My Nails Have Gone Viral!!

Day 85

Hahaa, just a different sort of viral than some of the other designs... ;)

I did my nails with these designs today for two reasons....#1. I'm sick. lol #2, My sister, Stacey, works in the lab at St. Mary's Hospital as a Med Tech, and she's gotten a bunch of her fellow co-workers there interested in the blog, and I thought they might get a kick out of these designs... :-P From Thumb to pinky, the viruses are (or cause) : Sore Throat, Common Cold, Flu, Swine Flu, and The Plague. :-) (based off the images from the awesome Giant Plush Microbes)

UPDATE: So I was informed by my sister that I misspoke, and infact, the pinky and thumb are bacteria, not viruses. The thumb is the bacteria Streptococcus Pyogenes, and the pinky is Yersinia pestis



I used:

Thumb: Sore Throat

Zoya Ravenas a base with Zoya Dakota, China Glaze Salsa, Zoya Stephanie, and a bit of mixing with Stephanie and Salsa, applied with a dotting tool to make the virus.

Index: Common Cold

Zoya Raven as a base, with Zoya Yummy to paint the viruses, and mixed with Diamond Cosmetics Giddy for highlight, and BB Couture Opposites Attract to shade.

Middle: Flu

Illamasqua Rampage as a base, with LA Girl polish in Army Girl for the viruses, and mixed with American Apparel Cotton for lighter green, and then Zoya Envy lightly sponged on top for texture and spots.

Ring: Swine Flu

American Apparel Cotton as a base, with BB Couture Opposites Attract
sponged on top for the grey splotchy texture, then the viruses are painted with China Glaze White on White as a base, then covered with Zoya Stephanie, and shaded with a mixture of Zoya Stephanie, Zoya Dakota, and BB Couture Opposites Attract, and the dark red is a mixture of Zoya Dakota and BB Couture Opposites Attract. The outline is Zoya Raven.

Pinky: The Plague

Diamond Cosmetics Giddy as a base, with Orly Mirror, Mirror for the virus, and outlined with BB Couture Opposites Attract. BB Couture Opposites Attract was also lightly sponged over to simulate the gunk around the virus. lol (so technical, right?)

I topped everything off with 2 liberal coats of Seche Vite top coat. :)

Steer clear of these bad boys and you should stay healthy this season!! :-P

VALENTINE'S NAIL ART

So I guess this is what happens when you are done with winter! We are moving on to bright fun colors and even some Valentine's nails. Woo hoo! I am just too excited to do Valentine's nails. I couldn't help myself. This is pink acrylic in "barbie". The little red hearts I embedded into the acrylic and I painted on the red and white stripes.

These nails have 3 different colors of purple clay dots. The dots are from oaktreedollshouseminiatures.com. I also added a little coordinating clay flower on the ring fingers.

These are acrylic nails in purple passion. I added all sorts of different pieces of glitter strips, dots, sparkles, and sequins. They are extremely sparkly!

My Favourite Jeans

Dit is twee laagjes H&M My Favourite Jeans met een topcoat. Applicatie is prima en de dekking ook.
Normaal draag ik niet vaak dit soort glitterige shimmers maar ik vind haar wel erg mooi.

English: This is two coats of H&M My Favourite Jeans with a topcoat. Application was fine and so was the pigmentation.
I don't normally wear these kinds of glittery shimmery polishes but I do like her very much.

Ik was erg benieuwd of ze mat op de OPI Suedes zou lijken dus ik heb China Glaze Matte Magic erbij gepakt. Het heeft er wel wat van maar toch haalt de shimmer het niet bij die van de suedes.

English: I was curious to see if she would look like the OPI suedes matte so I busted out China Glaze Matte Magic. It is similar but it still doesn't come close to the suedes.

With flash

Without flash

Bedankt voor het kijken!

English: Thanks for looking!

Metallic Sponged nails

I hope you, guys did not get tired of my painted nails, it is just so much fun to do this one stroke on the nails, that i just cant resist. My konad is crying is asking me to come back...
Those painted nails are just so cool looking in real life, especially now, that i am getting better at it. Do you guys miss my Konading?
For this manicure i used China Glaze Khrome and sponge - i mean for background. I did not believe that this was gonna work, but in fact turned out that those metalliks are so cool lookign for sponging.