Crazy Little Thing Called Love

I'm so sorry for spamming you with pictures, but how awesome is this? I love what comes out of me when I'm inspired. Artwork on my fingernails.

Yes, I'm complimenting myself. I'm shameless.

I seem to be totally infatuated with a male individual of my species. MY species! Believe it or not, this is the first time this has happened. Before this, I've only fallen in love with cats and dogs. Never before have I wanted a man to be mine.

So congratulate me, I feel like a teenage girl! I finally know what all those girls in secondary school were talking about. Personal growth! Woohoo!

I named this after Queen's song, Crazy Little Thing Called Love. "This thing called love, I just can't handle it." I really can't handle this feeling. I can't stand the way my heart flips when I see him after a long time. I can't stand having to avoid him because we both know and it's so awkward. I can't stand the fact that I will never have him. Not even for a little while.

Fuck. I hope I get over this soon.

Studs

This was inspired by a bag that I saw in a shop. (By inspired, I mean I totally copied the pattern.) It was a white faux leather bag with colourful fabric circles fastened onto its face with silver studs. I almost bought it, but I was rather poor at the time, so I left the shop without it. Now I'm glad, because although I love its colours, its shape and size were totally irregular and I would never have used it. 

Pretty, though, isn't it? The thumb is my favourite. 16 studs! I can't tell you how much pleasure it gives me just to look at pictures of it. Oh, I love my nails.

Venom Claws

Yeah, claws again. Green this time, so that they look venomous. That's how I felt when I painted them. Toxic, dangerous to others. I sometimes think that that's why I wear bright colours, to warn people to stay away like frogs, snakes and insects do.

Isn't the colour pretty? It reflects gold. You can't really see it on my nails in these pictures but it shows up in the bottle. Maybe I shouldn't have used a black base. I'll try it on other colours.

And yes, I showed you my chipped polish. My fingernails are always painted but never perfect. What are you gonna do?

Cookie Monster

So, the hiatus has ended a little earlier than I predicted. I've got a new computer. And it's blue just like the cookie monster.

I love cookies. Just like the cookie monster. I wanted to paint a cookie on my ring finger, but I didn't have the right colours and didn't feel like getting my acrylic paint and mixing. So, all monsters.

And yes, the picture quality is bad and there's a big chip on my middle finger. I didn't manage to take a picture until about 5 days in. School, ya know.

Hiatus

I'm not able to upload pictures onto this blog due to some technical difficulties. That is, my piece of crap computer decided to die on me. Until I get a new one, which will be in mid-June, I won't be writing here. I'll still be painting my nails, though, and when I get my computer, I will flood this blog with entries. You'll be overwhelmed. Just wait.

Dark Side versus Bright Side

I know, I've been away too long. I've got a few designs accumulated which I haven't written about. I've been meaning to, but school work, sickness and indolence got in the way. I'll get to it this week, though. Hopefully.

We all have dark sides and bright sides. Side by side. This is how I expressed mine. Can you see how the dark side glows with tiny blue and purple glitter? And how the bright side is dulled by gray shimmer? Sometimes dark sides aren't very dark and bright sides aren't very bright.

And yeah, I messed up. There are dark spots on the bright side of my left middle finger. And my right pinkie is smudged. I can make up some philosophical crap that makes them tie in with the whole concept, but I won't. Just ignore them, okay. :)

Kitten Love

 Kitten Love

You're probably wondering what this has to do with kittens. Well, it's inspired by this photo:

Yeah. I just took some of the colours in this picture and put them on my nails. I am SO creative, I know.

It's my favourite picture of all time. Look how sweet and adoring he is! I just woke up one day and he was lying up there like that. And since my phone was already in my hand after I switched off the alarm, I clicked the camera on and snapped a picture.

This still happens a lot. My cat loves to sleep near my head in the morning. Sometimes on my head. Many times, he sits on my chest and rests his face on mine. That was so sweet when he was young, it still is, but now he's so heavy. He's almost 5 kilograms heavy. He's a big boy now. <3

Cupcakes

Yes, I've finally painted cupcakes on my nails. I've wanted to for a long time, but only figured out how to do it recently. I'm in it for the colours, you see, not pictures. I'm not an artist, just a noob that likes colours.

Once I found one picture of cupcakes on nails on a blog, I kept finding them everywhere. On nail blogs, YouTube, and Flickr. Apparently, it's a popular design. 

But this was not only inspired by those. It's inspired by my friend Rev, who is the best baker I know. We sort of started baking together a few years ago, and she has progressed from a noob who bakes with friends to an expert baker, decorating and selling cakes and entering contests, while I'm still baking all kinds of chocolate chip cookies. Her cupcakes are almost literally orgasmic. You know, I think she should start a baking blog. *Overt hint*

I didn't manage to take good pictures. These pictures are crap. But it's okay, because I was going to paint cupcakes in different colours another time, anyway. I want some chocolate cupcakes. Yummm.

Claws of Gold

Fingernails are protective gear, tools and weapons, all in one. I've been using them for decoration for years, so I haven't been using them as tools or weapons, in order to preserve the decoration.

It just occurred to me that it doesn't have to be one or the other. I can decorate my nails and then use them as tools or weapons. That's why I haven't cut them. They're so long now.

Isn't the gold just stunning? Well, in this picture it isn't as impressive as it should be, but imagine it more bright and sparkly. It's tiny gold glitter particles suspended densely in clear nail polish. Two coats makes it totally opaque. It looks like I have claws of gold.

Unlike gold, though, my nails aren't soft. They're hard and strong. Ideal to use as tools or weapons.

Just For Toes Nail Art Contest

Nail Art Express is a blog that chronicles a girl's nail art learning journey. She's learning to be a professional nail technician, and shares every step of her journey with us. Her nail art designs are original and inspired, done with old-school techniques, not using scotch tape or stamping plates like noobs (such as me). Nail Art Express has become one of my favourite nail blogs.

She has organised a nail art contest that I have entered. The theme of the contest is "Take A Walk On The Wild Side." I wanted to make full use of this motivation to create, so I decided to submit two designs. I painted them on fake toenails because I don't have the flexibility to bring my toes close enough to my eyes to be comfortable, and touching other people's feet is disgusting. Plus, I can keep these plastic toenails forever!

So, check it out:

1. Animal Eyes
I love eyes of animals. That includes human eyes, too. They come in so many different colours. In fact, my favourite colour of all time is the bright, sharp, deep yellow of my cat's eyes.

I can't tell you how long it took me to paint this. Really, I can't, because I lost track of time. It took so long to paint every layer carefully with arcrylic paint and nail polish, wait for it to dry, then paint the next layer, applying top coat between each layer to prevent the colours from mixing. I know it's not perfect, but it's good enough for me. I didn't have special nail art brushes, so I used an eyeliner brush which I'd never used, that came in a makeup brush set I bought.

In hindsight, I can think of so many ways to improve this design, but it's too late to change it, now. Maybe I'll do an improved version on my finger nails when I have enough time and inspiration.

On to the next design:

2. Cosmic Toes

Yes, I know you've seen this before. It looked awesome on my fingers, and I thought it would look even better on toenails. I think it does, don't you? 

I love that I was able to put two rhinestones on the big toenail. Two planets. It makes me so happy.

It makes me happy just to have created these designs. I don't even have to win, I have these fake toenails as souvenirs.

Now, I won't ask you to vote for me just because you're my friend or a reader of my blog. Go see all the entries of the nail art contest, and if you think that my designs deserve to win, then vote for them. No matter how much I want to win the prize (loads of free nail stuff), I want to win it fairly. So, vote for whichever designs you like best, be they mine or others'.

:D