Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Birthday Pedicure


It's my birthday!!

Kati sent me the most beautiful birthday card in my swap package! I saw it and immediately though that it would make lovely nail art for a manicure. I was also in the process of deciding which of my new polishes to use, so I wanted to some of those. I started the poll and GOSH Holographic was first, followed by Catrice I Wear My Sunglasses at Night. I decided they would work great for this mani and I would use both!!


Here are some comparison pictures so you can see the nail art next to the piece of inspiration.
The card had dark cherry blossoms and white lotuses, so I made my own variaton of that. I used Catrice I Wear My Sunglasses at Night for the base color, GOSH Holographic for the cherry blossoms and branches, and added a white lotus off-center on both big toes.
The colors in the holo were just amazing. Stamping toes was a little difficult, which is the method I started out with, so I ended up freehanding most of the cherry blossoms. They're messy, but I think they get the picture across. The lotus really finished it off nicely too.
Catrice I Wear My Sunglasses at Night was really amazing in the swatch I did, but the shimmers didn't translate to the nail as well. In some of the pictures I managed to capture it more. I think it might have something to do with it being on my toes instead of my fingers, as I can't get as close to my nails when I look at them. I can't see the detail. Check out those above pictures though and click on them to enlarge (as usual, if you didn't know by now). The flaky shimmer is just super cool!
And of course I have to show off my tattoo lol. Thanks again Kati for all the great polishes, and happy birthday to me!! :D

11 comments:

  1. i love your pedi, and tattoo of course ;-)
    happy birthday dear :-D

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  2. Happy Birthday Megan!!! Love the pedi!! <3

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  3. Happy Birthday Megan! Love the polishes, toes, tattoo and the card, they all go so well together!

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  4. Aww there is my card :) I love the pedi you created with this theme!

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  5. Happy Birthday Megan, Great pedi, Toes are so hard to do! Kuddos...

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  6. Happy birthday fellow taurus! and love the pedi!

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  7. Happy birthday!!!! great pedi :)

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  8. Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have an awesome dayy!

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  9. Happy Birthday! :) Hope you have a wonderful day!

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  10. Yay thanks so much ladies! Nice to hear so many happy birthdays!

    Nail Crazy - Thanks for the tattoo love ;).

    Karin - They really are! Especially stamping a full nail design or anything not centered. Yowza!

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  11. This is so cute!! Happy birthday! Glad I could voicemail bomb your class. ;)

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