Pretty peach and lace

Hi everyone!


I needed my nails to look a bit more office friendly for a meeting and as I'd seen this manicure by @melcisme a couple of days ago, I knew exactly what I was going to do... recreate her beautiful design of course!

I started out by painting my thumb, index and pinky with two thin coats of Illamasqua Purity, a lovely peach creme that covers in almost one coat and has the usual awesome formula as all Illamasqua polishes I've tried so far.

Next I painted my ring finger with three thin coats of Catrice ICONails 23 Nice Cream, a very pale peach that combined beautifully with Purity (or at least I think it does ;) and two thin coats of Orly Rage went on my middle finger. When all that had dried I stamped a floral lace image from Major Dijit plate 04 using Hit the Bottle Snowed In and finished with a generous coat of Seche Vite on all my nails.


The bottle shot (you do know both square caps come off to reveal a rounded one, right?)

Illamasqua Purity, Catrice ICONails 23 Nice Cream, Orly Rage, Hit the Bottle Snowed In

I don't know why I never tried stamping white lace on a pale color before, but I know I'm going to do it again as I really like what it looks like so I hope you like it too as it will most likely make a reappearance on my blog ;) Also, in hindsight, I maybe should have mattified Rage as it is a bit blingy but hey, it's summer and I'm not wearing neon so I consider this the epitome of office friendly for now! What do you think? Did I do the original some justice? And do you consider my nails office friendly?



Hit the Bottle Snowed In was bought from Hypnotic Polish.
Orly Rage was bought from Bransus Cosmetics.