Hello there lovely readers!
How are you all keeping? Hope you had a
lovely weekend? Mine was spent in the city again, this time for the
besties hen do. A jolly time was had featuring fun games with interesting
results involving a Channing Tatum poster, feasting in medieval
fashion with Henry VII, before dancing till the early hours. Though
now I feel positively ancient & will enjoy a few quiet weekends
haha!
Today's manicure is a request from one
of my lovely twitter chums @Yahyah56. You see we both have strong
love for tartan....Scottish tartan....Scottish tartan on handsome
Scottish men on a show called Outlander to be exact. Now I haven't
actually seen this show yet, what with it being on Amazon Prime which
I'm not subscribed to (sort it out Netflix!) however I am very aware
of it & its male leads existence *cue heart eye emoji* who knows
how to rock a tartan kilt most well. So in honour of that & for
you Maisie hers some suitably Outlander-ish tartan nails!
I've been a long term of plaid nail art
as not only is it easy to achieve, you can do SO many different
variations on colours. In the past I've done Grey Plaid & PinkPlaid nails & there's so many more colour mixes I want to try!
For this one I've gone for the traditional red & green tartan
with a pale gold stitching.
To create these tartan nails just
follow these simple steps...
First start with applying your red
base, I wanted to go for a nice deep wine red for this tartan plaid,
here I've used one coat of Nails Inc Chester Square.
Next apply your green shade. You know
my love of sparkles so I decided to incorporate some glitter at this
point using Models Own Absinthe, definitely one of my favourite green
polishes, so rich, yet satisfyingly sparkly! Apply one coat covering
only half the nail.
Then grabbing a thin nail art brush &
a pale gold shade, here I've used Ulta3 Antique Copper, a gorgeous
metallic molten gold, apply your stripes to create the plaid print,
basically two horizontal stripes & two vertical stripes,
alternating the positioning of the stripes on each nail to mix it up
a tad.
Finally using a toothpick & the
same gold , I added on a bit of stitching to complete the tartan look
before coating it all with a nice thick click of topcoat to seal....&
that’s it! Though I got a bit overexcited & jarred the ring
finger a tad but lets just pretend its some wrinkled up tartan cloth
shall we??
It must be the combination of red,
green & gold but this mani is making me feel rather Xmassy! I
think I'll definitely have to roll out this look again nearer the time.
But before Xmas of course we have one of my other favourite
holidays...HALLOWEEN! I'm already getting my thinking cap on for some
fun nail art designs...
Thanks for reading lovelies, I hope you liked
the Tartan Plaid nails. Now to get on to perhaps sorting out an
Amazon Prime subscription for Outlander, so I can research tartan
plaid in more depth & maybe roll out a few more
designs...entirely for blogging purposes of course... O_o
Lotsa love to ya!
