It’s a very plaid time of year and I’m back with another plaid look. Now I’d finally caved and purchased one of UberChic’s fantastic plaid layering plates (03 if you must know), BUT it wasn’t going to arrive in time for the plaid collab on Instagram so I used my CICI&SISI. She’s a perfectly good (if no longer available) plate for making plaid nail art and playing with different layers. The problem is that my nails are wide and the falsies I’m playing with are generally long. The patterns simply aren’t big enough to cover my whole nail so then I have to try to line up a second stamp and I don’t always get it perfect.
So. I’m excited to play with my new plaid-making friend, but I will still use the old on my shorter falsies. Some day it will be time to paint some argyle and 03 doesn’t have it.
Nail art products used
- Base Polish:
- Colores de Carol’s “I Knew It!“
- Stamping Polishes:
- Hit the Bottle’s “Slitherin’ Serpentine“
- Freehand Painting:
- Single lines of Maniology’s “Cozy” to go with the plaid pattern.
- Stamping Plate:
- CICI & SISI “Plaid Overprint-02” (plaid pattern)
Items in italics are debuting on the blog for the first time.
Today’s plaid is a perfect example of mostly letting the polish do all the work. She’s got some shimmer. She’s got some flakes. She’s both magnetic and thermal. She is a whole look.
Now that busyness is also why I just went with plaid and didn’t add anything else, but that’s fine. More people like the simpler looks anyway. I could have ended with just the green plaid stamp, but I wanted a few fine lines and my plate didn’t have any I really liked the arrangement of so I just freehanded a few copper lines. So pretty. And very doable if all you have are a single plaid patterns and that’s it to pull from. You don’t need a plaid layering plate.
@MagneticMagicalNails – Plaid
- Instagram Group: @MagneticMagicalNails
- Collab Host: Darlyn @gridqueen
- Group tag: #magneticmagicalnails & #magneticmagicalnails2023
- Next Prompt: Ornaments
Final plaid nail art photos
Warm and cold side by side. So pretty.
Until next time, friends! 🙋♀️
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