Happy first day of April, I swear I feel like March just began and now it's gone! Anywho, today I have a springy nail look for you using Thimbleberry from Sinful Colors and some stamping plates from Born Pretty Store.
Let's take a closer look at the products I used; As mentioned above Thimbleberry from Sinful Colors, Black Heart from Sally Hansen, Iceberg from Avon's Gel Finish line, Born Pretty stamping plate BP-54, how cute are those little owls, and BP-50 I originally chose this plate because I really liked the heart pattern. You'll see below I used neither one of those images for this nail look.
When I was deciding what image(s) I wanted to use from these plates the flower in the center of BP-54 kept jumping out at me so I went with that one and attempted to make decals out of it. It worked really well, it was just very time consuming and the decal ended up being to big for my ring finger, but worked perfectly on my thumb. Next time I know to use a smaller image for decals! Once I got my flower decals made I found myself being drawn to the BP-50 plate by the leafy image on the top left, I thought leaves would tie in good with flowers, so I just went for it.
I'm quite please with the way it all came out, even the little hiccup I had with the decal being to big for my finger. I had thought about adding some Salon Perfect Cosmic Dust, but I didn't want to go overboard LOL
Have you ever made homemade decals from nail stamping plates?
The plates I used in this nail look are currently $2.99 on Born Pretty's website, you can save an additional 10% by using coupon code: SMBW10
Update on my job, I'm still loving it! It's more responsibility than I've ever had at a job and I was just kinda thrown into it. The last person that held that position said it took them 3 months before they were closing the store on their own, and I've only been there just a little over a week and was left to close the store on my own last night. I didn't have any major issues, so I'm gonna say it went pretty well ;) It helps to have such nice and helpful co-workers though!
Hope you all enjoy your day! Hope you are having some great spring weather!
Great spring manicure!!
ReplyDeleteI really should take the time to try my hand at making decals but at the moment all I seem to do is paint a base color, run off on an errant or go to work and take off the polish after a couple of days without any nail art on it... I need a vacation ;)
Glad to hear you're still have a great time at work!
Thanks Joyce! Even after spending all that time on this mani it will probably come off in the next day or so LOL
DeleteFabulous! And no I haven't...I still stink at stamping. And my one try at decals was an even bigger disaster! LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks Dionne! Oh noes, disasters are never good, but they do serve as good learning tools ;)
DeleteOMG So pretty!! I absolutely adore Thimbleberry! ^_^
ReplyDeleteThanks Lizzy! I passed on it the first time I seen it in the store, but after I seen swatches I knew I had to have it :)
Deletethis turned out so cute!! love the colors you chose!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Elle! :)
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