Hello and welcome! This week I finally made a design that I have been dying to try since I first saw it: cherry blossoms!
So I’ve seen many types of cherry blossom designs on Instagram & Pinterest, but I’ve had this specific inspiration saved for a while now. I felt like the mani from @kimberleykitty was something that I could recreate (with a stamping plate of course). My nails aren’t as long as hers, so I cut out the mountains and buildings. Not to mention, my stamping plate only had the trees, so those would have to been done by hand, which is a no-go from me.
What I Used:
- Base Coat: Glisten & Glow – Base Coat
- 1st Color: Maniology – Tranceland
- 2nd Color: Pure Ice – Scream
- 3rd Color: Starrily – Northern Lights
- 4th Color: Twinkled T – Vibin’
- 5th Color: Glisten & Glow – Your Mountain is Waiting
- Top Coat: Essie – Speed Setter Top Coat
- Cuticula Dole Whip nail tape
- makeup sponge
- Uber Chic Welcome Spring stamping plate
- silicone stamper & scraper
- lint roller sheet
- Twinkled T clean up brush, size #2
- acetone nail polish remover
I started with my usual base coat, and then two coats of Maniology – Tranceland. It’s a stamping polish, so it didn’t need two coats, but I wanted to make sure it was perfectly even. Then I surrounded my nails with liquid latex to prepare for the gradient mess that was about to come. The gradient was simple, just sky blue on bottom with a darker blue up top. And just two sponges of the gradient made it fully opaque.
Next I painted on a layer of the iridescent flakes. But after looking at the inspiration picture, I felt like my nails were reflective enough. So I grabbed the sponge and added some more to the tips of my nails. This made the flakies more concentrated, and actually visible.
Then, I stamped the tree branches randomly on my nails. But in order to protect my skin from the black polish, I surrounded my nails with liquid latex again. And then the blossoms were stamped in pink. It’s so much easier when you don’t have to do it all by hand.
I am just ecstatic with how these turned out! They are as close to the inspiration picture as I could have hoped. And even better than anything I was expecting. It took a while to finish them, but I think it’s totally worth it.
Hope everyone enjoyed their week!
Update:
This design lasted the whole week perfectly! There’s just the usual grow out, and wear from life. But, I’m starting to think there’s a correlation with how much I like a manicure, and how well they turn out at the end of the week. Even if there is some wear at the tips, I don’t even try to pick at them. There are always times where my nails chip just from life, but I tend to treat my nails better when I like the design.
Weekly Nail 