Materials I used:
Base Coat - Seche Vite
Silver polish - Cinema Swatch Lacquer's 'Smoke & Fire'
Black polish - from a Nail Art stripper
Detail Brush
Large dotting tool
Top Coat - Seche Vite
I began with two coats of my silver polish, this silver is one of the limited edition polishes from Cinema Swatch Lacquers second Walking Dead trio. I love The Walking Dead and I love this polish which was created to represent Carol, one of my favorite characters.
This pretty grey jelly-ish polish is full of blue and pink shimmery flakies. When I swatched these for a previous post I did not own a macro lens, but I do now. Here is a macro shot, it gives you a much better view of how pretty this is...
I then used a small detail brush and black polish to draw different shapes on each of my fingers. To create the circle I used a large dotting tool.
I then used the same small brush and black polish and outlined the shape in a spiraling pattern all the way to the edge of my nail.
I finished up with my usual clean up and application of top coat. As you can see the top coat smeared the black polish. I have been having this problem a lot lately. I am deeming this a fail because of the top coat smear and because this is a less than perfect freehand design. In my defense, I did paint this with my non-dominant hand after about a week long break. I do like the design though, I think the triangle shape on my thumb is my favorite.
Oh well, this is why I practice. I have another geometric design in mind, that I might create as a second entry for the Freehand Nail Art challenge, if I have time. I'm off to do something else to my nails. I hope you kind of liked this design, even if it is the best. Thanks for stopping by, see you next time.
Your Fellow Plebe,
