Monday, September 12, 2016

31 Day Challenge: Hipster Stripes

Hello Readers!

Today's prompt for the 31-day challenge is: stripes! I considered a couple of ideas for stripes before settling on an image from Bundle Monster's "Time Machine" collection. I was inspired by the stripes surrounding the smaller image, although not too many of the stripes ended up on my little nails!


Tee-hee. This manicure makes me smile. It's silly and I am loving the way that moustache image turned out. I used Pure Ice Gel-tech "He Rocks My World", which is a very lovely pale gray. For my stamping polishes, I used Bundle Monster stamping polishes "Rose Garden" (pictured) and "Tranceland" (aqua blue).

The ring finger image was too big for my nails, so I decided to try the shrinking technique for the first time. I managed to get it a little bit smaller, but I'm thinking it may have been better if I used a squishier stamper instead of my clear jelly stamper. It took me a few tries to get the image to transfer completely, but I'm proud of myself for trying something new. 

Here's a look at the stamping plate I used:


And for the stripes on my other fingers, I used this born pretty plate:


Be sure to check out the other striped manis here:

6 comments:

  1. I have small nails as you and I feel more comfortable with Moyou regular size plates. I think they fit perfect for my little nails!

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    1. I actually just ordered some of the smaller size moyou plates last week. I'm excited to see if the images work better for my nails!

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  2. I know what you mean about prints not fitting! I think in the regular world I have normal/long nails but in the nail world, theyre tiny and so many plates are too big for me :(
    Your design is really pretty still!

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    1. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't really matter but with images like this one it can be a little frustrating!

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  3. I'm impressed you got it to shrink! I've tried in the past and failed. I find the Moyou plate sizes annoying and would prefer something in the middle of the two sizes.

    I love the colour choice you made for this and, they go so well together and have a playful, modern look.

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    1. Thank you! I think these Bundle Monsters images are big even for the large rectangle shaped plates. Sometimes these plates have kind of a medium size image, like the born pretty ones which usually have two rows of full nail images and then some smaller decal images; the full nail images are kind of inbetween the huge ones on this plate and the much smaller kind like on the Moyou london. But I just tend to buy whatever and then get frustrated when it doesn't fit! lol.

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