Saturday 31 December 2011

Happy New Year!!

 Hey guys!
I decided to do a fun festive New Year's Eve/New Year's Mani, and since I'll be going to watch the fireworks, I went with glitter! I also wanted to incorporate Shatter because I feel like 2011 has been the year of the shatter/crackle nail polishes! And finally I HAD to have OPI Teenage Dream on my nails since it is definitely my favourite nail polish of the year!

So this is what I came up with:



I started off with a bottom coat of glittery colours, and to make it super sparkly I also added a layer of glitter pieces. The glitter pretty much covered the nail colours completely so I won't bother mentioning the nail polishes I used. On my thumb I used OPI Teenage Dream.



 Then I used pieces of tape to cut out numbers so that I could use it as a stencil for the shatter. It actually ended up being a really tricky process, I had to take out my dissection kit and use a scalpel to cut the letters out! (couldn't find a razor thingy at home).
Finally I added a coat of black shatter. I was quite surprised that the shatter sort of moved away from the tape so you can kind of see the numbers without removing the tape.


 So that the numbers stand out a bit more, I outlined them with Sally Hansen XtremeWear in Black Out. Then I peeled the tape off, added a Top Coat and cleaned up...and voila!


Hope you guys have a wonderful new year!

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