first attempt at (sloppy) nail art!

happy friday!

We got a lovely little dusting of snow this afternoon which was a nice finish for the week :)

So my nails are still a work in progress, but they're finally kind of long enough to begin doing some nail art! My first passion is and always  will be make-up, but as most of you are nail gurus I figured I should hop on the bandwagon at least every now and then, & give it a go :r

So here's my first awkward attempt at nail art:

Pac-Man! 

* did my right thumb upside down :x oops

I've seen this design on several blogs & websites and figured it would be the first one I tried, since it seemed easy enough.

So I know there are several problems with this.

1) I've still got paint on my hands, but I took the picture as soon as I finished in case it got messed up soon afterwards (like it usually does).

2) The thumb just sucks- pacman is much too small and hardly a nice circle shape.

3) My cuticles are super dry and crappy looking, but it's been quite cold and very windy here lately :/

4) Let's not even go into the paint job.... but I really just wanted to see if I could even do the nail art part before I worried about how pretty it was :x

Despite all that, I think it's really fun. I had a great time doing it. All I used was a toothpick and a striper (aside from the normal polish brush).

The colors I used (from pinky to thumb) were:

NOPI's 'Kourt is Red-y for a Pedi'

Zoya's 'Robyn'

China Glaze's 'Four Leaf Clover'

CG's 'Rich & Famous'

Essie's 'Funky Limelight

SoEasy's nail art paint in black and white

Anyway, there you have it.

I've definitely got a long way to go,

but I think it came out fairly well :)