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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Formal purple and black ideas(Ferns and Flower buds, diamond necklace, and girly coat of arms)

This one is for the special request. I came up with three things for you. hope you like them:)
(For these' I would recommend doing nail art on the ring finger, ad painting the other nails in a secondary color from the design. I'll show this at the end)

1. ferns and flower buds: Difficulty: intermediate-difficult / 6-7 out of 10
you will need:
- light lavender
- light green
- deep/medium purple
- very small brush
- toothpick
For this one, you start with an opaque coat of the deep-medium purple. I used hard as nails rock bottom, but it's very sheer, so it takes 3-5 coats, depending on how vibrant you want it.You can add a sparkly french tip if you want, but it's not important. Then, you make little, curved, green, lines coming out of the bottom corners of your nails as shown(It should look a lot like Feathered French.) Finally, the flower buds. For these, you have to make sure that they are small enough and far enough apart so they don't connect. Take a tooth pick and put a little dot of the lavender polish on the end of the toothpick, and put about four dots along the outer edges of each of the green lines as shown. For the lavender I used claire's mood crazy/mellow polish, but if it's hot out, it will turn pink.

2. diamond necklace: Difficulty: easy / 3 out of 10 
You will need:
- deep-medium purple 
- light lavender, preferably sparkly
 - silvery rhinestones
- toothpick
 To start off, put an opaque coat of the deep-medium purple(also rock bottom by hard as nails) you put a medium size dot of lavender polish in the middle of the nail towards the bottom as shown(The dot should be about the size of the rhinestone). Before it dries, place a rhinestone on the dot, and gently press it in. While this is drying, use the same lavender to put small dots w/ a toothpick in sort of diagonal lines from either side of the gem to the top corners of nails as shown.

 3. Girly Coat of Arms: Difficulty: Easy/ 1-2 out of 10
 You will need:
- deep-medium purple
- light lavender
- black
This one is really simple, but I really like it a lot. You start by fully painting the nail w/ the lavender. Then you paint one half of the nail from a little to the right of the top left corner of the nail to a little to the left of the right bottom corner of the nail(sorry if that's confusing. just refer to the picture below the instructions.) between the two halves, put a line of the deep-medium purple. Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed!
for this one, I rotated between all the colors used in the design. Happy painting!;)

4 comments:

  1. beautiful! i love the color also.

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  2. where did you get the purple that you just recently found?

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  3. I got the lavender at Claire's and I got the medium purple at Walgreens. It's called rock bottom, by Hard as nails.

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  4. cool thanks so much

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