16 Apr 2014

The Digit-al Dozen does Texture - Day 3

Hello everyone! Halfway through Texture week already - its flying by! Today I have something a little different for you, there is polish involved but you can't see much of it! A week or so ago we had a lovely warm spell and I was looking for something cool (and cool!) for Scarlett to wear. I found some jeggings that still fit perfectly but were a bit short and decided to hack them into cut-offs for the summer (they look fab by the way!). This left me with some stretchy denim and an idea!


I painted the nails with Sinful Colors Glass Pink and then cut sections of denim a little larger than the nails (the fabric contracts as its glued on so if you ever plan on trying this each piece definitely needs to be bigger than the nail to start off with) I added a few little rips and holes to each piece and then brushed some nail glue on to the nail and stretched the denim over. Once the glue had dried, I cut closely around the edges with curved nail scissors.




This is not the most practical mani I have ever done, but you can't deny its fits the texture theme! I sat there stroking my denim nails for quite a while when I was sitting in Costa staring out of the window, so its one of those that makes you look a little odd if you venture out in public ;)

So that's three down and two to go! I also have some lovely swatches coming up for you this week - in the meantime, have a look at all the other fabulous manis from the Digit-al Dozen ladies below...

Sam xx


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  1. Tee hee! Were they difficult to remove? I can see myself stroking these all day!

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    1. Not so much as I did them on tips! My nails are refusing to grow out nicely at the moment so I'm avoiding anything that might even remotely cause them an avoidable problem! :)

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  2. I haven't done cut offs in years! Awesome idea!

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    1. Haha, still loving my cut offs even though I probably should've grown out of the whole idea years ago :)

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  3. I see you wore your church-goin jeans today...

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    1. Yep! And that's about as close as I get ;)

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    2. Thanks Jacki! Between today's and tomorrow's manis, my fingers are pretty much permanently bonded with nail glue :)

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  5. Bah! These are brilliant! Just "jean"ius! (see what I did there?) Love it!

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  6. Love it, fabric nail art is always a good and creative choice ♥

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    1. Thank you! I've never done it before, but I will definitely be doing it again! :)

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  7. You go girl! With your jegging nails!

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    1. Haha! Thanks! Gotta love the jeggings! ;)

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  8. I love these, they are amazing!!

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    1. Thanks Missy! It was one of those "Why not?" moments ;)

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  10. Hehe these are great! I love that it's real denim you used! :D

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    1. Thanks! I thought it would save time instead of painting a denim effect. Turns out I was wrong lol! :)

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  11. How freaking awesome! I love that you used actual fabric for this!

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    1. Thanks Heather! I'd like to say that I'll try this again, but on reflection, probably not! :D

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  12. Woo hoo! I love that you did something so out of the box. I feel like nail art is meant to be fun and I agree, 'Why not?!'

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    1. Sometimes when an idea pops into your head you just have to give it a go, no matter how ridiculous it seems lol! :)

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