Spray painted nail art swatches and tutorial

Happy Wednesday all! I've been really inspired over the last few days from nail art I've seen floating around the twittersphere. One in particular stood out to me yesterday - Polish You Pretty's "spray painted" nail art. Amazing. Today I was sporting OPI's Did It On 'Em from this year's Nicki Minaj Collection (check out my swatches and review here) and I thought this would be a great base colour because it's so interesting and 'funky' haha - this is the best word I can find to describe this colour! Anyway, check out the final product:

Spray Painted Nail Art

Colours I used (from left to right):

- OPI Did It On 'Em

- OPI Pink Flamenco

- OPI Fly

- OPI Black Onyx

- China Glaze Millennium

So here's what I did . . .

I started off with 3 base coats of Did It On 'Em:

Then, using the brush from the polish bottle, I added random splotches of Pink Flamenco:

Then the same with Fly and Millennium:

I then added slightly larger black splotches with Black Onyx. This time, with a fine nail art brush I painted thin lines down from the black splotches to create 'drips' of paint. Finally, with a small-tipped dotting tool I added a few small black dots randomly across the nails to look like splatter marks:

My first reaction was "eughhh" because they didn't turn out how I had imagined they would. The perfectionist in me was just about to take them off when I thought what a waste that would be and took a few photos. I'm so glad I did because they showed up great in the swatches! Something completely different from anything I've done so far. The colours complement each other really well and I love that the silver reflects the light and catches your eye. Overall a really fun and simple nail art design. Hope you enjoy!

Thanks again to the girls over at Polish You Pretty for the awesome nail art inspiration!