From the Vault: Fancy Friday #88: Striping Tape

I have been in a nail funk for some years, and have been posting mostly to instagram during these last three years. Earlier this year my account got hacked, but I managed to throw the hackers off. Unfortunately Meta has serious problems with some of its functionality so I can't log on to the account at the moment. Thought I'd take some of my postings over here, then.

I went to my drafts folder and found some stuff I hadn't posted last I did a draft purge.

This one is a really old one - from back when some of the Danish nail bloggers had a nail art challenge: 

I was searching deliriously through my nail art supplies and simply couldn't find any striping tape - I was so certain I had at least two rolls of it somewhere. And since I had an idea for this challenge that I really wanted to show you, I decided to grab some nail vinyls instead of skipping this challenge...

So here goes...

I used Elevation Polish Pic du Gar as base which was really hard to photograph - it kept turning blue. So these pics have been filtered in order to get the colour closer to what it really looks like.

The textured polishes are all JulieG Gum Drops: Hot Cinnamon, Crushed Candy and Ho Ho Ho - which due to the colour change is leaning a little too green...GAH you simply can't win!!!!

Fancy Friday #41: Match Your Eyes

Yay, a blue challenge Again, since I've got blue eyes - and late again, my life has been taking over but in a good way ;).

This time I decided to play with texture polishes...and a fan brush. I saw a sneak peak of a fan brush gradient my good friend Jacki from Adventures in Acetone did earlier in the week and I thought I'd try it with textures.

And it all ended up looking like this:

I used these beauties for this gradient:

Sinful Colors Blue Persuasion,  OPI Tiffany Case    Julie G Blueberry Fizz

I really like the fluidity of this in particular the transition from the dark to the lighter polish.

It is difficult to see the transition from Tiffany Case to Blueberry Fizz, but that is mostly due to my inexperience with the fan brush and how to align it on the nail to get all colours placed correctly. And my nails are really small which I also didn't take into account when I layed out the colours. Note to self: the stripes of polishes need to be much thinner than I think!!

I found the technique itself a good alternative to spongeing.

I will definitely try the fan brush for a regular gradient - perhaps for the challenge later this week...and if you want to try this yourself there is a great tutorial for this at the Neverland Nail Blog.

If you want to see the colours of the other Fancy Friday girls, hurry on over to check out their blog posts.

Hurra for endnu en udfordring hvor jeg kan lege med blå neglelak :D. Jeg har denne gang kastet mig ud i at lege med en viftepensel til en teksturgradient, overraskende ok resultat synes jeg. Det er dog lidt svært at se overgangen mellem de to lyse lakker, men det er mere fordi teknikken er helt ny for mig og mine negle ALT for små til de ret tykke streger jeg fik påført penslen :D.