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May 19, 2011

These were really fun to put on — the only drag was waiting so long between layers to get the next step going. I started off with a 2 coat base of Sinful Colors Snow Me White:

Next I needed to lay down a layer of Sinful Colors Fusion Neon using scotch tape to block off part of the white.  You really do need to wait until the previous coat is complete dry though, otherwise you risk pulling up some of the paint when you remove the tape.

To reduce some of the tape’s tackiness, press it once on a piece of skin to dull the adhesive a bit — only once though; too much flapping around and you’ll remove too much of its stickiness which will make it difficult to get the tape to stick at the sides of your nails.  Then it just took a light coat of the next color (not too heavy or you’ll get heavy lines!) and a gentle removal of the tape immediately after application and voila, you have yourself a stripe.

Went through and applied it to all of the nails…

Then a rinse-repeat job with my third color, Sinful Colors Folly.

And with the whole thing done, I sort of want to eat my fingernails.  Still need to go in and clean up the edges and add a top coat (wanted to get the pics done before I lost daylight), but I like how fun and bright they turned out!

peppermint stripe nails

Sinful Colors Nail Polish

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2 Responses

  1. Sac Hermes says:

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  2. Nail It says:

    Hiya,

    Just did a design inspired by this :)
    http://nailitnz.blogspot.com/2011/09/007-seeing-blue.html
    Wish I has your colours though.

    Cheers
    Soph

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