Before & After: Zoya Ember + UberChic Beauty Sugar Skulls 01 (Or, Shrunken heads)

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Hello!


So I said I was gonna test out whether or not you can shrink the sugar skulls on UberChic Beauty's Sugar Skulls 01 plate, and I'm back with a report. Spoiler alert--you can!


For this manicure I started with a base of Zoya Ember, from their 2015 fall Flair collection:

Zoya Ember

 Then I picked two skulls that were about the same in size from the plate:

UberChic Beauty Sugar Skulls 01

I shrunk the top one--it came out well, with the lovely details preserved! As you can see, it's a little smaller, and now fits with no problem on my ring finger:

UberChic Beauty Sugar Skulls 01 shrunken!

I pulled the image of the other skull at full size, to put on my thumb; I decorated them using the reversed-stamping technique (I used Zoya Hannah, Zoya Sia, and Sally Hansen Lightning). The I stamped some of the big roses with Konad Black, and the rose/thorn pattern with Barry M Silver Foil. Here's how it all came out:

So, since I shrunk down this skull image...

does that make me a head shrinker?

Zoya Ember + UberChic Beauty Sugar Skulls 01 mani

Zoya Ember + UberChic Beauty Sugar Skulls 01 mani

You can see in the last picture the relative size and detail of the two skulls, with and without shrinking. So, you should be able to shrink down the medium sized skulls on this plate and use them whole on your nails no problem. If you're not sure how to shrink images, you can see my tutorial by clicking here.

Happy shrinking!
M.