Hello everyone! Whew I'm back from that long break I took. So yeah I had sleepaway band camp and stuff...God band camp is literally NON STOP work! We have to learn drill and music and be good so our band instructor won't yell at us. But you know it's actually a lot of fun...we slept in cabins with our friends and had theme days like purple day and superhero day and we had a talent show and it was awesome! Ok that was 5 days, so then after that we had Labor day weekend which I spent with some family, and I went SHOPPING which was fun, as always. Then SCHOOL started again. I got to meet all my teachers and stuff...I'm loading up on honors courses so I'm probs gonna be like super busy during the year :( so yeah I've been busy lately...But it's a long 4 day weekend so it's back to posting!
Today's I've got another fun double post for you guys with my good friend Carlee. If you missed our last double post you can see it here.
Today's theme was mermaid inspired. Carlee is sporting this lovely polish:
"Hi blog readers! So this is Carlee and this polish is Sephora By OPI-Mermaid To Order. This polish is an aqua blue/teal color with a shiny metallic finish. It's a little frosty and you can see some streaks and brush strokes but it doesn't take away from the appearance.
This is with only one coat plus a quick dry top coat, but another coat of polish could be used for touch ups or if you have larger nails. This polish goes on very easily, it's pretty thin but still thick enough for only needing one coat for opacity.
This polish is also a little different depending on the lighting, it can look more green or blue, and these pics are making it look a little more blue than it really is.
I love this polish and it's probably the favorite polish I have ever used, I am just IN LOVE with it! I think this is a serious must have for everyone's collection, I mean, it practically glows. So these sell for about $9 a bottle, but I got mine in a special gift box that came with other polishes, I don't remember what it was called...
That's all I've got for today thanks for reading my post everybody!"
Ok so to go along with Carlee's nails I thought I would just pull out one of my metallic teals and swatch it, but then I thought geez that would be so boring. I was thinking about some nail art to do to match Mermaid To Order and then it was like hey, it's got mermaid in the name, it's time for Mermaid Nails!! Yayy!
So these are the mermaid nails I came up with. Whenever I think about mermaids I think about colors like gold and metallic greens and blues, like the polish above. And I also think of this:
http://norribeth.webs.com/photos/Take-a-splash/08_hp-mermaid.jpg
Yeah I know I'm a nerd. Most people think of like the little mermaid and Ariel and stuff right...?
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Ariel---Flounder-the-little-mermaid-223085_1280_1024.jpg
But whenever I think of Ariel I think of this:
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt66/beth_soprano/Daily_Firefly/May25ariel.jpg
Two by two hands of blue...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4IsrUoO6T68/TS4Pn2AQngI/AAAAAAAABIs/81b3_Bn8e0g/s320/firefly_8_ariel.jpg
Ok sorry about my tangent...For those of who get this I bet you all agree with me. and for those of you who are looking at me like wtf yeah...sorry.
Ok so back to nails.
I started with my lovely black base, then used striping tape to block off the fishnet pattern. I painted rows of Sally Hansen Lustre Shine-Plume(the gold), Wet N' Wild-Caribbean Frost(greenish teal), and an unnamed metallic blue polish onto a make up sponge and dabbed the gradient onto the nail. I remove the striping tape and voila. My mermaid mani is complete. almost
Just to add a little extra dimension and color, I painted a veeery thin coat of Essie-Shine Of The Times, a multidimensional iridescent flakie topcoat to give it a little more mermaid-ness.
So this was the final result. These nails were actually very easy, I should do some more striping tape gradients in the future. I always love working with striping tape. It's fun.
Ok that was actually a pretty long post, thanks for reading guys!
And here's a pic of my band camp cabin:
Yeah it was purple day.
That's our entire band lol. I feel really nerdy now. This whole post was sorta nerd filled. And also yes, it was still purple day.
Hooray for nerds, we're the coolest
~Nova
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