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House colours

I am a huuuuuge fan of the Harry Potter books (and fond enough of the films, especially the later ones), so a while back I decided to do a Harry Potter inspired mani.

I started off with a coat of OPI Nail Envy as a base coat and let that dry thoroughly before taping off a half-moon on each of my nails, except on my ring fingers. Next, I applied two coats of Butter London’s Slapper (what did I say? Still a favourite!) and then removed the tape while the polish was still wet. I then used my Broadway Nails Nail Art Paint (which, by the looks of things, is exactly the same as Kiss Nails’ ditto, only under a different name) in silver to outline the half-moons and draw patterns on the nails. On each of my ring fingers, I drew an S, for Slytherin, which is my favourite house.

This was my first mani to include blank spaces, but I very much doubt it’ll be my last as I really liked the outcome!

 

Blank canvas

For once, I decided to let my nails rest a little from the colour and patterns (the fact that I only brought one coloured polish to my boyfriend’s has nothing to do with this…).

After a spell of atrocious-looking nails (I need to be more careful when I play with fake nails in the future!), they’re finally starting to go back to looking decent again. I have to say, since I started using OPI’s Nail Envy regularly, I don’t get nearly as many breaks or splits as I used to. I’m seriously sold on that stuff.

So, anyway, what you see here is as near to naked as I go: two coats of OPI Nail Envy and one coat of Seche Vite, for shine and strength.

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