged last I have graduated with an associate's degree in childhood education. I have been really busy with stuff. I finally got around to doing my nails yesterday! I am happy with how they turned out!
Before I go in to the manicure, I just want to show you a couple cool things! I got a great pair of tweezers from Amazon that are great for manicures! I also got microbeads, tiny metallic balls that can be used for caviar nails and other nail looks:
Okay, on to the manicure!
I started out with a coat of OPI Natural Nail Base Coat. (This base coat is GREAT! It keeps staining to a minimum. This is definitely the best base coat I have ever tried!) I then started cutting pieces of striping tape. I used 62 pieces in all.
I then applied two coats of Essie Oui Madame and then a coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly to avoid the tape pulling up my base color. I then began applying the striping tape. I used my curved tweezers to do that. It is best to not touch your nails when you are doing them as the oil from your skin can shorten the life of your mani. I made sure I remembered the order in which I applied the striping tape. I applied the horizontal stripes first, so when I removed the tape I made sure I removed the vertical tape first. You remove striping tape in the opposite order from how you applied it
So, anyway, I applied all the tape and then painted over top of it. I used Milani Sail Away. I immediately removed the tape with tweezers after painting each nail. I then took gold microbeads and applied them at the intersections of the criss-crosses on my thumbs and ring fingers. I used clear nail polish and a dotting tool to do this.
I finished off with two coats of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly. The top coat made the color on the microbeads bleed off a bit, as you can probably notice. The microbeads feel quite scratchy!
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