Polish Days June: To Boldly Go...

I'm out of town so I don't really have time to do a new design, but since this theme is one of my favorite subjects I will refer to an old design as I have a slew of SYFY designs to choose from.

On the list of favorites are Star Wars, of course, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural (this is the art I wanted to do for this theme, but alas, I am frolicking with family on vacation). 

But for today I will show you a design I did not long ago in honor of the first step toward geek ism...STAR TREK! Yes, I am a Trekker through & through!

Here's the link to the original post

http://gelanails.blogspot.com/2013/05/star-trek-nails.html?m=0

I did this design for the new Star Trek movie that just came out, I took the day off to stand in line at the theater & this is how I did my nails:

And for your viewing pleasure, here are a couple of my other geek posts:

http://gelanails.blogspot.com/2012/08/geek-nail-challenge-3-gamesgaming.html?m=0

http://gelanails.blogspot.com/2012/08/geek-nail-challenge-2-movies-tv.html?m=0

Polish Days May: Number 5

#5 has many meanings for me so I had to join in on this month's Polish Days. May is the 5th month, it's also my birthday month, the month & year I was born (May 1977) Star Wars came out & Mother's day is in May, having lost my Mom I hold that holiday very near & dear to my heart.

But for today I just decided to go ahead & throw up some flags to celebrate my birthday month!

Polish Days April: 7 Deadly Sins

This month's Polish Days takes a look into the 'dark side' of the human condition, requesting for us to create a design that showcases the 7 deadly sins; Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Envy & Vanity. Even though we strive to live a good life, lets face it, we've all been guilty of each one to varying degrees so there's no need fooling ourselves. I used the color scheme portrayed in this picture, depicting the 7 Deadly Sins, that I found in a Google search.

Picture will take you to the source of where I found the artwork. I have just been informed that  this person was the artist.

I used black polish as my base, with acrylic paints & my fan brush, I then swiped various combinations of the different colors for each sin as portrayed above.

Index=sloth & gluttony, Middle=greed, Ring=lust & wrath, Pinky=envy

Thumb=vanity

Polish Days March: Vintage

This is my first entry for Polly Polish's Polish Days & I was really excited to do something vintage. Vintage is a theme I love & have done several posts here, here & here to show a few. I love romanticizing about days gone by & vintage patterns are all so lovely, it's hard to settle on any one design. I decided for this post to go kinda Retro, a little more current vintage, circa 60's maybe? I found this cute picture of some retro dandelions & thought it was perfect (also, easy, as I was strapped for time & already posting this quite late).

Inspiration found here

Anyhow, I used some alternating pastel green (NEELY) & blue (BLU) from the new Zoya spring collection. I put a layer of my new clear holographic top coat called Starlight on top for some shine :-) I then used an ultra fine sharpie for the lines & acrylic paint for the dots. I think it turned out kinda whimsical!

full sun, with soft focus

full sun with soft focus

I added a 60's Polaroid film to this one for effect.