Hey everyone! Today I have a "then and now" post for my one year blogiversary to share!
I saw this awesome idea on Lindsey of
Wondrously Polished's lovely blog (link to her post
here)! It was hard to find anything very interesting that I did in the first few months of blogging because unlike Lindsey, I wasn't very good when I started my blog, and because of that I didn't try any advanced nail art. My picture quality is the biggest difference I see in these pictures, what do you guys think is my biggest improvement?
For this first mani I remember thinking all of the colours were too bright and intense for a watercolour look, and even when I redid them the other day I thought I should have made the colours even less intense. The funny thing was, rather than thinning the polishes out, I decided to sponge them on the first time I did these. It was like I was trying to do a design that involves a certain technique but I decided to use another technique and still call it the original design… I'm strange sometimes :P.
Here is the link to the post this first picture is from if you're interested! I used to write a lot less in my posts and write even more awkwardly than I do now haha! These are from January 2013 and while wearing these and before writing up the post, I picked up my first bottle of pure acetone for cleanup!
Here is my recent reattempt at this look! I used all of the same polishes as in the other post (
American Apparel California Trooper,
Essie Cute as a Button,
Essie Bikini so Teeny,
Revlon Mint Gelato, and
Revlon Lemon Meringue) as well as a sheer white polish on top (
Essie Waltz) to achieve a more pastel and watercolour-like look!
What do you guys think about the new version of these? To me they look like a blurred floral or houndstooth pattern!
The other mani I decided to redo for this post was a black to neon gradient look.
Here is the original post from February 2013! There is a cute story behind these nails because my boyfriend at the time (and current one, we're still dating) told me in detail exactly how I should do these nails and which colour to do on each nail! I just painted a black base and asked him what I should do and this is exactly what he said, down to the ring finger orange accent nail :).
I remember noticing that if you just sponged on a neon colour once or twice it looked like a dark version of the colour, so it really isn't difficult to make a smooth gradient with sheerer polishes like neons. I'm not sure why I didn't think that was as important as it was at the time haha, live and learn!
I almost used the exact same polishes as I did last time for this, but I switched out the
Orly black for a more opaque (one-coater!) black;
Revlon Espresso. The rest of the polishes are the same,
American Apparel Neon Yellow,
American Apparel Neon Green, and
China Glaze Sun Worshipper! I also switched top coats to a 3-free one because that's really important to me, and as I've said many times I use
Essie Good to Go!
I totally screwed up the colour scheme here as you can probably tell, I got distracted watching a crazy movie! What do you guys think of this version of this mani?
Thank you so much for reading guys! I hope I can keep improving and doing posts like this every year! I also hope you've all had a lovely first week back at school and work! =)
