Nail Art for Beginners: The Scrapbook Scissor Manicure

Hey Ladies! If you didn't see my guest post over at Beauty Full Lacquer, then click the link and head over there now. I did a nail art tutorial, and decided to start a series on here called "Nail Art for Beginners." These are going to be my attempts at nail art that I see on Pinterest or other blogs. Some might be successes and others might be complete failures, but I will share the process either way. Hopefully, other beginners like me will find some new techniques to try!

Today's manicure is my attempt at the Pin below. The picture is pretty straight forward. They used scrapbook scissors with a detailed edge to cut Scotch tape, thus getting an effortless design.

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For my manicure I chose to use green painters tape, as I was worried that the Scotch tape would stick to the bottom nail polish too much. I used Joe Fresh Hula as my base colour, and Nubar Elegant Indigo as the accent colour. I was surprised that I actually liked how this colour combination looked.

The execution of the manicure worked okay. I was worried that the painters tape would wreck the base colour so I didn't push it down very hard. This caused the detailed edge to not be crisp and clean in some areas. Next time I attempt this I will wait to make sure the base colour is dry, and will try to use scissors with a less detailed pattern.

NOTD: Nubar Elegant Indigo

Lately, I've been wearing pastel and bright coloured polishes for Summer, but this week I went for something darker. Nubar's Elegant Indigo is a black base nail polish with blue-purple duochrome glitter throughout it. This polish was opaque in 2 coats and needed 2 layers of Top Coat to actually look glossy.

The thing I don't like about this polish is that it doesn't look smooth. No matter how many different ways you try to apply it, it always looks bumpy on the nails. I really like this colour though, sometimes it looks blue and sometimes purple. I've found that it looks really good underwater...I figured this out while swimming in my boyfriends pool. I also found this polish extremely difficult to photograph so I am sourcing a couple pictures from other blogs. The link to those blogs will be under the pictures below.

 nailpolishanon.blogspot.com

www.scrangie.com

NOTD: Vogue Vert

Here is the second Nubar Polish I bought at Winners a few weeks ago. I really like this green for Spring. It is a beautiful pastel green creme polish that is way more toned down then the last green I wore, Juleps Leah.

With 2 coats this polish is totally opaque and with a Seche Vite Top Coat it lasted me almost 2 weeks with out any wear at the tips of my nails. So far I am very impressed with the formulation and quality of the Nubar Polishes.