BARRY M – BLUEBERRY
ICE CREAM
Hi
Goddesses
Wow, what a
surprise! I did not expect to love this
so much. I don’t know what colour I
imagine when I think of blueberry ice cream, but I’m pretty sure it’s not this. This, however, is delicious, the colour of
pure sky.
This is
bright and cheerful and a lovely colour for those of you who like highly
pigmented paler blues. It’s also a great
stash colour for any mani you want to do involving sky, such as …. CLOUDS !!
This is my
total fave from all the ice creams that Barry does. This one just rocked my world, and it’s not
often a blue does that!
So playtime
….
CLOUDS
tutorial
So, for
those of you who wanted really basic nail art ideas, here’s a simple one. Dotting tools are my best friend, personally I
prefer them to nail art brushes, but I think that’s because I am not very exact
in my ahem “artistry”.
Dotting
tools usually come in packs of 5, and you can pick them up on eBay very cheaply
(literally <£5 incl postage). They
are like pens, and have 2 “nibs”, 1 at each end, giving you 10 dotting sizes in
total. For this playtime, I have used
the very widest dot.
The thing
with clouds, is that they are irregular shapes, so you don’t have to worry
about being too exact. Start with the
bottom of your cloud and work up – this will give you a better shape.
Then start
extending your cloud up – this will then give you the basics of your cloud
shape – and then colour in the middle.
I like fat
clouds, but I have also seen some great wispy clouds. You can dampen your fat cloud down with a
make-up sponge to make it more “airy”, and you can then use what’s transferred to
the sponge for some other wispier clouds.
Now, if you’re
better than me, you can add the sun, a bird, a plane, a balloon, oh actually
even I could probably do a balloon …. The trick is to start small with
something you can do, rather than going for a masterpiece before you can walk.
Go on, go
grab your dotting tools and have some fun J
Enjoy xx J
J
Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.