Mish Mash Challenge - A technique you have never tried before. Newspaper nails & a dandelion...

Hey there!

How are you doing? I hope you're ON for today's installment of the Mish Mash Challenge, which involves a "technique you have never tried before". I love this theme; I want this challenge, along with my artist inner self, to push me to do new things, better things... 

Believe it or not, I had never tried newspaper nails before. This blog has been running for over a year now (d'uh... I missed my own bloggiversary, but my battle with remembering dates is a lost one so let's just move on), and this week's topic has been a great push. Of course, I watched some tutorials on YouTube and took good note of Lisa's newsprint nailz, and this is what happened:

Long story short, at first what happened is a whole lot of nothing. No transfer of characters + ruined polish, that's what I got. So I decided to keep ruining the left hand's polish by trying other ways to transfer the darn text to my claws. Clear polish? Nope. Alcohol? Nope. Clear polish and alcohol? Not yet. Plain water? YES!

Then started again: 2 coats of China Glaze For Audrey + 1 coat of Kiko's Sparkling Touch topper. Let that dry and transfer the text. Any text may work, but I decided to teach my nails some tolerance by transferring an article about the persisting homophobia in France (and Europe in general). Why not?

It lacked something more, so I made good use of my Nailz Craze stamping plate NC01 and its beautiful dandelion design... Voilà!

I was so happy with the result that I sent a picture of them to The Boyfriend right away with a simple text: "Getting artsy. Like it or not?". Except I didn't really send it to The Boyfriend, but to Girona's airport. It wasn't even watermarked... *laugh* NEXT!

Take care,

M.

Do not forget to take a look at the other ladies' posts:

Audrey has been hypnotized here!

Señoritas!

I hope you're enjoying a big ice cream wherever you are; I certainly will right after posting this beauty. Now enter Cult Nails Hypnotize me over two coats of the legenday China Glaze For Audrey.

I am sorry to say I haven't been able to capture the glittery awesomeness of this baby, so for once let's let the words really do the talking. Hypnotize me is a very light and translucid green base packed with tons of green and blue glitter. Its beauty comes from the fact that it shines even in the shade and reflects every tiny bit of light. The first picture has been taken indoors, with indirect sunlight.

The picture above has been taken at the office (yeah, no comments) when the sun was hitting the glitter through the window.

And here's a close up of the babe, so you can see how the blue glitter really does stand out for a crazy glittery attraction.

I was lusting over some pictures of Yun, The Polish Hideout the other day (yeah, Yun I might be your official stalker :p) and I know I'll be near dying when OPI DS Indulgence comes out. It's impossible to acquire it over here without having to pay a huge price, and I thought I could offer myself to do a swap before tracking it down like mad in eBay. So this is just a shot, an offer in the air, in hopes someone will be interested in swapping me over DS Indulgence. I will swap back anything you ask me *drama added* 

If you are interested in anything I can offer just email me :) 

Have a great day and show some attitude!

M.

Swimming pool nails - Saran Wrap manicure

Hey there!

I'll just post a quick entry today because I've been moving out this weekend and I'm on the middle of what you could call nesting. Forget all the tiny bits uf rubbish, only nice things allowed!

Well, before nubbinizing my dear nails, which makes me utterly sad, I tried the so called Saran Wrap manicure. I was amazed at how easy this is, and at the super cool effect it gives. I must say: I'm in love. Sorry, striping tape. I think you've just been replaced by the new ultimate crush.

I used China Glaze For Audrey and a Kiko polish of which I can't remember the number. Whose fault is it, really? Why can't they just name the bottles?! I usually look for the name in their web page, but the bottle in question is lost in the middle of a backpack, amongst all the other lovely bottles I own... Attempting to locate it is suicide right now. And I need to assemble the hundred of things I just bought in Ikea, so I'll leave that for later if you don't mind.

When editing the pictures I noticed the effect is just like the water of a swimming pool. Right? Right?! I was really sorry to take it off, so I might give it another try sometime this week. BTW I'm on holidays for the week, which is totally orgasmic if you ask me. I didn't remember the effect free time had on me, how sad is that? Anyhow, I've plenty of free time, and I intend to make the most of it :D

So take care,

M.