This week's manicure is mermaid scales. I did my nails like this sometime last year as well, but I didn't have any embellishments. Here are last year's ones:
When I first started getting into stamping, I was browsing eBay for some cheap ones to start with. I came across a plate H31, no idea what brand it is, but it had a scale pattern on it. As soon as I saw it I knew it would be perfect for mermaid nails, so I bought it and it's great.
I really liked these when I did them; almost couldn't bring myself to take them off, but I felt like they were missing something. That is until.....
I was shopping on the Born Pretty Store website (www.bornprettystore.com) when I found a rhinestone wheel of different sized half pearls and 3.5mm and 5mm gold and silver shells. I bought these straight away because they were what last year's mermaid nails were missing!!
So here's some pictures of Mermaid Nails 2.0!
I just clustered half pearls of different sizes, silver rhinestones of different sizes, gold and silver different sized shells and gold micro beads together. Inspired by a hairpiece a mermaid might wear.
Colours Used:
Blue - Maybelline: Timely Turquoise
Green: Sinful Colors: San Francisco
Dark Blue - OPI: Swimsuit....nailed it!
Gold - OPI: Glitzerland
Gold for stamping - Essie: Good as Gold
I really love how this turned out, even more than last year's. The colours are so 'mermaidy'. It turned out so shimmery, so majestic, just like a real mermaid's tail ;)
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