Hi everyone! Time for Twinsie Tuesday! Today's theme is coffee. I was stumped for a while about what I could do besides plain brown. None of my stamping plates have anything coffee related and my free hand skills need some work. Then I thought about latte/cappuccino art!
So I brought out my Uber Mat and did some dry marble decals because I couldn't find my latex lol. These aren't quite as uniform as latte art and ended up looking more like stirring cream into coffee. I kind of like how they came out, but the brown feels like it clashes with my skin. I'd definitely do it again with different colors.
For this look you need:
So I brought out my Uber Mat and did some dry marble decals because I couldn't find my latex lol. These aren't quite as uniform as latte art and ended up looking more like stirring cream into coffee. I kind of like how they came out, but the brown feels like it clashes with my skin. I'd definitely do it again with different colors.
For this look you need:
- Dark brown polish. I used Nubar Milk Chocolate Creme
- Light tan/cream polish. I used OPI You're So Vain-illa
- Toothpick
- Plastic ziploc bag or Uber Mat. I've even seen some people use those silicon baking sheets.
- Quick dry top coat. I used KBShimmer Clearly On Top.
- Nail File
- Scissors
- Acetone and clean up brush
How I did it:
- Paint a square the size of your nail with the dark brown polish on your plastic bag or Uber Mat. Make sure it's a thick coat and opaque. Dab it on if you have to.
- Drop a few drops of the tan polish on the the wet dark brown.
- Using your tooth pick swirl and make any design you want while everything is completely wet.
- Let sit for a while and then paint your quick dry on top. Don't be neat, get it all outside the "lines" to make it easy to peel off.
- After everything is dry peel off your decals. Paint a nail with top coat and place the decal on top.
- Press down and using your nail or a cuticle stick, press down around the cuticle and file the edge of your nail to get the excess decal off.
- Clean up around the edges with your acetone and clean up brush
- Top it all off with top coat!
Be sure to check out what the other Twinsies did!
Alaina at The Little Canvas
Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland
Amanda at Amandalandish
Amanda at Fashion Footing
Amber at Nails Like Lace
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Claire at Kerruticles
Lisa at The Polish Playground
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Marisa at Polish Those Nails
Megan at A Beauty in the Business
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Sara at The Call of Beauty
Savannah at Addicted to Polish
Sharon at Behind Green Eyes
Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer
