Matte Black with Roses!

This post is long overdue, but my desktop computer has a potential virus and kept restarting while I uploaded pictures to my blog. I have about three more posts to work on but it takes so long to do on my iPad. :\ Oh well, anyway! This will be a tutorial for the manicure I did a while ago on Instagram. Also let me say this: I reached over 350 followers on Instagram, received two features, and I got over 100 likes on a couple of my pictures! These milestones make me so proud of myself and my hard work. I love what I do, and it's amazing how far I've come. From having crusty nubs, to beautiful nails - learning from wonderful role models on IG, etc. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support. ♥

First gather your materials! You'll need:

- Your favorite base and fast dry top coat 

- Matte top coat

- Base color (black)

- Light & dark blue (or whatever color) and a white polish

- Clean up brush

- Medium Dotting tool

- Small detail brush

- Acetone 

- Cuticle oil (optional)

STEP 1

- Make sure your nails are clean of oil and lotions and apply your favorite base coat. 

STEP 2 

- Apply one (or two) coats of your base color to your nail. Pictured is one coat of OPI Black Onyx. Clean up around nail and cuticle if need be. 

STEP 3 

- Take the medium side of your dotting tool, and make five dots for the flower with the darker blue polish. I used Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. Put as many flowers as you'd like, big or small. 

STEP 4

- Take your detail brush (I got mine from Winstonia on Amazon) and make tiny "C" shapes in your flowers. Also outline the outside petals with the lighter blue polish. I used China Glaze Bahamian Escape. 

STEP 5

- Take the white polish and outline the lighter blue polish to kind of highlight the rose. Add as much as you'd like. 

STEP 6

- Add a quick dry top coat. I used Seche Vite because I needed a coat and ran out of HK Girl.

(Optional: add green leaves to your roses) 

STEP 7

- Add your matte top coat. OPI Matte Top Coat smears so terribly, so using a topcoat before reduces smearing. Once dry you have a beautiful manicure! 

End result! A beautiful manicure that is as easy as it looks.

The OPI matte topcoat is so nice and I love it. Without a topcoat underneath, you'll have potential major streaking of your nail art. I learned that wonderful trick from Sabrina (@sabrinasnails) on Instagram! Using a matte topcoat is really life changing ahaha, you just want to mattify everything. Hope you guys enjoyed my blog post!