Weekly wrap up

Hi!

Here's what I've been doing lately:

Reading: Tithe by Holly Black,
Listening to: Lenka and the Coraline soundtrack by Bruno Coulais,
Watching: Black Butler, Kerero gunso, Doctor Who, Vampire Diaries, Lucky Star, and Jack the giant slayer,
Liking: mp3 audio books for long car rides,
Disliking:------
Finding: this cute blog,
Wanting: this very very pretty polish,
Eating: grilled cheese and jalapeno bagels,
Drinking: water,
Wearing: my blue converse,
On my nails: my industrial revolution nails for next Wednesday (I'm ahead of schedule for once!),
Planning on: making some doctor who related sculpey creations,
Buying:----

Thanks for reading!

Llama nails time periods Victorian Era

Hi!

I've been looking forward to today's challenge theme because I love all things Victorian/steampunk and having them on my nails is even better!
I was originally thinking about doing some cameos or silhouettes, but I've been wanting to do clockwork for a while (and I just watched the great mouse detective so I have it on the brain) so that's what I did!

I started with a dark burgundy polish as my base and used three different metallic polishes for the gears. The gears were all done with a striping brush, I tried to paint the ones on my pinkie and thumb to look like they're interlocking and I'm really happy with how they came out.

I think this might be my favorite so far of the manis I've done for this challenge, I just love how the gears shimmer on top of the dark base.

Here's the polishes I used:

N.Y.C in a new York color minute grand central station,
Jesse's girl center stage,
EN-VY blue my mind,
Lotus herbals colour dew copper gold,
Wet n wild fast dry gray's anatomy,
and a striping brush.

Thanks for looking!

MSMD belated Mother's Day nails

Hi!

I delayed posting these because they are a MSMD mani, so happy belated mothers day mom!
I loosely based my nails on this mani and this cartoon heart. I didn't want to do the tattoo on every nail so I stamped some winged hearts on the rest of my nails.

All the details on the heart were painted with a striping brush, I just had to go slow and let some layers dry before adding more details.

And here's a quick shot of Josephine being her usual cute self!

Here's the polishes I used:

N.Y.C in a new York color minute grand central station,
Petites color fever seashell,
Konad special stamping polish red,
Essence nude glam peaches and cream,
L.A colors art deco sea foam green,
Jesse's girl center stage,
Wet n wild fast dry gray's anatomy,
Wet n wild fast dry ebony hates chris,
a striping brush,
and Bundle Monster plate BM03.

Thanks for looking!

Wet n Wild megalast Disturbia

Hi!

I felt like just having some good old glitter on my nails, and this was the only one of my untried glitter polishes, Crayola wisteria. This is my first and only bar glitter polish, I think it's a pleasant change from just plain sparkle glitter.

This is two coats of Disturbia and one coat of Wisteria finished with a top coat.

Here's the polishes I used:

N.Y.C color in a new York minute,
Wet n Wild megalast disturbia,
and Crayola wisteria.

Thanks for looking!

Weekly wrap up

Hi!

Here's what I've been doing lately:

Reading: Tithe by Holly Black,
Watching: Doctor Who, The Vampire Diaries, Kerero Gunso,
Listening to: Awkward by San Cisco,
Buying: wistonia nail plates which I discovered on Lacquer or Leave her here,
Looking forward to: playing with my new nail plates,
Liking: cherry slurpees when it's really hot,
Disliking:------
Finding: this cute braid that I figured out how to do,
Wearing: my new gray messenger hat,
Wanting: to be able to do this,
Eating: Hungarian paprika chicken,
Drinking: water,
On my nails: Wet n wild megalast disturbia,

Thanks for reading!

Mona Lisa nail art

Hi!

I think we're almost past the extra difficult themes! Today's theme of the Llama nails time periods nail challenge is the Renaissance. I decided to bite off way more than I could chew by trying to do the Mona Lisa, and it actually came out way better than I thought it would!

It took almost an hour for me to do, but part of that may be I kept re-doing her eyes and nose.
But interestingly her mouth was the easiest part to paint!

I used a detail brush for all the details, I was going to use a dotting tool for the eyes but it turned out  to be too big for the job.

Here's the polishes I used:

L.A colors basecoat/topcoat,
CQ golden green,
N.Y.C French white tip,
Wet n wild fast dry ebony hates chris,
Sally Hansen Insta-Dry jumpin' jade,
Petites color fever seashell,
Petites color fever vintage gray,
Lotus herbals colour dew gold mist,
Sally Hansen no chip 10 day surely ivory,
a detail brush,
and N.Y.C color in a new York minute grand central station.

Thanks for looking!

Polish Days 5

Hi!

I recently found out that Doctor Who filmed a children in need special with the doctors 10 and 5 which you can watch here, and I really loved 5's outfit. And then Polly Polish announced that the latest Polish Days theme was the number 5 so as you can imagine I was very happy.

I freehanded the piece of celery he wears on his lapel on my thumb, the question marks on his collar on my pinkie and middle finger, and the red and orange stripes from his coat and hat on my ring and index finger.

I never would of thought that I would paint celery on my nails, but I guess it's one of the tamer things I've worn on my nails!

Here's the polishes I used:

L.A colors basecoat/topcoat,
Petites Color Fever seashell,
Sally Hansen X-treme wear mint sorbet,
Color Mates nail art tangerine,
Color Mates nail art red shimmer,
Pure Ice free spirit,
N.Y.C in a new York color grand central station,
and a striping brush.

Thanks for looking!