Nailphotos by Lani: Black butterfly nails

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Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

This is what I made with my black butterfly modelling clay from KKCenterHk. As you see, I also stamped 3 flowers on my ring finger. And among the photos below, you will see a flower on my thumb too. As a base color for this nail art, I used Gosh #549 Holographic Hero.

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

I was already wearing Gosh: Holographic Hero with top coat, and stamped the flowers on with red stamping polish and pink polish (Gosh Bubblegum), and painted the center of the flowers yellow (with H&M Rising Sun). On my ring finger and thumb I did the stamping before I placed the butterflies, to get enough room for the stamper on my nail. I used the image below three times, but put polish only on the flower, not on the text.

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

I was so eager to place the butterflies, that I had already done that on the other nails... It was very quick and easy. But let's go back in time, and start at the beginning.

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Here is the bag of black butterfly modelling clay for nail decorations, that you saw I got from KKCenterHk in this post. I feel very lucky that I got three pieces, and not just one sample.

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

You need a sharp knife to cut the clay in as thin slices as you can. I prefer to use a scalpel.

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

And soon, you will see that you have enough for more than one manicure.

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

Now that the butterflies are ready to use, you can sort them if you want. Because this was my first time to use this kind of clay, I choose to do the cutting some days before I made the nail art. Therefor I sorted the little butterflies, so that I packed the thinnest and most even slices in aluminium foil, and put everything back in the plastic bag. It's nice to have that bag for storage.

Then, when I had time for nail art, I had painted my nails the day before, and I could just get the three little bags I needed; the stamping plate, the aluminum packet, and the stamper and scraper, and a few more things:

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276 and SPPMB26 and stamper and scraper, from KKCenterHk

What I used to make the flowers:

stamping plate with flower images- I used N.NAIL SPPMB26 from KKCenterHk
stamper and scraper- (gift from KKCenterHk)
red stamping polish
pink stamping polish (I used a pink regular polish that had become too thick)
yellow sheer nail polish (for the center of the flowers, and used a sheer polish not to cover the image)
nail polish remover, cotton swabs (to clean the stamping equipment)

This is what you need to place the black butterflies:

base coat (to use as glue)
dotting tool (to pick up and place the butterflies)
tweezers (to press down after placing each butterfly)
thin slices of black butterfly modeling clay- I used N.Nail Black Butterfly Modelling Clay Nail Decorations (N.NAIL- DRN276) from KKCenterHk
top coat (will help as glue)

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

How to place the butterflies:

What I did first was to put the butterflies where I wanted them, and move them around to see what would look beautiful.
*Just use the brush to put a little base coat where you want one butterfly to be.
*Dip the end of the dotting tool in the wet pool of base coat, touch a butterfly, and it will stick to the dotting tool so that you can put it on the right spot. You have time to move it a little if you need to do that.
*Use the tips of the tweezers to press on both sides of the butterfly until the glue/ base coat dries. (I learned to use the tweezers like this from a tutorial by Cutenails. You can use your finger instead of tweezers, but it's easy to get wet polish on it.)
*After you have done that with all the butterflies, seal everything with top coat. If not, the butterflies will begin to loosen after a few hours. In that case, just put base coat under the edge, and press down again, and seal with top coat.

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

I was afraid of getting bubbles and to smear my stamped image, and have therefor also taken photos before applying top coat. I decided to use some of the first photos too, so some pictures are with and some are without top coat.

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

How to remove the butterflies:

When I had used nail polish remover, the butterflies stayed on the nail:

Black butterfly nails, taking off N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

But they came off immediately when I used my nail to bend them off:

Black butterfly nails, how to remove N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

I was surprised that only one got ruined and that they still felt soft. But I don't know if they can be used several times.

Black butterfly nails, used butterflies N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

More photos of the finished manicure:

Black butterfly nails, N.NAIL- DRN276, from KKCenterHk

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I was surprised by how quick and easy it is to change a manicure using this kind of modelling clay. I love my little black butterflies, so I'm glad I have many left.

Lani

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