Thursday 7 November 2013

Moustaches Here, Moustaches There, OMG There's Moustaches Everywhere!


Okay, since this months is all about Movember, I decided to participate as well! No, I didn't grow a moustache, but I drew little staches on my nails!


I started by painting the little triangles on my nails using striping tape. Then I painted my nails in a base colour, and on the four nails with triangles I painted the contrasting colour on very carefully. 
After that, I decided to emphasize the triangles with white - it's freehanded, which you can see, but I have to learn to make good stripes without striping tape so all I can do is practice practice practice!

After this, the base design was ready. I then painted on little black moustaches, using a dotting tool and a fine brush. You can find a lot of tutorials on how to paint moustaches onto your nails, but I followed this one by Cutepolish. 

It wasn't actually all that hard to paint the moustaches, I was surprised at how good they look. I was even more surprised at how good they look on my non-dominant hand - I actually like this design on my non-dominant hand better, because I like the colour placement more, but also because some of the moustaches actually came out like a dream!


Then to finish this post: whenever I think about moustaches, I automatically think about all the fuss about Watson's moustache in the Sherlock S3 trailer - any of you watch that? :)

Thanks for reading!

10 comments:

Lucy (the Nail Snail) said...

These look so cute! I love the different base colors you used, and your moustaches look perfect! The first photo is beautiful :)

Robin said...

Thank you! I also loved these so much, so much cuteness on my nails :)

Lucy (the Nail Snail) said...

Also, I've nominated you for a Versatile Blogger award:
http://the-nail-snail.blogspot.com/2013/11/versatile-blogger-award.html
(you definitely don't have to do it if you don't want to!)

Robin said...

Oh that's so nice of you! I'll definitely do it, thank you so much! :)

Galorious said...

beautiful! i love the colour scheme you used. Im also in love with your first photograph! :D

Robin said...

Thank you! I was ecstatic when I noticed that the colours of the coffee mug matched my nails so I just had to have a picture like that :)

The Sequined Nail said...

I love the colours you used! Your mustaches look so good - I wish I could do them like that! :)

Robin said...

Thank you! I was actually surprised myself that they came out so moustache-like, haha :)

Paulina said...

So cute. Love these cute little chevrons by your cuticles :)

Robin said...

Thank you! This actually means a lot coming from you, I love all your designs!

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