Beauty Swellness: My Chicago Marathon manicure

So it’s been a good five months since my last race (the Goodlife Toronto Marathon in May 2014) — ie. a good five months since my last killer marathon manicure! What the what.

Needless to say, I was very excited to get my digits race-ready with Leeanne Colley at  Tips Nail Bar this week. I’d come across this wicked X nail art on Instagram (on @ninanailedit). Except the look was done with a floral design in the X, and I’m not really a floral kinda girl — which Leeanne knew instantly as she suggested changing it to a watercolour before I even mentioned not wanting a floral.

The look took about two hours to come together (but that included removing the gel polish I had on) because that Leeanne meticulously made sure each X hit the centre of each of my nails. For the watercolour effect, I showed her the colours on my Nike LunarGlide 6s (which I’ll be wearing for my marathon in  Chicago on October 12, and for the Nike Women’s San Francisco Half-Marathon on October 19 — yes, I’m running two long races one week apart).

I like to think of the X denoting a target — and that it’ll help me meet my targeted time in Chicago! (If not, well, my nails are on point at least.)

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