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00:00 Hey guys, get excited, because today I'm going to be Taylor Swift.
00:15 Her badass side, obviously, featuring nails inspired by her new video, Bad Blood.
00:20 Because obviously I was not going to do love story inspired nails.
00:25 I'm generally not a fan of popular music of the current generation.
00:30 But for whatever reason, Taylor Swift's Bad Blood video just really got me inspired to
00:34 make some badass, bloody looking nails.
00:37 Because who doesn't like badass nails?
00:39 I just love nails that you can put in people's faces and then they're going to say, "What
00:42 the hell is on your nails, girl?"
00:45 That's exactly the kind of reaction I want.
00:47 And I don't care if you think that these are supposed to be for Halloween, because I wore
00:51 them in June.
00:52 And baby now we got bad blood, and I have to sing so I don't violate YouTube copyright
00:59 laws for Taylor Swift's song.
01:02 These were super easy to create using paint drip nail vinyls from Twinkle Tea.
01:06 And you can use my code simply for 10% off.
01:09 Let's get to it.
01:11 Start with a white base coat.
01:12 I always use Color Club's French Tip, and you can grab it at the link below.
01:16 And I swear, one of these days I will make a video on like, what's the best of 8 million
01:21 different white nail polishes.
01:23 But for now, I have a job, like a job in real life, that involves me sitting at a desk five
01:29 days a week, not doing my nails.
01:32 Always add a quick dry top coat before you're going to apply nail vinyls, and let that dry
01:36 for about 15 to 20 minutes.
01:40 Next I'm applying Simply Peel Latex Barrier for easy post-gradient cleanup.
01:45 And you can watch my peel off, base off video if you haven't already.
01:49 I didn't plan this many before I started doing it, which is why I covered my whole finger.
01:53 But as you'll see, I didn't really need to cover my whole finger.
01:56 These are my new paint drip nail vinyls that I got from Twinkle Tea.
02:00 And as I mentioned, you can use my code simply for 10% off all the nail vinyls and everything
02:05 else they sell.
02:06 Now, there's two ways to use these nail vinyls.
02:08 There's the easy way, which is peeling this part off and sticking it on your nail.
02:12 And then there's the hard way of using the inverse of the vinyl part that you're supposed
02:16 to use, which is what I did, because I'm special like that.
02:20 At this point, it probably doesn't make much sense why I'm Frankensteining the crap out
02:24 of this vinyl.
02:26 You'll see when I peel it off why I actually needed to use the inverse of the vinyl part
02:30 that you're supposed to use to get the design that I ended up doing.
02:34 Look at that.
02:35 It's the inverse of the paint drips, which means that I'm going to get the colored part
02:38 where the paint drips are cut out.
02:41 Press the vinyl firmly down on the nail.
02:43 And then I realized I had a tiny bit of space I should have probably covered up somehow,
02:47 so I just added an extra swipe of Simply Peel to protect it, just in case that gradient
02:52 decided to sneak down there.
02:53 I'm using three different polishes for this dark, bloody gradient-- a bright red color
02:58 club, a vampire red-looking ciate, and a black colt nails polish.
03:03 Swipe them one by one on a makeup sponge and start dabbing the sponge lightly on the nail.
03:09 You can kind of work it a little bit up and down to get that nice gradient fade from red
03:14 to black.
03:15 Ugh, why does it look pink?
03:17 Blood is red, not pink.
03:18 I need more coats.
03:22 Once you're satisfied with your bloody gradient, you're going to carefully try and peel off
03:26 this very complicated twist of Simply Peel and vinyl, as I realized as I was trying to
03:33 film this.
03:34 Technical difficulties, people.
03:36 Really only because I didn't want to block what I was doing in front of the camera, because
03:39 you actually probably should see what I'm doing in a nail art tutorial.
03:43 Get out of my way, Simply Peel!
03:46 Alright, so the trick to peeling off these vinyls is that you have to peel them upwards,
03:51 like towards the direction of where the paint drip indent drippy thingies are.
03:56 So I'm peeling it up, and then that way I won't get, like, the paint drips, like, smearing
04:01 sideways or anything.
04:02 We don't want no crime scene blood splatter.
04:05 The vinyl peeled up a little bit of bloody paint here, which happens to me because I
04:09 film under hot lights, so I just filled it in with a little striping brush.
04:13 One question I get asked a lot is how do you not smear dark polish over a nail art design?
04:20 The first trick is to make sure you're not pushing down hard with the top coat brush,
04:24 because if you do that, you're guaranteed going to start streaking the polish.
04:28 The second trick is, after every single swipe you do from bottom to top of the nail, wipe
04:33 off the brush on a piece of paper.
04:36 And when you do that, you'll actually see a little bit of color come off on the paper.
04:39 But you gotta work quickly, because then you gotta do the left side and then the right
04:43 side, so don't take your time with this part.
04:46 And bam!
04:47 Murder on my nails!
04:48 My nails are totally ready to go and murder all the haters out there.
04:52 The only thing I think they're missing is holo.
04:55 Even though you all think I'm the holo queen, I don't even have a good holo top coat.
05:00 Like what is wrong with me?
05:01 I don't even know.
05:03 This mani would be 18 million times better if I just coated it with holo.
05:06 And I just ordered this Fun Lacquer Diamond Top Coat from Live Love Polish.
05:10 I put the link below.
05:12 Because like, look at these pictures!
05:13 Okay, well, yes I know.
05:15 They were taken by a Russian nail blogger, so obviously the pictures are going to be
05:18 amazing.
05:19 But I mean still, like look at this nail polish.
05:21 I needed it on my nails yesterday.
05:24 Don't worry, you'll be the first to know when I get it in the mail because I'll probably
05:27 put it on every single one of my nail arts for the next two years.
05:31 Okay, I'm going to go start singing "Bad Blood" and telling people I'm a zombie now.
05:35 So I'll see you next time!
05:37 Thanks for watching!
05:38 Bye!
05:38 [Music]