Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian readers out there. I won't be doing the usual turkey dinner, but I will be spending the day with my family, so I'm very grateful for that. I'm also excited to be kicking off another Digit-al Dozen week. Floral nail art is one of my favourite kinds of nail art, so I've been looking forward to this prompt for months.
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| Freehand graphite flowers |
About this design:
I was inspired by my
secondary colour nails I did for the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2.0. But instead of doing a mix of larger and smaller flowers, I took the larger flowers and blew them up so they took up almost the entire nail. I also wanted to stick to a black/grey/off-white colour scheme. In fact, these remind me of a charcoal or pencil drawing, that's why I'm calling them graphite flowers.
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| Freehand graphite flowers |
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| Freehand graphite flowers |
To get this look:
- Base: OPI My Vampire is Buff
- Background texture: Lightly sponge Cult Nails Nevermore, Sally Hansen White On, and KBShimmer How You Dune? Then lightly drag some My Vampire is Buff to diffuse the effect.
- Flowers: Cult Nails Nevermore and a fine detail brush
- Top coats: Rica Glossy Glam and Essie Matte About You
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| Freehand graphite flowers |
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| Freehand graphite flowers |
Final thoughts:
I deliberately left my index nail looking unfinished. The design was worked up more on my middle and ring nails. That wasn't my original intention, but halfway through doing the flowers, I realized that I liked them that way. Also, I think I might like these more than my original design I did last month. I tend to really like monochromatic/black-and-white colour schemes. Even when I was drawing and painting.
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| Freehand graphite flowers |
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| Freehand graphite flowers |
What do you think of this design? Do you enjoy floral nail art?
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Love the charcoal drawing effect! And Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! Reminds me of the sketches I do for my paintings. I love it.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a gorgeous effect! And I loooove your middle finger, big corner flowers are my fav' :).
ReplyDeleteLove the worn look these nails have!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a huge fan of anything floral, but these are lovely
ReplyDeleteHow amazing is this?! I've never seen anything like it. I love the varying levels of "finished-ness" on each nail-- and awesome that it was something you just decided to go with the flow on. Just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely looks like a little sketch book on your nails! So sweet. Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteI love this! It is so vintage and gorgeous. The pattern is so unique! Great job.
ReplyDeletelove love your style! always have! <3
ReplyDeleteI LOVE! Really they look drawn on and really capture the look you were going for, well done!
ReplyDeleteThese are amazing! Aside from the fact that they truly do look like you sketched them in pencil, I can't get over how fine your lines are. Which brush did you use?
ReplyDeleteI adore these. I'm not usually big on florals, but these have a wonderful sketchy quality to them that I just love.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful. I need to get that OPI shade...it's calling my name.
ReplyDeletegorgeous
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty! My Vampire Is Buff! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteAnd this effect is gorgeous, like a drawing on some old paper. <3
It truly does look like a sketch with pencils!
ReplyDeleteThe floral sketch is so unique and different, I love seeing what everyone comes up with!
ReplyDeleteI love these and they really do look like sketched flowers! So creative and lovely (as usual) :)
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteAmazing!! I really love the grungyeffect on this look!
ReplyDeleteWOW these are incredible Meghan! Totally reminds me of pencil drawings too.
ReplyDeleteI frickin' love this.
ReplyDeleteThese are flippin' amazing!
ReplyDeleteI love how they look so raw and rustic! You always manage to pull those type of designs off well!
ReplyDeleteI can't get over how gorgeous these are. A work of art!
ReplyDeleteCharcoal drawings are favorites of mine and this is no exception. These are stunning!
ReplyDeleteOooh such a perfection! I love the grungy feel on this look!
ReplyDeletethey TOTALLY look like a charcoal drawing. Utterly incredible x
ReplyDeleteYou are one of my favorite floral nail artists and this is just AH MAZE ING
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