Category: nails

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on the nails: the lizard look

I still only do my nails rarely, so far, even after acquiring no small amount of nail stuff. I am quite slow, and need a large chunk of time, and just want to take it all off if I’m dissatisfied with the results. Stamping especially is not for the faint of heart. I find it can be meditative, though, provided I am more or less qualified to do what I’ve set out to do. I have to concentrate enough that I can’t really focus on anything else, such that I seem genuinely to have nothing in my head except for the abstract sense of attentiveness.  And even if it doesn’t turn out, who cares?

If it does turn out, I can stare at it all the time/it distracts me (and begins to become intolerable as soon as it begins to chip).

I admit it is sometimes a strained relationship.

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This is OPI Jade is the New Black (really like this on its own) over a base coat of OPI Nail Envy, layered with the Pueen10 plate  snakeskin motif stamped in China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. OPI RapiDry between coats.

It is bordering on questionable how much I’m into snakeskin right now.

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on the nails: turquoise houndstooth

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A bit smudged but not bad for my first stamping attempt, I think. [One step beyond yesterday’s nails.] A tricky business, nail stamping. I like a houndstooth print, though, and was determined to investigate the world of elaborate nail decor. Maybe you are, like myself a couple of months ago, wondering what nail stamping is? There is a thing called nail stamping?

Oh, there is a whole world of nail stamping. Nail art turns out to have evolved quite a bit since I was 14. Investigate at your own peril.

Stamping is a laborious process but the effect is fun. I can’t tell how much of the appeal is thinking it looks neat, and how much is being impressed that I made the effort to do it at all. Either way, I like looking at them (though they’re also sort of distracting).

Next will try variations on a theme.

Sally Hansen Jaded with MASH black using Cheeky plate CH13.