A while ago, a friend of mine asked if I could do some gingham nail art for her and this past weekend, I did! When I tweeted a picture of the manicure in question, Amy from Gotham Polish, came back and asked if I'd seen Deborah Lippmann's nail art for Kate Spade's NYFW show? I immediately checked out her blog post to see the nail art in question and she had indeed created gingham nails very similar to the ones I did. Great minds think alike hey?!
That's pretty much how this theme week was born, so thank you Amy for pointing out that they have cool nail art at New York Fashion Week!
The catwalk models had all fingers the same colour but I wanted to try out as many shades as I could. I tried to go for polishes that I knew were slightly see through to recreate the gingham effect but only the blue and green seemed to work for that, the other colours were too opaque.
I used Barry M White as a base colour and a striping brush to paint on the stripes in Barry M Mint Green, Barry M Indigo, NYC Lexington Yellow and Miss Sporty Orange. I finished with two coats of Essence Better Than Gel.
That's pretty much how this theme week was born, so thank you Amy for pointing out that they have cool nail art at New York Fashion Week!
The catwalk models had all fingers the same colour but I wanted to try out as many shades as I could. I tried to go for polishes that I knew were slightly see through to recreate the gingham effect but only the blue and green seemed to work for that, the other colours were too opaque.
I used Barry M White as a base colour and a striping brush to paint on the stripes in Barry M Mint Green, Barry M Indigo, NYC Lexington Yellow and Miss Sporty Orange. I finished with two coats of Essence Better Than Gel.
I've seen so many gingham nails lately! I did some a couple of weeks ago but they were a little different than these ones. Yours are so cute though, I love that you used different colours!
ReplyDeleteSo cute! I love these and the skittle-ness of the design. Beautiful
ReplyDeleteLove this!
ReplyDeleteCrazy cute)))
ReplyDeleteLOVE your gingham nails, they are so perfect! Thanks for the shout out, so awesome that you came up with this idea - you are clearly ahead of the trend :) I was going to try this out, but now I don't even want to because it won't look nearly as amazing as yours ;)
ReplyDeleteI love these! I actually like your design better than the Kate Spade version!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI like your version better as well :).
ReplyDeleteAdorable!
ReplyDeleteGreat work you've done here! Lovely and playfull.
ReplyDeletelove this nailpolish!! it looks great!
ReplyDeleteOh, those are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteYours are done much better than the Deborah Lippmann ones. Amazing as usual Sammy!
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic! I love it.
Wow.
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Great! One time when I guess we would want to see brush strokes! You got the weave effect of gingham really well.
ReplyDeleteCute!
ReplyDeletewow i love this!
ReplyDeleteSimple and cute!
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