Piet Mondrian Nail Art with a Twist

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter best known for his minimalist paintings consisting of perpendicular black lines coloured in with yellow, blue and red. I didn't have a primary blue cream polish, so I improvised. With glitter. What sensible person wouldn't? 

 

I started off with two coats of a white polish. Then, I drew horizontal and vertical perpendicular lines without any particular rhyme or reason.  Next, I filled in a few of the boxes with a red or yellow cream polish or the blue glitter. The glitter was a bit messy to work with (as per usual) so I attempted to cover any blue glitters that went outside the lines with black nail art pen.  Lastly, I finished everything off with a fast drying top coat. 

A little word of warning, the Sally Hansen Nail Art Striper was not as thin as I expected it to be and I found the polish wasn't entirely opaque. I found that the trick to making the striper  thinner lines was to apply less pressure onto the brush. 

Products Used: 

• CoverGirl Outlast Stay Brilliant Nail Lacquer in "Ever Reddy"*
• Maybelline Color Show Nail Lacquer in "Porcelain Party"
• Sally Hansen I Heart Nail Art Striper in "Yellow" and "Black"*
• Sally Hansen I Heart Nail Art Pen in "Black - round"* 
• Sally Hansen I Heart Nail Art Glitter*
• Sally Hansen In Heart Nail Art Big Shiny Top Coat*

Overall, I enjoy the simplicity of Piet Mondrian's compositions. However, it didn't translate quite so simply onto my nails, but having a work of art on my fingertips makes me feel all artsy fartsy inside.

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