Australia Day 2013 nails!

Hi lovelies!

Happy (belated) Australia Day! As my regular readers know, I'm still out of the country recuperating from surgery, but I did want to do something to commemorate the occasion, so I decided to do a simple manicure in green and gold to celebrate. Unfortunately, I didn't have many polishes or any of my nail tools with me, so I was forced to wing it with what I did have on hand. Fortunately, I found an antique gold polish from Missha in shade HKH01 and a small bottle of some random forest green polish in my stash, so I decided to try my hand at my first 'framed' manicure.

The framed manicure consists of painting your nails as per norm, followed by layering a contrasting shade on top, leaving a thin border of the first colour to frame the second colour. I'm not completely satisfied with this manicure as it's not as neat as I'd have liked, but I did have some trouble with the polishes due to the brushes/formulas, so all things considered, perhaps it wasn't too bad an effort.

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

 

Under artificial light.

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

There you have it, lovelies, my first attempt at the framed manicure! I'd definitely like to attempt this again, but I'd probably leave a thicker border around the second shade and use more contrasting colours for added emphasis!

How did you celebrate the long weekend, lovelies? Get up to anything exciting? If you did a special post to commemorate Australia Day please leave me a link so I can come by and check it out!

Much love,
MM.
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