Gems

Hello there!!

Today is the final manicure from the Let's Do the Time warp Challenge. I have had a lot fun participating in my first nail challenge and have discovered a few new blogs to follow as well as some seriously talented nail artists. I also pushed myself to attempt free-hand nail art myself and while not perfect, hey, I tried!

On this 8th and final day we are to recreate a favorite mani from among our fellow participants and while my skills are not up to the level of a lot of the participants I still had a hard time making a choice, big surprise there, I can be so indecisive sometimes.

My indecisiveness had me stuck between 2 choices and when I looked at the two manis more I decided that they would actually make an awesome mani when used together. I chose to recreate Amber's Diamond Your Timeless to Me Mani and Polished's Coco Chanel We Can Do It. I really loved both of these, beautiful gems, timeless simplicity, black nail polish, sparkle, what's not to love?

Thanks for the inspiration ladies, I hope I did them justice! For the Chanel nails I used boullion beads instead of a dotting tool for some dimension. The polishes used were Zoya Purity (white), CG Fairy Dust to make the diamonds sparkle, SH Black Diamonds over SH Black Heart for the base color on all my nails.

So what do you think? Did you enjoy any of my looks? Any hints or tips for me? Thanks so much to Lindsey and Nail Polish Canada for hosting and sponsoring the Let's Do the Time Warp Challenge!!

Ta ta for now.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Today is day 4 of the 'Let's Do the Time Warp Challenge'. The theme for today is 'Lights, Camera, Action' and we are to choose a nostalgic movie, song or piece of litereature and transform it into a manicure worthy of the spotlight.

My inspiration is a very old movie/play called Arsenic and Old Lace. For those of you who aren't familiar with the movie it's a dark comedic murder movie in which a pair of old ladies put old bachelors out of their misery by poisoning them with elderberry wine laced with arsenic. It starred Cary Grant in the lead role of Mortimer. Here's a link to the WIKI article on it.  If you get a chance to see it do so!! It's truly an amusing story.

My manicure based on the movie has quite a nostalgic feel to me and I had to stop myself from adding any further embellishments to it. I had planned to put wine glasses, poison symbols and bottles in there too but in the end I chose not to and went with this dark but elegant look.

  

I started with a base of Elderberry Wine (China Glaze Short and Sassy) did a gradient with some Death (SH Black Heart) and then stamped the corners with Lace (Loreal The Perfect Trench).

The stamping hides the gradient in the above pics so here's a shot of that, click on the photo and you'll get a better view (for some reason I can't resize more than two images) I love this gradient!

I am really enjoying wearing this mani! So dark and mysterious and yet so wearable.

Thank you so much Lindsey for hosting this 'Let's Do the Time Warp Challenge!

I Remember When.....

Hi there!! Today is day three of The Let's do the Time Warp Challenge and my nails are outta this world. The theme for today is 'I remember when.......' coming up with a design for this topic was a little difficult for me, there are just so many things I remember.

There are quite a few historical events that have happened during my lifetime but unfortunately the ones that really stand out are a bit heavy themed, plane hijackings, bombings, wars and I didn't want to represent those on my nails!

My parents, God love them, were nuts and traveled with my 5 siblings and I all throughout this great nation of ours. We have seen a lot of things that most people only get to see on tv (Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Mesa Verde, Disney World, Bryce Canyon, Zion, you name it I probably saw it).

So you may be asking at this point 'what on earth did she paint on her nails????'. Well I picked a place my parents were not able to take me because you see I Remember when the Hubbel Space Telescope was launched !

To me this was one of the coolest things ever!!!!! I love space travel! I remember being a bit bummed that it was going to take a little while for the pictures to show up and I also remember snickering a little when they had to fix the mirrors on it.

So without any further babbling from me I present my Hubble Telescope Travels through the Perseus A Galaxy Nails.

see the Hubble Telescope on my thumb

 

 

Here's my inspiration, The NGC 1275 also known as Perseus A. Photo is courtesy of NASA and the Hubbel Space Telescope

 

What do you think???? My first galaxy nails and they are based on a real galaxy! Did I nail (ha ha) the Perseus A ?

Thanks so much for taking a trip back in time with me and remembering the Hubbel Space Telescope!