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Blue rose nail art inspired by Leroy Nguyen

May 15, 2014 By Michelle 11 Comments

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I haven’t done nail art in a while, but I was inspired by my friend Leroy Nguyen’s latest collection, inspired by the blue rose from the film Pan’s Labyrinth. A while back I did another manicure inspired by his prints – strangely enough, this new collection lends itself to drag marbling as well!

I think I’ll have to incorporate the black and white patterns next time, but for this manicure I simply blobbed on the blue roses, added a dab of another colour, then swirled it carefully with a toothpick to create the rose pattern.

I used some of my favourite blue cremes for this design: Duri Summertime Blues, OPI Keeping Suzi at Bay, OPI Incognito in Sausalito, a random sky blue creme from TBN, Face of Australia Ocean Villa, ulta3 Spring Shower. Unfortunately I made the mistake of using Mode XOXO as a magenta purple accent – it’s a bleeder! It bled into much of my design, but I think it still looks quite good – just less perfect. I’ll have to try it again in the future.


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Filed Under: Nail Art, Nails Tagged With: Duri, Face of Australia, marble, Mode, nail art, nails, OPI, TBN, ulta3

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Comments

  1. michaelaarghh says

    May 15, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Wow this is amazing!!!! You’re so talented! And you make it sound so much easier than I think it would actually be…maybe I’ll have to give it a try!

    xx
    Michaela // Where is my mind?

    Reply
    • LabMuffin says

      May 18, 2014 at 11:57 pm

      Thanks Michaela! It really is pretty easy, especially when you coat it in Seche Vite and all the bumps disappear 😀

      Reply
  2. Michelle says

    May 15, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    I love it!

    Reply
    • LabMuffin says

      May 18, 2014 at 11:57 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  3. Sharon says

    May 15, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    These look awesome, Michelle! Definitely added onto my to-try list 🙂

    Reply
    • LabMuffin says

      May 18, 2014 at 11:58 pm

      Thanks Sharon! I really don’t understand why people don’t get more into drag marble – it’s so much easier than water marbling and the results are spectacular!

      Reply
  4. LittleMonsterx14 says

    May 18, 2014 at 3:00 am

    this is so beautiful!

    Reply
    • LabMuffin says

      May 18, 2014 at 11:58 pm

      Thank you! I was pretty damn chuffed with it 🙂

      Reply
  5. Madebycharli.com says

    May 19, 2014 at 12:22 am

    Love love love this

    Reply
  6. Beauty Bee says

    May 26, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    How pretty! <3 I can see this becoming a total mess if I tried it, but I might just have to give it a go anyways 🙂

    Reply

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