Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Lace Illusion

Hi all!

While browsing, I stumbled on a design on the Orly website. It's called 'animal' - although I don't know where the animal reference comes from - and it can be found here. I decided to copy the idea with a couple of changes :) Let's take a look!

lace illusion stamping konad konadicure nailswatches orly idea imageplate m57I used H&M Love At First Sight as a base, which is opaque in two coats. I randomly placed black scribbles with China Glaze Ink (I need to get myself a bottle of black creme.. Grr) and scribbled a little more with RBL Stormy. In the original design, lace was places on top of the scribbly look, but since I don't have any lace to put on my nails, I decided to go with Konad imageplate M57. I stamped the image with Konad special polish in Black Pearl and voila!

lace illusion stamping konad konadicure nailswatches orly idea imageplate m57I really love the look of this and I think I will do this again to wear it as a full manicure. Maybe I can even try this with slightly different colors, but I think you'd better not go with colors that are too bright..

lace illusion stamping konad konadicure nailswatches orly idea imageplate m57What do you think of this lace illusion manicure?

Thanks for stopping by!

16 comments:

  1. Wow it looks amazing! I think you did a great job in recreating the look and imo the stamping is better than having lace applied on the nails.
    I am definitely gonna try this too.

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  2. I am spechless!!! I must try this one in the near future!

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  3. I love how this looks! When the photo first started loading in my google reader I thought you'd done one of those real-lace mani's where you set pieces of lace on your finger and sealed them with topcoat. So cool!

    (And btw, Wet'n'Wild Black Creme is on its way to you!)

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  4. love it..i thought its a real lace... XD well done

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  5. great idea! the color is perfect, i've tried real lace before, i like it, but it's bulky...
    great job...:)

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  6. Ooo I love it! It looks like lace and/or snake skin!

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  7. I don't really see a lace effect, but I do see the animal reference: it's very snake skin like!

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  8. it looks just like a snake!!!

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  9. OMG, when I saw a picture of this design on my dashboard I thought you just glued some lace on your nails but now I see you didn't! Yes, this is a great illusion mani! <3

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  10. this looks so cool!

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  11. I see both snakeskin and lace. Either way, I think it looks AWESOME!

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  12. Looks awesome!
    I definitely see the resemblance to snake skin.
    I am following now!

    Check out my mani for this week @ xbeautyinlife.blogspot.com

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  13. Wouw! awesome! I liked it so much, i posted this link on my blog :)

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