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Hello!

This week's manicure was inspired by another fellow nail artist online. Her Instagram account is called baby_mama_nails. She is currently doing a giveaway and is giving an extra entry to those who recreate one of her designs. So, I thought I would go ahead and try my hand at the following mani. For this manicure, you will need silver nail striping tape, a bright neon blue nail polish, a metallic pink nail polish and a nail art brush.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy maintenance. I then took two pieces of nail striping tape and placed them diagonally on the nail so that they would form a < shape. I then used Sinful Colors Love Nails and a nail art brush to fill in the middle space in between the  <. I went over it about two or three times until it was opaque. I then used Sinful Colors Hush Money to paint the top space above the piece of striping tape closest to the tip of the nail.  Once that was completely dry, I used INM Out the Door fast drying top coat to finish my manicure.

Striping Tape 

Finished!

It did take me a little while to figure out the placement of the tape, but once that was in place, this went by pretty quickly. Using the nail art brush to paint the blue section made it a little easier, but at the same time I felt like I needed to go back and paint over the same section, multiple times, just because of how translucent this color is and how small the brush was. Overall, I like the finished look. If I were to do it again, I would pick a different color instead of the pink, just because it kind of takes away from the nude section. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!