Tuesday 3 April 2012

Gradient Caviar Nails

Morning loves!


Today I have my own take on the Caviar manicure. When I first saw Ciates original Caviar mani I thought Wow that looks so cool! But with a over 20 price tag for the set it was just not something I could contemplate buying. There had to be a cheaper solution to get the same look! My mind drifted back to the last time I was in Michaels and saw some microbeads, I wondered if they would look similar. So I picked up a package of 6 colours, originally $11.99, but the lady at the cash register gave me  50% off coupon because I told her I don't get the flyer delivered. The next day I saw that Jen from The Polishaholic had done Caviar nails with the same microbeads! The next few days they were popping up all over the internet, so I thought how could I make this a litte different? A gradient of microbeads! This was my final result!

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I was really pleased with the result of this! To get this look I first painted my nails with 2 coats of Orly's Luxe, which is a gold foil polish and let that dry. A while later I taped off my tips and painted some more of Luxe onto my tip. Then I grabbed my first colour of microbeads, Champange and poured them over the tips. I poured the beads into a small tupperware container to catch them. Then I taped off the bottoms of my nails and painted another swipe of Luxe inbetween the beads and where the tape was. I then poured Copper microbeads onto that section of my nail. Lastly I painted Luxe onto the remaining unbeaded nail and poured Antique Copper microbeads onto that part. Finally I pressed all the beads into the polish and shook off any that were loose and sitting on top of each other.

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I love this! It's a little different than the other Caviar nails out there and I think looks really cool! I did them for last Saturday night as I was going out with some friends and they all commented that if I had these nails on the Red Carpet they would be blowing up! I laughed but was secretly like yeessss! :D

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For the life of these nails, they are probably best for just one night. Mine started to lose colour the next day and many had falled off. I was a little rough on them though, I played frisbee for an hour and then straightened my hair and had a night out where I wasn't paying close attention to my nails. So the fact they still looked half decent the next day I was impressed with!

Do you love or hate the Caviar nails trend? Have you tried it yet? What do you think of my gradient caviars?


Sincerely Stephanie

16 comments:

  1. I love this gradient manicure! A great twist on the usual ones I'm seeing!

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    1. Thanks Esther! I wanted to do something a little different :)

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  2. Awesome! I love that you used stripes of color!

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    1. Thanks Bethany! I think it gives the caviar another really cool dimension! :)

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  3. I kinda love this trend and I cannot wait to try it!

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    1. I love it too! Can't wait to see what you come up with Cris! :)

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  4. Reminds me of a tiger or something!! SO cool!!

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    1. Thanks Crystal! LOL That's awesome I didn't think of that!!

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  5. These look incredible! I have some of these beads in a few nail art wheels but now I want a whole rainbow of colours to try this type of mani out! Looks like so much fun even if it doesn't have a long mani life ;)

    Love Aysh xoxo

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    1. Thank you Aysh! It really was a fun mani! Perfect for a night out :) I hope you try it!

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  6. So cool!! and original :)
    Greets!

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  7. Looks awesome! I need to try this out soon!

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    1. Thanks! For sure try it out! It's so much fun to wear!

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