A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic

Oceanic Watermelon Picnic

It’s Mermay and the nail art community seems to largely be ignoring it as I haven’t seen a single mermaid in any of the challenges I looked at. That’s okay. I’ll find way to include mermaids in my nail art anyway. For instance, today’s prompt was for Fruit and I did fruit, but I also did mermaid nail art. It ended up feeling rather summer-y, but the temperatures were up rather high this week so my thermal polish spent most of its time in a mostly warm state that I ended up really loving. Below is what I mostly saw…

A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic

And this is the full color gamut the polish actually has…

A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic

Lovely, isn’t it? I always love blue and red together, but those iridescent glitters really make the polish cool. That kind of detail is definitely something to look for in a crelly. Especially a thermal that could just stop transitioning one day.

A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic
A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic

Nail art products used

Base Polishes:
Fancy Gloss’ Ariel
Stamping Polishes:
Maniology’s “Red Sea
Advanced Stamping Polishes:
Hit the Bottle’s “A Vermillion to One“, KADS’ “28 Lake Blue“, Poparazzi’s “Watermelon Spritz“, and Zoya’s “Ness” + “Nyssa
Stamping Plates:
Beauty BigBang “XL-001” (full-nail watermelon pattern) (press sample), Born Pretty Animal-L001 (mermaid), and UR Sugar UR-L019 (crab w/watermelon and mermaid’s watermelon)

In anticipation of MerMay, I put together a list of mermaid stamping plates that I haven’t used yet and managed to use one right away. Now, she wasn’t the reason why I really wanted that plate, but her hand was conveniently sticking out so I could slap a watermelon stamping decal on it. Win. And the whole reason I picked watermelon as my fruit of choice is the crab, which was one of my main motivators for buying Born Pretty Animal-L001. It’s so cheerful about its little watermelon prize. Also, that plate has a lot of different animals with unicorn horns which means I can use it during Junicorn. 🏆

Born Pretty Animal-L001 stamping plate with lots of animals with unicorn horns, bows, and other cute images.

Endless possibilities. It’s a plate that been out for a while too, so it’s a bit hard to find now. Plus I had to buy it twice since the first time it somehow didn’t make it into my shipping envelope. Very sad. I do not usually provide a link to where I buy things but, again, this one was hard to track down so I bought mine here.

And now a photo dump…

A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic
A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic
A turquoise to white thermal nail polish with stamping decals of a mermaid and crab enjoying watermelon and a full-nail watermelon pattern on the thumb.
Oceanic Watermelon Picnic

That’s all I have for today, friends. Until next time! 🙋‍♀️

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