Hey everyone! Here's a look at the mani I'm rockin at the moment! My little Evan loves a new show on Disney called The Octonauts - and I happened to see a little sea urchin on one of the episodes!
So here we go!!
I started with two coats of Barielle's A Bouquet for Ava for the ocean water, and Sinful Colors' Zeus for the urchins.
Zeus has an awesome formula and shine to it. As far as A Bouquet for Ava? I'm not crazy about it. The formula is seriously thick, refuses to go on evenly, and dries with a borderline neon finish. What's that about?!? OH! And if you happen to sneeze and get the tiniest bit on your skin ... congratulations! You're skin is now stained with a less than delightful teal hue. Grrrrrrreat. But I do adore the color!
I applied a quick coat of SV over Zeus, and cut small pointed strips of scotch tape for the urchin design. Once the tape was in place, I added a coat of A Bouquet for Ava, and removed the tape immediately. Then I finished it off with a coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.
I used my dotting tool with Kiss Black & Kiss White to create the bubble design by first placing black dots on my nails, and then placing smaller white dots over the black. I finished this off with a coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.
I hope you enjoy today's mani! Sorry my Barielle rant was a bit lengthy. I don't know if it's me, but I'm just not having a lot of luck with many of their polishes. Has anyone else had this problem?? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!!
Happy Painting!
Colors: Sinful Colors Zeus, Barielle A Bouquet for Ava, Kiss White, Kiss Black
I think you've got Barielle Berry Blue on rather than A Bouquet for Ava. ABFA's a medium teal creme. Perhaps it's mislabelled?
ReplyDeleteLove the mani though, Zeus is so pretty and the bubbles looks amazing!!
It's ABFA. I assure you. It is a medium teal
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That's really cool! I love this! Haven't tried Barielle though.
ReplyDeleteI love this, really simple but stands out.
ReplyDeletethis design looks cool!
ReplyDeleteI love this Barielle rant
ReplyDeletewish there were here in mexico ?
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Very beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a very pretty mani! And I totally agree about ABFA. It stained the crap out of my fingers when I took this off. I haven't really had issues with their polishes overall but a few have given me problems just with formula or application.
ReplyDeleteI honestly feel like drafting a strongly worded letter to Barielle!!
DeleteThis is cute!
ReplyDeleteMy son loves Octonauts too =)
this is so pretty and fun!!
ReplyDeleteThis is cute! Sucks about the staining though. Did it stain lots when you removed it? :(
ReplyDeleteIt was HORRIBLE to remove!!! It took a ridiculous amount of time to get the staining off of my nails, cuticles, and fingers!!!
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ReplyDeleteThat looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute manicure!
ReplyDeleteAwww Barielle sucks for me too! All their polishes are thick and runny but sheer at the same time for me. I gave up on buying anymore of their polishes no matter how pretty they may be.
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