NAIL PRACTISE. . .

8th April

From when I had previously spoken to Emma, she mentioned that I should do close ups of the nails, lips and eyes for each sin to show the progression from beauty to avant garde instead of each page in my book being a headshot image as I wanted to show diversity within my book. For some of my shoots where I will be focusing on nails I have experimented with colour and texture to see how what I cant create and what would look good with different looks. By using a combination of acrylic tip nails and square acrylics, I practised by layering different colour and using the end of a bobby pin to create a swirl design for my Sloth avant garde shoot. Such a simple technique and yet I absolutely love the results, on camera the nails stood out so much and could really see the mixture of colours used.

For my Lust shoot, I stuck to acrylic square nails and painted them using a fusion hot pink colour to make the colour really pop out on camera. When the varnish was still wet I rolled the nail over salt from my table salter shaker that I usually use on my food. To create an unusual texture I tried to think of some sort of bobbly powder but using salt this created a brilliant surface. Once the varnish had completely dried and the salt was firmly stuck, I continued to paint over the salted nail using the original pink colour and then finished off with a topcoat to add an extra shine. Unfortunately I forgot my nail glue for the shoot so when it came down to it, I didn’t use the nails – but nether the less by practising this technique this has allowed me to use this technique again for one of my final shoots, for either Gluttony or Greed.