Hey everyone! Today I have a super fun nail design that was inspired by
Karla. I saw her drippy nails and decided to do my spin on it this week.
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| Taken indoors at my poorly lit table where I do my nails :P |
Here's a picture of the colors I used - only the dots; the swatches were done a while ago. From red to purple:
- China Glaze - Salsa
- A random orange polish
- Orly - Glowstick
- Sally Hansen - Lickety Lime Split
- Essie - Naughty Nautical
- Orly - Snowcone
- The Face Shop - BL602
- Orly - Charged Up
How I did these nails (I did them a little differently from Karla):
- Use a base coat (please, it's important to use a base coat if you want to protect your nails from ugly staining)
- Paint two coats of white polish; I used China Glaze - White on White.
- Put a blob of polish (you might be thinking, what a waste and yes, it is kind of a waste) on a piece of scrap paper/hard paper/cardboard/whatever you want to put it on.
- Use a dotting tool/toothpick/end of a pen/end of a skewer/whatever qualifies as a dotting tool and create a random dot on your nail.
- If there isn't enough polish on your dotting tool, dip it into the main blob and create a downwards line from the small dot. You don't have to drag it all the way down to the tip of your nail. Now you have a 'spore' (think enoki mushrooms).
- Make another 'spore' beside your first spore at a different height.
- Connect the two spores at the base, making sure to make a U-shape connector and fill in the polish at the tip of the nail.
- Make however many spores your nail can fill and finish with top coat.
Here is my, um, attempt at showing you how it's actually done on the nail... using Paint. Haha, I'm sorry, I should have done a step-by-step like Karla did.
(My sister claims that my tutorial is cool... Well... if you say so, haha!)
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| Taken in indirect sunlight |
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| Taken under sunlight |
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| Taken with flash |
You can't see Glowstick because Orly wasn't lying when they labeled it as neon. It's blinding. I'm sorry for the terrible flash pictures. I need to build myself a light box stat!
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| Taken indoors under yellow lighting | | | |
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I've always wanted to do these nails but some other design would always distract me and steer me away from doing this. So glad I saw this on Karla's blog.
How do you like my drippy nails?? Ever done them yourself? What color combos did you use? Would you try this? Inspired to do this for Halloween?
Thanks, as always, for reading! :)
