I wanted to do a fun winter scene, snowlfakes over a sky blue background and holiday sparkle. In the head, it looked amazing. But then I didn’t want to take the time to stamp snowflakes. So….I did white french tips instead. It turned out looking almost like the blue had chipped rather than a winter french tip. Oh well. You can win them all. I love the festive look of the multicolored confetti overcoat
I took a Sinful Colors red and added a China Glaze sparkly red tip. It looks great in person, but I am having a hard time capturing it in an image. I used the CND base and top coats again, and do seem to be getting longer life out of my nails now. The following photos were taken about 3 days after they were painted. You can see wear on the edges, but it’s not too bad.
So I think you can actually see the difference best in this photo.
This image was taken inside, a few days after the manicure. I am shocked at how poorly it came out. You can hardly see the definition between the shiny red and the sparkling, glimmering tips. I swear they look amazing!
This was taken outside. I thought it was funny how much the tone of the reds changed in the light.
Above is the red before I added the shimmer tip. I have really been liking the glitter on the tips only lately. Glitter takes so much time to remove, so it’s a lot easier to just do it on part of the nail.
I had to keep adding on to the original Sally Hansen job, so here I added a black top coat and matted the whole thing. Even more tons of awesomeness! Here I used Sinful Professional Colors in Inkwell for the tips, Sally Hansen’s Lustre Shine in Copperhead, and topped it off with Sephora by OPI matte top coat.
This is a photo of some nails I did a long time ago, and thought it was worth posting. The base is a Sally Hansen Maximum Growth French Manicure color. It doesn’t actually have a color on the bottle, so I have no idea what it is. The tips are China Glaze in Ruby Pumps (which is my favorite color for the holidays). And a few rhinestones.
Getting a manicure once in San Fransisco, I overheard the group next to me refer to black tips as “American Tips” as opposed to “French Tips.” I’m not sure if the red still qualifies as “American Tips” or not.
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