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Cherry Nails

I don't know what it is but my safe, comfy place with nail art is always hand-placed glitter.  Always sparkly and easy to get looking neat and orderly, it's always my fall-back.  In an effort to step outside of my comfort zone though, I do sometimes like to try something different.  Thus, cherry nails!

To start, two coats of Sally Hansen Celeb City, the sparkly silver foil.  I find myself using this polish all the time as it covers well in two coats, is super sparkly and compliments a glitter top coat perfectly.  I wanted to use it on its own this time and turns out it's great for my cherries.  Next, using a small paintbrush, I added the red dots using American Apparel Lipstick, brown stems in polish that's completely slipped my mind and then the green leaves using American Apparel Crescent Heights.  I did one colour at a time as cleaning the brush is a bit of a pain.  You know the hardest part about this?  Trying to figure out which way up to do the cherries so they wouldn't be upside down in the pictures.  Silly broken brain :(







The Verdict:  I think these came out super cute, if I do say so myself.  I'd like to try these even smaller and on a different background, could be even cuter.  Thoughts?
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2012 at 9:31 AM

    You should do cherries, but place red glitter instead of red dots! :) very pretty.

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  2. NailNarcoticsSeptember 4, 2012 at 11:29 AM

    Adorable! Very good job!

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  3. NailNarcoticsSeptember 4, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    oh and don't forget to enter my giveaway challenge! These would be perfect for it!

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