Breast Cancer Awareness Fishtail Braid
10 Oct
While I have more Halloween themed manis to show you, I thought I’d take a pause from the ghosts and goblins in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
I pulled out a bunch of my pink polishes and went to work. I got about a third of the way through this and just about bagged it. I didn’t think the colors were coming together very well. Soft pinks always require multiple coats to be opaque, so the fact that some of my stripes are somewhat see through bothered me. I would have taken it right off if the polish on my other hand hadn’t been wet. I’m glad I waited because after thinking about it for a few minutes, I decided to see it through to the end and I’m happy with the results.
My darkest pink is Sally Hansen Hypnotic Pink, which I’ve had since I was in my early teens I believe. That’s a long time. The lightest is Sinful Colors Easy Going and the two middle of the roads are OPI Pink Friday and Milani Pink Hottie.
Do you plan to do any BCA designs? Do you do your monthly self checks? I’m more of a semi-annual self checker myself. I need to be better about it.
This is really pretty!! I’ve been doing pink posts, but no nail art. I need to do better with self checks myself. I have no routine of any kind.
Thanks!
Very pretty I love BCA month
I really love this! I think it looks great, gives it a really soft look with the light pink colours
Thank you!
Love it!!! Glad you finished it
Me too! Thanks!
I love it, and I don’t think that the braid manicure works only with opaque colors. It’s fun to see what happens when you layer less opaque colors – and I think your design is proof that it works!
Thank you! I think it worked too.
It looks amazing. My husband does my monthly checks ^.^ (tihi)
Ooh la la! That’s a sure fire way to make sure it gets done!
Haha, yeah indeed.
Wow.. it looks amazing. Very pretty indeed.
This is really pretty! I don’t check enough, that’s for sure.
i’m curious – you must have a mislabeled polish! sinful colors ‘happy ending’ is actually a shimmery green. however i’m actually dying to know the name of the other polish you used here. the combination of colors is just lovely!
Whoa, thanks for catching that! No mis-labels, I just screwed it up. That pale pink is Sinful Colors Easy Going. I’ve corrected the post. Thanks again!
Thank you for adding to the growing support of cancer awareness. I wrote a song you may like or hopefully find useful called Not A Scarlet Letter you can find it on you tube at http://youtu.be/GcSJJoUHL_0