Week 22: Splatter Mani

Catch up post! Today I have the Splatter Mani for Week 22 of the 52 Week Challenge. I was a little hesitant about this one since it's the first I've done, but I finally scrounged up enough straws from random vendors I felt I could get it done.

Week 22: Splatter Mani

I used some new colors I purchased during a local beauty store sale, and I'm glad I did. Its much easier to use new colors in nail art or in mani's like this. I think I'm going to pull a Chalkboard Nails move and show colors through nail art or manicures. My swatches suck and you can find much better ones through google. I'm still learning my niche in this blogging world ...

Week 22: Splatter Mani

Polishes Used (in order of use):
1. Orly Decades of Dysfunction (base)
2. Sally Hansen Complete Manicure Loves Me Not
3. Orly Steel My Heart
4. Wet n Wild Fastdry Buffy the Violet Slayer
5. Orly You're Blushing
6. Orly Love Each Other


Words to the Wise:

1. Use a medium sized straw to get the best polish splatter, too small and you won't have much polish to blow, large straw and it'll spray everywhere.
2. Cover a MUCH larger area to work on than you think you need. Then cover more. This polish will blow EVERYWHERE.
3. No rules. If you want more of a certain color but you've already used it, who cares, go back and add it again. I did. (Can you see a difference in one of the nails between the two pictures? Which do you like better?)
4. Cover your skin to help in clean up. You can use tape, liquid bandaid (I tried it, not bad, but expensive considering it wasn't better than the other two methods), or vaseline. Vaseline is my favorite because it protects, it's easy to wipe away, and it moisturizes while you work! It will, however, warm up to your skin temp and start spreading out, so don't take too long to work. Tape, however, is quicker since you don't have to keep wiping and cleaning and washing to get it off your skin.
5. Apply the skin protection after your basecoat color. Apply a quick dry top coat after to help speed things along. Don't worry about clean up yet because you'll just have to do it again.
6. Quick, hard blows work best rather than longer, slower ones. (Bwahaha)
7. If your polish isn't spraying well, considering dipping your straw in acetone and then your drop of polish to thin it a bit.
8. Make sure you keep track of what end of the straw you're putting polish on and what end you're mouth is touching. Don't get mixed up!
9. You can go back as many times as you need to get the coverage you want. If you find yourself needing to go back two or three times with the same color (I did, not a big deal) don't drop a ton of polish on your dish because it will dry out quickly. Keep adding a drop here and there as needed so you don't waste polish.

If you have any questions let me know. This was totally fun and I'm already planning on doing it again.

Any recommendations or suggestions for myself and everyone out there?