Painting my Nails for Gameday

I know that it is only the end of June but game day will be here soon enough so I am starting to figure out what I am going to wear for game day. I have also been on a painting your nails kick so I realized that I could paint my nails for the game watching parties. For this I opted for maroon and silver nails.

Before

The first thing I did was paint two layers of maroon nail polish and then I let it dry for a few minutes. I then cut strips of tape, I used just regular scotch tape for this. When I do this again I will be sure to take care of all of these things before I paint my nails.

Then I placed the tape gently over my ring finger nails and painted a thick layer of silver paint over the nails.

After several minutes I gently removed the tape. Now this was more difficult than I had expected, the tape stuck to the center of the nail and was hard to remove. On the left hand, non-dominate, I was able to get the tape off and it looked really good. However, the right hand looked terrible. I opted to just paint the whole nail silver and work on it more later.

Left hand... look good

Right hand, eww.

For the next time that I work on this I will use packing tape because I think the thickness of the tape will help it come off evenly. I may also try some different patterns but for now I am pretty happy with the stripes. I think the silver bled into the maroon just a little but it looks cute on the nail but with different colors it might not look as good. I did make sure to use a thick layer of top coat on the stripes so that they were even layers.

A plainer right hand, better but still needs work.

I have been enjoying this all week and I am looking forward to trying more fun ways to paint my nails for the coming football season. I think I am going to try polkadots the next time I do this. I will be sure to let you know if I come up with something wonderful and crazy.