My hands get some pretty rough treatment in the studio and because they are always in front of the camera, I get a regular manicure to keep them looking good. You've probably noticed that my nails are always a different colour! Whilst visiting my nail technician last week, I noticed she had some gorgeous miniature 3D bubble roses on her nails and I realised immediately that this was something that we could do with UV jewellery resin. It's just a matter of building up layers of resin and painting each layer with colour. In the nail world, they paint the rose petals with gel nail polish but I've used alcohol inks which worked just fine. So here's what you'll need to make your own jewellery-sized version of the resin bubble rose. UV resin Pinata Alcohol inks. I used Señorita Magenta and White (the white gives the pink some opacity and some depth). Claro Extender (for when the alcohol inks dry on the palette) Gold Bead Caviar (aka microbeads) Tool t...
