Nail Trend "The V Gap"

Posted by on Tuesday, March 08, 2011

I find the name somewhat questionable, but hey, that's how the article addressed it...meh. What can you do? Anyway,  I discovered this new nail trend online. It reminds me slightly of a crackle manicure, but you can do it with any polish, not just a specified crackling one.

It seems like the technician in the photo used special tools to create that look but I found that it's actually surprisingly simple to recreate the idea armed with just a bog standard nail polish brush. Using No7 nail polishes in "Berrylicious" and "Beautiful Black", I did a quick interpretation of it below.

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Apologies for the poor quality pictures - I have no idea what was going on, but I just /could not/ photograph this without the blurriness. Adjusted the lights and everything. I think it was just one of those days :(

For my other hand, I reversed the polish order, so instead of pink on black, it became black on pink.
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 What do you guys think? I'm not sure I'd make it into a regular thing but it's pretty interesting and a talking point. Now, if someone could tweak the name slightly...

8 Comments

  1. The V Gap? If they say so, I guess. I'd call it The Ladybug. :)

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  2. You could draw criss-crosses across the gap and make it into corset nail art! Looks cute.

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  3. Not too sure what you mean by a V gap, but they sure look pretty as ladybugs!

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  4. That's quite an interesting trend! I do like Robyn's idea though about making it into a corset. :)

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  5. Very pretty, I love the two colours together :)

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  6. That's a pretty good name, KarenD. I prefer it to the original, lol.

    Good idea, Robyn! I should try that, it'd look pretty cool :P

    Thanks for your comment, Cheryl! Yeah I think you and Karen D have good ideas, it makes me think of a ladybird as well...

    I like it too, Witoxicity! I wonder if it'll take off or if it'll be relegated to catwalk only status forever.

    Thanks, Gemx! I quite like pink and black together. There's something kinda Hello Kitty about it which appeals to me.

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  7. I'd call it the butt crack! It's hideous! O.O

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  8. Lol, anonymous! That might actually make a good idea for a nail art design...*ponders*

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