This is the photograph of the blanket that I based my manicure off of. As you can see I did make a few changes, mainly to the red diamond areas.
Source: Navajo weaving
For my base color, I used Color Club Mod In Manhattan. This off white shade is exclusive to a collection sold in the Birchbox Shop, though you could easily replace it with a shade like Zoya Jacqueline or OPI My Vampire is Buff.
Then, because I'm a glutton for punishment, I decided to try freehanding the thick black stripes on top. I definitely could have done them as a tape manicure (and it would have been way easier) but I need practice on my horizontal stripes. I used Duri Into the Further as the black here.
I used Zoya Pepper as the triangles, and this is one element of the manicure that I did use a tape technique on. The final step was to freehand the black points inside of the space.
I don't know about you guys, but I love the bone white combined with the brick red. There's something so "fall" about it, but it still has the bold graphic appeal from the black stripes.
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ReplyDeleteI love this, its beautiful! Love the contrast over the stripes too
ReplyDeletevery pretty :)
ReplyDeleteSo gorgeous! I love the simplicity of this.
ReplyDeleteThis looks great!
ReplyDeleteThis looks so great!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful recreation :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous and I really like that you used the blanket as inspiration and then adapted it for the nail art. :D You always come up with the most amazing nail art's :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a very stunning tribal mani, amazing job!
ReplyDeleteLove it. I love how many of your manicures look so beautiful, but could be something that perhaps I could try.
ReplyDeleteI love this. Its simple, but extremely cool at the same time!
ReplyDeleteThey are perfect!
ReplyDeleteI love that you used the blanket as inspiration! So much better (and not culturally offensive) as a lot of the "tribal manis I see!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletethis is so cool!!
ReplyDeleteLove love love the combo of the red, black and off white....its gorgeous and the striping looks fab!
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