Good morning girls!
How is your week going? Mine started well but has been going steadily down hill. A week of tax tuition is not fun and this feeling of not being able to get through the exams isn't nice. Musn't grumble though, onto the nails!
I decided to be *brave* and try a manicure that didn't involve using my stamping plates so I settled on a Ruffian manicure and used circular reinforcements as my image outline.
Oh what a disaster. I used a Boots 17 polish in Pink Grapefruit as my base then, once dry, placed the top half of a circular reinforcement sticker on my nails and used Boots 17 Knockout Red to paint above the sticker.
Why was it a nail fail?
Well, some nails smudged, I misjudged the spaces on some nails so the pink area is not of a similar size on all nails and the edges were badly painted, meaning on some nails the red curve actually looks more like a straight line. Disaster.
As soon as I took these photos I removed this manicure. Definitely not one I'm in a rush to repeat.Have you tried to do a Ruffian manicure? Did you end up with better results than I did?
Bye for now,
Laura
I love the idea of this, I'd never be able to pull it off though!
ReplyDeleteOh no! Thanks for sharing though. I actually wanted to try this the other day. I'll have to give it a shot and see how it turns out when my nails grow back. I guess all we can do is try... and take it off when it just doesn't cooperate!
ReplyDeleteafter down it will always go up hill again ;) my first attempt of a ruffian was a disaster :))) even the second one, but with the third one, it eventually did get better :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried this mani yet but I'm thinking about it. And for your first attempt, it's really good!
ReplyDeleteIsn't this a half moon mani... not a ruffian?
ReplyDeleteAnyway awww no it's not a fail! Just a little smudge, but it still looks super =] I love the colours you'v chosen, very interesting and cool =]
Yours actually look TONS better than mine ever do!
ReplyDelete@Daisychain, I'm assured it gets easier with practice :-)
ReplyDelete@SS, very true, though I do hate a wasted manicure! Good luck when you try :-)
@Theodora, that's encouraging :-)
@Filipa, thanks :-) I look forward to seeing your results when you try it!
@Sara, good point, but I'm not editing this post to reflect that lol. Well, ok. My colours were practically chosen for me as they were the two *free* ones in the 17 nail bar I got for buying 2 17 products :-)
@Thenailaholic, aw!