Saturday 20 April 2019

MATCH THAT MANI // Twinkled T Pineapple Nail Wraps

Raise your hand if you love Twinkled T stuff but you're also really bad at applying nail wraps....all the hands up?? I saw these amazing pineapple nail wraps whilst window shopping on Twinkled T and I just knew that these are my kind of nails so I took a screenshot and saved it in my 'inspo' folder. Well, the time has finally come for the Clairestelle8 April challenge. The prompt for the 9th was 'black and white' and yeah, I'm a little late (thanks dissertation....) but I knew I had to do these nails.....and there is a slight amount of gold on them but still.

I just love how these turned out, who knew something so simple could look so effective? I was going to put a matte top coat on top but these look really good shiny. It's also a perfect look for short nails which is great because I just did my monthly chop; they were getting on my nerves so much. It's so hard to type fast when they get too long and as a programmer that's a bit of a problem lol.

So here are the nail wraps:

At £5 for just one set of nail wraps, that's an expensive mani to keep recreating every now and then. So, I tried to recreate it using products I already owned and lucky for me the very first plate I ever purchased had the perfect pineapple print on it. Surprisingly, (I have over 100 plates) I don't have a plate with the square lines...although thinking of it now I could've just used a square lined one and rotated it 45 degrees when stamping......FFS. I got a line design and then stamped in on twice...oh well it worked lol.

I didn't want to use a black polish for this either as I thought it would be too harsh so I used Night Sail by MoYou London which is a nice dark grey and then used a dotting tool to apply some gold dots. I would've like to use a mustard yellow colour but I don't have that shade...yet.

This was also a super fast mani, just two coats of Blanc, then the stamping took a minute, followed by 30 seconds for the gold dots, some quick dry top coat and bobs your uncle; done in 20 minutes. Which is exactly what I need when my dissertation is due in 10 days...