Recreating my clothes: Red Flowery Nails

Hello folks!

Today I wanted to share with you a new series of mine: Recreating my clothing on my nails! This idea was sparked after I recreated a yellow dress of mine on my nails for the Glam Nails Challenge over on Instagram. I've had a quite a lot going on in my life over the past month, so I've been a bit slow getting started but I'm proud to present my first clothing mani!

I was a bit of a dope though and didn't take a picture of the nails with the dress. D'oh!

Anyways... here are the nails:

Unlike the design I painted for the nail challenge, in which I used acrylic paints, this design was created completely using nail polish.

I used China Glaze Bodysuit Yourself as the base. The dress itself is actually red, but I had this colour on my nails already and it was a close enough match!

I then started to build up the flowers. I used Primark PS Polish in Marshmallow and Marine, Seventeen Gel Polish in Emerald Tropics and China Glaze in Glamletics and a mix of nail art brushes and dotting tools. I didn't worry too much about the opacity of the colours, nor how neat they look as on the dress they are quite see through and messy.

I finished the whole thing off with a glossy top coat (Barry M's Wet Set Quick Dry top coat). I REALLY liked how these came out, and I wore them for a whole week before they started chipping.

I'm excited to continue with this series, although I am making no promises as to how quickly I recreate the designs on my nails. I'm in the process of changing jobs so that's taking priority right now, but nail art will always be a passionate hobby of mine.

Check back for more soon (and I really will try to not leave it a month again).

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