33 Day Challenge: Chevrons

I'd like to think I'm pretty good at doing chevrons. I love tape, I've done chevrons heeeeaps of times with it, I even free-handed some not long ago and they looked decent. So when I had to have four, maybe five goes, at today's prompt, I was a bit surprised with myself.  I decided to take the extremely simply road of stamping and stud-sticking. Could this wrong too? Thankfully, it did only a hardly noticeable bit.

I used two coats of Sally Hansen's Scarab and one coat of Seche Vite as a base. I stamped the chevron pattern with Bundle Monster's plate in BM-201 (did I need to state that?) with Essence in A Piece Of Forever. Simple enough? I managed to miss the tip of my index finger but I just kept going. I applied a coat of Ulta3 in clear and started sticking these 2 mm square studs from Born Pretty Store in a chevron pattern. At this point, I top-coated the stamped nails but not the ring finger. After my last attempt top-coating studs, I've learnt to take photos before I do. I have now top-coated it because well, no one wants nail studs in their dinner, do they?

So there you have it, my interpretation of the chevron pattern. I would call it Rustic Studded Chevrons. Any imperfections *cough*crooked studs*cough* just add to the rustic feel of this mani, like vintage jewelry...

Close-up because I wanted one and that studded chevron was too... rustic. That one is better appreciated from afar.

I actually have (what I think is) a good idea for the next prompt, Indian. Until then, check out some of the other ladies from this challenge. There are some good manis below.

Weds 9 Oct - chevrons

1. Cherish Simplicity	2. Superficially Colorful	3. CrazyPolishes(Dimpal)
4. Glam-madam	5. Aisuru Nails	6. Gnarly Gnails
7. Casa de Polish	8. Vic and Her Nails	9. Polished Polyglot
10. Pretty Polishes	11. Geeky Owl	12. Cambridge Nails
13. baroque fool	14. Kerruticles	15. cristina nails
16. Helly NailNewbie	17. Pearl (preciouspearlmakeup)	18. Claire @ nuthin' but a nail thing
19. Lucky Lucky Lacquer	20. ninjablossomnails	21. AGirlandHerPolish
22. lost and found: 33dc day 8- chevrons	23. Hey, Darling Polish	24. Angie OurPaintedWorld
25. Aesthetic Perfections	26. Glowstars	27. SpecialGirl Nails
28. Penny-pinching Polish	29. Nail Addict	30. Druid Nails
31. Petite & Polish	32. Be Happy and Buy Polish	33. Not Too Polished
34. PenguinsLeftGreenPolish	35. Sam @ FingerFood	36. Sugar Nails
37. Crumpet	38. Lane's Lacquers	39. Enigmatic Rambles
40. MegsManicures	41. Acetone Files	42. Nail*ine It!
43. A Polished Addiction	44. Elaret - ElaPrimaPolish	45. Missy's Manis
46. Nail Polish Society	47. my little wonderwish	48. Glitter Me This
49. The Lacquer Confessionals	50. Pause For Polish	51. Life In Color!
52. Light of the Moon Nails	53. Obscenely Blue	54. My Adventures in Nail Art
55. Little Night Flower	56. Linziino	57. Glam Style Nails by Carolina: MY VERY CHALLENGING
58. Como te pintaste	59. IsaBella

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Til next time, 

Laura