Today I have my very first Nautical nails...and I have to say....I'm in love!!! I had something way more complicated planned, involving a different design on each nail, a mixture of dots and stripes and all that. When I started working on my white base, this just sort of happened on one nail and I decided to just keep it simple and keep all 3 the same! And I Love it so much!
For the anchor nail the base is China Glaze First Mate (of course I'm using my nautically named polishes since I have them, right?) and I just used a small dotting tool to make the anchor with gold polish. I used OPI Honey Rider, which is a texture, to make it stand out more.
For the other nails, the white base is Island Girl Pineapple Plantation. Kind of on the fence with this one, it's almost a neon white, if that's even possible! It was chalky and dried kind of matte. I didn't really like it until I added topcoat to it. That would explain why I had such a hard time photographing these in the sun...my camera just wouldn't focus between the white and the gold!
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The red is China Glaze Hey Sailor. To make the stripes I just placed striping tape (or you could use thin strips of regular tape) at the ends and used a dotting tool (or toothpick) to pick up a small amount of polish and dabble it in. I always get nervous using creme polishes with tape, they always want to bleed on me. So I just use barely enough!
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Add more top coat and that's it! I just loved these so much so I took a bazillion pictures haha!
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I'm also still playing around with different poses. What do yall think?
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