Thursday 29 May 2014

Nailsxo World Cup Nail Art Competition

Hey y'all!

Emily over at Nailsxo decided to host a friendly nail art competition in honor of the world cup which starts in a little over a week.  Each nail artist who signed up was randomly given a country with a team in this year's World Cup, and we were to make nail art in honor of that team.  I somehow managed to draw England!


I'm not sure how exactly I managed to pull England in this competition, but I am pretty grateful because A) the colors are pretty easy to work with, and B) The flag is super simple if you can paint straight lines.  I opted to go for a glittery gradient nail look.

World Cup Nail Art England

I started by painting all my nails with a coat of Pure Ice Superstar!. I used loose blue glitter to for the middle and thumb nails, and the index and pinky nails have a glitter gradient sponged on with e.l.f. Love Me

World Cup Nail Art England

The ring finger accent nail was done with Finger Paints Vintage Glam and a striping brush.

World Cup Nail Art England

Overall I'm pretty pleased with this look, although I do wish I'd had the blue glitter in a polish rather than loose, because loose glitter is so messy!  

World Cup Nail Art England

I actually took video footage while I was creating this look, so I hope to get that posted on YouTube shortly.  

World Cup Nail Art England

Let me know in the comments if you love or hate this look.  Good luck to all the other nail art competitors and I look forward to seeing all of your designs!


12 comments:

  1. Love this I still need to do mine will either get it done tonight or started tonight

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  2. So beautiful! I was really excited to see who would end up with England and what nails they would come up with. You have certainly done it justice these are fab, loving the stunning glitter gradient! I'm very happy you decided to enter and England is the country I will be rooting for, so good luck!! I'm off work tomorrow so will get everyone's designs up who have done them so far :D xx

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    1. Aww thank you! I can't wait to see everyone's designs!

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    2. Your nails are now up on the page :D x

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  3. I really like how you did this mani! especially with using loose glitter too,how messy can that be! you have done a great job! :) xx

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    1. It went EVERYWHERE Dawn! But I have a trick for cleaning up messy stuff like that, so that helps. Thanks so much!

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  4. Awesome!! :) love your glitter gradient! X

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  5. These are really pretty. I love the glitter gradient x

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  6. Love it! I like very much the glitter gradient you made!

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  7. Just checked the fixtures for the world cup we are in the same group uruguay vs England on 19th

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