Wednesday, August 10, 2011

"Black Swan" manicure design





What started as an homage to the cute animated movie "RIO", became an homage to the movie Black Swan.
From beautiful blue feathers to black ones. 
I am still surprised with how many people liked it.
Here is the tutorial for it

This is all I used


1- Do the normal procedure by softening your cuticles with cuticle oil, pushing it in and wiping the oil off your nails
Apply one coat of the clear base of your choice.
Apply two coats of Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear, Gunmetal
Apply one coat of Seche Vite Dry Fast top coat, prior to stamping

It should look like this


2 - Use the feather design of the Bundle Monster Image plate BM-214
Use Konad Special polish in blue and stamp it on all your nails.
Apply a coat of Seche Vite


Can't see it, but these are the blue feathers.
It is a lot more visible in person
I tried many angles and lighting, but wasn't able to capture the image of the blue feathers.

3 - Stamp the feathers in black this time, using Wet N Wild - Black Creme 
Finish it by applying a coat of Seche Vite and it's done!