Inspired by a pattern. I was kind of stumped on this one. I spent so much of my time last night doing those Beauty and the Beach nails that I didn't leave a lot of time for myself to do pattern nails. I decided to do checkerboard nails.
These are freehanded checkers that I did with my medium striper.
I had done one full nail and part of a second when I had to get up from my manicure station for a bit. I realized when I sat back down that I really liked the way that it looked with just a partial pattern, and chose to do the rest of my nails the same way. Think of my full patterned nail here as an accent! :)
The base of this manicure is Essence The Dawn is Broken. The pink is Zoya Renee, which I have a terrible history with as far as getting it to photograph correctly. It's kind of a neon pink and it photographs tomato red on my camera. I did my best to color correct here but it's probably not 100%.
You can see last year's pattern nails here, and challenge prompts here.
Cool mani. And congrats on being included in the Top 10 Bloggers on the Self Website:)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I had no idea!! Thank you for mentioning it!
DeleteReally? You would think they would notify you?! Congrats again - that's a big achievement.
DeleteThis is really cute!! I love that you got the idea by accident. Really fun.
ReplyDeleteI love the variance of the patterns on each nail- really cute!
ReplyDeleteI luurrve checkerboard patterns. I thought the base color was Misa Grey Matters! I need that Essence.
ReplyDeleteI love the partial patterns! What a happy accident!
ReplyDeleteThey look gorgeous!
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Wow looks awesome! Drawing out those individual squares must've been painful >.<
ReplyDeletewow... fantastic nails!:)
ReplyDeletethis is awesome! i love the colors!
ReplyDeletegreat idea to leave some of them "unfinished," love it!
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