I’ve surprisingly been able to keep up with the February @glamnailschallenge prompts so far. Feb. 8’s theme was Wedding Cake, so I channeled my inner Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes to come up with a wedding cake design to put on my nails.
I started by painting all my nails white. I chose Bunny from Julep because it has subtle gold microglitter in it that would match the gold stamping and accents that I planned to add later.

Bunny by Julep.
For the icing scrollwork, I chose to stamp on a pretty filigree from plate BPL-027 from Born Pretty Store.

I chose the pattern from the upper left hand corner for this manicure.
I used Charge It! from Sephora by OPI to do the stamping. I tried to align the point of the design with the center of my nail, and I also left a little bit of space between the point and the cuticle so that it would more closely resemble a cake layer.

Subtle gold stamping finished off with a matte top coat from Sephora by OPI to give it the look of fondant.
Because I wasn’t so sure about the next part of the design, I added pearl rhinestones from Born Pretty Store so I could get a “finished” shot before I proceeded just in case I didn’t like how it turned out.

Tiny flatback pearl rhinestones were applied to the center of each nail in the same part of the design with Kiss Nail Art Glue and some tweezers. I am holding the color Charge It! from Sephora by OPI, which was used for the stamping.
The next part consisted of adding a band of gold fondant to the top of my cake layer, otherwise known in the nail art world as French tips. I used the brush from the bottle of Charge It! to paint a stripe of polish across the top of each nail and then added gold striping tape underneath it to neaten up the line. I applied some more matte top coat, and declared this manicure finished.

I’m amazed by how much matte top coat makes this look like a layer of fondant.

Requisite bottle shot.
It’s funny how I kept wondering what I was going to do for this theme, and I managed to put this look together in the end. I feel like doing nail art is like choosing an outfit for a special occasion- you just have to look through everything you have and figure out what goes together the best.
Happy polishing!