Caviar Bead Mani

Hey Again!

For this post I want to write about the Caviar Bead Mani trend.

I ordered my beads from eBay and they arrived pretty fast - I was extremely happy about this as I couldn't wait to try it out. I've seen so many brilliant nail art designs with the caviar beads  and I couldn't wait to try it for myself, however it was easier said than done!

I also wanted to try out my new Bourjois Matte Top Coat nail polish, this was a lot more expensive than I would usually pay for nail polish, but it looked like one of the best ones in the shop so I bought it.

I have also seen a lot of brilliant nail art designs with a matte top coat applied so I couldn't wait to use both the caviar beads and the matte top coat together.

When going through all of my nail polishes (this took a while!) I decided that black would be the best for the design I wanted to create. I'm not going to lie to everyone, I thought that the caviar beads would be easy to create and simple, but for me at least this was not the case! I painted all my nails black with one coat and then painted them again with a second coat but not my ring fingers (on both hands), as I knew the beads would need to stick to the nail polish. I then set up my area by putting getting a piece of paper on to my desk and placing a fold all the way down the middle of the paper (this is so that the excess beads are caught and are easy to put back into the pot! - this is VERY NECESSARY!)

I found getting the beads out of the pot in the first instance a struggle, as they love to roll and fall everywhere apart from on my nail! After finally getting the beads to cover my nail, I thought it would make sense to cover them with a layer of clear nail polish just to make the beads stay on my nails for a bit longer - BIG MISTAKE! I went to show my housemate what I had done and as I was showing her, the beads and the polish started going a muddy brown colour, I could describe the colour with a not so polite word beginning with 'S' however I think you all understand what I mean!

I actually couldn't believe it! I was gutted! So I immediately took the beads off with nail polish remover and thought up a 'better' technique - nail glue! This again I found out a few days later was a massive mistake! DO NOT DO THIS! It took me about 30 - 45 minutes to file the beads off! I was not impressed at all!

If I'm honest, I have not tried to use the caviar beads again, but when I do, I am certainly going to make sure that I do not a) put a clear top coat over them and b) not try and stick them using nail glue!!!

However as negative as this post is, and how annoying it was to get the beads off after a few days, I actually liked the end result:

As you can see the matte top coat gives a brilliant affect especially on top of black - if you don't have a matte top coat BUY ONE! You will not regret it!

Let me know how your caviar bead experiences went and if anyone has any tips please also let me know!

Thanks for reading :)

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