The road so far

I'm afraid. I fear for my life, and I fear for my feelings even more. I just don't think I'm quite ready for season 9 finale. Season 9 of what? Supernatural, obviously! I'm just not mentally prepared for it, OK?!
My nails are, though!

As my friend put it- Instead of going literal and doing something like angel wings, the mark of Cain or the anti-possession tattoo, I went for- and I'm quoting her- "the deep motive of the show". And she's absolutely right! This show has always been about family, and the two genetically blessed brothers on a road trip, saving people and hunting things, you know, the family business.
Other than that, on my thumb I have yet another lame excuse of writing. "The road so far" is the title that along with "carry on my wayward son" in the background, will bring every fan to tears, thinking about the boy's history.

The base for Dean's baby are water decals* from born pretty store, you can get here. This work like any water decals out there, but since you are going for a full nail here, application can be a bit tricky. I'll suggest that you don't mind you cuticles in the process, and just clean them up later with Acetone or nail polish remover. Don't forget to use top coat on top of it, so it will stay put.

My base color for all of my nails is Wow 350. On my thumb I wrote using Wow 393. The 67' Chavy Impala was drawn using the two polishes above, as well as Life 269 and Chic Diamonds. If you noticed- I added a red dot on the map, using Life strawberry. Guess where the red dot is, just guess!

I'm off to find some salt, because I'm all alone at home and I heard the guitar playing. And I might use it on popcorn while the episode? That might be wise...

*Items were sent for an honest review.

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Spring Awakening

Originally, I did this design for Nailpolis competition, and later on I've submitted it to KBShimmer competition as well. I'm guessing that spring is the right time for nail art competitions... Anyhow, when I uploaded it to Nailpolis, I've named it "Two little birdies sitting on a tree", but for the post name I went with the competition name itself, which was what I wrote on my thumb as well.

I've started with a grey base and sponged greens and pink all over the background for the overall flower-y vibe. The rest was free handed, and at the end, I finished up with 15 different nail polishes out on the table.
I really liked the bird on my ring finger, but the second one didn't turn out very well, I believe.

I even went a bit artistic with this design, and did some photos with floral props, that believe me, were really hard to find around the house!

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The Lacquer Legion: Adoration

We are now at the second month of The Lacquer Legion challenge, and let me tell you- I'm so glad I joined! This challenge prompts are so wide and unspecific, that I struggle to come up with the right mani to fit it. As I did before, I've decided to go literal on the subject, and when last time I had the reinvention of the butterfly shape, this time my nails consist of a crowd filled with adoration to their idol.

As to who or what this idol is, this is all up to you! The vision I had in mind is the cheering crowd at a concert, or maybe a party of some sort, or better yet- a DJ's concert that combines it all together. To demonstrate the colorful stage light I played around with strokes of different glow in the dark polishes, and on top of those, I added the crowd silhouette. Unfortunately, the crowd isn't really visible in the glow mode.

My base color is Wow 350, and above it are 4 BK's glow in the dark polishes- 01, 04, 07 and 09. The polishes does glow in different colors, with the main difference being in the purple polish, and yet on my glow in the dark photos [as in real life], it all seems to glow in the same color, so the colorful affect is lost. For the crowd silhouette as well as the French tip on my thumb I used Wow 393.

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Sochi Olympic Games- Curling nails

If you're following my Facebook page, you already know that the 1st of February was a horrible day. It was the day I was forced to cut down my nails and make them into nubs. After screaming at the top of my lungs, I set my self down and made a new manicure, because I couldn't look at my naked nubs for another second. Now, don't get me wrong- there are many people who can really rock their nubs, but unfortunately, my hands just look too big like that. Doesn't work for me.

So although the Winter Olympics started a few days ago, only now I'm posting my Olympic nails, inspired by my favorite winter game- Curling. In Curling there's a target painted on the ice floor, and it is played in two groups. The point of the game is to get your group's rocks as close to the target eyeball, but also making sure the other team's rocks as far as possible.
The Curling competitions only started today, so this manicure comes out just in time!

So here is a quick breakdown of the whole nail art:
I believe my pointer needs no introducing, but anyhow, it's says "Sochi 2014", to state which Olympic games we are talking about. My middle finger shows this year's Curling icon, with a man throwing the rock. Which leads me to my ring finger, on which I've drawn the rock itself, on the white background of the ice, on it's way to reach the target- which is exactly what I have on my pinky.
On my thumb I have the well known Olympic rings. Don't ask me why the logo is placed so low, it just turned that way during the course of things.
All was free handed but the icon's head, in which I used a dotting tool.

And we're down to the colors break down. The white base color on all of my nails is Chic White flag. The light blue on my thumb, pointer and middle finger is Chic Bora bora. The red is Life strawberry, and the dark blue that I've paired with it on my pinky is Life 332. The dark-silver shade of the rock is Ga-de Vintage silver. The black is Ga-de black swan, the green in Life 327, and the yellow is Ga-de Mellow yellow.

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The Lacquer Legion: Reinvention

It's the first (official) Lacquer Legion challenge, and I already feel pumped! This month prompt had me come up with two manicure ideas that I liked- the wrong one that you've already seen, and the one that actually follows the orders the way they REALLY should be followed. That's the one I have for you today!

When I sat myself down to think this theme through, my thoughts were blocked. But you know what they say- when in doubt, google it! (OK, so maybe nobody actually say it. Shhh...) So after doing so, I found this picture of the butterfly transformation stages, and realized that the metamorphosis it has to go through is not so different from this so called 'reinvention' many of us dream of doing.
I had so much fun wearing this manicure, and I'm most definitely proud of my fine-detailed work on the two grown butterflies. I showed it off whenever I had the chance to! What made it even better is that everyone (and I mean every. single. one.)  thought I used nail stickers. But here's the beauty of it- I didn't! This manicure is 100% legit- everything was free-handed by me!

The base color is Chic White flag, and the nail art was done using Chic White flag, Crazy in love and It's a date, as well as Ga-de Black swan and California sun.

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A challenge gone wrong

This is a story about a girl with a poor English. The girl decideג to join The Lacquer Legion challenge. The girl also read the month theme "Reinvention" as "Renovation". Yep. That's right. The girl spend a fair share of her time planning a 'house renovation' themed manicure. And here's when the truth comes out- the girl above is me.
I ended up quiet liking the manicure I had in mind, so even thought I figured out my mistake before making it, I decided to go for it anyway! There's no harm in making an extra nail art, right?

The color of the wall is Chic White flag, and the fresh coat of paint was made using the perfect minty green-  Life 279. I drew the paint roller using Chic Diamonds [silver], Ga-de Black swan [black], and the mixture of Ga-de Black swan and Life 279.

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Jelly doughnuts

I know for a fact I did this manicure on November. November 27th to be exact. Why can I remember is so well? Because I made it specially for Hanukkah. What symbolizes this particular Jewish holiday more then anything are the Dreidels and the jelly filled doughnuts. I didn't actually have a proper image of this doughnut manicure, so I just snapped a quick one when leaving for school photoshooting. I tried my best editing the photo to make it as realistic as possible, when comes to true-to-life colors. I ended up making all the scenario around my finger nails to seem a bit off. The second picture was snatched from my friend's Instagram.

The base color is Ga-de Mellow Yellow. The base of the jelly doughnuts is Chic sand, and the shading was done using Wow 395 and Red 79. I used Chic white flag and Life strawberry for the sugar and jelly.

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31DC2013: Day 24, Inspired by a book

After yesterday, I looked for something simpler to do. So I took inspiration from a wonderful, well written, full of emotions book, "The Fault In Our Stars", written by John Green [which is an awesome person!].
While the Hebrew cover looks somehow like the painting "starry night" by Van Gogh, The original cover is very simple, so I went with it.

OK, yes. Maybe too simple. But oh, well. I promise that tomorrow's design will make up for it!

The base color is Chic bora bora, black is Chic black fog, and white is Chic white flag.

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31DC2013: Day 23, Inspired by a movie

That one was a sure thing for me. My all time favorite is Grease. No, for real now- I've seen it over 10 times, heard the song many more times, I own the DVD, and yesterday I got my hands on a vinyl records set!
So I knew Grease is gonna be it.

Pinky to pointe I presented different outfits in the movie- Pink Ladies jacket, T Birds jacket, the skirt of that nerdy girl, and Rydell logo on the cheerleaders outfits.
As for the Pink Ladies, and the T Birds, I chose singular form, because I didn't had place for anything else.

My thumb shows the Grease logo- the word itself in a car shape.
And to tell you the truth- I'M SO FREAKING PROUD OF IT. For real! It turned out so much better then I expected, and I couldn't be more happy about it.

Black in by thumb, pointer, middle and ring fingers is Chic black fog, White in my thumb, middle, ring and pinky is Chic white flag. Red in my pinky and thumb is Life strawberry, Blue in my ring finger is Life 332, and the pink in my Pointer finger is Laka 73.

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31DC2013: Day 22, inspired by a song

When I've heard "song inspired" I imidiatly wanted to go with the one and only, that makes me go nuts in lipsing, Britney Spears. Now, I wanted to go with some old school classic such as 'Baby one more time', but ended up going for the song 'Holg it against me', because it's video has alot of sceance I could take Insperation of.

So here is the full on manicure, and from here I'm gonna show you each finger with a screen shot of the insperation for it.

Starting with the pinky and the thumb, where I took inspiration from the splattered dress. The white here is Chic white flag. Blue is Chic bora bora, green is Chic crazy in love, purple is Life 328 and orange is Life 299. I mixed those 4 colors with some nail polish remover [Acetone does not work!] and blow the brush to get paint on my nails.

On to the ring finger I have Britney lips. I must say, I did a horrible job capturing it, but oh well.
Black is Chic black fog, Pink is a mix of Laka 73 and Chic white flag, white is again Chic white flag and red is Life strawberry.

My middle finger represent Britney's CRAZY neon necklace, which I would love to get my hand on. No idea what will go with it tho.
Nude is Chic sand, Silver is Chic diamonds, and yellow is Ga-de california sun.

My pointer is an abstract of the fight between Britney's black self and Britney's red self. I uses saran warp to create this effect. Red is Life strawberry and black is Chic black fog.

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31DC2013: Day 21, inspired by color

*Intentionally ignoring the fact I've missed two posts, and hope to fill them up later.*
This is the part of the challenge that I was the most excited about! It just feels that this time, I got more space to do what ever I want, be much more creative about things!
So as many other bloggers, I interpreted this day as "inspired by color name", and I went with Essence night in vegas, which is a flakie topper.

Night in vegas starts in the Vegas sign, so that's what I went with! Smudged as hell, so I'm guessing it's time for a new top coat [and another, thinner, brush], but other than that, it turned up quiet awesome. I'm very happy about it, frankly.

Black is Chic black fog, and on top of it on most nails I have Essence night in vegas. In the thumb I added a random rhinestone I found. White is Chic white flag, Yellow is Ga-de mellow yellow, the blue of the stand is Life  316, and the blue for the font is Chic bora bora. red is Life strawberry, and gray is Life 269.

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31DC2013: Day 16, tribal print nails

I still haven't missed a post, but let me tell you, it's very tiring. Man, I should have thought it through deeper.
But on to the positive side- I'm getting to do stuff I wanted to do for a long time, and this is one of them, Ikat print!

OK, I'll be the first to admit that it didn't turn out that great, the black out lines in particular. But I blame the stiff brush and the dried polish, and leave you with a promise to try this manicure again at some point.
I followed Kayla's tutorial, so check that out for an explanation.

My base color is Ga-de mellow yellow, white is from the nails supreme set, plum is Chic simply you, and black is Chic black fog.

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31DC2013: Day 13, animal print nails

I came up with today's manicure quit early in the day, but was too lazy to do it till now.
I didn't want to go with the classical animal prints, so I thought about it for a while, and decided to go with a parrot! two of them actually.

Four of my nails are devoted to the red parrot [don't expect me to search for his name], and my thumb is the parrot that I'm pretty sure is called Drara. This manicure is meant to be seen in a diagonal position.
After coloring my base colors, I hand drawn the details, and used dotting tool for the green bird eye.

This gonna be a long list of colors...
Green is Chic crazy in love, red is Life strawberry, white is Chic white flag, black is Chic black fog. I used Ga-de california sun for the green bird eye and as an undie on my ring finger. Both the blue and the bright yellow are from nails supreme set.

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31DC2013: Day 11, polka dots nails

Another day, another mass for me. Ugh I'm starting to feel that it's a bit over my head :/
Anyway, today is another day where my friends turned up as a great help. After me panicking in the chat, they came through!

Snow man nails! Why, you may ask- cause it's freaking hot outside and I want winter! Not that we have snow here, but a girl can dream.
Orange is Life 299, and black and white are Chic black fog and white flag. Guess which one is who.
That's it for today. Hopefully tomorrow will be easier for me...

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31DC2013: Day 9, rainbow nails

I have to admit, I wasn't too excited about today's challange. For me rainbow is either too childish or the homosexual flag, to be honest with you. After coming up, and canceling, tons of ideas, I decided to simply taste the rainbow!

Oh... yeah! It's a skittles mani! And boy, this mani was a rough one! My nails ended up too short for this, and if you'll look closely, you'll see that I dropped the "e" in the word. BUT- I am very proud of it, and the rainbow itself came out great, which is why it's good I took some pictures before adding the text.

So my pointer is obviously the original flavored package, while the other nails supposed to resemble the skittles them self. Also, smart me didn't bother to wait till the text is fully dried, and massed it up with the top coat.

And on to the color list-
The red is Life strawberry, the orange is Life 299, the yellow is Ga-de california sun, green is Chic crazy in love, and the blue on the logo is Chic bora bora. The purple on my pinky is Ga-de purple empire, while the one used on my ring finger is Life 328. Don't ask why.

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