Another nifty tool that is a "have to have" to get a lot of really cool looks, is striping tape. Again, a lot of people cut up scotch tape or masking tape, but my laziness is wayyyyyy too out of control for that. I turned, as I always do, to trusty Amazon to do the dirty work for me, and I found these beauties for a few bucks:
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| Sparkles! Colors! Bright Sticky Floss! |
In, again, twoish weeks, they were at my doorstep, and I set to use them that night.
What followed was a horror of twisted way too long pieces that I couldn't trim accurately, because I was using household scissors. I will not regale you with those pictures because there are none. I don't care how long I spend on a manicure - if it looks like garbage, I sponge it off and start again. I get it from my Dad, I'm sure - an inability to present anything less than something I know I've done a great job on.
A few nights later, I gave it another go, this time using the tape not as decoration, but as a boundary line.
Zoya Mimi underneath Zoya Harley
I started with a base coat, then laid down two thin coats of Zoya Mimi - sparkly, but not thick. After giving it five minutes to dry, I cut a few lengths of striping tape, and just laid them over the nail in whatever pattern I thought would be interesting. I decided to stick to two pieces per nail for absolutely no reason other than cutting 30 pieces of tape sounded like hell.
The "trick", if there is one, to using striping tape in this manner is you need to work quickly. You want to paint the nail and then pull off the tape to keep the lines clean. That's why I was thrilled Harley was opaque in one coat, because I don't know how you'd tape lines in a two-coater. So I'd paint the nail, put the brush back in the bottle, pull the tape off, and stick the pieces onto a paper towel I had nearby. |
| My middle finger reminds me of a flag. Or graph axes. |
I started with a base coat, then laid down two thin coats of Zoya Mimi - sparkly, but not thick. After giving it five minutes to dry, I cut a few lengths of striping tape, and just laid them over the nail in whatever pattern I thought would be interesting. I decided to stick to two pieces per nail for absolutely no reason other than cutting 30 pieces of tape sounded like hell.
Wash/rinse/repeat for however many nails you feel like doing, then go into the world ready to thrust your gorgeous manicure into the face of strangers everywhere!
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