Watercolor Nails

Busy, busy, busy! I finally had time to sit down and paint my nails last night! I've seen this watercolor method and really wanted to try it with pastel colors. The only problem with that is that is doesn't show up in the pictures very well. Probably because I use a phone for picture taking! :) Either way, I like how this turned out but my right hand looks better than my left. Weird since I'm right handed, but I'm always more careful when I use my left hand so the designs look better sometimes.

I used a sheer white basecoat then added a top coat. I read somewhere that doing that will protect the basecoat from getting ruined when you watercolor with the acetone. I started with pink blobs of polish and used a paintbrush dipped in acetone to fade out the color. I added a minty green (which you can't even see really), a bolder white and a little turquoise-y blue. It looked fine by itself, but I thought it needed a little something else so I added some white watercolor looking flowers. That was the hardest part actually!

My basecoat was a little too thin. You can really see my nail line on some of them.

I tried to get a good picture of how the colors look, but I just couldn't get the picture to capture it properly. In person you can really see the pinks and blues better. Oh well, I'll have to try this again with darker colors maybe.

KH