Nail Fun
Nail Fun is all about having fun with your nails. Layering it, splattering it, making pretty patterns with it … it’s the most fun you can have on your own with a child in the house !! J
SPLATTER FUN FOR BEGINNERS !
So, I have been very intrigued by splatter manis, and have read lots of different tutorials. There are a few ways to do it ….
For the first 3 you will need … newspaper (cos you’re gonna make a mess), and a straw. I used a normal drinking straw which I cut to a shorter length. Other tutorials have recommended even thinner straws, but I’m struggling to find them in my local Tescos!
You ARE going to make a mess, so you either need to be prepared to use a cotton bud and nail varnish remover to tidy up your nails OR, you can surround your nail with Sellotape, and then pull this off afterwards.
All of these 3 splatters have been done on top of 1 coat of OPI Skull & Glossbones – remember, you are trying to create drama, so you want a bottom coat that contrasts with the colours you are going to use.
Splatter 1 has been done with 2 ESSIE colours – Soiree Mauve and Smokin’ Hot. I put a big blob of nail varnish on a scrap piece of paper, dunked the end of the straw in, and blew, quite close to the nail (when I tried blowing from further away, it went everywhere BUT the nail lol). I quite like how this one looks, especially the overlap of the colours.
Splatter 2 was done differently. This time I used the nail varnish brush to put the varnish INSIDE the straw – what can I say, I’m very impatient, and it took a LOT of blowing to do Splatter 1! You can see straight away that this has a much more dramatic effect and plops much more colour on the nail. If I could have been arsed, it might have been nice to use a different pink on top in the slower method. I think using the 2 styles has promise. I used OPI’s I’d Like To Thank for this one – it’s a metallic, and there’s a fabulous contrast where some bits went on thick, and others went on much lighter.
The 3rd one is my favourite. It’s just so dramatic and it LOOKS LIKE A FLOWER! A gerbera to be precise, which is my fave flower of all. This was done using PARIS by Nails Inc. Again, I shoved this one INSIDE the straw, and because it’s thinner than the OPI, it flew onto the nail with spectacular effect. I will definitely be doing this one soon for real.
Finally, I thought I’d show you another way to splatter. This technique was in Kayla Shevonne’s blog post. For this one, you drop a blob of colour on the nail and then use a dotting tool to spread the blob into a splatter pattern. This can be tricky, as the spreading can go a bit streaky. If you haven’t got a dotting tool you can use a pencil or a blunted cocktail stick. You then use your tool to add another few dots. You’re supposed to use at least 3 or 4 colours for this, but I think I did my blob too big! Also, I have no idea how you’d do this to the nails on your right hand – could go very wrong !!
