Little while back, while browsing AliExpress.com, my hunt out for great bargains, I came across this mermaid plate. I am not much into a mermaids, but I just couldn't pass this one up. Don't you agree that this is beautiful image? Even though it is too big to fit on my nails, and I did not feel like trying to play with the placement, I just did her beautiful face with that flowing hair. Maybe one day I will be for trying to shrink the image to fit my nails better, I will leave that for some future. I apologize for really bad photo of this, I already started with writing when I just decided to snap a quick photo and share it with you. This is so much nicer of any possible description I could |
Stamping plate is YZWLE-01, and I made decal using Mundo de Unas - Black, then I filled in decal. For body I used shimmery white from LÒreal - Satin Sheets, and for a hair I used whole lot of different metallic polishes.
As a base, I used Zoya - Crystal - metallic teal blue with load of gold glitter. I really liked it in the bottle, and I had to have it, but now when I used it for a first time, I am not sure about it.
after I placed decal on my mid and ring finger nail. I added glitter gradient with Sinful Colors - Nail Junkie, and I swear I purchased this one for name only - I did already had couple of blue/teal glitter bombs, but what it is one more...
Gradient is barely noticeable, but I know that is there, and that is all that count. You can see it if you look really hard on the photos below.
I had so many drawbacks with this manicure, took me longer than anticipated, and by the time I was done, it was dark outside, and I had to take the photos under the lamp... I do not like taking indoor photos, because I do not have good lighting, and photos produced are either over exposed and my skin is glowing white, or my skin have a range of strange colors. We don`t even want to mention grainy photos for lack of light... no win situation for me.
Thing is, I was just so happy with my mermaid to hold on until tomorrow to take better photos... By the time you read this, it will already be tomorrow, but I would still need to edit photos, which would be fine it there is no day job I have to tend to... Ah well, you win some, you lose some.
I hope that you will have a wonderful day. Thank you for sharing it with me.