Half A$$ Half Moon

Ok so it wasn't really half a$$ed, I did try to make it look good, and I got a couple of complements on them, but I think I bit off a bit more than I could chew with this one, which sounds silly since half moon mani's don't seem all that difficult.  I did say seem, there are several things that I did wrong to make things not look as good, but, I post the bad as well as the good so I can track my improvement. It's all a learning experience right?

Painting my nails with Wet n' Wild white first, I used page reinforcements as my guides for masking out the half moon shape.  It doesn't seem that it should be that difficult, but as you can plainly see, even when I thought I had things lined up and even...I didn't.  It could have been worse, but it was just off enough to make it look wonky to me.

Once I had my half moons masked out, I took Nicole by OPI in OMB! and applied about three coats for it to completely cover the white.  If I'd stopped there I may have been ok, but I wanted to bit more depth to the color so I grabbed Kleancolor Chunky Holo Scarlet and topped the red with just a single layer of it.  This made things significantly more goopy than I think could work, so even after waiting for the polish to set, I got jagged edges.  To top things off, the existing polish and Seche didn't work well together and applying my top coat to try and smooth things out dragged pink into my white. 

 

So I need to work on this technique a bit.  I think next time I'll work on the masking placement and go for fewer layers because I think that's what caused quite most of my issues. 

So do you have a simple look that has defeated you, care to share? We can commiserate together. Thanks so much for stopping by and reading, I really appreciate it.  Until next time, take care!