The Painters Dream

I am an avid acrylic painter, and I often use my body (mainly my hands and feet) to help in the painting process instead of just using a brush and/or a palette knife. Because of this, I am constantly getting paint stuck in my cuticles and staining my nails to the point where not even nail polish or paint thinner can remove the stains or the paint in my cuticles (and I cannot cut them since I keep them so well maintained for the most part). As such, I find that covering up the issue with white nail polish and a little design always helps, even when the paint shows through (acrylic paint can be very nasty to deal with!). This past weekend I was doing a rather dark and dismal painting, so I needed to use a great deal of black and charcoal grey, resulting in particularly gruesome stains on my nails. Eek!

This look was obtained by applying one coat of Revlon's White on White (since my nails are stained, no base coat is needed), followed by a vertical stripe of Essie's Aruba Blue, four splotches of Nail Hardener's Jessica's Wedding Bells, and a rightward diagonal stripe of Nail Hardener's Chris's Green Belt. This was all topped off with two coats of Sally Hansen Maximum Growth plus Quick Dry Top Coat.

Happy painting to those who also paint, and I hope that my little trick helps you too!