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Hi folks,

I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth. Still here, but just facing more challenges with life, so though I've wanted a creative outlet, this has been a bit on the back burner. My plan for art-inspired is La Vis by Henri Matisse, so I'm thinking about it for the moment. I will post when I can do it. I appreciate all the posters here as I'm not on pinterest, so have missed most of the other ones unless I catch the random one on a blog. I hope US folks had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 
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  Hi folks,

I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth. Still here, but just facing more challenges with life, so though I've wanted a creative outlet, this has been a bit on the back burner. My plan for art-inspired is La Vis by Henri Matisse, so I'm thinking about it for the moment. I will post when I can do it. I appreciate all the posters here as I'm not on pinterest, so have missed most of the other ones unless I catch the random one on a blog. I hope US folks had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Hope everything is ok Monika! I am slacking too, but for no real reason.  I plan to get caught up this weekend. I have really enjoyed your manis and everyone else's so I will be looking forward to your next posts!

 
Inspired by art: splatter art This was my inspiration:
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This is what I ended up with:
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Manicure 28: Inspired By A Flag

Finland



Zoya Tomoko over Zoya Liberty  - Tried using striping tape over pixie dust for the first time, doesn't work too well since the tape can't grab onto the texture of the polish. So I improvised and used a nail art brush to touch up the lines after removing the tape.

 
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  Quote: Originally Posted by JC327 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  Love that pattern so creative!  Song is a beautiful color.
Thank-you! I liked it so much I wore it for more than a week...

I have it and its one of my favorite blues.

 
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Inspired by art: splatter art
This was my inspiration:

This is what I ended up with:

Looks amazing!

 
Quote: Originally Posted by Scooby Dynamite /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  Manicure 28: Inspired By A Flag

Finland



Zoya Tomoko over Zoya Liberty  - Tried using striping tape over pixie dust for the first time, doesn't work too well since the tape can't grab onto the texture of the polish. So I improvised and used a nail art brush to touch up the lines after removing the tape.
Those two colors look great together.

 
So, we've discussed how I'm really bad at uploading pix. And for the last few weeks, it feels like I've dropped off the face of the earth! But I have been finding time to do my nails. And while I haven't posted in a while, at least I've been doing the challenge. So, here's the catch up.

Inspired by a Pattern Nails - CG White Night and CG Smoke and Ashes with some BM plate that I can't find now, and think my sofa ate. It didn't stay on long. 1. I found it rather boring and 2. my gels did something weird and my nails just looked bad. At least you can't really see that in the pix. I did hide my thumb because I smudged it really bad right before I took the pic and just had to live with it all day because I had too much to do that day to fix it.



Inspired by a movie - Catching Fire

My thumb nail did have the title "Catching Fire" on it, with sparks coming out, but it rubbed off before I took a pic, so I just left my thumb out. It's done with CG Stone Cold, CG Electrify and CG Riveting. I tried to do something better, like a mockingjay, but that failed. So, flames are a good standby. I didn't do a waterless marble because I didn't want to ruin the Stone Cold beneath it, and mattes just don't seem to work well for me that way. I also didn't put a top coat on, which is why the title came off so easily because I wanted to keep the matte matte and the glitter not matte



Inspired by a Work of Art - 

Here's my inspiration http://www.pinterest.com/pin/91268329922522872/ 

But I wanted it to be more fallish, being that it was the week of Thanksgiving. Done on CG White Night, sponged with CG Plum Perfection, CG Agro, Piggy Polish Right to Bare Feet, and Milan 3D Holographic 510, the "branches" are done with LA Colors Art Deco Black

I wore these for nearly a week because I liked them so much...well, that was a perk, I was also out of town.



Inspired by a flag - Indiana State flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Indiana

I'm a Hoosier girl, born, bread and corn fed! I love that I've lived all over Indiana and I'm very proud of the long heritage my family has here in the Crossroads to America.

I used Spoiled Your Fly's Down with acrylic yellow paint. There are 19 stars on each hand because Indiana is the 19th state of the Union. Obviously, I should have worked on drawing a torch before I put it on my nails...oh well.



 
Quote: Originally Posted by Scooby Dynamite /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  Manicure 28: Inspired By A Flag

Finland



Zoya Tomoko over Zoya Liberty  - Tried using striping tape over pixie dust for the first time, doesn't work too well since the tape can't grab onto the texture of the polish. So I improvised and used a nail art brush to touch up the lines after removing the tape.

I love this. Can't even tell that you touched anything up. And it makes your nails look longer, I think.

 
Inspired by a book: Pride & Prejudice. I used a soft, period-appropriate shade of periwinkle, stamped a white key as an accent onto my ring finger nail, and put a mattifying top coat over all of it. The key was to signify that Darcy and Elizabeth had to "unlock" their feelings towards each other, but I'm afraid this turned out to be the manicure equivalent of an interpretive dance - too vague and not well executed. It also doesn't help that I forgot to take a picture right after! So this is with two days of tip wear and some of the mattifyer wearing off!
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Inspired by a flag: England OPI Incognito in Sausalito, Essie Blanc, VS Lustworthy
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Damn Lolo. Great job on the stripe work. Looks great. :D /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />
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Thank you! It took wayyy too many hours and then the dang top coat smeared one of the lines. It was a good refresher of the worlds flags picking one out though haha :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />
 
Quote: Originally Posted by chrysalis101 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  So, we've discussed how I'm really bad at uploading pix. And for the last few weeks, it feels like I've dropped off the face of the earth! But I have been finding time to do my nails. And while I haven't posted in a while, at least I've been doing the challenge. So, here's the catch up.

Inspired by a Pattern Nails - CG White Night and CG Smoke and Ashes with some BM plate that I can't find now, and think my sofa ate. It didn't stay on long. 1. I found it rather boring and 2. my gels did something weird and my nails just looked bad. At least you can't really see that in the pix. I did hide my thumb because I smudged it really bad right before I took the pic and just had to live with it all day because I had too much to do that day to fix it.



Inspired by a movie - Catching Fire

My thumb nail did have the title "Catching Fire" on it, with sparks coming out, but it rubbed off before I took a pic, so I just left my thumb out. It's done with CG Stone Cold, CG Electrify and CG Riveting. I tried to do something better, like a mockingjay, but that failed. So, flames are a good standby. I didn't do a waterless marble because I didn't want to ruin the Stone Cold beneath it, and mattes just don't seem to work well for me that way. I also didn't put a top coat on, which is why the title came off so easily because I wanted to keep the matte matte and the glitter not matte



Inspired by a Work of Art -

Here's my inspiration http://www.pinterest.com/pin/91268329922522872/

But I wanted it to be more fallish, being that it was the week of Thanksgiving. Done on CG White Night, sponged with CG Plum Perfection, CG Agro, Piggy Polish Right to Bare Feet, and Milan 3D Holographic 510, the "branches" are done with LA Colors Art Deco Black

I wore these for nearly a week because I liked them so much...well, that was a perk, I was also out of town.



Inspired by a flag - Indiana State flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Indiana

I'm a Hoosier girl, born, bread and corn fed! I love that I've lived all over Indiana and I'm very proud of the long heritage my family has here in the Crossroads to America.

I used Spoiled Your Fly's Down with acrylic yellow paint. There are 19 stars on each hand because Indiana is the 19th state of the Union. Obviously, I should have worked on drawing a torch before I put it on my nails...oh well.


Those are all great!

 
Quote: Originally Posted by magicalmom /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Inspired by a book: Pride & Prejudice. I used a soft, period-appropriate shade of periwinkle, stamped a white key as an accent onto my ring finger nail, and put a mattifying top coat over all of it. The key was to signify that Darcy and Elizabeth had to "unlock" their feelings towards each other, but I'm afraid this turned out to be the manicure equivalent of an interpretive dance - too vague and not well executed. It also doesn't help that I forgot to take a picture right after! So this is with two days of tip wear and some of the mattifyer wearing off!


Nice!

 
Quote: Originally Posted by Lolo22 /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Inspired by a flag: England
OPI Incognito in Sausalito, Essie Blanc, VS Lustworthy

Love it!

 
Quote: Originally Posted by Lolo22 /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Inspired by the supernatural: the lost city of Atlantis


Wow!

 
Oh my gosh!! Somehow I missed this post! I love them all!!  I knew the Hunger Games mani would be worth the wait - it looks awesome!!  Great job! I love the lattice print too :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

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Originally Posted by chrysalis101 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  So, we've discussed how I'm really bad at uploading pix. And for the last few weeks, it feels like I've dropped off the face of the earth! But I have been finding time to do my nails. And while I haven't posted in a while, at least I've been doing the challenge. So, here's the catch up.

Inspired by a Pattern Nails - CG White Night and CG Smoke and Ashes with some BM plate that I can't find now, and think my sofa ate. It didn't stay on long. 1. I found it rather boring and 2. my gels did something weird and my nails just looked bad. At least you can't really see that in the pix. I did hide my thumb because I smudged it really bad right before I took the pic and just had to live with it all day because I had too much to do that day to fix it.



Inspired by a movie - Catching Fire

My thumb nail did have the title "Catching Fire" on it, with sparks coming out, but it rubbed off before I took a pic, so I just left my thumb out. It's done with CG Stone Cold, CG Electrify and CG Riveting. I tried to do something better, like a mockingjay, but that failed. So, flames are a good standby. I didn't do a waterless marble because I didn't want to ruin the Stone Cold beneath it, and mattes just don't seem to work well for me that way. I also didn't put a top coat on, which is why the title came off so easily because I wanted to keep the matte matte and the glitter not matte



Inspired by a Work of Art - 

Here's my inspiration http://www.pinterest.com/pin/91268329922522872/ 

But I wanted it to be more fallish, being that it was the week of Thanksgiving. Done on CG White Night, sponged with CG Plum Perfection, CG Agro, Piggy Polish Right to Bare Feet, and Milan 3D Holographic 510, the "branches" are done with LA Colors Art Deco Black

I wore these for nearly a week because I liked them so much...well, that was a perk, I was also out of town.



Inspired by a flag - Indiana State flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Indiana

I'm a Hoosier girl, born, bread and corn fed! I love that I've lived all over Indiana and I'm very proud of the long heritage my family has here in the Crossroads to America.

I used Spoiled Your Fly's Down with acrylic yellow paint. There are 19 stars on each hand because Indiana is the 19th state of the Union. Obviously, I should have worked on drawing a torch before I put it on my nails...oh well.


 

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