Apparently I also didn't know how to colour coordinate then either, because these flowers are crazy, but I enjoyed doing such a bright and colourful design. I find that I struggle for inspiration more than I did then, I didn't need much to give me a design and I wish I could still have that, even if the designs were a little mad! The original design was created doing a dotting tool, I only remember that because that's all I ever used then, a set of dotting tools was one of the first things I bought and I used nothing else until about 6 months ago when I decided to try using brushes in this post. As I've mentioned before, I'm still not very confident with brushes, so sometimes I will turn back to my trusty dotting tools, but not this time, I know now that it's a lot quicker to use the brush from the nail varnish to create big flowers like this, so that's what I did. I then used a dotting tool for the dots and specks within the flowers. Original picture after the jump!
For the base colours I used Nails Inc - 'grosvenor crescent' for the pink and Nail Inc - 'putney bridge' for the purple. Both went on in one coat which is awesome, and I'm definitely glad I spent £30 on a set of 10 (oops).
Then I used Nails Inc - 'hyde park gate' for the green flowers, a mixture of Barry M - yellow and a tiny bit of Barry M - matt white for the yellow flowers, and China Glaze - refresh mint for the blue flowers.For the white spots I used Barry M - matt white, and for the black specks I used acrylic paint
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| I told you the pictures were horrendous! |
I hope you liked my first 'Then and Now' post, the next installment shall be next Saturday!
Alice
Whoa! That's really interesting to see. I love the design. Your photos are always so perfect, it's nice to see they weren't always like that! There's hope for all of us, lol!
ReplyDeleteHaha! All my pictures were more focused on my bed than my actual nails, as you'll soon see, it was so bad! Thankyou :D
DeleteI love this idea of re-doing your nails. I didn't start taking pictures of my nails long ago but I know the quality of the photos are god awful so I know the shame to think that you were ok with that at the time. I actually really like those colours that you used but I'm colour mad so I love them! Can't wait to see more 'then and now' x
ReplyDeleteI don't think the quality of your photos is bad at all! Especially not compared to those up there haha. And thankyou! I probably should go a bit colour mad now and again
DeleteThis is stunning))) I think it's one of those design that looks super complex, but isn't that difficult to recreate - will have to try this!!
ReplyDeleteThankyou! And it really was simple, probably took about 10-20 minutes, not bad really, I'd love to see your version :D
DeleteI really like your "Now" mani ;-) And I love the idea of Then and Now. I agree with Natalsie, your mani's looks very intricate, but the way you explain them makes me want to try them all!
ReplyDeleteThankyou! Please do try it, I'd love to see :D
Deleteyour nail art is perfect! I loved it!
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the nails looksvery cute *_* your blog is very interesting and good *_* im glad if you visit my blog, too < keep in touch!
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These are fantastic, I think the colours look fab together! And I love the Then and Now idea, I haven't been blogging long enough to do it myself which is a shame but i'm definitely going to keep it in mind for the future! X
ReplyDeleteDo! I think I'm going to really enjoy this challenge, and I'm sure you would too :)
DeleteLove these colors and the flowers! I'm a new follower and have only recently developed an interest in polish.
ReplyDeleteFound your blog through tumblr and I'm glad I did. Love your nailart!!!!! See me cheesing :D
ReplyDeletethese are really cool! They're super visually striking, the design is great and the color combo is kind of crazy but it totally works! I also looove seeing then and now pictures, I can't wait for more! I kinda want to do some now too :)
ReplyDeletedo do do! Starlett Approved is starting today, you could start next saturday when I post my second one? It'd be cool to do it with a few of us! and thankyou :D
DeleteThe colours definitely clash.. but in a good - in your face - awesome kind of way. It's always so interesting to see 'then & now' pictures, looking forward to seeing more! ^^
ReplyDeleteThis is so much fun! It's so fun to see how much you've improved!
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