Crazy Diamonds

Hello Gorgeous! Hope your December is going well! Mine is full of craziness. Saturday is my last day of work, then next Thursday, we're hopping on a plane to Vegas to tour schools, celebrate my birthday and Christmas, and start to get things settled for our stay there. Kiddo is very excited!

 As you're aware, I'm a part of the Hobby Polish Bloggers, and from that group I made a great friend, Narmai from PiggieLuv. She's always got AMAZING art on her nails, and she's an absolute muse. I took some inspiration from her GORGEOUS Don't Let Anyone Dull Your Sparkle nails, and decided to work with it. I bought some OPI Sheer Tint minis on Amazon, grabbed my chunky glitters and went nuts.

First step in this process is using a sp- you know what, she's got a great tutorial over on Youtube. Check it out!

I went out and about like this, before they were finished... Even unfinished, they got comments and compliments! 

Macro Shot. Because these will never get old lol

For my nails, I went with a different message than my muse:

Shine on, you crazy diamond! 

My diamond in Macro

To create the lettering and the diamond, I created my own decals using Seche Vite, a piece of paper, and a ziplock baggie. I wrote out what I wanted to say on the paper, put the paper in the baggie, and then painted the baggie with Seche Vite. After that was dry, I painted out the words using Pure Ice's Silver Mercedes and Sinful Colors' Black on Black using my medium-length line brush. The diamond is Silver Mercedes, with LAC's Glitter Bomb and China Glaze's Fairy Dust behind.

I sooo love these! They were so cute and fun to make! I hope you enjoyed them as much as I do!

In the comments, please lemme know what you're doing for Christmas!

Elegantly Wasted

So back in, um, July 2012, my friend C. Vescio friggin' published a book, and I immediately fell in love with it and once I fell in love with it I decided to do my nails for it!

And then promptly procrastinated!

And now her second book has gone to the editors! ZOMG!

So I decided I REALLY needed to do my nails! So I did my nails while watching the Game of Thrones season 3 premiere.

In hindsight, I probably should've done Game of Thrones nails, because, y'know, Game of Thrones season premiere.

BUT NAILS FOR A FRIEND'S BOOK! YAAAY!

Description from the Amazon page: "“Just because I kill people, doesn't mean I’m a bad person...”

On the eve of her high school graduation, proper socialite Francesca “Frankie” Fairholm rebelled against her elitist and controlling family to pursue the dark lifestyle of a contract killer for the enigmatic Osiris Corporation. Years later, with her training complete, she believes she's doomed to the life of a sociopathic lone gun until a botched hit brings two unlikely allies, her cousins Addison and Katharine.

Using Katharine’s etiquette school, Elegance, Inc., as a front, the trio weave through Frankie’s dark underworld, carrying out contracts, drinking too much wine, and trying not to get each other killed.

Trouble follows the team home when the death of the cruel Fairholm matriarch reveals more than they ever wanted to know about their family. As the funeral preparations play out, the trio begin to realize there is much more to their employer than meets the eye and their family connections run deeper than they ever imagined."

If you're interested in the book, it's very reasonably priced.

Kindle

Nook

Facebook page

ON TO THE NAILS!

E for Elegantly

W for Wasted

Wine and a gun

Gold, wine, gun, silver all on grey

I guess I forgot to mention... I don't have a decent camera anymore. The cellphone I was previously using to take pics has disappeared, and the camera I've used in the past is currently with my mother in Las Vegas.

So now I'm using my phone's potato, and it has some seriously shitty focus and almost no megapixels. It's like a cheap disposable camera.  Hopefully soon I'll be able to take decent pics again.

So PLEASE read my friend's book, and fall in love with it as much as I have :)