Manicure Monday - "Negative Space" Squiggly Line French Mani

Happy Manicure Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend! 

The OPI polishes were received as PR samples

I've been loving this Spring trend of colour pastel french-manicure-with-a-twist nails and some of the fun negative-space-squiggly-nails that I've been seeing everywhere, so I decided to combine the two for this week's mani! I'm really happy with how these turned out (even though I have no idea what to actually call this manicure!) 

But, I don't like my naked nails with negative space manis, so I love this my skin tone nude shade as the base! And, the rest of the month of April, the CBB Mani Monday group is doing Spring nails - I think this is the perfect start for Spring 2021 manis! 

For this week's manicure, the polishes I used are

• Essie Expressie Buns Up polish
• Sally Hansen polish in Fuschia Power
• OPI polish in Another Ramen-tic Evening 
• OPI Mariachi Makes My Day polish
• Maniology Stamping Art Polish in Yummy Gummy
• OPI My Favourite Gal Pal polish
• Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polish in Gain Mo-Mint-Um
• OPI polish in Envy The Adventure
• OPI polish in How Does Your Zen Garden Grow?
• Moyra Top Coat for Nail Stamping

For this manicure, I started with two coats of the Essie Buns Up polish as my base polish shade. Then, for the deeper shades of each polish duo (pink, purple, blue and green), I just used a small amount of polish on the brush tips to create a squiggly freehand line on each nail. Then, using the light shade of the duos and filled in one side of the line (no need to make the deeper shade perfect as some of these I went over with two coats to cover any mistakes!)

What's your favourite nail trend this year so far? As always, make sure you check out Cosmetic Proof and Prairie Beauty Love to see their Spring nails!