The Great Gatsby inspired nail art.
It was a book that I never had to read in school and with the film coming out, I thought I would read it first. I really loved it-from its use of an omnipresent narrator to the way it captured the feel of the era. Flapper dresses, art deco, the charleston-needless to say I was feeling inspired!
At about the same time as I finished the book I had a wonderful parcel arrive from the lovely Lou at tipsandtopcoat. It was my prize for winning a competition on her blog (eek-never won anything before!!). It consisted of 3 of the 2013 colour club halo hues collection:
Over the moon, cosmic fate and beyond.
Needless to say they are gorgeous and as soon as I saw beyond I thought it would be great in my Gatsby mani!
Also I could only pick two colours for this mani as it's polish roulette week on the All things nails page on fb: 2 colours, 1 mani!
Some more Gatsby inspiration:
Finally my mani, involving my novice attempts at nail art and first time of using striping tape! They are far from perfect but I am quite pleased with them.
For this mani I used a base of zoya trixie and colour club beyond. I also used nails inc electric lane on some nails and a tiny bit of lynnderella mercury's rainbow on the little fingers.
I stuck to quite basic designs: chevrons, triangles etc and then I added a little star jewel on the ring fingers.
Here are the piccies:
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| outside in shade. |
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| outside, in indirect sunlight. |
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| outside light |
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| with flash |
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| with flash |
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| with flash. Have you been to seen The Great Gatsby yet? Thanks for reading and I hope to see you back again soon! xoxo |
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