Born Pretty | Blue and Green Microbead/Fish Egg Nail Art

The infamous “fish egg” manicure since I can’t use the other word or risk being sued by “the nail polish company who cannot be named”. I didn’t really like it or want to try it when it first entered the nail art seen 2 years ago. I feel like this is sort of creepy nail look and makes me think of larvae which is probably why I have waited so long to do it. Leave to Born Pretty to make me curious about this form of nail art again!

fish egg microbead manicure


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You get 12 bottles of microbeads in different colours which is more than enough to fulfill your fish egg manicure colour desires! You can also mix the colours to get a multi-coloured effect.
 
fish egg microbead manicure
fish egg microbead manicure
When the nail polish is still relatively wet, I found that the best way to coat my nail was to get a small, curved dish so that I could just roll my nail in the beads to get maximum coverage. I then pushed some of the beads with tweezers that were going astray and added some where there were bare patches. I couldn’t get every spot, but I didn’t want to drive myself insane. Is it weird that I was also scared that I would breathe in the beads?? Once I applied a top coat, the beads stuck. Big time. I had to soak my nails in remover for a bit to remove them and the blue beads dyed my nails.
 
The effect of beaded nails is pretty cool and maybe I’ll mix up the colours to see if I can have more fun with them. I’m just not a fan of the look in general, but I can see why people enjoy them as the application process was pretty fun. Like jumping into a ball pit, but for your nails!
 
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PR samples sent for review.

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