29 February 2012

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Nails! - Nail Art Contest Entry


This mani is based on an idea I've had in my mani-spiration book for a while now.  The motivation for finally getting around to doing it is Chalkboard Nails' nail art contest found here.  This is my first time entering a contest.  While I don't expect to win (way too much talent out there!), I'm just proud of myself for getting up the courage to enter!  The rules were that you could only use the polish brush and a dotting tool (or something dotting tool-ish).  I don't have an actual dotting tool, so I used this stylus I have from when I used to do ceramics.


And on to the mani! My idea was to have it look as though rain was "filling" my nails with water.  I used SH Double Duty as a base followed by two coats of OPI's Alpine Snow.  The raindrops and last nail are PP It's All About Blue and it's all topped with SV.  My improvised dotting tool's ends are two different sizes, but both are actually quite small. For smaller raindrops, I used the dotting tool alone.  For the fatter raindrops, I ended up having to use the polish brush to drop a dot of polish and then use my tool to pull a tail.  Since I wanted the nails to look as though water was filling up and sloshing around, I just free-handed uneven tips.  What do you think?




8 comments:

  1. This is SO cute! The concept is really great and it turned out so well. Good for you for entering! :)

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  2. What a cute mani! I love that blue! I too was inspired by Chalboard Nails's contest recently but I didn't enter because I used tape. So congrats on entering, and good luck!

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    1. You still have time to do something else! And that was one reason why I thought this mani would be a good one to submit. I didn't have to worry about nice, straight lines for the tips! LOL But free-handing them like that got polish EVERYWHERE. Clean-up took forever!

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  3. I LOVE this mani! You did such a great job! Very clever. I should do this on my nails today as it is raining cats and dogs out as I type this! LoL!

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    1. This is definitely one of my favorites so far!

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