Obviously I needed a new nail design for when school starts back up on Tuesday!
In the last nail art post that I made, I shared that my thumb nail broke off while setting up my classroom. It was so sad because it was the first break in two months!
Ya see, I have this thing, where if one nail breaks or chips, I pick at allll the rest! And with them growing out so much and being so thin (since they are so short) I was able to break off/cut off chunks from quite a few nails. So I very quickly filed off all the nails. My natural nails had free range and fresh air for about 5 days before starting a new design.
Well since I had filed off every single nail before, I had to rebuild a full set. Something I hadn’t done in two months haha. But I decided that I wanted to do them slowly so that I didn’t waste a lot of product and so I didn’t have to file a lot once the nails were done.
This seemed like a good idea at the start…
So I basically did one nail at a time. I took my time, I made sure that I had the product nice and thin at the cuticles, I cured one nail for 15 seconds before starting the next so the product didn’t shift around. After two nails, I would fully cure those two nails, take off the nail forms and start the next.
It was a good system. It also took a full length movie (Inspector Gadget), plus an hour long comedy special (Iliza Shlesinger on Netflix), and a little bit of a tv show episode (Heartland) to get the nails ready to decorate. But the filing was very limited and shaping was very easy. I did make the outer corner of my thumb a little too thin so it broke off and I had to fix it. But that took all of 2.5 minutes.
Then I needed to paint them. And again, I took my time. Slowly brushing the polish on, using a clean-up brush and making sure it was perfect. I didn’t want to go into school with polish cured to my skin on the first day.
I didn’t make a video because the walls here are thin and I didn’t want to be annoying my new roommates with the constant talking about nails for 4 hours….because that’s how long it took to do this set my friends! FOUR HOURS! I started setting up at 12:30 and finished packing it all away at 4:20 lol. Y’all it was a full afternoon. But it didn’t really feel that long. And I am so happy now that they look so cute!
Very cute! Four hours?? You are dedicated.
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LOL yeah! It only took that long because I was going slow 😂 but I love them so it was worth it
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They look adorable! I finally did mine yesterday after months. Feels so good!
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Ooooo awesome!
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CUTE!!
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Thanks lovely!!
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They look awesome! 🙂
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Thanks! I love them!
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Oh gosh, I didn’t realise it took 4 hours! But if you had an afternoon free and had fun doing it then it was time well spent because they look totally fabulous.
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Exactly!! LOL I was shocked they took so long but it was worth it at the end when the finishing touches didn’t take too long
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Good to do for the first day of school! Look good 🙂 x
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Thanks G!! Leaving right now for my first day AAAAHHHHH
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Aw, so cute! Perfect back-to-school theme!
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Thanks!
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Those nails are amazing. I’m training to be a teacher so these would be perfect for me!
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Haha amazing! A crazy time to become a teacher but it is the best thing I have ever done with my life! All the best to you!
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