Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Strawberry Carnival

Moving on from the whole Suncoat debacle...

Have you ever noticed how nail clean-up always looks okay in person, but then when you take a photo, every little thing you missed shows up? Yeah...excuse my clean-up job there - missed some spots in the shower this morning.

I used Avon's Speed Dry formula last night, in the interest of time. I normally stay away from quick-drying nail polish because I tend to have very bad luck with bubbling on them. As you can see though - no bubbles here, and the formula was thick, opaque in one coat. The brush is too narrow, almost more of a nail art brush, but it still applied easily and smoothed itself out as it dried, so no streaks.

No, I know they don't look like strawberries - I named it after the polishes. The bright fuchsia base polish is named "Strawberry", and the light pink on the tips is "Carnival". The silver is a Nubar nail art pen, and unfortunately I forgot there's an art brush inside, or I would have used that for my swirly lines instead. Next time....

This gave me an idea for yin-yang nails...stay tuned next week for that!

5 comments:

Liza said...

I like it a lot, and don't worry about missed spots - everybody have it, i use photoshop to make my pictures look cleaner.
Anyway - i love those nails - very very creative and cool. Good job, Jamie.

Brooke said...

cool - it looks like silver suns. and the two pinks look very nice together.

Velvet said...

Pretty,it reminds me of siver starfishes.

Lucy said...

Love the combination of colors. Pretty. Glad you were able to get that mess off your nails. I will never be tempted by that polish.

Tuli said...

I know what you mean about taking pics. and see the missed spots...lol...but it's o.k, I guess it happens to everyone who does that :-)
Your design turned out real pretty !