Watermelons

It's very much summertime here. Coming close to or breaking 100 degrees here...I'm not a great fan of the heat, but since I've been in college I've learned I like the freezing cold less. So in celebration of summer, I painted my nails like watermelons about a week ago, I just hadn't posted them yet. These were far easier than my TRON design and didn't take nearly as long either.

I started with a bottle of clear Avon polish (my mother sold it for a time and my sister still does, so I'm a bit of a fan) for the base coat. Then one moderately thick layer of Sally Hanson's Xtreme Wear "Green With Envy." Then a coat of sparkles from Milani 3D Holographic polish in "High Tech." I've got two bottles of the Milani because I found them on clearance at Target, one is definitely blue and the other green, although they kind of behave like a top coat of sparkles with a bit of color tint when you actually paint with them.

For the upper layers, I used a Wet n Wild pink, "Lavender Pearlescent." I jokingly call this color the Barbie nail polish, because I really like the deep super shiny pink, but there was a week in school when I work it on both my fingers and toes and found myself carrying not only a pink school bag but a pink water bottle as well. It was a bit much for me, especially since pink isn't even my favorite color. But alas! For the watermelon nails, I was really careful to leave space by the cuticle for the sparkly green of the watermelon rind to show through. It probably would have made more sense to left the nail tips green, but this was mechanically way more easy for me to do. Just go slow if you're unsure of yourself! You can always go back and touch up the line to make it more straight. Finally I used a sparkly black, Sally Hanson's Xtreme Wear "Night Lights" for the seeds. A couple of coats of Wet n Wild clear sealed the deal.

This design lasted about 3 days before it noticeably started chipping, but this may very well have been because I used sparing amount of coats (the green was only one coat, and I didn't go back over the pink either. Orrr it could have been because I had this design on when I started back up at work for my summer shift (and typing on a register is never good for nails). So that would probably be one of the things that needs work, more coats and perhaps switching the green to show at the tips rather than at the cuticules.