Before & After: Nubbin Camouflage

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Hello!

I don't know about you, but when I have an ugly break, the kind that takes off a third of an inch of nail way back below the end of my finger, it breaks my heart to cut the rest down to match. I can cut them back most of the way, but it takes me a week or so to work up the heart to cut them all the way.

So, I wondered...could I play around with nail art a little to make it so the nubbin didn't look quite so out of place among the other nails while my mind processed the full nail tragedy? Since I broke the ring finger this time, my mind began to work overtime on the possibilities.

Here's what I came up with.

I started with a green base on three nail, since today's theme in the Crumpet Nail Tarts 31 day challenge is 'green base', and went from there. For step one, I put China Glaze Be More Pacific on the pinkie, middle and index, and Zoya Lianne on the ring and thumb, topped with a coat of Nail'd It Fall Flowers:

Step one: Operation Nubbin Camouflage

Step one: Operation Nubbin Camouflage

The idea here was that by painting it a different color, the whole 'one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other' would pull the eye and attribute some of the visual discrepancy to the different color. It worked to a degree, but I felt like it needed a little more. So, I sponged a little of Fall Flowers onto the cuticle area of the other nails, to break up the space on those nails:

Step two: Operation Nubbin Camouflage

Step two: Operation Nubbin Camouflage

So what do you think, did it work? It definitely made me feel like it was pretty, even if not perfectly even. Of course, the big-girl thing to do is just suck it up and even them out...sigh...In the meantime, I suppose I can always walk around like this:

Hope you're having a great week!
M.

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