Photo: Kirsty Meakin/ Youtube
One English bride just put a meaningful twist on the tradition of wearing “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”
In the clip, Meakin gave her cousin a classic French ombré manicure, then applied the ashes to a wet acrylic base and added small flecks of silver glitter to Walton’s long stiletto-shaped middle finger nail.
“She recently lost her dad…my uncle Mick,” Meakin, who titled the tutorial “The Memory Nails,” says in the voiceover. “We wanted to do something really special so I had the idea the idea of using my uncle’s ashes inside the nails.”
Kirsty Meakin/ Youtube
“I really don’t think they look too dissimilar to something that you would put into nails,” she adds. “We were quite fascinated actually because, under closer inspection, you could actually see those tiny bits of bone fragment.”
The final look is a French ombré with gemstones and glitter applied to each nail in a variety of patterns and designs — “A little bling and there you have it,” Meakin says in the voiceover.
“This was an emotional day for us both and we are so please with how they turned out,” she wrote in the description box. “I’m going to remove the nails for Charlotte after they have grown out for around 4 weeks so they will be preserved and kept in a keep sake box as a beautiful memory of the day. What better way to have used a tiny amount of ashes to bring such happiness.”
source: people.com
