Golden Triangles

What to call this mani?! At the risk of being boring I just went with ‘Golden Triangles’ because, well, that’s what it is. These nails were inspired by a prompt I saw on Instagram for ‘flakies’. Now I only own one proper flakie…an Essie polish. It’s super pretty but doesn’t show up in photos at all so I created a little bit and used the only other flakie-ish polish I own – OPI Pure.  I’ve been in love with these gold polishes (yes, real gold!!!) ever since I saw them.  OPI Pure is totally stunning and looks 10x better in person.  I originally just planned to paint the gold flakes on in a triangle shape. It ended up looking like this:

However, I wanted the triangle to look a little more defined so I just painted around it with gold polish so it popped. I did this using a handmade nail brush, aka an old eyeliner brush. Here’s the finished look:

Gold Triangle Nails

Here’s everything this look requires (minus the painting brush as I forgot about it!):

 

OPI Polishes - (L to R) Love.Angle.Music.Baby, Live.Love.Carnival, Pure

The polishes I used were all OPI:

Base - Live.Love.Carnival

Gold Flakes – Pure

Gold lining – Love.Angle.Music.Baby (one of my all-time favourites!)

Plus Essie Good to Go for my top coat.  

I got the vinyls to outline the triangles from nailvinyls.com

Rhi.xx

Classic French Manicure

So yesterday I had an event to go to and I wanted to have chic yet classy nails. What fits the description better than a French Manicure?! For years I used to try and do this on myself. I’d buy those kits from Boots and those white tip pens and it always looked hideous. Then I discovered nail vinyls and it changed my manicuring life. See….ta da! Perfect French tips:

 

 

This is a little gathering of all the products I used. Details below photo.

Polishes are all Essie

White: Blanc

Sheer Pink: Vanity Fairest

Top Coat: Good to Go

The nail vinyls are from www.nailvinyls.com and the tweezers are just for easy application and removal of the vinyls. And, of course, a trusty clean up brush. 

So how do you all do french manicures? Freehand or with assistance like me?

Rhi. xx