Saturday, May 18, 2013

Royal Pain

I got this polish from Revlon and thought it would be cool to do bluish purple nails with a gold lightning bolt and then accent the gold lightning bolt with my sparkly gold polish from Julep. But, first I took off the polish I was wearing and tried out a purple to gold gradient. I thought that would beautiful but it didn't work out so well and I decided I didn't have the patience to figure out how to fix it. I then painted my nails purple, applied the stickers (two on each nail creating an outline of the bolt shape and applied the two golds with in the outline.

The problem was that I had already spent a couple hours doing this at the point when the stickers were ready to be peeled off and I had to go eat in the cafeteria in a matter of minutes. I had had my eye on the clock beforehand and because of the time constraint I had tried to rush the whole process by applying the stickers before the blue/purple polish was ready for to stand up against the adhesive of the stickers.

When I pulled the stickers off of my nails the blue/purple polish came off with them. I tried to salvage the design by filling in the spots and then redefining the gold and going back and forth fixing the shapes but it ended very sloppily. I took all the polish of (again) and trudged to dinner.

Later on, I did my nails with the same 3 polishes. This time I didn't use stickers and only painted the tips of my nails with the gold polishes. As suggested by a friend, I used a rubber band to create the barrier for the tip. the band did an okay job but was hard to hold in position and led to a little of a sloppy job painting the golds.


1st color: Purple from "Vincent Van Gold" Expressionist set by Revlon
2nd color: Gold from "Vincent Van Gold" Expressionist set by Revlon
3rd color: Vivien from the Amercian Beauty Collection by Julep (a shimmery silvery gold with sequins)


I like the two different golds I used and the gold from revlon was very opaque, which was nice, but the bluish purple from Revlon was very thin and watery when I applied it.


2 comments:

  1. Dude, I don't have the patience for nail stickers either. I may have asked mom to buy them for my birthday, haha! I'll text you a pic

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    1. Those nails were awesome! And yeah, nail stickers are fun, but require a lot of patience ha ha

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