Arden: Today's manicure is a pattern I had been wanting to try out foreverrrr. I'm not quite sure what this pattern is called, so I'll just go with my brother's reaction when he saw my nails: "They're like metallic volleyballs!" (But seriously, if you know what this pattern is called, PLEASE let me know in the comments.)
[Update! Many thanks to commenter Kyema for identifying this pattern as the "basket weave.']
To start, I painted my nails with two coats of Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Black Out, followed by a coat of Seche Vite to help dry them quickly.
Then I used my little roll of striping tape and taped off the pattern on each nail.
I started by making a diagonal stripe down the middle, then added several pieces of tape parallel to that toward the tip. I finished by taping the bottom half of the nail in a perpendicular direction.
After all the tape was in place, I painted on a coat of Revlon Timeless followed by a coat of OPI On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I then removed all of the tape immediately from one nail using tweezers before continuing with the next.
