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Monday, August 18, 2014

Nail Art: Strawberry Fields

Oh Mondays, I think everyone struggles on Mondays. I hope yours is going well though. I have a bright and cheery look for you today! I attended the wedding of one of my best and oldest friends this weekend. I wanted to make sure to create something extra special. She loves strawberries and her parents have a strawberry farm, so I created a sort of bridal-like look with strawberry and flower accents. I used all Sally Hansen polishes and there were quite a few! I first created dots with Xtreme Wear White On, I then waited for that to dry completely and added three coats of a sheer white Complete Salon Manicure in Polar Bear. I love the effect of this sheer white! I then painted on strawberries with Xtreme Wear Coral Reef. I painted leaves with both Xtreme Wear Green with Envy and Perfect Pear-ing and added dots for seeds and flowers with Mellow Yellow.  I then topped everything off with a matte top coat and called it good. I did the strawberry design on my thumb, middle and ring fingers and left the others pain.








I loved this design. I wanted to make the strawberries have a pastel effect rather than true colors. The wedding was a beautiful country wedding! It was such a nice day and a wonderful setting. I was so happy to be part of it! Did you all do anything fun this weekend? I hope you liked this post, thanks for reading!

19 comments:

  1. I love it! Its such a cool effect when you do an opaque polish under a sheer like that. And your strawberries turned out really cute. Glad to hear you had a great weekend.

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  2. So pretty! I love it matte too, looks like ceramic, gorgeous!

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  3. I love this so much! I agree with Sarah, it looks like a beautiful ceramic piece!

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  4. Ahh so cute! So much win in this mani. Love it.

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  5. I didn't think ceramic, but now that you say that, it definitely looks like that. Thank you!

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  6. I have been wanting to do something like this for quite a while, I'm glad it turned out nicely!

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  7. Thank you! Hope you had a good weekend too! I love the sheer effect, I might play with this a little more in the future!

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  8. Very delicate and cute. Well done! :-)

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  9. How awesome of you to think of all these details for the wedding! And the nail art really turned out great!

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  10. It is perfect! This cheered me up instantly! The weather is dreadful here and you just made it better with this summer manicure :)

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  11. She loves them, so I knew I had to do something with the strawberry theme :) Thank you!

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  12. Aw, I'm glad it cheered you up! The season is turning soon and I'm not ready to give up summer!

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  13. I absolutely adore the polka dots over the sheer base, and then the strawberries just make it summery and bright and fun! Lovely!

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