Saturday 28 September 2013

Mosaic Tile Nail Art!

Hello everyone! Today I have some tile/abstract stained glass nail art for you!

I sat down with a bunch of my untried/once-tried polishes last night and I decided I'd do a mosaic-inspired manicure. As always, I used one of my two tiny brushes that I've cut most of the bristles off of (this time the fatter one)! For these nails I started off with one coat of Orly Decades of Dysfunction which is part of the Dark Shadows collection Orly put out a while ago. Decades of Dysfunction is definitely a two-coater, but I thought my blobs of colour would cover the streaky parts well enough! The whole collection went on sale at Sally Beauty a month or so after it came out, so of course I had to pick some up! :P

I've been playing around with my light box and I think I've come to the conclusion that just one lamp shining in from the top produces the best pictures. These pictures are the first ones I've taken that are all using just one lamp, do you think these look better than my other recent pictures? I think my skin looks the right colour here; not too red or too yellow. What do you guys think? I'd love if you let me know in the comments!

Anyways, onto the pictures and other polishes used!

Orly Decades of Dysfunction

Pink: American Apparel Angeline

Neon purple: Essie DJ Play That Song

Dark brown/purple: Essie Carry On

Dark blue: OPI OPI... Eurso Euro

Brown: OPI Chocolate Moose

Orly Decades of Dysfunction

Orly Decades of Dysfunction

Orly Decades of Dysfunction

My not as well-painted right hand! :p

Thanks so much for reading everyone! As always, leave any requests in the comments and I'll fill them for you if I can! :)

6 comments:

  1. I love that you showed your right hand! These are really cool, a little like stained glass. :)

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    1. I've decided to always show my right hand just so I can see the difference and see both my left and right hand painting skills improve! :) Thank you so much, I thought they looked a bit like stained glass too! :)

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  2. These look really cool! I agree that just the one lamp looks slightly better- weirdly more illuminated! May I ask what camera you use to take your pictures?

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    1. Thank you so much! :) I think it looks better too, I think it looks more like natural light with one full spectrum natural bulb than with three haha! I use my sister's Canon Rebel T3 for my pictures :).

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    2. Well I'm glad you have discovered this! I was actually contemplating getting a second lamp, but I think I'll just stick with the one now =D Wooo more money to be spent on nail polish.

      My partner has been umming and ahhing over getting a new super fancy camera. I think I'll have to make him get a move along so I can have his old one (which looks really similar to your sisters). One day I'll be happy with my pictures! One day...

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    3. Haha that's the spirit! I actually haven't spent money on polish since July :O, but I am unemployed :P.

      Haha I know the feeling! I think I'm finally happy with my pictures, I think having the light box really does help!

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