Pinstriped

Hey there!

This week I had a nail break and it made me change my nail shape. I've been shaping my nails in a square-ish shape and now they are round. I can't decide if I like this shape better, since it is more natural looking, but I guess when my nails grow out a little more I'll know for sure. That's the fun thing about doing your own nails, you can change them up whenever you feel like! I also ran out of my top coat and had to use my base coat/strengthener as the top coat as well, which is okay since it says top coat on the bottle too, so we'll see how it holds up. The manicure I did this week is pretty simple and all you need is two colors of nail polish and lots of striping tape.

I started off with a base coat of OPI start to finish formaldehyde free formula. I then did two coats of Sei Bella Coral Fantasy. Once dry, I placed pieces of striping tape vertically on the nail about 6-8 pieces, depending on how you space them, though I did put them pretty close together. Then I painted over the entire nail with Julep Sienna and carefully removed the striping tape. Once completely dry, I sealed it with a top coat of OPI start to finish formaldehyde free formula.

Sei Bella Coral Fantasy 

Striping tape 

Julep Sienna over tape 

Remove tape

Finished!

Since I've use striping tape plenty of times before, I always make sure that if I'm going to use a metallic color, that I use that color to go over the tape and use a matte color as the base because it will dry and stay put much faster and not lift up when it's time to remove the tape. Even so, I did have some polish lift up a little and I noticed that if I removed the tape starting at the tip of the nail and going down towards the cuticle that it doesn't lift up the polish compared to when I lift up the tape starting at the cuticle. Hope that makes sense. Anyway, pretty cool looking and pretty easy. Hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!