Hi all! I was looking at a few outfit inspired manis for awhile before finally deciding to do my own. Well, in my case it is more of a garment inspired rather than outfit inspired (: Anyway I've picked my new cardi that I've recently purchased on Etsy as my inspiration. It is a simple navy cardi with hand painted gold arrows and little round studs embellishments.
I've chosen MAC Naughty Nautical as my base color. It is pretty much one coater, but I did two just out f habit. Then I've grabbed gold nail striping tape and put four horizontal stripes on each nail (there is no way I could have free handed that :D). And finally I've added little gold studs I've purchased from Born Pretty store, three on each nail. And finished with two coats of top coat.
Overall I do like this mani. It looks simple and elegant, plus I love the combo of dark blue/navy with gold. But I have to say that I'm quite frustrated with the amount of time it took me to create this look. Two and a half freaking hours without counting the time to do the base color coats.
It is my first try with the striping tape so that is a big factor I guess, but nonetheless I don't think I'm ready to spend that much time just doing my nails as tomorrow I'll remove this mani and do another one. I love nail art and all, but probably I like to enjoy other people work more than to do my own. So I don't think I'll do things like this often. I like simple glitter manis better anyway (:
Here is my polish and the studs I've used.
Stay tuned and thanks for looking!
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