I was trying out several different designs to do for
Berry Polished's Black and White Nail Art Competition. As the name suggests you can enter a design but only use black and white nail polish. One of the designs I decided to try was black and white butterflies.
I started off with a Ulta3 Base Coat. I then applied 2 coats of Ulta3 Lily White to all nails but my thumb and ring finger. For those I applied one coat of BYS Black Satin. Once dry I used Black Satin and a small nail art brush to drawn butterfly wings on my index, middle and pinkie fingers and then a small dotting tool and Lily White to draw dots. Then for my ring finger I used Lily White for the wings and Black Satin for the dots.
I wanted to do something different on my thumb so I stamped with the flower design from M26 and the butterfly design from M20 in Konad Special Polish White.
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Butterfly Design from M20 (Image from ICNA) |
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Flower Design from M26 (Image from ICNA) |
Finally I topped it all off with Ulta3 top coat. Ooh and then I smudged a nail which I tried to fix :'( Lol and I broke both sides off my thumbs!! :'''''''(
But here are the photos anyway :)
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Black & White Butterflies in Artificial Light |
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Black & White Butterflies in Natural Light |
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Black & White Butterflies in Natural Light |
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Black & White Butterflies in the Shade |
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Black & White Butterflies in the Shade |
I don't like how this turned out. My white wasn't opaque enough against my black and I was too impatient to let everything dry completely between each step. I think these butterflies look better on longer nails where I can make the outline of wings thicker so the dots fit on better.
I think you're being to rough on yourself. I like it - I think it looks really good. I cross my fingers for you! :)
ReplyDeleteAww you're so sweet!! Thank you! Hehe I still don't like it :P
DeleteI saw this design in so many colors, but I think in black &white is my favorite! Very beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWow what a compliment! Thank you so much! I do think the black and white combo could look amazing but it just didn't turn out how I wanted it to :(
DeleteI love your thumbs! The white over black looks really striking :)
ReplyDeleteThank you :) I agree, white on black looks amazing!
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Deletelove the contrast!
ReplyDeleteMe too! Hehe probably the only thing I like about this mani :P
DeleteThis is so cute! I love how the buttterfly wings look in back and white!
ReplyDeleteAww thank you so much :) All these lovely comments are making me feel a bit better about this mani!
Deletethese are very pretty, I need to try something like this soon
ReplyDeleteThank you! If you do give it a go I'd love to see it :)
Deletethis is really girly and pretty!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I never thought of this as being girly :)
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