Hello sweeties! Time for another manicure recreation! Today, I’ve chosen a gorgeous mani done by Lisa of The Polish Playground. She did this color blend mani (see her blog post here), which was before I joined the group. But I went back through old pics and found her version of a needle drag manicure!
Not this kind of drag:
Ahhh I love Rocky Horror! I’ve been to many a midnight showing. Magenta used to be my go-to Halloween costume, and people who weren’t familiar with the movie/ play would think I was just some messed up french maid lol.
I’ve chosen to do a slightly brighter version:
Needle drag manicure: recreation of The Polish Playground mani
I wanted bright, and where have I been going for bright colors recently? To the China Glaze Electric Nights collection of course! (wow I’m being super corny today!) I chose the bright red-orange neon as my base – it’s photographing more orange than it is in person. But it’s SO freaking neon! I love this one!
Neon needle drag manicure
Just wow, right?! So bright!
Needle drag manicure
Polishes used/ how I did this:
- Base color: China Glaze Red-y To Rave… This is another one of the Electric Nights polishes. The formula is perfect (only needed 2 coats for opacity) and this neon red-orange coral is such a great color!
- I then painted thick vertical stripes of the following colors:
- China Glaze Red-y To Rave
- Polish My Life 1950s Mint Fridge… I’ve mentioned this gorgeous aqua teal before. It’s perfection 🙂
- Color Club Baldwin Blues… This is a gorgeous deep teal that I have in a mini bottle (I think I got it in some Birchbox a long time ago).
- Then I took the most narrow dotting tool and dragged it horizontally to blend them all.
What do you think? Have you done this needle drag technique before? What color combos do you like to drag together?
Check out the other NCC recreated manis:
And here’s your daily David Tennant:
Doctor Crafty 
This looks great! I just love the colors you used here too 🙂
Thank you so much!! Your original one was gorgeous… I was just feeling some neons 😊
This looks awesome!
Thank you so much 🙂 I’m loving it too!
This is awesome! Love the Rocky horror meme!! Haha
Thanks!! I love Rocky Horror – had to include that someday!
Looove how this turned out! Great color selection
Thank you so much!!
I love this! Needle drags are so fun and I haven’t done one in a while. I really like the colors you picked, too. Great job!
Thanks!!! It was really fun once I got the hang of it!
I’m so jealous of how pretty this is! My needle drag mani always looks awful! Great job!
Thank you so much!! I have no idea how I ended up with something nice on a first try – magic?
These look so cool! The colors are amazing together!
Thank you!! I love pops of neon, so I had to include that CG!
Love this manicure! You really knocked the color combination out of the park!
Aww thank you so much!!
This is such a funky look, the colors look SO good together! I really want to try this some time :).
Thank you!! You should try it!
Whoa the color combination is fantastic! It reminds me of street art, very chic. I have never tried the drag method before but this makes me want to.
Oohhh I can definitely see what you mean about street art! You should totally try it!
I’ve never done needle drag mani. It looks quite tricky! Love the colours you used for it. That mint green is awesome!
Thanks!! It took a little trial and error on that first nail (my pinky), but it actually wasn’t too hard! Oh, I love the mint green too!!!
Wow, these are awesome!
Thank you!!
This turned out really great. I have yet to do a successful needle drag manicure which stinks because I think they look so creative and each one is unique.
You can do it!! I don’t know how this came out successfully, but I like it too 🙂
I love this! The colors are so pretty and it somehow makes me think of flames!
Thank you!! Oh, I can definitely see this being used for flames – some red, orange, and yellow dragged over a black base maybe?
This looks so awesome! I really need to do a needle drag again. I’m also really wondering what David Tennant was tasting over there!
Thank you!! You should – I loved doing this!
I think he was tasting sand 😊 Silly David!
I like the color combination. Back in the day my nail artist called this marble swirls.
Thanks! That’s interesting – I think of marble swirls as more circular mixed all together designs!
Oh fun! This is one of those techniques I just can’t get the hang of.
I think letting the base color dry thoroughly so that the dragging doesn’t go down to the naked nail was my breakthrough 🙂
I also LOVE Rocky Horror! Actually, the colors you used kind of remind me of Frank-N-Furter!
YES! Another Rocky Horror fan – that makes me happy 🙂 I can totally see Frank-N-Furter too now!
your nails look perrrfect! 🙂
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Haha thank you so much!! I really liked this mani 🙂