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The Study of a Juvenile Emperor Angelfish {for Fingerfood’s Theme Buffet: Week 1}

January 6, 2014

Can you believe we are already getting into the second week
of 2014? Time is still flying it seems.
Now normally, I’m not one for New Year’s goals and
resolutions – because if I’m going to do something, I’m doing it NOW and I tend
not to get into that “oh I’ll start my diet Monday” type persons. Nothing
against that mindset, I’m just wired a little differently. But this year, I did
set myself some goals to work towards: I
want to expand and develop my nail art techniques and tools further
.
Sounds like a good plan right?
It was. Or I suppose still could be. But somehow, in the
last week or so, I’ve managed to break, tear or severely damage so many of my
nails. It was just one after another. I had to cut them all down super short,
and patch some of the bad breaks. Sadly, they are still pretty fragile for
whatever reason, but the patches seem to be holding.
I couldn’t bring myself to patch them all up, and then paint
them and strip them down so quickly, so I figured I’ll give them time to rest
and heal. In the meantime, I have SO MANY nail art ideas and things I want to
do, I’m just heartbroken. The only solution I could come up with was to try
painting on loose falsie. Not ideal, but what are you going to do.
I know, I know, less chat more nails!
These are my nails for FingerFood’s
Theme Buffet Week 1 – Animal Print
:
I choose to study the Juvenile Emperor Angelfish and use
that as my nail art inspiration. I picked different sections and tried my best
to replicate them using new techniques and tools.

For this look, I was working on getting more familiar with the various nail art brushes, and playing with texture.

As much as I love the gloss finish, I wasn’t convinced it
was the best finish to mimic the fish. I tried  a light
coat of matte finish over it, and unfortunately smudged it a little in the
process.

Here are some of the matte finish pictures:

If you want to join in, these are the prompts for future
weeks:
Oh, and why not join our Facebook Group too?

What do you like more? The gloss or matte finish? Can you
see the resemblance to the fish?

10 Comments
Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged: fingerfoods theme buffet, fish nail art, fish nails, Juvenile Emperor Angelfish nail art, nail art, nail art challenge, The Sparkle Queen

Comments

  1. Lisa N. says

    January 6, 2014 at 2:50 am

    Awesome nail art!!

    Reply
    • The Sparkle Queen says

      January 6, 2014 at 3:06 am

      Thanks Lisa! I'm trying 🙂

      Reply
  2. Sam Fulton says

    January 6, 2014 at 9:23 am

    These are fabulous! As you know, I'm growing my nails from scratch at the moment too, so all my posts are a mix of nubs or falsies this month! 🙂

    Reply
    • The Sparkle Queen says

      January 6, 2014 at 6:46 pm

      Thanks Sam! There must just be something about this time of the year or the color or SOMETHING. I swear I've read several other ladies are having the same issues we are. Weird. We are in it together 🙂

      Reply
  3. Fixin To Faff says

    January 6, 2014 at 11:49 am

    Those are gorgeous! Love the color play! You really captured the feel of the fish!

    Reply
    • The Sparkle Queen says

      January 6, 2014 at 6:48 pm

      Oh thank you 🙂 I was hoping I did. In my mind I did, but wasn't sure how well it would translate in the pictures AND being on loose falsies. Glad you like them!

      Reply
  4. behappyandbuypolish says

    January 6, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    I can almost hear the waves when I look at this mani. 🙂 You did a spectacular job. 🙂

    Reply
    • The Sparkle Queen says

      January 7, 2014 at 6:08 pm

      Hehe thanks Jessica!

      Reply
  5. Dawn says

    January 7, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    what a creative mani using an Angelfish print.well done I love this 🙂

    Reply
    • The Sparkle Queen says

      January 7, 2014 at 6:08 pm

      Thank you Dawn!

      Reply

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