#52weeknailchallenge - week 32: Black + White (aka back to shorties)

Hi everyone!


As you can see, I've spend an hour or so filing down my nails... again... :(
After breaking the nail on my left middle finger, I decided to take pictures of my Cinderella hand for a while, only to crash into a door when it was opened unexpectedly so that took another two nails from my right hand. I managed to avoid getting hit in the face though! So it's back to shorties (and pampering them as much as I can to encourage them to grow faster). I was lucky though, no breaks went into the pink part so it doesn't hurt.

Anyway, the 32nd prompt calls for Black and White and for me that means a minimal design, which in turn means the emphasis is on the paint and stamp job... I hope I did a decent job:

I started out by painting all my nails with two coats of a new to me white creme polish, essence Wild White Ways. I've read pretty good reviews about it but I wasn't so happy with it. To me it felt like painting with correction fluid. Maybe it was the temperature (hot... hot... way too hot) or I was trying too hard, I don't know. I won't throw it out though, I'll give it another shot when the thermometer shows normal figures again ;)

After it had dried I evened it out with a coat of Seche Vite to make sure the surface I would stamp on would be as smooth as possible. I stamped an abstract lotus like image from UberChic 21-03 near my cuticles, using Hit the Bottle As Black As Night. Another coat of Seche Vite to seal everything and my nails were done.


The polishes:

essence 33 White Wild Ways, Hit the Bottle As Black As Night

I know this is very simple, maybe even too simple to be called nail art. But for some reason it just feels right to me and I think it works because my nails are short. If they had been longer, I don't think I would have liked it as much as I do now. What do you think?