Hello sweeties!
I decided to take a quick break from blogging, so there was no post on Friday. I needed some rest after working on those monster presentations! They went well, and now I’m back with some manis for all y’all!
May brings another Nail Challenge Collaborative theme, and this month we’re doing FLOWERS! I love floral manis so much, and it’s such a perfect theme for spring! For my first look, I’m doing a mani inspired by Marisa of Hey Darling Polish (see her post here). Marisa always does the best floral manis, and this one is one of my favorites of hers!
Spring floral manicure
As you can see, I used a different base color. I recently picked up this almost white pistachio color, and I’ve been dying to use it. So I did! I kept the flowers as close to my inspiration as possible though!
Spring floral manicure
So the white flowers barely show up against the really light pistachio background, but I still like the overall look! I wish I would have used something other than white, or maybe a darker green/ teal background.
Spring floral manicure
Polishes used:
- Base color: Floss Gloss Glowstar… This gorgeous polish is a very light pastel pistachio green, verging on a green-tinged white. It’s a bit of a tricky formula – streaky on the 1st coat and requiring 3 smooth coats. But the beauty is worth it! And it makes me look more tan than I am, and I’m always a fan of that!
- Flowers:
- Light purple: Essie Play Date… This is a great light purple polish. And it has one of the better formulas for Essie! It’s one of my favorite Essies ever!
- Dark purple: OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?… A gorgeous dark purple creme with a perfect formula.
- White: Zoya Purity… A nice white creme – not my favorite, but still a nice one.
- Yellow: Sally Hansen Lightening… This is a great opaque pure yellow. It has a great formula, and it is my favorite yellow to use for stamping!
What do you think?
Check out more floral manis from the NCC ladies:
And here’s your daily David Tennant:
Hellooooo gorgeous 😉
Very pretty! Such fresh colors for Spring too.
Thank you 🙂
These look fantastic!! I really like that base color!
Thanks so much! I’m still working on my freehand, but I think it came out alright 🙂
That base is friggin’ gorgeous!! You could not have done a better job. 🙂
Awww thank you so much Jessica!! I love the base polish SO much! I wish it had a better formula, but it’s so pretty I forgive it.
Adorable Floral mani. Lovely colors.
Thank you 🙂
very cute! I love floral manis
Thank you! I love floral manis too – I’m excited that this is the theme for the month 🙂
I love the colours you used here – it’s seasonal, but still sort of unexpected. Nice!
Thank you so much 🙂
Yay for flowers! I love the colors, and the yellow makes it pop so nicely.
Thank you! I love floral manis so much 🙂
I’m such a sucker for floral manis, this looks so pretty.
Me too! Floral manis always look so great 🙂
That pistachio shade you used as a base is gorgeous! I wished I could find something like that over here. Everything tends to look darker and greener on me than it’s in the bottle. *sighs*
I love your recreation of Marisa’s work, I agree with you that she has the best floral manis, and yours is gorgeous, too!
Thank you! I love the base color so much – I wish the formula was better, but I’ll forgive it since it’s so pretty!
Yes – Marisa is the queen of florals, and I can only hope to get sort of close to hers 🙂
Super duper cute!!!!!
Thank you so much 🙂
How beautiful! I absolutely love that base you used!
Thank you so much! I need to wear this base color on its own too!
These are so pretty! I like the sketched look of the flowers.
Thank you so much 🙂
Im a sucker for floral manicures, I cant help it I love them all. You did a great job on this and I love that base color.
Thank you so much! I’m a sucker for floral manis too 🙂
Cute look and I’m glad you got to rest 🙂 At first I thought you had information on the new Sherlock series!!! Heh…
Thanks!! Oh, I wish I had that info! I can’t wait to see more Sherlock!