Good afternoon Lovelies,
Aah, don't you sometimes think about the past and how you discovered nail art and all the wonderful possibilities about it? I've been a little busy and since it's Thursday, I thought I'd just throw a TBT (Throwback Thursday) your way, heh.
Besides layering polishes (as in glitter toppers) this was the first kind of nail art I tried doing on my nails. This was over two years ago, the photos date back to March 2012! I took them with my phone, because what are quality nail art photos? Backdrop? What's that? I mainly just snapped photos of my nails to share them with friends and family on Facebook, just like everyone else shares every single detail of their lives there.
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| First layer sponged on. |
I think I remember painting a base colour, probably a nude polish? I don't remember. But I used the 3 Essence shades in the photo for the gradient. I remember thinking to myself 'hey, this looks kinda nice! But it also looks kinda rubbish, nothing like those gradient nails I had seen online...'
And yes, lets take a moment to admire the amazing job I did cleaning up my cuticles for this glamourous shot... Not.
Luckily I soon figured out that perhaps a second layer of sponging would do the trick and ta-daa:
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| Success! |
I was so happy! Finished it off with a layer of top coat and I think I wore this for a whole week, until my nails started growing out and it just looked gross. Also did a slightly better job cleaning up. Got a lot of compliments from co-workers during that week and I was completely SOLD! I'd never run around with plain nails again (unless I was really super busy or having and uncreative phase).
I hope you enjoyed my little time travel, as I love browsing my phone for old nail art.
What was your very first nail art attempt? Was it a success or failure?
