I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee

I've been seeing a lot of people lately do every nail a different spring like color. Some people leave it glossy while others gave it a ...

I've been seeing a lot of people lately do every nail a different spring like color. Some people leave it glossy while others gave it a matte finish. I decided to do something similar, but to add a bumblebee. Here is the result:

I used a nail art pen by Sally Hansen to do the trail of the bumblebee; where the actual bee was done with a brush and China Glaze "Black Diamond." I like the pen but the point is too blunt to do any fine detail work. In some places I had to go over the lines twice to get the strong color I wanted. The yellow is China Glaze "Solar Power." The purple is Essence "oh my glitter." The blue is Essence "let's get lost." The green is Essence " l.o.l." Finally, the pink is Zoya "Gie Gie." The blue and purple Essences were all two coaters. The yellow purple and pink took three coats. The yellow needed it to get rid of streaks and the purple and pink needed it to be more opaque. I also put a couple layers of one of my nude colors on underneath the more translucent colors in hopes of making them opaque. It seemed to do the trick. I like the manj , but something about it isn't quite right. I'm not sure what is bothering me but I'll probably ended up redoing them this weekend. What spring manis have you attempted or are on your list of need to try?

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I've been seeing a lot of people lately do every nail a different spring like color. Some people leave it glossy while others gave it a matte finish. I decided to do something similar, but to add a bumblebee. Here is the result:

I used a nail art pen by Sally Hansen to do the trail of the bumblebee; where the actual bee was done with a brush and China Glaze "Black Diamond." I like the pen but the point is too blunt to do any fine detail work. In some places I had to go over the lines twice to get the strong color I wanted. The yellow is China Glaze "Solar Power." The purple is Essence "oh my glitter." The blue is Essence "let's get lost." The green is Essence " l.o.l." Finally, the pink is Zoya "Gie Gie." The blue and purple Essences were all two coaters. The yellow purple and pink took three coats. The yellow needed it to get rid of streaks and the purple and pink needed it to be more opaque. I also put a couple layers of one of my nude colors on underneath the more translucent colors in hopes of making them opaque. It seemed to do the trick. I like the manj , but something about it isn't quite right. I'm not sure what is bothering me but I'll probably ended up redoing them this weekend. What spring manis have you attempted or are on your list of need to try?