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I apologize for the quality of the photos. It's hard to take pictures of your nails in mid-manicure! (Also, wow, the light in our living room is very yellow-tinged. Huh. EDIT: Thank you to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kambriel for doing some fast color-correction work on the photos for me!)
Firstly, the photo thatmarc17 took of my nails on Saturday night!
How did I do that? Click the cut tag to find out!
This image (which I believe is from some sort of Japanese nail art site) popped up on my Tumblr stream last week. I went "Oooh! But without the rhinestones, thanks", and then checked my nail polish collection.
Products I used: Bariell Natural Nail Camouflage, Orly "Marlene", and Nubar Diamont top coat.
Step One! Apply a "natural" -colored polish to clean nails. This step weirds me out a little, because the lightest color of polish I usually ever wear is a holographic silver glitter. Nude or natural nails = not natural in JilliLand.
Step Two! Paint the tips of the nails with a dark wine/blood red, as if you were doing a french manicure. However, don't worry about having a perfectly even and smooth polish application while you are doing this. In fact, you want the inner edges of the red polish to be uneven.
Step Three! Using the end of the polish brush, add smears and spots of the red color to your nails, coming out from the unevenly-painted red tips. Again, you really shouldn't care about your hands shaking or this being tidy. Messy! You're going for messy! Embrace the chaos, muah-ha-ha-ha!
Step Four! Wait a few minutes (but say, less than five), and apply a glossy top coat. I really like Nubar's Diamont top coat, as it is thick, glossy, and quick-drying. (Quick-drying is the most important thing in a nail polish top coat for me.) If you have timed this right, the red polish will be not-quite-entirely dry, which means applying the top coat will slightly smear the red. This is good!
Step Five! (Which is optional.) After the top coat dries, take a bath or wash the dishes, something so your hands are immersed in warm water for a while. Any extra polish you may have slopped onto your fingers or cuticles will simply peel off.
This blog (clicky-link!) has a video tutorial for a similar manicure effect, which she says is a Inglourious Basterds tribute. The streaking and blobbing application for the blood is close to how I applied mine, except that I used actual nail polish instead of acrylic paint. (The texture of acrylic paint on my nails would drive me mad until I scraped it all off. Ew.)
I think this style of manicure would also look amazing done with dark green, blue, or a blue/purple duochrome color substituted for the blood red. Zombie ichor manicure! Oooh, I may have to try that next time.
So! Questions? Comments? If you try this, please post photos of your results in the comments!
kambriel for doing some fast color-correction work on the photos for me!)Firstly, the photo that
marc17 took of my nails on Saturday night!How did I do that? Click the cut tag to find out!
This image (which I believe is from some sort of Japanese nail art site) popped up on my Tumblr stream last week. I went "Oooh! But without the rhinestones, thanks", and then checked my nail polish collection.
Products I used: Bariell Natural Nail Camouflage, Orly "Marlene", and Nubar Diamont top coat.
Step One! Apply a "natural" -colored polish to clean nails. This step weirds me out a little, because the lightest color of polish I usually ever wear is a holographic silver glitter. Nude or natural nails = not natural in JilliLand.
Step Two! Paint the tips of the nails with a dark wine/blood red, as if you were doing a french manicure. However, don't worry about having a perfectly even and smooth polish application while you are doing this. In fact, you want the inner edges of the red polish to be uneven.
Step Three! Using the end of the polish brush, add smears and spots of the red color to your nails, coming out from the unevenly-painted red tips. Again, you really shouldn't care about your hands shaking or this being tidy. Messy! You're going for messy! Embrace the chaos, muah-ha-ha-ha!
Step Four! Wait a few minutes (but say, less than five), and apply a glossy top coat. I really like Nubar's Diamont top coat, as it is thick, glossy, and quick-drying. (Quick-drying is the most important thing in a nail polish top coat for me.) If you have timed this right, the red polish will be not-quite-entirely dry, which means applying the top coat will slightly smear the red. This is good!
Step Five! (Which is optional.) After the top coat dries, take a bath or wash the dishes, something so your hands are immersed in warm water for a while. Any extra polish you may have slopped onto your fingers or cuticles will simply peel off.
This blog (clicky-link!) has a video tutorial for a similar manicure effect, which she says is a Inglourious Basterds tribute. The streaking and blobbing application for the blood is close to how I applied mine, except that I used actual nail polish instead of acrylic paint. (The texture of acrylic paint on my nails would drive me mad until I scraped it all off. Ew.)
I think this style of manicure would also look amazing done with dark green, blue, or a blue/purple duochrome color substituted for the blood red. Zombie ichor manicure! Oooh, I may have to try that next time.
So! Questions? Comments? If you try this, please post photos of your results in the comments!
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