Nail Art: Chikara King of Trios

My fiancé absolutely loves wrestling and, though I’m not much of a fan myself, I do quite like some of the masks that some of the wrestlers wear.  One of the wrestling companies that my fiancé likes is called Chikara, and every year they run a King of Trios tournament in which many teams of three wrestlers fight each other in rounds until one team becomes the ‘King of Trios’.  This year’s winners were a team called the Spectral Envoy, so to celebrate their win my fiancé asked me do some Chikara themed nail art.  I couldn’t say no, and since the winning team wore wrestling masks it seemed only right to paint these onto my nails!  And here they are…

The wrestlers behind the masks are called (from thumb round to the ring finger):

• UltraMantis Black
• Hallowicked
• Frightmare
• Crossbones

… and the blue symbol on my pinky is the Chikara logo.  Apparently Crossbones isn’t an official member of the ‘Trio’ (otherwise there’d be four of them, not three), but I’ve been told he turned up this year to help them win.

I used my trusty old dotting tools to draw this design and I’m really pleased with how the masks turned out, especially since the whole painting process only took about 20 minutes in total!  My fiancé has already shown a photo of my nails to a lot of his wrestling friends from around the world and they were all very impressed, so they have the wrestling fan seal of approval at least!

The nail varnish shades I used were…

• Primark Nail Polish in ‘Black’
• Avon Nailwear Pro in ‘Coral Beat’
• Laval Crystal Finish Nail Polish in ‘White’
• Leichner Nail Gloss in ‘Blueberry’

I mixed the orange and blue shades with a little bit of white so it would stand out more on the black background and, as you can see, it worked quite well.

So, what do you think?  This is something a little bit different for me but I definitely want to do another wrestling mask themed design in the future!

Naomi x

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