Welcome back, ladies! Boy is it HOT outside today. It's going to get even hotter as the week goes on for us here in VA. I decided on doing more nail art today. My last nail post I did
ladybugs, today I have butterflies! This one is also a re-creation from a Pintrest find originally done by
Beads. Nails. Food. Pairing the gradient with the butterfly look was so gorgeous I immediately bookmarked it in my head to do later. I have been getting a nice little collection of shimmer polishes so I decided to pair a shimmer with a corresponding color for my gradient. Lots of polishes and pictures for this one so hunker down there, girls.
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Butterfly Gradient |
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butterflies and flowers (that's a Gerbera daisy from my garden) |
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Little Miss Amoki admiring Momma's nails from afar. |
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Dpow smelling the daisy |
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Skittle Gradients before butterfly-ification |
Colors used:
● thumb: ZOYA Midori w/ ZOYA Ivanka
● pointer: ZOYA
Arizona w/ ZOYA Myrta
● middle: ZOYA Lolly w/ ZOYA Kimber
● ring: ZOYA
Robyn w/ ZOYA
Charla
● pinky: JULEP
Anne w/ ZOYA Zara
● KONAD Special Polish in Black
● White Acrylic
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all the polishes I used for this look! |
I told you I used a lot! It took a while to achieve this look. I started with 2 coats of each base color (the ones listed first under colors used) and let it completely dry. I then used a small makeup sponge and applied the shimmery colors (second colors listen under colors used) on the tips down partially to the middle of each nail. I let this dry and then applied Seche Vite. It helps to use a top coat before adding nail art so if you mess up it's easier to remove your mistake without mussing up your base color too much. After that was dried I used my small art brush and freehanded the black butterfly lines and then added the dots with white acrylic using my dotting tool. After the detailing was COMPLETELY dry, I topped once again with Seche Vite to smooth out the look and help make it last. When adding top coat over any sort of nail art be sure it's 100% dry. If it isn't, the drag from the brush can smear your work.
Phew! Hope you could follow all of that. I love my summer toes and nails! I kind of have a mixture of things going on here; skittles, gradient, nail art... :-)
Thanks for popping in!
I absolutely LOVE the colors you used; some of my faces in there, and Ivanka is next on my list of Zoyas I must have. I've been really wanting some greens lately. Anyway, your butterflies are gorgeous over all that color. Enjoy the heat! It was pretty hot over here this past weekend; I love it. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Liesl! After I got the Mod Mattes, Ivanka and Charla were my next two Zoyas. They are both completely beautiful. Ivanka was such a perfect name for that green. I enjoy the weather too but my poor huskies are not big fans.
DeleteBeautiful manicure! And such lovely colors.
ReplyDeleteThank you, KB. Zoya has so many pretty polishes.
DeleteWhat a gorgeous gradient manicure. The butterfly look is a bonus, and beautiful!! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Kelsie!
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