Wasabi and Caviar - An Exercise In Linework and Patience

today is my birthday, and if you may believe it, my nails are honestly bare proper now! THE HORROR! i'm hoping to place some thing fun on them after i get home from work, however for now, I wanted to percentage a nail filing I spent quite a few time on these days.

i'm calling it wasabi and caviar for reasons that i am hoping are obvious! This entire layout is handpainted with normal nail polish. it is a number of my pleasant linework to date, I suppose. Hooray for improvement there!

Nail polishes and products used:
LVX Midori
Formula X Dark Matter
Sally Hansen Stud Kit

If you want to attempt a design like this, I've got some tips!

1. Get a small brush. I cannot tell you how lengthy I used a thicker nail artwork brush, cursing my lack of expertise in preference to the tool i used to be the use of. as soon as I were given a thinner brush, it helped me immensely. I nonetheless had to preserve practising, however my vintage brush changed into in reality part of the problem. Trim down an vintage brush with cuticle nippers in case you don't have a great skinny one.
2. keep it clean. in case you're the use of polish (instead of acrylic paint or gel), clean your brush regularly with a hundred% acetone and regularly positioned down greater polish onto your palette. Polish dries quick and might ruin your fine lines if it isn't the right consistency.
3. Small mistakes aren't the cease of the world. you could use a clean nail art brush dipped in acetone to softly "erase" small mistakes out of your work; simply be careful not to go too crazy or it's going to devour via your base colour. In this example, I positioned a layer of topcoat among the wasabi colour and my black linework for added protection.
4. Be affected person. This shit isn't speedy. while you issue in my preceding recommendations and the detail of the work, you just gotta realize it's now not going to be easy to bust it out in forty five mins. i like to position on Netflix and take breaks from time to time to stretch out.

I just love this kind of strange green color, and the thick blingy stud nail is just the right amount of "odd" to go with it.

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