First thing's first, thanks to my suite mate for letting me borrow her empty Starbucks cup for these pictures! Second, I'm back with more nail art! The last few weeks I've been preparing for midterms, writing papers, doing homework, and keeping up with marketing stuff for a club I'm part of on campus. I'm just a busy, busy person! At the same time I hate when my nail polish starts majorly chipping so I just had to redo my nails! This design, which I am naming 'Intricate Plan' suits my need for quick and easy nail art.
First, let me tell you a bit about the nail polish: I just bought a new bottle of Essie nail polish called Master Plan because a week ago when I was at Target I really wanted some kind of grayish colored nail polish because it's fall and I felt I would have enjoyed the warmness of the color! This color kind of reminds me of a color that I bought from Sinful Colors a really long time ago called Nirvana - a very well liked color in case you're in the market for a nice toned down nail polish but don't want to spend $9 for one bottle!
In any case, it was love at first sight for me and Master Plan. The nail polish itself is a little on the thicker, more opaque side, which I like because you don't need too many coats to get it to the desired finish. I applied two coats, though the second coat, I realized, wasn't really necessary but I usually do that with all my nail polishes. This is such a beautifully static color and the dry time was no more than about 10 minutes until it was touchable for me.
As for the design I did, I wanted to do something sort of tribal because the color was so earthy and nearly natural. I took my really thin dotting tool and dipped it in my black nail polish of choice in order to paint on the tribal design you see. Now, you're probably wondering why I chose a dotting tool rather than some sort of striping brush... In my opinion the brush was too thick for the design I wanted and I would have ended up with big black blobs of polish all over my nail with no distinct pattern.
I started off by making three small dots on top of my nail and made a straight line underneath it. The dotting tool made it really easy for me to paint three tiny triangles on my nail (which is probably my favorite part of this design!) After this I made two parallel lines and connected them with vertical lines. More dots were placed under that followed by another line and more vertical lines. See how easy that was? No wonder a workaholic like me pulled it off!
Tribal nail art is always intricate and what's great is that although it looks complex, it is really a mixture of smaller, simpler elements. I must say that a tribal design looks great against Master Plan and works with the color in a way that it doesn't just push it off as a background but instead works with it so that they shine equally.
What nail color from Essie are you dying to try?
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