Wild Zebra Hearts - Recreation of Nail Polish Society

Hello my polish loving friends!

In today's blog post I'll be showing you my recreation of an awesome design by Nail Polish Society - you can see hers here. 

I loved it a lot and when she made a little tutorial about it, I decided to recreate the design. I was in a pastel mood, so instead of using bright polishes like Emiline, I used soft colours. 

I started out with C03 Evergreen 60s by Catrice as a base - I still need to learn how to properly work with this polish as I had some bubbling (it was okay on my left hand luckily, but looked absolutely awful on my right hand). I then used acrylic paint to paint the hearts (You know those girls in high school who were always dooling hearts and cute things and could draw such perfectly shaped hearts yeah? I was not one of them. I suck at painting hearts.) 

I then drew on zebra stripes with black acrylic paint. Zebra stripes are so much harder than I thought! Emiline's zebra print looks awesome of course, and because it looked so good I was under the impression that zebra print wasn't all that hard. WRONG. I am going to practice all summer until I have the perfect zebra print. Yes, I am going from one animal print obsession to the next :D

I originally wanted to do the outline in white - like the original design - but I felt it didn't stand out enough against the pastel green background, so I chose to outline the hearts with the bright variant of the pastel colours I used for the hearts. I used Amazing California Love by OPI, an unnamed purple polish by Guylond and Roarrrrange from Essie. For the yellow outlines I used acrilyc paint again.

To be honest, I'm not entirely happy with how this design turned out. I mean, I'm also not unhappy with it, but I think I can do much better! In retrospect, choosing pastel colours might not have been the smartest thing as what I loved so much about Emiline's design was that it stood out and had such lovely bright and bold colours. Anyway, I think my recreation does look alright but hers looks ten times more awesome :)

That's it for today's blog post! I hope you (sort of) like my recreation, and I promise I'll practice my zebra print! ;)

Thanks for reading!