Nail Nerd (nail art for nerds) » SHANY http://www.nailnerd.com Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Betty Blue Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/betty-blue-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/betty-blue-nails/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:26:24 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=6724

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Having thrown my back out (this, I suppose, is the downside of aging), I’ve been spending a fair bit of time in bed with a heating pad plowing through my Netflix queue, and yesterday was digging through the back seasons of Peep Show.  When I got to the University Challenge episode, I got all distracted [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/betty-blue-nails/feed/ 11 Whoo-whoo! Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/whoo-whoo-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/whoo-whoo-nails/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 16:20:20 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=5010

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S&A requested some owl nails awhile ago (since unintentionally taking the week off last, I’m feeling horribly backlogged so you’ll be seeing acrylic stuff for a little bit here — more standard/easy manis soon, promise) and hooray, I finally got to it last night! I wanted to do cartoon owls on all of ‘em, but [...]

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Truth: I had the base of this on for days without doing anything to it and realized I should try to dress it up some before taking it off. With the two coat base of the pearly purple OPI The Color To Watch starting to wear on the tips (I hadn’t even done a topcoat, [...]

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Has Orly Fowl Play been done to death yet?  NO!  It’s just too pretty to put away, and a great punch for fall… but sometimes you need to oomph a little so, after putting down two coats of Fowl Play, I stamped in some triangles of OPI by Sephora Rumba Romance using SHANY image plate SH22. [...]

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Loooooooove this color.  It doesn’t matter that my red collection is super deep right now, there was definitely a space open and waiting for OPI Cajun Shrimp, it’s a beautiful shade (and living down south where shrimp and crawfish are everywhere having it on the shelf seemed like a natural).  After a couple of coats [...]

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Ooooooo ahhhhhhhhh it’s HITS Zeus Holographic nail polish!  Went for three coats of this charcoal holo just to be sure (don’t want to shortchange a holo!) and it pulled off brilliantly — beautiful holographic effects in full light and wonderfully sparkled without the glare of direct light.  And since we’re creeping up on Halloween I [...]

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This is another one of those “I Love Orly” posts — got Orly Lucky Duck and it’s a solid performer: perfect finish in 2 coats and a color that reminds me a bit of OPI Jade Is The New Black (though a touch on the greener side, it still seems close).  Once that dried I added [...]

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Because sometimes you just need to do a gradient!  The base is 2 coats of e.l.f. Purple Dream (boy is it!) which I then sponged e.l.f. Mango Madness onto; once that dried, I went in with e.l.f. Blush for a 3rd tier in the gradient and used it to stamp some leafy branches from image [...]

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Just a little fun with stamping and glow in the dark, started first with a two coat base of OPI DS Magic, which I had to take pictures of all on its own because it’s just that purdy with the blue/purple finish – Then I used essence Choose Me!, a teal sort of glitter number, [...]

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