Today I received an
order of nail vinyls and I couldn't wait to try them out. Since I had purchased
lightning bolts I thought these would be perfect for this week NPQ challenge,
lightning. I also took this opportunity to use some of my new polishes from my
OPI Nordic collection.
Materials
Base and top coat
Polishes of your
choice (at least two colors)
Vinyls
I started with Do
You Have This Color in Stockholm? On my pinky and thumb and two coats of My
Voice is a Little Norse on all my other fingers.
I applied Seche Vite
to speed up the drying time. Once dry, I then placed a lightning bolt vinyl on
my pointer and mid finger.
I painted one half
My Dogsled is a Hybrid and the other half I painted Can't Afjord Not To. Just like with tape I removed the vinyls
almost immediately after polish application. One more quick top coat
application and there you have it.
My initial thoughts
on this design/color combo was blah. However, it is growing on me. I figured
since I was trying a product (the nail vinyls) I've never used before I may as
well try a color combo and style I've never used before. I'm not a big fan of purples or glitter so
this was a pretty big push outside my comfort zone.
In regards to the
nail vinyls, I have to say are the best thing since sliced bread. I generally
like to use tape when I am doing many of my designs because I like the fresh
clean lines. These nail vinyls make it even easier to do chevrons, stripes,
lightning bolts, stars,etc. Yes, of course, you can cut most of these things
from tape but the chances of creating consistent clean cuts to create precise
and exact duplicates is very hard to do. I am sold on nail vinyls and it'll be
really hard for me to ever go back to plain old tape.
If you are
interested in the nail vinyls that I used checkout www.nailsvinyl.com. In addition to the lightning bolts I also
purchase small chevrons, various straight lines, stars, and 90 degree angles.
I'm sure you will see these in future manis.
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