I love that everything from nature to cute packaging to fashion can inspire my nail art. New York Fashion Week had been popping up on my feeds lately, so I couldn't help but pick out a few looks to translate onto my nails. This post marks the first in a couple NYFW-inspired nail art posts coming up :> Today's inspiration is from Oscar de la Renta fall 2015 ready-to-wear:
I fell in love with this ladylike print of blue flowers on soft beige. Here's what I did with it:
This post is a bit pic-heavy. The design took up the better part of my night to complete, so you can bet I took a million photos (okay, more like 50) to make sure I wouldn't have to do them again. That left me with a lot of photos to choose from and edit, and in the end I just couldn't cut it down to my usual 3-4.
Polishes used:
- Zoya Jacqueline (buttery yellow) layered with Revlon Gel Envy in All or Nothing (pale pink-beige) to get the soft beige base of the blouse/dress just right
- OPI Alpine Snow - base and flower highlights
- China Glaze Up All Night - deep, inky blue for the stripes and flower outlines and leaves
- Nails Inc Baker Street - bright blue for the flowers and the >>> lines
My thumb is usually my guinea pig finger. It's the finger I test on to first, so I can get a feel for painting the designs. I am too cheap/lazy to practice first on a swatch stick, and if it turns out bad then no big deal since my thumb nail is never the focal point anyway. This is one of those rare occasions when I really like my guinea-pig-test-thumb, maybe even more than the other nails (but shh, don't tell them I said that.) I think it's because the other nails look a little cluttered to me; I like the "white" space of this one.
The day after was sunny, and I
never pass up an opportunity to photograph in natural light. The >>> stripes are all supposed to be the same colour, but I think when I put Baker Street on to my palette, it may have mixed with the dried-up puddle of Up All Night underneath, making some lines slightly darker.
Did you follow New York Fashion Week? Which fall collection would you have loved to see in nail art form?
