Today’s Artsy Wednesday theme is fishtail braid nails. I’ve wanted to try this out for a while, but it seemed so messy – I’m glad I tried it though!
Base colour is Nicole by OPI City Pretty Rose, braid is ulta3 Metal and Black Satin.
For a good braid, you want very opaque colours (preferably one-coaters) but unfortunately the black showed up under City Pretty Rose so I had to do some mangling with an art brush.
It’s a pretty fun look, but annoyingly the braid makes the polish quite thick at the free edge.
I hadn’t tried out City Pretty Rose even though I’d had it in the untrieds box for about a year – it’s bright but not quite hot pink, and quite flattering on my skin!
Are you going to try this look?
More Artsy Wednesday fishtail nail art:
Note our new member, Emily of An Accent Nail! We expect great things from her… no pressure 😛
I love the colors you chose, and I agree abut the mane layers towards the tip 🙂
I actually do not experience any thick nail polish problems at the end when I do this design! But then again…I have midget nails…
I love it!!!
love the colours and the accent gives it a nice twist! Great job michelle 🙂
Fab colours! I love this weeks theme! So much fun! 😀
I like this colour combination! 🙂
Nice contrast here…I used untrieds in mine as well
Fish tail braids involve too much time and patience that I do not have, but its one of my favorite looks right now. So I’ll appreciate and admire it on everyone else 🙂
I so want to try this! I love the colors you did it in!
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That looks gorgeous, great work!!!
Sadaf