Mermaid Nails with a Twist

Hello!

WE are going to create Mermaid Nails.. ish.

So, I know we have seen the fantastic stick something on the nail and get scales looks. So, I thought, what if a mermaid (even a Halloween one) didn't have scales on her nails? This is what I came up with.

(Mind you, clean up - was still in progress, and it got smudged)

It's not looking perfect but this isn't Pinterest so it's not going to. 

I noticed something in my collection, I have a lot of polishes by L.A. Colors 

and they aren't even paying me to try out their polishes or use them in my Blog... 

Oh, well. 

Polishes used left to right include:

L.A. Colors 12586

L.A. Colors CNP504 Sea Foam

L.A. Colors CNP420 Atomic

L.A. Colors CNP895 Shattered

L.A. Colors Rapid Dry Coat

Wet'n'Wild 406C Protective Base Coat

You will also need something to protect the skin around the nail (which this time I used stick glue...never again) and makeup sponges!!!!!

Let's Begin! You want to start off with your base coat, I use this wet'n'wild because even though it doesn't have hardeners it does dry fairly quickly. Once that has dried you can put on what you want to use to protect the skin around your nails, whether it be liquid latex, (I can't use due to I'm allergic, which stinks... Someone needs to come out with one that doesn't have latex in it that doesn't take forever to dry like glue). 

Then take your liquid sponge and create a gradient with the three teals and DAB that on the nail. This may take 2-3 coats depending on the opacity you are looking for, I think it looks more intriguing if it's not super opaque because it's still drawing attention to the nail. On the pinkies and thumb nail I did the gradient going from left to right instead of up and down as I did with the pointer, middle and ring finger. 

Once that has fully dried then you will want to move onto whether or not you want to completely cover your ring finger in glitter, I chose this because it made me think of sunken ships and their treasure, if you want you can paint the glitter nail polish onto a sponge which will give you a more SPARKLE look or you can simply paint it on which will give it a more broken up look. For this time it does have the more broken up look which I think works too.

Lastly, you will want to seal it all in with a RAPID Dry Coat!! Then you are ready to look like a spectacular mermaid complete with your nails looking like they belong with the sea.

As always if you recreate this look, please share, tag and let us know!!!

Thanks!