Stained Glass Accent

Hey there everyone! How is everyone's Saturday going? Mine has been wonderfully relaxing with the exception of a few loads of laundry.

I am super excited about today's post. As you know I am participating in the flip/flop February put on by Jilian over at jilltastic nail designs, you can check out her blog here.

So today's challenge options were stained glass or accent nail. This was a rough decision for me...I knew I didn't want to just do an accent nail because I often do those and this is a challenge meaning you should challenge yourself. Problem was I have never done a Stained glass nail, didn't really know if I wanted it on all of my nails, and to be honest everything I googled for this technique was really not my style. And then I saw a super detailed super awesome design that was of a scene from a church window. I knew I wouldn't be able to pull that off but it gave me the inspiration I needed to refine my search. I finally found a cute dragonfly stained glass art piece that I thought I might be able to pull off. You can check out the artwork here.
Since this was my first attempt at this I decided to combine today's options and do a stained glass accent nail.

I started off with just one coat of Zoya's Zuza

 Then looking at my picture for reference I began to carefully paint on my dragon fly using some acrylic paint from a set my sister gave me for Christmas (seen above) and my thin paint brush 

After letting that completely dry I decided to do the outline of my "glass panes" with a dark blue sharpie (I could not find black to save my life). I am not sure if this is considered cheating because I didn't use black paint but I just new I wouldn't be able to outline it without messing the whole thing up (I am extremely new to freehand painting designs).

I am so pleased with how these turned out!!!! I know its not super crisp but for me this was pretty freaking good!

Here is a picture of the accent nail next to its inspired piece

Not too shabby if you ask me :o). Hope you all enjoy these as much as I do. Also don't forget to check out the other talented ladies joining me on this challenge journey

Thank you all for stopping by! Check back tomorrow for day three, pretty sure I am going to try my first water marble so it should be interesting!

Keep it polished!
<3 Jess

Day 2 Stained Glass / Accent Nail

1.	CrazyPolishes(Dimpal)	11.	Glitter Me This	21.	Kate Kreates
2.	Tezzilicious - A Nail And Beauty Blog	12.	Galactic Lacquer	22.	I'm Just me ChiChi
3.	Never Mind Suzi	13.	I Feel Polished	23.	play polish :)
4.	Nails Love Polish (Sandra Bickel)	14.	Organic Neglect	24.	Lanes Lacquers
5.	Polish Gone Crazy	15.	Tes Did It Nails	25.	Mimi Manicures
6.	Hard Lacquer	16.	Nails by Ms. Lizard	26.	Nail Polish Anonymous
7.	Never Mind Suzi	17.	Polished Art	27.	live.laugh.lacquer
8.	Rachos Nail Love	18.	Le Nail's Corner d'Alex	28.	Makeup and Nails, Not War
9.	Dipped in Lacquer	19.	Rambles of a Polish Addict	29.	FruVesa
10.	SpecialGirl Nails	20.	Seriously Swatched

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