Luna Madness

Nothing to Disclose

Good evening! Today I'm using one of my new Arcane Lacquers, Luna Madness, in a somewhat literal manner:

This didn't turn out quite as expected, to be honest, and it's not doing any justice to the beautiful complexity of this polish. Click here and scroll down for Bec's own swatch. I painted with watered-down white acrylic paint and the polish itself, layered a couple times over. Not fluffy enough! HULK SMASH

Weird hand pose FTW!

Polishes used:

Arcane Lacquer - Luna Madness (only available in Australia for the time being)

Nail Pattern Boldness - Glitter A-Peel (base coat), Glitter Food

la couleur couture - 2013 (top coat)

white acrylic paint

detail brush

cotton swabs

I'm thinking another Arcane for tomorrow, but we shall see! If you are celebrating Father's Day tomorrow, all the best to you and your pops, my lovelies!!

xo,

J.

Grain Elevator

This was a lot of fun to do, improbable-looking clouds included. (Colour theory? What's that?)

Unfortunately, it was awful to photograph, so you only get one snap. And, for the first time ever, I've blurred my cuticles. It's for your protection. They're up to some kind of mutiny and I'm not clear on why. I think next week will be a Nakey Nails week while I try desperately to cajole my fingers back to presentability.

This will be entered in a couple of contests, and for some reason I was feeling more Prairies than usual, hence the canola and grain elevator and what have you.

All acrylics, sealed with Seche!

Polishes used:
Duri - Rejuvacote (base coat)
Seche Vite (top coat)
acrylic paints (all of the colours!)
size 2 and size 0 square brushes
teeny detail brush


J.

AT-AT Walker

Hello lovelies!

Continuing with the theme of nail art requested on Instagram, here is an AT-AT, doin' its thang on Hoth. Technically there is a coat of nail polish underneath everything, but you can't see it. Everything you see is acrylic paint.

I decided not to topcoat the AT-AT as I felt that made it stand out from its surroundings more.

And a sunlight shot! Glossy topcoat is glossy.

Materials include:
acrylic paint in white, black, ultramarine, Van Dyke brown, Indian Yellow hue
small flat square brush for background
detail brush for AT-AT
INM - Out the Door (topcoat over background only)

It felt good to get back into detailed nail art like this! Doing the clouds made me want to do some Prairie sunset nail art, which I will hopefully get to soon.


J.