Nautical Accents

Mornin' ladies. Today I have a bit of nail art to share with you. Yesterday I showed you China Glaze Kinetic Candy as a blank canvas and today I will show you the nautical accents I added to spice up my mani. I adore this manicure because I am a navy wife and feel nautical is only too appropriate for me to wear. I hope you like it as much as I do!

taken indoors

taken in direct sunlight

taken in the shade

Colors used:
     ● 2 coats CHINA GLAZE Kinetic Candy
     ● KONAD Black for thumb anchor
     ● ART DECO White for stripes

I free-handed the stripes and the anchor with an art brush. I have an anchor stamping plate that I wanted to use from SHANY, but the image was a bit small for my thumbs so I did it by hand. I topped the look with Seche Vite which smooths out any lines or unevenness you can get when adding nail art.

This is a look I saw on Pintrest and I HAD to do it myself. Unfortunately, I do not know where the look originated from but this was the pinned picture.

Thanks for popping in!

Kinetic Candy

Good evening, ladies. I am going to kick start the week with one of my new CHINA GLAZE colors, Kinetic Candy. I grabbed this one while Sally's was having their buy 2 get 1 free on their entire stock of polishes. Kinetic Candy is part of the Electropop Collection. It's a gorgeous cool toned baby blue and after my first application it looked great. I added a second out of habit, but the formula was thick enough that 1 would have sufficed. I love this color!

taken indoors

taken in direct sunlight

taken in shade

Isn't this such a beautiful blue? What do you think?

Well, I hope you all had a wonderful Monday and thanks for popping in!