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:
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!
ReplyDeleteI 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!
DeleteI 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 :(
ReplyDeleteYour design is really pretty still!
Yeah, sometimes it doesn't really matter but with images like this one it can be a little frustrating!
DeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteI love the colour choice you made for this and, they go so well together and have a playful, modern look.
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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