Nail Nerd (nail art for nerds) » silver http://www.nailnerd.com Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Triangle Doodle Nails http://www.nailnerd.com/triangle-doodle-nails/ http://www.nailnerd.com/triangle-doodle-nails/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:07:45 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=6623

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I know a do a lotta doodle nails, but hear me out on this one: it may actually be one of my oldest regular doodlebugs.  This little triangle pattern started some 20 years ago (jeez that’s forever ago, am I that old?!) when I was working at Cafe Euphrates in Denver.  Back before Facebook and [...]

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Two words: Patrick McGoohan. Seriously. If I could timewarp back to the late 60s, my number one crush would have certainly been this unnamed British agent from the short-run series The Prisoner. If you can get it/watch it (I don’t know if this is on Netflix or not), do. I’ve currently got my box set [...]

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Music has always been a touchstone, and for the last 20+ years Peter Gabriel has been a regular source of inspiration and consolation.  Having dug back into his catalogue recently (I don’t mind telling you things have been… weird in the Nerd world), I wanted to take a day to celebrate the salve his work [...]

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]]> http://www.nailnerd.com/peter-gabriel-nails/feed/ 3 Mash Nails and Giveaway! http://www.nailnerd.com/mash-nails-and-giveaway/ http://www.nailnerd.com/mash-nails-and-giveaway/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:51:08 +0000 The Nerd http://www.nailnerd.com/?p=4837

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Before we get into the fun stuff, the nails: the base on this is two coats of China Glaze Stone Cold, a graphite matte polish (did I realize it was matte when I pulled it off the shelf?  Of course not, because I’m too lazy to check these things!) so before I went and screwed [...]

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Nothing all that fancy today, but did want to try out picture framing (yes, I know some folks are calling this a rim job, but goodness…) — trickier than it looks!  I started with a two coat base of Barielle Coalest Day Of The Year, a great dark charcoal with a little silver shimmer to [...]

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Finding the softer side of metal (no invisible oranges!), this takes the palme d’or and gets a little playful; put down a two coat base of Color Club On the Wild Side (which looked positively gunmetal blue/grey in the bottle under regular lighting but went on decidedly more silver) then used SHANY stamp SH17 to [...]

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Why is it that anytime I do a sparkle/glitter tip it feels like a holiday nail? At least these aren’t red and gold/silver!  Started with a two coat base of OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry, this subtle sparkle finish that mixes pink, plum and copper, then added tips (and a full cover on [...]

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For as simple as this was to execute I really like the final product — it reminds me of standing on a train platform at night and watching the cars whoosh past you.  I started with a 2 coat base of MAC Biker Blue, a really lovely black base polish with blue and purple pearl. [...]

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I ended up liking this color more than I anticipated I would after buying it, so didn’t dress it up much — started with a two coat base of Matisse Elite Hard Edge and then got a little stumped about what to do… so threw on a couple of laser flash pieces on each nail [...]

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The konad m66 stamping plate has this great bamboo number on it, but it’s really big (like twice as long as my nails) and sort of demands the spotlight.  I started with a 2 coat base of Matisse Elite Decaying Green (a cool grey-green) then use Matisse Elite Walking Dead, a sort of pearly silver, [...]

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