Fancy Phalanges: clouds

Monday, May 7, 2012

Monkey See Monkey Do Monday

Hey guys! This is my first Monkey See Monkey Do Monday! The idea of MSMD is that you find something that inspires you and recreate it! So that cool thing you saw on Pinterest? Try it! I was inspired by the famous Nailside Cloud Mani. It's such a cute look and gave me an opportunity to use 3 untrieds!

I started with one coat of Fearne Grey. This is a new brand to me that I got in one of my birthday packages! You can never have too many grey cremes because they're frickin beautiful! Then I made the clouds with Barry M Bright Purple and Fearne Lime Green following the Nailside tutorial.

This mani was so easy! I was doubting myself while doing it, but I really liked it in the end. I couldn't stop looking at it while I was wearing it and I got several compliments!

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Amber at Amber Did It

Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road

Cristina at The Clockwise Nail Polish

Debbie at The Crumpet

Elizabeth at Nail Polish is My Crack

Erin at Erin's Beauty Bumbles

Jen at Jens Painted Tips

Jenn at Polished Crazed

Kirsten at Geeky Owl

Kristin at Manicured Monkey

Laurie at Dressed Up Digits

Layka at Kawaiinize Your Life

Melissa at The (mis)Adventures of a Wanna Be Martha

Missy at Gnarly Gnails

Nayade at Toxic Vanity

I went to remove my pastel skittles and decided to leave the blue one to use for my sky. But then I realized I had another blue in my untrieds! I decided to leave China Glaze Kinetic Candy on my ring finger, and then used one coat of Zoya Breezi on each of the other nails. All these one coaters I've been using are seriously spoiling me.

After the base color dried, I used NYC French Tip White and the larger side of each of my dotting tools to make the clouds. They're just so whimsy! Every time I glance at them, it makes me smile :)