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Day 5: Blue. If anything today's manicure has taught me perseverance and patience. My final attempt is attempt number 5! I knew in my mind what I wanted and wasn't going to stop until I was satisfied. It's not exactly what I wanted but it was pretty enough to post. I was inspired by a manicure done by More Nail Polish and I will eventually recreate it. I will link that one below.
Here is the final result. Sorry the pictures sucks but I am stuck only using my iPhone still. I think I might run out later and find a new card reader. I think my point and shoot Sony got some good pics. It really does look awesome in person.
What I tried to do was create an underwater jelly sandwich. It looks so flat in the pictures but there is a bit of depth in the design. Nowhere near what I wanted to do. I know what I did incorrectly and will be doing this again soon to fix. This version started with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Blue-Away. I then added a layer of LA Colors Flurry glitter. I then did a layer of my own Franken Jelly which consisted of some Color Club clear polish, L'Oreal Miss Pixie and LA Colors Atomic. Then I stamped on Mash 48 for the "seaweed" both Perfect Molten and Hot Like Lava from the Color Club Foil collection. On that layer I added a "sand" tip using Antiquated also Color Club Foil. Next I added a layer of my jelly water then stamped on the two seahorses in Color Club's Foil Me Once also from the foils and plate from the Salon Express kit. I hand dotted a few fish using Lumin-iecent from the Color Club foil line as well. Those did not work so well. Lastly I topped it all off with my jelly water again.
Initially when I tried this I used Essie Bouncer it's me because that was the only blue jelly I had. I got frustrated because it was gorgeous but so dark that I googled blue jelly's and found some people saying Miss Pixie was super sheer so I literally ran out after work in a torrential downpour to Walgreens and coughed up my last cash to buy it (well and the last 3 of the Sinful Leather Luxe collection but those were only .99 each. Miss Pixie was $5.99!!) When I got home I redid it and it was still to dark. My next attempt was using OPI Get Your Number textured polish as the base thinking if I had the glitter already in it maybe it would stop it from being too hard to see. Too dark again. Version 4 was more of the same using a solid background of the Blue Away but using Miss Pixie at full strength. I got so defeated then re read the post from More Nail Polish and realized she said she made her jelly. Since I don't yet have any pigments but I do have 3 extra bottles of clear Color Club top coat I never use, it dawned on me to try my first franken. I am pretty proud of it. I added the Atomic because I wanted a bit more "oceany" look. I enjoyed this process despite how annoyed I got. I really pushed myself to be creative and to not be undone by my own hands.
Here's attempt 1. I had stamped turtles and dolphins too but proportionately they looked stupid.
And here's the franken jelly with it's parents. I think I want to name it Atomic Pixie. LOL!!
Ooops forgot the link. Here's my inspiration
http://www.morenailpolish.com/2013/05/under-sea-3d-stamping.html
That is really cool I like it!!!! I think I need to get some jelly polishes