♥ Mario Nails ♥

Recently I designed some Mario Nails and I am in love with this design so I thought I'd share!

It was inspired by @alexxnails on Instagram and I believe the original design was created by @madamluck. This is my right hand (I am right handed so this was done with my weaker left hand!):

The quality isn't that great as this picture was taken indoors!

The sky is done using Essie's Avenue Maintain. I actually made the bright green colour by mixing a blob of this blue with a few blobs of yellow: Rimmel's 280: Sunshine.

Then I used a darker green to create the turret and a brown polish for the steps. Finally, I used a white polish (Essie's Blanc) for the clouds. Outlining can then be done using a tooth pick dipped into black polish.

My left hand has the better design of course:

This picture was taken in daylight :)

This is a picture I took without the top coat so it's a little bumpy! I was way too excited so I couldn't help but take a picture. In this, I actually outlined the clouds and gave the steps some golden coins for Mario to collect ;)

Mario himself took a long, long time, but if you look closely, he is just a few blobs of colours (foot, trousers, top, hand and hat). The face was the hardest to get accurate.

(Red: Nails Inc St James and Blue: Barry M Cobalt Blue).

Hope this has inspired some of you to create a landscape on your nails, this was the first time I've ever done anything like this and I quite like the result. I do love Mario!

TIPS:

Create the colours you want by experimenting and mixing different polishes on a piece of card.

Outlining any of your designs can help give a more cartoon/drawing-like feel to the overall image.

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Thank you for reading! Who's you favourite Mario Kart character? Leave a comment below and it may inspire me to try out a different design next time :)