Pink Ruffle Nails/ semi-tutorial

I recently volunteered at a raffle with some girls from my schools gender equality club to support women who are currently suffering from, or have survived cancer. The coordinators wanted us to wear something interesting and eye catching, but since I'm not very into wearing flashy colors, I decided to do a themed mani!

I present...

THE PINK RUFFLE MANI



This is my first photo, be kind

My cuticles look oddly dirty, but I promise it was just the lighting!

For the ruffle mani, I used PRO nail care lacquer in Venus as a base coat for all of my nails (this particular polish is just about as old as me, so it probably won't be available). Then I used a ballpoint pen tip as a makeshift dotting tool and applied dots of polish connecting horizontally across my thumb nail ONLY, starting with Sinful Colors, Snow Me White. After that, I repeated the dotting method with four different pinks that I had (Top to bottom: Sinful Colors- Shining Heart, SC- Fusion Neon, SC- Tokyo Doll, SC- Snow Me White, Migi Nail Art Pen- [this one had no name so I'm just going to call it neon pink], Shining Heart, Fusion Neon, and Snow Me White.)

NOTE: To achieve the ruffle effect, you need to start from the bottom and work your way up, that way the dots overlap and create a cute scalloped effect!

A brighter shot, you can see some weird dark flecks in the Shining Heart for some reason...

 

 

On my other four fingers, I used two coats of Fusion Neon. Then I topped all of them off with two coats of Kleancolor Pink Star, which gave it a really pretty frosted look and tied all of the nails together, and Seche Vite's Dry Fast Top Coat (my favorite!)

 Oooh, frosty!

A bit brighter than in real life, but this picture shows off the shimmer really well.

Okay, that was my first official post/semi-tutorial. Feedback is encouraged, and I'm totally okay with people promoting my blog (wink wink)