Monday, January 6, 2020

Manicure Monday - Stained Glass Nail Art

Happy Manicure Monday everyone! I'm lounging on a beach in Mexico right now, but I wanted to make sure that I shared my fun nails for the week! I hand-painted Stained Glass nails! 

Manicure Monday - Stained Glass Nail Art
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How amazing did these Stained Glass nails turn out?! I'm rather obsessed with them and love how they turned out! I also wanted to stick to a blue theme because I wanted to represent the Pantone Colour of the Year for 2020 - Classic Blue! (This is a little on the lighter side of classic blue, but this is what I have in my collection!)


The #CBBxManiMonday theme for the month is "experiments" so look out for lots of fun, new nails! These Stained Glass were totally an experiment, because I've never hand-painted anything like this! I love how these turned out and I hope this means a good year of nail art ahead! 

Manicure Monday - Stained Glass Nail Art

The products I used for this week's Mani are:

In addition, I used a little tiny nail art brush for the little details. 

Manicure Monday - Stained Glass Nail Art

These are actually a lot easier to do than I thought they would be - the black is all free-handed, so there is no need for perfection in the lines. I love doing nail art, but I also love when it doesn't need to be totally perfect - and for this, it just adds to that glass look! 

Manicure Monday - Stained Glass Nail Art

For the stained glass nails, I started with nail cleanser, base coat, and one coat of white polish as a base coat. Then, using the black nail art polish (or a black polish with a long skinny nail art brush) and just randomly painted all different shades all over the nail. Then, using a couple different blue shades (or any colours you like) and a little nail brush, fill in different shapes all over the nail and leave a few white. There is no need to be perfect, because once all the blue is in the shapes, take the black nail art brush and retrace any lines that got paint on them. 

I did this on a 3 different nails (middle, ring and thumb), so then I used 2 complimentary blue polishes on the pointer and pinkie fingers. 

Manicure Monday - Stained Glass Nail Art

I'm really happy with how my first nails of 2020 turned out! Make sure you check out the other #CBBxManiMonday manis - Cosmetic ProofPrairie Beauty Love, and Tea & Nail Polish to see their nail experiments too! 

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