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Sunday 27 April 2014

Two tone floral stamping for Busy Girl Nails Spring - Flowers



I was originally going to do some freehand flowers for this week's "flowers" prompt but I gave up out of frustration. I'm not sure if my nail art brush is too stiff or what... but whenever I try to use my acrylic pants I can never seem to get a smooth even line. I keep ending up with a dent that runs down the middle of my lines :( Anyway since I was using acrylic paint I was able to scrub it off with water and an old toothbrush. I decided to do some stamped flowers instead but wanted to push myself to try something new so I went with some two tone stamping. I think a white base might look better next time, but I couldn't be bothered to redo my base color. I kind of like the way these colors look over nude too :)


To do this I painted a stripe of each color down the length of the plate. I left a small gap in between the two colors. As I scraped down the length of the plate the colors mixed a bit in the middle creating this effect.

I smudged the stamping a bit on my middle finger. My ring finger ended up orange only so I stamped the single flower image over it in pink. I was too tired at this point to redo it. I really need to get a white stamper... it was so hard to see these colors on my dark pink konad stamper!

What I used:
Base: OPI - Don't Pretzel My Buttons (2 coats)
Orange: Color Club - Tech Red
Pink: Color Club - Flickr Pink
Pueen plate 19

I don't understand how Tech Red got it's name. It's clearly orange. Personally it bugs me when a polish has a name containing a color that does not match the actual color of the polish. Maybe I'm just OCD or something. Oh and if you're wondering where to get these I got them in a giveaway... They are Yahoo exclusives and I don't think they're available for purchase anywhere... sorry!


What do you think of this mani? Do you like these colors over a nude base or do you think they would look better over white?

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12 comments:

  1. Cute mani! Love the two colors you chose for your stamping - they work really well together! :)

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    1. thanks Justina! I love the coral color that they create in the middle especially! :)

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  2. I was thinking of free handing flowers too, but just didn't have the patience lol. I love how yours turned out!

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    1. ya... I tried and gave up lol... I really admire girls who do freehand nail art regularly... some of them do it so well!

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  3. These look great! I love that you tried something different with the stamping by using two colors too.

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    1. thanks LIsa! they turned out better than I expected too :) I'll definitely be using this technique again soon!

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  4. Love the neutral base colour with the brighter flowers :)

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    1. thank you! i'm loving nudes with bright colors!

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