Split Mani | Craftynail

I’ve been participating in Chalkboard Nails’ 31 Day Challenge (31DC2013)… but so far I’ve only done every other day. Normally I like to do a challenge full force and I try to do every single theme… but I’m also running Nail Art Ideas Linkup (NAIL) with Brijit’s Digits and Eeeek! Nail Polish! and tomorrow our SPORTS theme opens up. So I hope you’ll all forgive me for only doing half of the 31 day challenge days. 😉 I don’t wanna over-do it and lose my spark!

Day 8 of the 31DC2013 is METALLIC and I’m wearing a Sally Hansen Lustre Shine polish called Gilt. I guess it’s considered a metallic duochrome, but I don’t see too many flashes of color. Sometimes it leans a little green or a little rose-gold, but mostly it’s just a bronzey gold shade. I’m glad I got it on clearance for $2.00 because it dries so slow. Even with seche vite it was still tacky and vulnerable to dings. After my Lustre Shine was as dry as it would get, I started some nail art by painting a skinny black strip down each nail. Then I built up the black at the top and bottom of my nails to form a curved shape. It’s almost like a french mani on the bottom, a halfmoon on the top, with a line connecting them. I dunno- it’s fun and futuristic looking! I like to call it a ‘split mani’ and I sorta discovered it when I was working on my Missoni-inspired nails. This is a design that’s relatively easy to do on both hands too Yippee! I hope you like my quick n easy metallic split mani! It sorta reminds me of an hourglass. Maybe I could try one of those sometime. 🙂

View some of the other metallic manis by clicking this Inlinkz for #31DC2013:

Today is FASHION DAY in the OMD Nail Art Challenge! Warning- I am not a fashionista. My favorite shoes are Crocs if that gives you any indication of my personal fashion sense! LOL But in the OMD spirit I started scouring the web for the latest in fashion trends. I stumbled upon this slideshow- Best Looks From Pre-Fall 2013 on Harper’s Bazaar.com. This one Missoni dress caught my eye (source: http://www.harpersbazaar.com) . If I was thin and/or rich I might wear this one. What I like most is it’s unexpected combo of blue, black and orange.

I didn’t try to replicate the Missoni design when I was creating this manicure. Mostly I used the dress for inspiration and loose interpretation :). This mani was actually pretty easy! I free-handed the stripes with a detail brush and also made some dots with a dotting tool. It looked so cool before I put the black dots on too. I almost wish I stopped there. But oh well, I’m still really happy with this look! I like how muted and murky the orange looks against the bright blue! What do you think of it?