Pacman nails!!

YAY!!! Finally back from holiday, and have a bunch of new nail designs to show off - these, dolphins, tartan, marbling and more stripes and zig-zags. That sounds bad - I actually studied a whole lot, too! These pacman ones are probably my new all-time favourites. They took ages but it was totally worth it!! I had seen heaps of pacman nails painted with the pacman on the thumb and four ghosts on the fingers, but I wanted to be a bit different. So when I decided to paint the actual maze AND them I thought I was being quite unique. Unfortunately when I returned home to the internet (beautiful, beautiful internet) I quickly found out I am definitely not the only one doing it. But that's okay, I'm still loving the way they turned out!

I took photos along the way too, so here's a little tutorial.

I started off painting my nails black (after a base coat!). I used a MIKI one - but the bottle is getting very low now as they're so small! I didn't really need a photo of that, so here's the next stage: I painted on the blue pacman maze with my striper brush. I mixed two different blues for this - both CR ones, if you want to know the names just ask.

Next I put a few dabs of paint for the ghosts and pacman. I had to mix 3/4 of the ghosts colours to get it right so this was more painful than it looks!

To finish off, I using a little dotting tool-like polish for the white dots and an actual dotting tool for the eyes. I actually went back and hour later and touched them up a bit, the eyes were all a bit scary before. I used a black striper brush to 'open' pacman's mouth and make the bottom of the ghosts more whispy or whatever.

Left hand

Right hand

Annnd ta-da!!

 I'll probably be posting every day until I'm up-to-date with my designs, so watch this space :)