“Whether or not you believe in fate comes down to one
thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it’s your
fault - that if you’d tried better, worked harder, it wouldn’t have
happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?”
-
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Polish information: This is 1 coat of Enchanted Polish Serendipity (very good coverage, though I ended up not liking the color much) with the "sugar spun" nails look in the Square Hue Groovy Love from the April box. The sugar spun look took me a while to do. I looked at a bunch of tutorials on youtube before attempting. For instance, here is one from Kat Stays Polished that I found helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZs_QK-RXLk Though I would recommend watching a few (youtube search "sugar spun nails" to see a bunch) before attempting, so you can get a feel for it.
I am way too lazy to do full clean-up (and my cuticles are dry enough without more acetone), so I used cuticle oil in excess around the nails, and it did make clean up a bit easier.
I used a toothpick to do mine and wanted thicker stripes. When I first finished, they looked like this:
However, when I used the Julep Freedom topcoat on my thumb, the lines all smushed together:
I hated it, so I removed the thumb and free-handed a heart on it... so here was my finished left hand:
Please forgive the messy cuticles and not fantastic pictures if you can! Thank you.
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