Sunday, June 30, 2013

French + Cartoon Nails

One of the highlights of my 2 weeks of interning was bringing in nail polish to do everyone's nails! It's great practice for me, since they're all so creative, with colors and designs, so it kind of pushes me to the max in concentrating and keeping my brush steady. Plus, proportions are not my thing.
For April, she asked for something cute and cartoony to show her nieces and nephews. So of course, the optimum choices are Spongebob and Adventure Time! However, she's starting a new job in a few days, so for her dominant hand, we did a glittery french mani, so when she shakes someone's hand or takes out a pen to write something, her nails won't be so conspicuous! :)
 Similar to the Skinny French Nails I did earlier this month. I really love this base color because it's the perfect color for any skin tone, plus glitter makes everything betterrrrrrr.


The cartoons part! Spongebob was so much harder than I thought! I had to first draw big black dots for the eyes, then white on top, then blue for the pupils and black again for the center. So 7 layers of polish in all for the eyes... it looked like they were popping out!!
Patrick's a bit small, so when I tried drawing the eyes, I realized that there wasn't enough room, so poor Patrick has no mouth!
Finn and Jake were fun to draw, although I don't think I improved much from painting this on Winnie's nails here.

Closeup for Spongebob

Hi April (:

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