Sydney has had some massive storms in the past week which is what inspired my stormy weather nail art. It felt like in just a matter of a few hours the nice temperatures of 20degrees (celsius) disappeared, replaced with freezing 10 degree days. I’m kind of happy the weather has turned, as it means that I can now drink more tea!
Grey and Stormy Clouds
This design started with the only logical colour, grey. I used Nails Inc – the Thames. This is a very classic dark grey, similar to that of a dark storm cloud, so it suited this design perfectly. I love the Nails Inc polishes as they are really light, dry quickly and are very opaque.
After two coats of the grey, I moved on to applying the clouds. For this design, I used plate hehe-093. The clouds were applied using OPI – Alpine snow. Unfortunately, the polish has become quite thick so I can’t use it directly on my nails. However, it works really well for nail stamping which is perfect timing because my white stamping polish is nearly out. There is definitly a silver lining through the cloud (sorry, I couldn’t resist making a pun!).
I was pretty happy with how well the clouds went on and glad to be able to use my clear stamper again!
Gold Lightning
The second part of this design involved a bit of reverse stamping. Stamping lighting bolts onto my mat, I began filling them in with a gold glitter packed polish. There is so much glitter in this polish that there almost isn’t any liquid, which makes it perfect for this design.
After applying a clear coat over the top and allowing to dry, I applied two images to each hand.
Overall
This was such a fun design to create and the Stormy Weather Nail Art really suited Sydney atm! The lightning bolts didn’t turn out as well as I hope but I still think the design looks pretty cool.
