No, I did not become a Bostonian all of a sudden. I am not going around calling things wicked. Although I do think that is an awesome saying. She's wicked smart. This hot dog is wicked tasty. Her manicure is wicked good. I digress....this manicure is called Wicked because it is inspired by the musical Wicked, particularly the song Defying Gravity. You could say that it is my most favorite musical. I saw it in Ft. Lauderdale about 7 or 8 years ago and was blown away! When Elpheba sings Defying Gravity at the end of the first act I just melted (haha). If you don't know, this musical tells how Elpheba (the wicked witch) and Glinda go off to college and hate each other but grow to become best friends. And when they find out that the Wizard of Oz is a phony, Elpheba becomes a scapegoat and is labeled a Wicked Witch. It is a great story with some amazing music. No one can sing it like Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenowith either! They both just blow my mind everytime they sing. (I included the song down at the bottom for your listening pleasure if you want)
So for this manicure i used the playbill picture as my accent nail and then created glittery french manis on the other nails. I think it's pretty cool looking. What do you think?
Base-NYC Luxury Lime Creme
Elpheba and Tips-Kiss Striping Paint Black
Glitter-Spoiled Show Me the Money
I didn't do a nose cause I was afraid I was going to ruin it :-P
The original playbill
Thanks again for checking me out! Come back tomorrow for some movie nails with an ocean twist :-)
Let me start by saying that I am in love with these nails. I am so glad that I did tomorrow's challenge nails first, so I can keep these on for two days :-P I got my inspiration from a youtube video by LOVE4NAILS who does some amazing free hand nail art. This video was actually of her painting her dominant hand....which i chose not to do this time around. Anyway, I changed up a few things, but all in all it's pretty much the same manicure. I used all striping paints, something I have never done before. Let me know what you think!
Base-Sally Hansen Diamond Blush
Stripers-Kiss White, Kiss Black, It's So Easy Glitter Pink, It's So Easy Glitter Gold
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This mani was supposed to be easy. I had planned for it to take about 20 minutes. Color, stamp, stripe, done. HA! Of course everything that can go wrong with a simple mani, did. The base coat went on great, but the humidity just wouldn't allow it to dry. Painting the tips with the striper went alright, but my accent nail still wasn't dry. So, I decided to put a coat of fast dry on to move things along. Needless to say I ended up smudging that so I had to start all over. This happened twice. GRRRRRR. I finally got all that done and wanted to do one little bee stamp and it kept drying so fast that I had to stamp twice. So my bee looks all janktified (spelling?) All in all it turned out alright and I sure do like this bright color. The bee is so cute....he just looks like he's been chopped in half. :-P Buzz Buzz
Base-Sally Hansen HD Lite
Stripers- Kiss Black & It's So Easy Yellow
Stamp-BM301 using Kleancolor Black
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Tonights mani kills two birds with one stone. That's an awful saying right? Who the hell was out killing birds with stones? Was it with a slingshot? It's a disturbing image. Oh well, the point is I was able to do one manicure that covered both my Summer Challenge and my It's So Easy Nail Contest. Friday's challenge is sea shells and the Nail Contest is Summer designs. So voila! Two birds. One stone. This one took me an extra long time to do and it doesnt use any stamps just free hand baby. Being that I am a beginner, I am proud of the work I did. It's not professional or anything fancy like that, but I like it. And it probably won't win me any awards, but it's purty :) What do you think?
As always your comments are appreciated! Thanks for looking
