{"id":92,"date":"2016-02-08T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/index.php\/2016\/02\/08\/nail-art-fail-broken-glass-nails\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T03:30:00","slug":"nail-art-fail-broken-glass-nails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/nail-art-fail-broken-glass-nails\/","title":{"rendered":"Nail Art Fail: Broken Glass Nails"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, most of you are probably aware of the ‘broken glass’ nail trend, popularised by Korean nail artist Eun Kyung Park (see her work on Instagram here<\/a>). I recently received some pre-cut, cellophane shards<\/a> from Lady Queen Beauty<\/a> to review, and I thought I would try my hand using them to create a broken glass mani of my own. I used the color #60 over OPI Mod About You. However, I found this technique really difficult to master, and I am fairly sure it has to do with the quality of the cellophane and the fact that I am not using gel polish. The cellophane was roughly chopped and there were pieces of straight up regular plastic inside the small jar.<\/p>\n

You can tell by the length of my nails that I actually did these some time ago, and was hesitant to upload them because they were such a disappointment. However, it’s really important to me as a blogger that good and bad reviews appear on my blog – if everything is amazing, what’s the point in reviewing?<\/p>\n

I attempted to do this in two ways – the first, I would apply the cellophane to nail polish that was still slightly wet and sticky on my nail. This didn’t work for multiple reasons; firstly, the polish was too wet for me to press down firmly enough for the cellophane to stick. Due to being chopped and crammed into a small container, the pieces often were bent and stuck out at odd angles. This made it quite difficult to stick down to a flat surface. Secondly, the pieces of cellophane tended to lift up the wet polish and leave bare patches of nail. So I attempted my next technique – applying the cellophane to fully dry nails, using topcoat as ‘glue’ to hold it down. This worked quite well until it came time to top coat. I always top coat nail art to achieve a smooth, glassy finish but for some reason, the more I topcoated, the more the cellophane lifted and curled.<\/p>\n

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While still ethereal and mostly alright to look at in photos, the fact that the cellophane wouldn’t lay flat was a massive deal breaker for me. I can’t stand to have anything sticking out on my nails, and I removed these shortly after taking these photos. I only recommend these if you are using them under hard gel or acrylic, as regular nail polish isn’t enough to smooth it down and give the desired broken glass effect.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget that you can use my code DRLC15<\/b> to get 15% off anything from Lady Queen! I do NOT earn any money from using this code. I don’t recommend getting this particular product obviously but there are honestly heaps of cool new things being added every day!<\/div>\n

What’s your biggest nail art fail?<\/p>\n

Lexie xx <\/p>\n

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