Saturday, June 19, 2010

I Feel Pretty

The other day, I sat down to paint my nails with my usual black nail polish and decided that I wanted to do a little more this time around. I resolved upon drawing little yellow flowers and adding stems and leaves to them. I practiced first on a piece of wax paper, and then used the wax paper like an easel, putting drops of the yellow and green polish on the paper and using a toothpick to apply it. Here's a tip: designs will be much neater if you wait for each element to dry before adding another; doing this keeps the polish from all pooling together on your fingernail. Also, if I had had a clear topcoat, that would have been a great thing to add in the end. I did all right on my right hand, but the left was a little tricky, since I'm left handed. Here's how it turned out:

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