Okay maybe I'm a few weeks "late" to be celebrating the first flowers of spring now, but hey, they deserve to be celebrated! 🌱 Included a couple of inspiration photos. The crocuses make me so happy every year.
Lots of layering going on here, I enjoyed this one!
With thanks to the helpful laquerist(a)s who gave me advice on how to get the velvet effect that I love! I know it's no glass bead sorcery, but thought I'd share my low-tech setup with y'all because it made me laugh. It's a pair of pliers with neodymium bars stuck on each handle - I originally had them stuck to the front part (the pinchy bits!) because I thought it'd be good to be able to adjust how close together the magnets were, but then found this position made a pretty perfect size gap for me to pop a finger in between them. It's also important that it's sitting on top of a leaflet thing for a little height 😅
The rest of the photos are attempts to show off my red velvet results. It's hard to capture but really glows in the sunlight!
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The worst flavour for cake (change my mind lol) but looks hot on my freshly trimmed nails! Second pic is to show how this shade looks when it's not in direct/bright light - much more subtle but still cute imo.
Products used (with apologies for posting something you (probably) can't get 😭):