Illamasqua Nail Art Contest Entry

Hello! I apologize for the lack of updates recently but as you may or may not know, this is my 100th post and I wanted it to be my entry! Cheesy yes indeed. Entry first then you can decide to read the wall of text or not.


I wanted my first entry to be a little more avant garde. I guess I call this the stiletto optical illusion. This isn't photoshopped at all I was lucky this is the one and only shot that came out this way. The shot is perfect, this is how I envisioned the photo to look! I just wish my nails were longer so the stiletto would be cooler looking.

I am a quiet and shy person. I am the epitome of fufu girly: pink, bows, anything pastel, cute puppies, you name it. I don't like to wear dark eye makeup (maybe I don't know how to put it on, yeah!), I usually wear jeans and a t-shirt. My alter ego would be bold, loud and striking! She would wear 6 inch stilettos and a mini skirt. So anyway, it struck me, I instantly knew I had to do some kind of faux stiletto nails. I have never seen a fake stiletto done on natural nails before. I was dubious but it can be done!

My alter ego would definitely do an asymmetrical french, just because she can. Bronze and black is something I would never wear. It's on! Oh before I show you the transformation process, here is my right hand. I am right-handed so please excuse any oopsies!


This was harder to photograph, but my first picture shows you the illusion so you get the idea.


3 coats of MAC Vestral White. This is only white I had that matched my printer paper.


I totally fouled up my pinky so I took it off and went to the next nail. I painted the tips black with acrylic paint, filled in the other part with MAC Mercenary. Then by accident I brushed my tip with Mercenary and I discovered that I could brush lightly over the uneven texture of the black paint and it would leave this sort of neat design. Kind of like rubbing a pencil on paper over a coin. Embossing? I don't know lol.


Here I finished one nail and pretty pleased so I did the rest. You can really see the texture of the tips and how the bronze polish went over it.



Another shot of the final look. Bling bling! The trick to photographing this is to not have any shadows. I used 2 lamps and flash to avoid it haha. The end!

I had a blast doing this, thank you Illamasqua for getting me to do some nail art. If you would like to enter your own nail art, here is the link to the contest. You have until Sept. 6th, so you can think about it!

Thank you everyone for looking!