Beach Escape Nails

For those of us still stuck in the colder weather what else is there to do other then dream of the beach. Warm sandy beaches, breeze coming in off the ocean, a nice pineapple drink in your hand. Excuse me while I take a minute to come back to reality. I wanted to recreate a look I did last year that was a gradient and palm trees. Sometimes it's nice to see how far along you've come with your skills. I can great improvement in both my blending of the gradient and my stamping. I added more to these as well.

I started out with one coat of Color Club Look, Don't Tusk before applying a gradient of Fresh Paint Honeydew and Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau. Once my gradient was dry I went in with Klean Color black and stamped on the palm trees. I used two different plates, Mo-You London Tropical 12 on my thumb and Born Pretty Store BP-23 for the rest of my nails. I used the black to paint on the land at my nail edge. I felt like it still needed a bit of something so I used China Glaze Peachy Keen to paint some birds. Unfortunately I applied Seche Vite a bit too soon and smeared my ring finger. 

Macro of middle finger

Original design from July 2014

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

-Samantha

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