I know it's not #manicuremonday but we've got a special edition nail post today! I'm too excited to wait until Monday because today is the first Toronto Blue Jays game :) I've got a cute tutorial for nails that you can adapt for any baseball team's colours! It's a simple stamping technique with a baseball accent nail! Check it out:
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What you'll need:
- base and top coats
- White nail polish for a base
- red nail polish
- a thin striper brush
- a konad stamping kit with a konad polish in your team colours
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Start with a couple coats of white. Mine is getting chunky, so it looks ridiculously uneven. It doesn't matter too much though when you're stamping on top of it. Let it dry completely!
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Grab your striper brush & dip into the red polish
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/lipgloss-and-black/Blogspot/Syl/2012-04-04-04.jpg)
Paint curved lines & then stitches (like on a baseball!)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/lipgloss-and-black/Blogspot/Syl/2012-04-04-05.jpg)
Now grab your team colours & spread onto the konad plate of your choice. I used the gradient dots on m60.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/lipgloss-and-black/Blogspot/Syl/2012-04-04-06.jpg)
Using your scraper tool, scrape off the excess polish
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Then stamp with your stamper tool
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& then stamp onto your nail! Make sure to clean the plate, stamper and scraper of any excess polish between stamping each nail.
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Do the rest of your nails!
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You'll notice that you've stamped your entire finger with the design, so just go in & remove that with a q-tip dipped in remover :)
& there you go! You can show your team spirit in a girly & cute way! LET'S PLAY BALL :)
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ahhhhh this is EPIC
ReplyDelete- PRADA SUNNIES GIVEAWAY -- PRADA SUNNIES GIVEAWAY -Sunnie(.=
- This is really cute !
ReplyDeleteADORABLE! Good work. Let's go Blue Jays!
ReplyDeleteDo you use special polish on the stamp?
ReplyDeleteyes! if you're new to nail stamping, we have a full tutorial on it here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sylandsam.com/2010/08/konad-nail-stamps.html