Happy Birthday Sanne! - Black & White Recreation

Hi everyone!

Today's post is a bit special - it's to celebrate someone's birthday! And to be more specific: Sanne of Nail Polish In My Eyes's birthday :) It was actually yesterday, but I only managed to publish this post today oops.

Her boyfriend Ron contacted me and a bunch of other bloggers to ask if we wanted to collaborate on a birthday surprise for her, and yes of course I wanted to help! We just had to create some nail art and Ron would bundle everything in a surprise birthday blog post for Sanne. I thought the idea was too sweet not to participate :)

I haven't been following Sanne's blog for very long (I actually discovered her through OMD2!) but I love her designs. So for Sanne's birthday, I decided to recreate on of her designs to show how inspiring she is.

I recreated a Black and White design of hers, which she made for the 31 Day Challenge - you can see it here. I browsed through many of her designs and had favourited lots of pages from her blog, all with designs I wanted to recreate. This black and white design was one of my favourites, and since I didn't have an abundance of time to make it I thought this would be a good choice :)

I switched Sanne's design up a bit: instead of having three strokes of white and two black, I did it the other way around. I started out with two coats of Maybelline Color Show's Blackout, and then used acrylic paint for the stripes: I painted little white stripes next to each other and I top coated it before they were dry. Very easy and I love the outcome! It looks a bit messy but I quite like that look.

I got compliments on these too btw! Two ladies said they liked my nails and asked me if I went to a salon - it's always such a great feeling when you can say 'No I did these myself' right? ;)

Then they asked me if these were my real nails - why yes, they are! But for some reason people then feel the need to start insulting me sometimes: one of the women then said "Oh you probably don't do much work around the house then!" Uhm, yeah thanks. I'm just careful with my nails, I'm not lazy :/ (or to be more accurate, yes I'm lazy but not because of my nails lol!)

Anyway, onwards and upwards! I did this design on both hands as it was so easy and quick. And of course I had to take a fashion picture with a matching shirt.

It's a bold and striking look, I feel :) I am definitely going to ty this with some other colours too!

What do you think? Definitely go check out Sanne's blog too. In case you're interested, here's her big surprise birthday post with lots of designs everyone made for her! It's a hilarious post (Ron even did his own nails for the celebration) so definitely go read it!

Thanks for reading!