How To Snap Your Mani's and Polishes

Hello my friends and welcome to this simple post about the do's and don't's of taking photos of your nails and your polishes! I have took and edited a few photos and added an explanation as to mistakes people make and how to correct them! Enjoy

1) BACKGROUND

Try to take your photos (whether of your nails or polishes) with a simple background as opposed to a busy or a messy one, I chose my white bedsheet and made sure that it wasn't creased as this can look untidy and cause shadows. You could also use an open, unlined notebook, like I did when I was snapping my polish. 

2) LIGHTING

Try and take your photos early in the day to ensure good lighting- artificial lghting like lamps or torches are useful but cause shadows and emit a glow- usually white or golden- which makes it look like you have took the photo late at night.

3) FRONT

When taking a photo of a certain polish make sure that you can see the front of the bottle as this is where the brand and sometimes the name is and therefore gives the audience something to look at and makes it appear more professional.

4) FOCUS

Sometimes you aim for a photo which has a part out of focus so the audience can appreciate the sharpness of the part which is in focus, however with one bottle of nail polish make sure that it is in focus. You can do this by not having your camera or phone too close to the object and if you are on a touchscreen phone, tapping the object which tells the phone to focus on that. 

5) IS YOUR HAND CLEAN?

One of the mistakes I often make when taking a photo of my nails is having biro and coloured pen and highlighter on the sides of my fingers from when I've been writing or colouring or highlighting! To avoid this just wash your hands previous to the photo. An extra tip, to make sure your cuticles are looking healthy use some sort of cuticle cream- I recommend Burt's Bees.

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Thanks for reading, I hoped it helped some of you to perfect your photography, the two polishes featured in this post were technic's 'Turkish sea' with Sally Hansen's 'Over the Rainblue'. This is what the full swatch looks like:

Lots of Love, And a Topcoat. x