It’s day 12 of the 30 Day Nail Art Challenge and the theme is fishtail braid. I’m psyched to finally get a chance to try out this nail art technique! Since I’ve never tried fishtail before I practiced a little bit before jumping in. The hard part was finding:
- opaque colors that only need one coat
- polishes that had a small(ish) applicator brush since pro-wide brushes didn’t seem to work well for this design
- last but not least, finding coordinating colors!
I used Top Coat It’s tutorial and I practiced with some different polishes until I got the technique down. Most fishtail designs that I’ve seen use 3 colors and I chose the following:
Charming Charlie ♥ Penny Lane
Sephora by OPI ♥ I Think I Cayenne
Sephora by OPI ♥ S-Age is Just a Number
I also applied 2 topcoats at the end to try to smooth out the overlapping brushstrokes. The surface still looked kinda uneven to me though.
I like the warm color combo, even though it feels kind of unseasonal for this time of year! But I really wanted to incorporate my Charming Charlie polish (that’s the darkest shade in my photos). I’m almost positive this shade is called Penny Lane, but I can’t confirm it since I lost the bottle. I just used it 15 minutes ago so I have no idea where it could be hiding! So have any of you been to a Charming Charlie retail store before? I never heard of this chain until I stumbled upon one of their stores in Florida. And I was like WOW! It’s like a Claire’s Boutique for grown-up ladies! It was jam-packed with affordable necklaces, accessories and even nail polish- so of course I had to buy one. Penny Lane is a beautiful deep coppery shimmer and I hope you like it in my fishtail braid design! You can see the other participants’ designs here.
That is so creative of you
Wow.. you weren’t kidding!!!!!
I know! We are totally nail twins today!
Added an update to my post that links to this one… it’s just so spooky. Yay for nail twins 😀
Cool! 😀 It is kinda weird- we were def on the same wavelength!
Very pretty! Love that colour combination. I can never get fishtail nails to look right haha.
I hear ya- I had to practice more than I expected to! It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.
Haha yeah, the first time I tried it the lines were uneven and the polish bubbled.
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This is great! I tried to do my first fishtail for this challenge but failed miserably!
This design looks fab on your long nails! Love the colors you went with!
Thanks Julie 🙂 its funny how a few of us all went for brown shades for fishtail day!
Gorgeous!
Beautiful! I didn’t know Charming Charlie had polish..I’ll have to go check it out soon haha
Lol feed the addiction! I think my bottle said $3.95 on it.
love the colors!
Very pretty and creative!!! BTW, I have nominated you for a Leibster Award- Sorry if you’ve already gotten one.
That’s awesome thank you! ! I have a rec’d a few nominations recently so I am working on a thank you post!
WOW! this came out great – love the color combos
Such a beautiful colour combination! And you’ve managed to get your fishtail design dead centre, the middle of my braids are all slightly to the left or right.
Oh thanks! I didnt notice if mine were centered or not!
That’s so cool!
This is freaking gorgeous!!!!
OMG charming charlie is like crack. I love just love how everything is color coordinate. i can pick out a outfit decide what jewelry color I want and just walk to that section and pick it out.
That sweet! I wish there was a store near me
You did great!
Wow, gorgeous !!!
Thanks Stephie!
Im contemplating using some jewelry findings for my nails for the upcoming 3-D nail art day!
i love that colors!
Thank you so much!
Wow, just wow. I have such a talented sister! ❤
Haha thanks sis! ❤
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