Lately I've been doing a lot of bright and a lot of cute, so when I sat down to do this mani I knew I needed a bit of a palette cleanse when the shades I was drawn to were all sort of earthy and muted. It tends to be a bit of a habit for me to go hard with bold, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink types of mani's and then pretty quickly need something a little softer and a little bit more subtle, which was definitely the case with this. I'm actually finding myself really, really drawn to abstract, minimalist sorts of nail art lately, so this really did it for me and I'm a little bit in love with what came out. 

For the nail art, I kept it really simple. I just applied swipes of each of the accent colours to each nail. Not quite a dry brush technique, but I did take off a lot of the polish so that I ended up with that sort of grungey trail away on each swipe. Next, while the polish from the swipes was still wet, I went in and added just some little accents of silver foil flakes to add some texture and subtle interest to each nail. I then applied matte top coat to bring everything together. 

For the stamping, I reached for the WhatsUpNails B044 From Ground Comes Life Stamping Plate and actually changed my mind on which images I was going to use at the last minute, going with these two sort of branchy images in a deep slate grey stamping polish. 

I decided to add all three colours to my remaining nails, with the more pastel sage on my thumb, the deeper sage on my pointer finger, and the mauve on my pinkie. I then applied a coat of matte top coat to all of my nails and voila!

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