Hello ladies,
I love the brilliant skies in January. The blue is such a contrast to the snow, that has settled in drifts and patches throughout center city. Putting on my grey boots today, I was thinking about embroidered peasant skirts: the bright gauzy cotton sewn with flowers, beads and small mirror circles. I love wearing skirts like this in the summer, to walk about the dahlias and blend among their colors. I decided to create the look of folk art flowers in a winter palette of blue and white.
With Konad white special polish, I stamped the flowers from Born Pretty plate M64. I used an Art Club striper in turquoise glitter to highlight the floral design. A large blue gem was placed in the center of each flower. White mirror circles from Art Club and blue pearls add further interest.
This glowing blue has a neon base stirred with tiny shimmer particles. It's Electrifying awakens with topcoat. I wasn't prepared for the beauty of this polish! I am showing three coats for perfect opacity. The neon formula is fast drying. I love that It's Electrifying can be worn without a whitening base coat and no worry of having a visible nail line. I would like Diamond Cosmetics to create more shimmering neons including a pin up red and a medium purple hue.
I hope you enjoyed my bright winter manicure!
Image plate M64 was sent for consideration. It is part of the nail art stamping set #518, available at bornprettystore.com.
Happy painting, ladies!
Very pretty! I love January skies as well. They're not always blue, but when they are, they're freaking BLUE. If you know what I mean. :)
ReplyDeletebeautiful mani! i like brights in the winter, they liven things up :)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty blue and love the nail art.
ReplyDeletei like how u created the flowers! and it looks great combined with blue polish :)
ReplyDeleteyou have a great talent for this, I been trying to do some nail arts and didn't came up like i would like, ill still practicing :)
ReplyDeleteI love that design. It's amazing how just flipping the design upside down and alternating for each finger really adds something to the pattern. You have such a steady hand! I hope to be that steady with konad stamping someday.
ReplyDeleteCute . You have a blog award over at my blog!!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks beautiful!! I love the blue color, and how you did the design with the gems/pearls! :D
ReplyDeletegreat minds think alike im wearing this same color-virgo vibe!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat mani, it looks so good together! The blue is so nice, very intense!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing! I love this mani. Blue and green colours are my favorite...
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower. Greetings from Barcelona;-)
I love this blue color!
ReplyDeleteThe polish is awesome with the blue sky background. Switching the nail design back and forth on each finger creates a lot of interest too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful blue! Love this!
ReplyDeleteZara: Thanks so much! I feel like all the color in January is in the sky!
ReplyDeleteEnamel Girl: Thank you! I have been eyeing some of my untried neon polishes.
rmcandlelight: Thanks! Blue polishes make me happy. I'm loving the simplicity of some of the Born Pretty plate designs. They dress up well.
YoannitaL: Thanks so much! The design was pretty and graphic. I enjoyed adding glitter and gems.
ReplyDeleteLadyLuck27: Thank you! When I started painted Lady fingers about a year and a half ago, I had little experience with nail art. Everything you see has come out of experimentation. :)
rojosa: Thanks so much! I've been on a kick lately with alternating the stamp positioning. I found with practice, stamping becomes like
second nature. Some designs admittedly are trickier than others.
I wish that beautiful blue sky was around every day. This is a beautiful shade. Love it and the design. I could totally see this on a peasant skirt.
ReplyDeletethis design is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty, and you nailed the embroidered skirt with your design.
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