Hello and happy Monday my sweeties! Today I’m sharing my second manicure for March’s Nail Challenge Collaborative theme. NY Fashion Week recently happened, so this is definitely the perfect timing to do manis based on fashion!
I was browsing Pinterest and stumbled upon Oscar de la Renta’s 2015 Resort line. It was filled with black and white, florals, and some pops of bright pink and purple.
Aren’t those dresses gorgeous?! I don’t know what resort you would wear these to… I’m used to wearing bathing suits and beach wear to resorts. I guess Beyonce could pull off wearing a designer gown at a resort though. So maybe this collection is meant for Beyonce? They’re stunning no matter who you’re designing for or where you’re meant to wear the pieces!
I decided I needed to work on my freehand flowers anyways, so this was a perfect inspiration for a mani. I went with a dark shimmery green instead of black, and I had a perfect pink to match!
I tried cutting down the bristles of one of my nail brushes to get really thin lines, but they’re still a bit thicker than I’d prefer. I feel like I needed to cut it down to a single bristle in order to get the type of wispy lines I was going for with this manicure.
Also, the pink photographed a bit more neon pink than it is in real life. In real life, it looks practically identical to the Oscar de la Renta dress above – a slighly purple-leaning bright fuchsia. My camera can be a temperamental little beyotch; it hates blurples, it changes neon pink to orange, it changes oranges to pinks, and it changes fuchsia to neon pink. Silly camera!
Polishes used:
- Index & middle fingers:
- Base color: Barry M Racing Green… This is a beautiful dark blackened emerald green with some added shimmer. So beautiful!
- Flowers: Rica Whiteout… As usual, this is my favorite white for nail art and everything else!
- Ring finger & pinky:
- Base color: KBShimmer Beach Please… This is a GORGEOUS fuchsia – bright pink with some purple tones. The formula is perfection!
- Flower on ring finger: Barry M Racing Green… This was not as pretty in nail art because it came out pretty sheer. Ah well.
What do you think? Do you sometimes want to swear at your poor little camera for screwing up colors? I feel like my camera never went to grade school and therefore never learned colors. Maybe I should be more lenient with my poor uneducated camera – it didn’t have the advantages I did. 😉
Check out more fashion-inspired manis from the NCC ladies:
Fantastic inspiration pictures and the nail art matches them perfectly!
Thank you so much 🙂
Lovely inspiration for these nails.
Thanks 🙂
Wow, I think you translated the dresses to nail art really well! Super pretty 😀 And yes, my camera does that too sometimes… *sigh*
Yay thank you!! I just wish I could make thinner lines! I really need to just have a wisp of a nail art bristle!
I always love fashion inspired manis! The fuchsia dress is amazing, I wanna do something like that, too!!
Isn’t that dress gorgeous?! I love that color so hard! You should definitely do a mani on it!
Perfect translation of these pretty dresses! Love the black & white one.
Thank you so much 🙂
im loving these colors together. These dresses are beautiful, too!
Thank you! I love pink and green together too 🙂
I want that black and white dress!
my old camera had issues with purples, it hated purples!! haha so i hear ya on the camera making things difficult haha cute mani btw!
Thanks! These silly temperamental cameras!
Love the dresses and the mani!
Thank you!
These turned out so pretty!! Those dresses are gorgeous!
Thank you! 🙂 I want the black and white one! If only I could afford it…
Pretty! The designs you did match the look of the dresses really well!
Thank you 🙂
You did a fantastic job on this mani, captured both dresses perfectly!
Thank you so much 🙂
Your freehand flowers turned out really well. I love that black dress!!! Like you said I have no idea where Id wear it but it is stunning.
Thank you! I always feel like I need work on my freehand!
Okay, so I don’t think I own Beach, Please. Isn’t that crazy?! However, I love this mani and am jealous of your freehand flowers. Mine would just look like a freaking mess.
Whaaaat? You need Beach Please! It’s amazing and the name is fun 😉
Thank you!! I always feel like my freehand skills are a mess, but they’re slowly getting better!
Love that you fused 2 dresses into 1 mani! Beautiful!
Thank you! 🙂
I think your flowers look awesome and this is a great translation of the inspiration dresses!
Thank you so much 🙂