I have been so excited to share these with you! These nails were a true labour of love and took me hours to finish, and when I had to take them off I wanted to cry. Day 2 of the Unique Holidays Challenge for the 30 Days of Colour was for Children’s Book Day and I decided to create a tribute to one of my most memorable children’s books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
Check under the cut for more pics and a run down of all the steps I took to complete this look!
Okay! So the basic technique I used to make these was to create small sheets of marbled polish (using the squish marble technique where you paint blobs on a stamper and then smoosh it to the stamping mat) which I then cut into the shapes I needed and applied like decals. There were three sheets: one for the green body, one for the red head and one for the red apple. The feet/antenna/stem details I drew with polish at the end.
Here’s the polishes I used…
Base:
Quo by ORLY Daydreamer
The body:
China Glaze My Way or the Highway
OPI Christmas Gone Plaid
China Glaze Sun’s Up Top Down
The face:
OPI Red Lights Ahead… Where?
China Glaze Sun’s Up Top Down
The apple:
Square Hue King Street
China Glaze Sun’s Up Top Down
Quo by ORLY Daydreamer
And here are some closeups so you can see all the details…
It was so fun to position my nails to take these pictures – each new pose made the caterpillar look like he was crawling in a different way!
I can’t even begin to describe how much I adore these nails, and even though it was labour-intensive I really like the look the cut marbled decal sheets technique turned out… Definitely something I will have to try again with different looks in the future!
Do you remember this book from your childhood? What was your favourite book and have you/would you ever do a mani based on it? Let me know!
Thanks for visiting! xx
