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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Autobot Nails! The glyphs are ancient Autobot for ShadowFire (one of my transformers characters)
Excuse the raged look, neither polish nor skin agrees to well with constantly ringing out rags in a bleach bucket.

I found an easy way to stamp. Grab a ziplock bag and throw a layer of topcoat on it. Then after its dry stamp onto that. Then peel it off and apply it to the nail. No more guesstimating on where the stamp will show up. (I'm horrible with that) Acrylic paint works realy well with this method too.


China Glaze holographic in Cosmic Dust with a franken I made with realy shiny holo glitter I purchased from Club Libby Lu years ago before it died. 

Friday, August 16, 2013

Wahoo, finally got around to starting a nail blog. I guess a little about me blurb may be a good way to start things off.

     I was a crazy nail biter until my senior year of high school. Mother surprised me with acrylic nails for prom and I kept them around for about six or so months. When I took them off I had never seen my nails in better shape. They were still insanely week from all that biting damage so I started to paint them every week for the extra layers of strength, ever since then I have been ocd with my nails. I joke that I'm more ocd with my nails than sunstreaker is with his pain job! (its almost true XD)

     I started out with only a small handful (around ten or so bottles) of nail polish. Once I started painting my nails every week that number quickly increased. I've accumulated over 80 different bottles of store bot and self frankenstined colors. I'm not overly interested in collecting every single color of only one particular brand. I tend to be very pick and choosy, only buying colors that catch my eye. I'm not fond of pinks and don't realy favor one brand more than the other.

     Recently I've discovered a neat trick of using Tattoo paper for my mannie's. You can print out a bunch of designs on one sheet then cut out the one you want to use and apply it over a painted nail as if you where applying it to the skin like normal. Sooooo much easier and faster than hand painting everything. (Have you ever tryed to hand paint the Autobot brand? its a doozy)