As it turned out, I felt like doing a good old fashioned dry brush mani, with a vinyl design on top of it for good measure. I was tempted to do another neon rainbow because I've really been on a neon rainbow kick this summer, but decided to tone it down just a little bit for the first day in the office. After all, if my hair is blue, why not paint my nails in the same color scheme?
I started out with a white base, and then I dry-brushed on four different shades of blue: Essie Bikini So Teeny, Essie Strut Your Stuff, Nails Inc London Baker Street, and Zoya Ryan. By the time I got to my third blue I was wishing I'd started off with a base of Bikini So Teeny (the lightest blue), but oh well. (Also when I was halfway through the dry brushing, I kicked myself for not setting up my camera in order to do a video tutorial! d'oh! I guess I'll just have to do some more dry brushing soon.)
After all of that dry brushing was dry (which predictably didn't take very long), I slapped on some nail stencils and painted Zoya Remy on top of all of that. I kiiiiind of wish I'd used a contrasting color instead of more blue, or at perhaps left Ryan out of the dry brushing, but oh well! It still looks pretty awesome. At least Remy sparkles while the rest of the polish doesn't!
As it turned out, my office is incredibly laid back and doesn't really care about the whole "office standard boring colors that don't make you stand out as an individual" thing, which is wonderful! At this point I still haven't met our director - it's just been me, another intern, and my supervisor in the office so far. Nobody said anything about my blue hair, but my supervisor did complement this nail art! She'd seen my blog, because my job is running the social media pages for The Advocacy Project and my blog was a large part of my resume, and she said that she likes what I do with my nails.
I also got the world's best nail polish compliment while I was on the subway on my way to work one morning - the woman behind me asked me where I got my nails done! She was very surprised when I told her that I did them myself. I gave her the name of my blog, so subway lady, if you're reading this, I hope you know how much you made my day!
What do you think of this look? I promise I'll make a video tutorial for dry brushing soon - when I do, what color scheme would you like to see? Let me know in the comments!
Wow! That is really cool! Smaller photos -- like on my phone -- don't do it justice. I had to zoom way in and then see it on my computer later to really see the effect. It looks so 3Dish! I think it's lovely! And yes, do make a video tutorial for dry brushing! :) By the by, my nails are FINALLY healing! They've been naked for months & months. I should probably keep them that way most of the time, what with my job and all. But I do look forward to doing a fun mani again one of these days. And dry brushing sounds like fun. :)
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