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| I really should throw that yoghurt out. |
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| Lower left picture courtesy of Almedahls |
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| I really like the ring and little finger here. They remind me of poison frogs! |
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| Water marble on my nephew Jack. |
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| Hey, I meant them to be uneven! |
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| Ooh, I liked this one. Colour themed and with some bare nail on the middle finger. |
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| A variation of this mani. I loved the other version, but this came out a bit too cute and bridal for me. |
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| This is probably the kind of mani I've worn most in my life. It's quick and simple to make, and it shows of some bare nail which I've always been partial to. |
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| One of these days I'll make a ladybug tutorial and take some better pics. |
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| Original blogpost |
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| Start with your base colour. I choose a neon (China Glaze Pool Party), so I painted my nails white first to make the colour pop. Sidenote: as you can see, I'm not ready to part from my ring finger blob design just yet. |
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| Slap some french tips on. I used China Glaze Liquid Leather. There's tons of tricks for making french tips (including but not restricted to taping with hole reinforcements or tape cut to fit, or even stamping). However, I recommend freehand. It's easy enough and practice makes perfect! |
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| Then, I randomly applied some white dots. I used the big end of a regular pin needle and China Glaze White on White which is nicely opaque. |
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| Then use the other end of a pin needle to make tiny black dots in the centre of the white ones. I'm holding my home made dotting tool, but a regular needle of course works just as well. |
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| Use a striper polish or brush to make small tails on the white dots as pictured. I used Depend Art Liner in white. If you like, you can wait until after this step to do the french tips, but as they are more prone and unforgiving to fuckups than the dotting and striping, I prefer it in this order. |
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| Start with a white base. I have two coats of ChG White on White. |
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| When the white is completely dry, put a piece of tape vertically down the middle. |
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| Paint black (I have ChG Liquid Leather) and remove the tape. Some like to wait until the polish is a bit dry, some do it at once. I've never had trouble either way so I don't have a preference. |
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| You will end up with a nice geometric design like this (if not, you can easily use stripers to fix it, or hide it in the next step). Let's risk messing this design up in the next step! |
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| I totally gif:ed this for you. If you're using the white striper, start in the white, close to the black, and drag over into the black - and vice versa for the black striper. That way you get nice pinch outs of the lines. |
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| Here's the result. |
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| I love this mani! The silver (Isadora 651) is gorgeous but hard to show off in pictures. |
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| Here's my set up. The needle is a regular pin needle in home made fimo clay casing, but you can use a tooth pick or any other dotting tool. If you want, you can tape your finger beforehand for easy clean up. |
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| Put blobs of polish as pictured. I messed up one of my blobs, but it couldn't matter less for this design. |
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| Wait until your polish blob is a gloopy, stringy mess. I only have two hands, so I had to take this picture on the side. |
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| Now go from blob number one via blob number two and out to the sides and back again. Pick up a gloopy string every time you cross one of your blobs, and continue until you like the design. |
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| Add another blob of polish and a rhinestone to your focal point. Here, I experimented a bit more with the pinkie and it came out quite arachnoid. My favourite is still the ring finger as the highly contrasting colours show off even the thinnest lines. |
