Paint ALL the nails!

So I love how you painted the TARDIS and space on your nails. How did you do that? It looks really cool and I'm really interested in the space part especially.

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:01:50 -0400

Hi there! I did that a while ago, so I don’t remember my exact process… for the TARDIS, I did a layer of blue, then painted the black background around it; I used black and white french tip/liner nail polishes for the details.

The space bits were mostly just me layering down multiple shimmery/iridescent polishes in cold colors (blue, green, purple) until I got something I liked; I then used the white french tip brush to dot on some stars. :)

Hope that helps; it was mostly just experimentation.

10 steps ; perfectly polished nails

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:11:59 -0400

10 steps ;
perfectly polished nails

My jealousy is making my physically ill. First of all, you have fantastic nails and then on top of that you have brilliant nail painting skills. Hopefully, my nails and skills will improve so I can wear TARDIS manicures. TARDIS manicures are cool. #supernerdsunite

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:13:43 -0500

<333 Noo, don’t feel ill! Thank you for the compliment; unfortunately, my own nails need working on now, as I ended up biting them again due to a recent bout of anxiety, hence the lack of updates :( but they’re growing out, slowly but surely, and I have more geeky manicures planned! #supernerds forever

dont you do tutorials? on youtube o rsomething?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:33:06 -0500

Hi! Not at the moment, but it is something I’m considering for the future. :)

you have some skills! :D maybe you should make a youtube tutorial on how to do them! its amazing

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:32:53 -0500

Thank you! :) I don’t currently Youtube tutorials in the works, but it’s something I’m considering for the future.

Freehand using tiny paintbrushes and toothpicks; most of the...

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:06:10 -0500

Freehand using tiny paintbrushes and toothpicks; most of the colors were straight out of the bottle, but I did mix polishes to create the pink for the frosting and the gray on nyan cat. :) Click the picture to zoom in!

For the poor? fortunate? souls who don’t know what this is, click here and enjoy. :D

Happy Halloween! These are two of the Doctors I managed to find...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:33:00 -0400

Happy Halloween! These are two of the Doctors I managed to find while trawling through Franklin Street. You can see my nails in context plus part of my costume :)

I started working on my cutie mark nails before I realized that...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:41:00 -0400

I started working on my cutie mark nails before I realized that I had a nail idea for my Halloween costume. I plan to be Amy with all the tally marks counting the Silence all over her body. Cheap, simple, fast, and easily recognizable :D

This is my first time attempting a French manicure. I’m not a huge fan of the style, but it works well for this idea. :)

The other day, when I was on Tumblr, I came across...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:55:00 -0400

The other day, when I was on Tumblr, I came across alicexz’s portrait of young!Amelia Pond… which led me to explore her blog and find the portrait of Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) to the left. I was actually familiar with her previous graphics work as silverqe on Livejournal, and I was always a big fan of her design sense and her use of color.

As you could probably tell from my previous posts, my inventory of nail colors was mostly blues, blacks, and glitters, so I decided to buy a few more colors and try to mimic the vibrancy of this portrait in a nail design. It’s not quite as glorious as the portrait and it’s not a super intricate design like my others, but I tried. :P (Look, I can do nail designs that don’t have glitter!)

I think the pinkie turned out the best. :)

Close-up of my jellyfish nails; I think this picture captures...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:09:19 -0400

Close-up of my jellyfish nails; I think this picture captures the colors and detail better than the tiny picture on the other post.

Bonus photo of my palette after I was done. All those shades of blue were layered over the top and the tentacles to give the jelly more of a transparent look; they were mostly a couple drops of blue mixed with clear polish.

I have decided that Sinful Colours’ “Hottie”...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:10:00 -0400

I have decided that Sinful Colours’ “Hottie” (831) is THE most beautiful glitter polish ever. It’s tinted blue, so it won’t work as well on warm colors or pastels, but on blues and blacks, it’s perfect. The specks are thin and small and lend just the right touch. I’ve layered some over the jellyfish here. :)

Click on the image to zoom in! The transparent effect on the jellyfish is more impressive in real life (especially on the thumb); it didn’t photograph very well.

(And before anyone complains—the jelly on my thumb isn’t quite Aurelia aurita. I made a few modifications.)

The city at night. Freehand with my left hand—I’m...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:23:00 -0400

The city at night. Freehand with my left hand—I’m right-handed, so please excuse the wobbliness and unevenness. :P The moon on the thumbnail is actually a stick-on rhinestone.

This is a week’s worth of wear with no touch-up except to line the bottoms of my nails and the very tips with a thin line of black, plus an extra layer of topcoat on my index nail.

HOW THE EFF STEPH. Share your magic with me, even though I have no use for it. <3 Evann

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:07:09 -0400

<3! Perhaps someday I’ll make tutorials, when I’m less lazy.

Life is too short for matching nails on both hands. :P I also...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:40 -0400

Life is too short for matching nails on both hands. :P I also realized that my DSLR can do close-up pictures with my zoom lens, so expect higher quality pictures from now on, although I’m still practicing taking focused pictures with one hand, so please bear with me on that.

Autumn-themed nails. Mystery shimmery brown nail base; Black Radiance Hot Steppa and Wet n Wild Fast-Dry Orange for glitter and pumpkin. Calvin Klein Splendid Color Emerald Green for the teeny bit of green on the stem.

EXTERMINATION IN ACTION! Not the most flattering pose, but you...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:20:00 -0400

EXTERMINATION IN ACTION! Not the most flattering pose, but you get the idea. ;) The Dalek even glitters in real life, since I used metallic and glitter polish!

You can find another picture of this nail set here.

EXTERMINATE! Dalek nail art. Each nail is hand-painted. I...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:38:00 -0400

EXTERMINATE! Dalek nail art. Each nail is hand-painted. I can’t really make a list of all the polishes I used, as most of them were mystery polishes I picked up from a thrift store.

You can find a close-up of extermination in action here.

My first attempt at nail art. TARDIS on the thumbnail; space on...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:36:00 -0400

My first attempt at nail art. TARDIS on the thumbnail; space on the other nails… and polish all over my cuticles. -__-;