Anyway, I went to bed early last night and got a good, restful night of sleep, and then I got so much done today! I did my taxes finally this morning (got a nice big federal and state refund, whoohoo!) and then I cleaned and organized my office here at home. I still had boxes to unpack from when we moved in last May! I got everything sorted, and now you can see the floor!
Okay, sorry for all the talking, those were just two things on my Spring Break To-Do list, and I'm glad I got them done!
For today's manicure, I used some nail vinyls I got from Nail Vinyls on Storenvy. I've used striping tape before, and I figured this would be pretty similar, but it turns out they're a little different!
Nail vinyls are more substantial and way stickier than striping tape. At first they would pull up the polish underneath when I tried to reposition them. So I stuck the vinyl to my hand a few times to try to make it less sticky, but then it wouldn't still to my nail at all! After some finagling I got it to work though!
This is one coat of RBL "Pause" over two coats of Butter London "Fishwife". It was really hard to get accurate pictures of "Pause". My camera kept wanting to make it blue. For some reason, darker lighting (like the two above photos) worked better. "Pause" is a grape purple shimmer, and "Fishwife" is a weak minty holo.
Thanks for reading!
I've thought about purchasing some nail vinyls so I'm glad you gave the heads up about them being stickier than tape! Now if I decide to buy I'll know how to handle them a bit better!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it definitely takes a little bit of learning. You have to wait until your base color is COMPLETELY dry, or the vinyls will pull it up. I found that sticking it to my hand just once worked best, otherwise it would not stay on my nail. Let me know if you get some!
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