Yellow Cherries

At last! I’m on the final prompt for the month from @glamNailsChallenge and it was cherries so I decided to depart from Valentine’s Day nail art while at the same time using ManixMe plates that were made for it. (Hence the hearts added to the visual mix.) Now normally cherries are red and that’s certainly the type I gorge on, but I love the aesthetic of yellow cherries. They always have this pink/red flush to them that makes them pop visually. I am…not even sure if I have ever eaten one now that I think about it, but I definitely notice them when they’re in the produce stand. I decided to pair the yellow cherries with a yellow polish, but one so soft, shimmery, and dynamic that it softens the Yellowness of it all.

Yellow cherry nail art on a sunny yellow super shifty polish with reverse stamping of a cherry "bomb", yellow cherries, hearts, and flowers. — Yellow Cherries

Nail art products used

Base Polish:: Lyn B Design’s “The Sun Came Out“
Stamping Polish:: Maniology’s “Acorn“
Reverse Stamping Polishes:: China Glaze’s “I Just Cant-aloupe“, Esmaltes da Kelly “Caffeine“, Maniology’s “Zinnia“, Revlon’s Parfumerie “Lime Basil“, and Sinful Colors’ “Snow Me White“
Stamping Plates:: Maniology “MXM097“ (“cherry bomb” and cherry with fuse); Maniology “MXM098“ (pattern with cherries, flowers, and hearts)

Items in italics are debuting on the blog for the first time.

I used this gorgeous topper polish (Esmaltes da Kelly’s “Caffeine”) to add the blush to my cherries and then filled everything else in with cremes. Then came the cherry “bomb”. The problem with that image is that the cherry is solid. So I actually flipped the stamping decal over and carefully painted inside the cherry shape while leaving a brown outline and then added the “blush” and highlight on top. It worked out pretty well. I am very grateful I have a set of magnifying glasses so I could really see what I was doing.

And, oh wow, Lyn B Design’s “The Sun Came Out” is just so pretty. There is no trickery or selection bias with my photography. The color really does shift around this much in multiple kinds of light and angles. I actually bought this polish because I was so happy with how a similarly-finished polish–her coral polish “Salutations”–looked on my nails. I feel quite fortunate to have both.