Oz the Great and Powerful

 The night before I went to see Oz: The Great and Powerful, I did Oz nails. On the left hand was just a simple design of the wizard's balloon and yellow brick tips on the fingers. The right hand has the Emerald City on the thumb (complete with a yellow brick road leading to it). On the fingers are a flying monkey, "Oz" in gold lettering, the Wicked Witch of the West, and a poppy (from the poppy fields). I'll have to do proper Wizard of Oz nails in the future.

Round of 16 and Rrroll Up

 Rrroll Up the Rim to Win and Bayern's first leg against Arsenal in the Champions League fell within a day of each other so these are double duty nails. Rrroll up thumbs (for rolling) with little coffee cups. On the left fingers is one of Bayern's mottos (Mia san mia = we are who we are) and a heart. On the right hand is the crest done in red and white with a bit of blue sparkle to decrease the contrast.

Valentines

 Just simple nails for Valentines Day. Hearts on the right hand with a bow on the thumb and all bows on the left hand. These were a bit of a filler nail between  the Futurama nails and the next ones that should be posted tomorrow. I love the bows though, simple but pretty adorable.

Futurama

 Now is the time to get back on track and it'll start with Futurama nails! I received some jewels for nails for Christmas and decided to try them out on the pinkies. I was going for a 'stars in the milky way' look but did not have much beginners luck placing them and they turned more into 'randomly placed shiny gems on a purple background'. 

On the right hand Nibbler, Fry, Bender and Leela. On the left, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Hermes Conrad (with a brain slug) and Amy Wong.

Catching Up

 I had done Christmas nails. On the right hand were little penguins and snowmen peeking out from the top of the nail. On the left was a line of Christmas lights and snowflakes. They had to be touched up the same day, I thought they were dry, they thought differently. Then I just put off uploading them. By the time they were coming off I decided, now I must upload them. And realized I never took a picture. For the first time since I started this blog I forgot to capture them. 

 These ones, with the orange background, I did for the World Juniors. At least the right hand. Canada didn't win a medal, maybe they were unlucky. On the left hand I tried out that newspaper technique. It smudged a bit but I think that will be eliminated with practice. Just to recap, this involves 1. Paint your nails a light colour. 2. Cut small strips of newspaper print, 1 for each nail. 3. Dip your nails, 1 at a time, into rubbing alcohol (or vodka) for a couple seconds. 4. Press on the newspaper and hold for 5 seconds. 5. Cover with a clear topcoat to seal in the newspaper words. I think they're really cute.

 I went on a trip after the World Juniors and had intended to do something complex, but working late the night before and catching a flight at 6 in the morning meant that when I would've been doing my nails the prior day, I was packing. But I got the "mini collection" of candy coloured nail polish for Xmas and decided to just do a multicolour. I added the darker shade on the tip just for interest, they looked a bit bland without.

And now, this blog is all caught up.

Berlin Turns 775

 This year is Berlin's 775th anniversary so I decided to do Berlin nails. While the original concept was to have a variety of images from throughout the last few centuries, when I actually sat down to do them it ended up being largely centred on post-Second World War. On the left hand are images from the Berlin Wall. The middle finger had a black silhouette of the Brandenburg Gate so I chose not to do another image of it on the right hand. The thumb is the image of Brezhnev and Honecker (Soviet and East German leaders respectively).

On the right hand are the Ampelmännchen (the traffic light men), the middle finger (which is also in the process of breaking) is the crown from the coat of arms, and on the thumb part of a map of the Berlin city centre.The pinky is just the German flag with 775.

Bayern Plaid and Argyle

 Just as an interim nail design I did plaid and argyle in Bayern colours. Both my thumbs were cracked and the morning after painting these they finally broke off so it was nice that I didn't spend a ton of time doing a complex design on them. These photos are post-breakage.

Remembrance Day 2012

 Part of my yearly routine is attending the Remembrance Day ceremonies and painting my nails for the occasion. These were my Remembrance Day nails for this year. On the left hand were poppies on a green background. On the right was an evolution of the uniform from the red serge of the 1800s to modern day. These were in part based off the Canada Post stamps for the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.

Happy Halloween!

 I didn't start these as early as I planned, otherwise they would've been all eyes. But with Remembrance Day nails scheduled to be done within the next couple days I took a bit of a pass on the left hand, only including a Jack Skellington face (Nightmare Before Christmas) and doing the rest just with the orange tips.

Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!

 I find it a bit shocking it has taken me this long to do Simpsons nails. But they have finally come. On the left hand the family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Maggie turned out more like the style we saw in the Tracey Ullman show shorts: crudely done. I'd like to say I'm hearkening back to the past but really it was just a small nail, a slightly unsteady hand and a lot of head points. 
On the right hand some notable Springfieldians. Mr Burns (my favourite), Milhouse, Jasper ("You shot who in the what now?"), Flanders and Skinner.