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Updated Basketball nails for 2015!

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Hey guys! Happy Sunday! I'm still so excited about American Pharoah's win for the Triple crown yesterday!! For today I decided to re do my basketball nails from last year so I could film. These nails are my 2nd most pinned nails on Pinterest--Yall love some basketball! These couldn't be easier to do. You don't have to use a textured polish, you can use any orange or brown even polish....I just like the way it looks because basketballs are textured! You can see my original post here. I used Zoya Beatrix for the base, it's a bright orange textured Pixiedust and my fav for basketballs. When I first did these, I used a black striper which you can buy pretty much anywhere these days. But I have found that it's so pigmented it always smeared when I used it...ALWAYS. (Like when adding topcoat). So I ditched it and use a striping brush now and regular black polish, which is available in pretty much any nail art kit or at a craft store...just look for a long skinny th...

March Madness textured basketball nails!

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Hey guys! Thanks for sticking with me through all the green! I promise I'll take a break from them for a while :) Today the March Madness tournament starts! Who's in to basketball?? Um.....not me. I'm a football girl all the way! But I still wanted to redo my original basketball nails I did last year, when I first started getting into nail art. Those are at the bottom of this post, from September 2013. I remember not totally hating them, which I did of most of my early work. I'm at it again with textures. I know I sound like a broken record, but I just love how sparkly and versatile they are! This is Zoya Beatrix. I used a black striper to make the lines. After MUCH deliberation, I decided to make them all going the same way. That included redoing one nail that was going a different way :)  direct sun  shade blurry to show sparkles Here's a super short little video clip to show the sparklies! Here are my original basketball nails. Not te...