It's funny where you can get the inspiration for mani's sometimes. I was going through some IG accounts checking out some sites that had music on them for inspiration and came across Britney Spears video of .....baby one more time, amoungst others. Then, when I sat down to do Back to School nails last night, I seen the one uniform image on one of the plates that I thought kinda looked like the uniform that Britney wore in the video (with some liberties, of course!) and then I thought, hey, I have a plate with some Britney images on them...and this weeks #MusicManiMonday was born, I just had to execute it. Here's what I came up with!
Started with a base of two coats of Cupcake Polish White Pop and Nicole by OPI Naturally, no top coat.
Topped the Cupcake Polish with Seche Diamond Dust, then topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.
Did a sponged gradient using NOPI Naturally and Color Club All That Razz. Earlier, I had made a couple stamper decals from Beauty Big Bang City-XL001 and applied them on the thumb and pinky. Used MdU 13 and Painted Polish Midnight Mischief for the decal on the pinky and MdU 73 and 91 and Painted Polish Midnight Mischief on the thumb, as well as Painted Polish Blanc Slate for the uniform shirt.
Added rest of the images from Journails by NiinasNails Women in Music using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and MdU 29. I shrunk all images from this plate and I seriously cannot believe how good I shadow stamped the middle image considering I shrunk the image and both times, they shrunk to the same size and THEN!, I shadow stamped it to perfection. I was so exciting; I never do this good of a line up so I was super stoked about this win! Also added a few hearts from the same Beauty Big Bang plate mentioned above. It was too bad I didn't position it slightly better so it was all on the nail, but I'll still take it as a win!
Beauty Big Bang-City-XL001
Journails by NiinasNails Women in Song.
Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.
I did some research on the video .....baby one more time prior to doing this mani; watched the video several times and urge you to go check it out as the nails may make more sense! But if you don't, this is the album cover that had Britney's break out hit, which was used on the ring finger.
Here's Britney in that famous school hall scene in her uniform; used for the thumb inspiration with a little creative liberty.
This image is from near the end of the video when she's in the gym sitting on the bleachers with a basketball, which was inspiration for the pinky.
Hope you enjoyed this weeks #MusicManiMonday and thanks for looking!
