Step Into Summer Challenge - Inspired by a Bathing Suit

Friday, June 28, 2013

Good morning! I'm continuing with another theme for the Step Into Summer Challenge hosted by the Hobby Polish Bloggers today. This theme is inspired by a bathing suit. I went to Google and searched for a bathing suit to draw inspiration from. I stumbled across this one that I really liked a lot.


Its so vintage and cute right? Let's see how it turned out on my nails!

Cherry Nails
American Apparel, OPI, China Glaze, dotting tool

For my base color, I used American Apparel Hassid. Taking OPI Ali's Big Break, I dotted on dots with my dotting tool to represent the cherries. Then with China Glaze Exotic Encounters, I used my dotting tool to create the stems and leaves. Seeing that the red I used wasn't showing up really bright, I took American Apparel Poppy and dotted dots on top of my previous red dots to make the color pop off the nails more.

Cherry Nails
Cherry Nails

I'm disappointed with how this turned out. This was such a fail manicure to me. The stems and leaves turned out really bad since I was using a dotting tool to create them. Not the best I've done but I gave it my best try. What do you think of this manicure?

Step Into Summer Challenge - Hobby Polish Bloggers

The Nail Files

32 comments:

  1. I think it looks great! And the bathing suit is adorable :)

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  2. cute mani... love the print on bathing suit.

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  3. I'm saying this again, said it on Facebook earlier but I think this is really cute :) And I would so like to get that bathing suit!

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    1. Thanks a lot Cat! I really appreciate it! :)

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  4. Cherries ♥♥ It's always a bummer when you picture something in your head and it just doesn't pan out in real life... I think this is totally cute, though.

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    1. Thanks Liesl! Yeah, its not what I thought it was going to turn out to be. Glad to see that everyone else is enjoying it :)

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  5. I love this! You did such a great job!!

    Stopping by from The Nail Files linkup :)

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  6. I think that this looks fab! I love that you didn't go with a traditional bright green for the stems, it creates a much softer look. :)

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  7. Love the suit - I need to buy that. :P I don't think it's a fail at all! Maybe the leaves could have been a bit brighter of a green (not bright green though!), but other than that, I think it looks really well done!

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    1. I agree! The bathing suit is so cute! :) Thank you! Yeah, I'm just really hard on myself and I expected this to have turned out way better than it is.

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  8. This is so cute!! Looks very nice!

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  9. I think this turned out really nice - love the design!

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  10. You did a great job Lisa! The swimsuit is so cute, a throwback to the 50's.

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  11. super cute! the mani and the suit are both adorable.

    the painted ninja

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  12. Okay, that's adorable. I want the mani AND the suit!! :)

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  13. Love the cherries... I'm definitely going to try this soon!!!

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    1. Thanks Tori! I would love to see your recreation too :)

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  14. Both the manicure and the bathing suit are super cute! I would wear both :)

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