Alice In Wonderland

  Last week, I showed you guys one of the polishes I bought from Spellbound Nails, Watermelon Seeds. This week I have the second one, Eat Me, to show you all. It's part of her Alice In Wonderland collection, so of course I had to paint an Alice in Wonderland themed design.

   I forgot to take a shot of the polish before I painted on it, but you can more or less figure it out. It's a cream polish with multicolored glitter. It kind of reminded me of the caterpillar and his colorful smoke from Disney's animated version. Using Nina Ultra Pro Plum Perspective, I wrote "who are you," trying to mimic the wispy-ness of his smokey letters.

   On my left hand I made an "eat me" tag using a white and black striper, as well a small brush for the letters. It looked a little lonely, so I added a teacup to go with the whole food theme. It's kind of hard to see though. I used Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Barracuda for the blue, and a white striper for the white. A tiny bit of Maybelline Color Show Neutral Statement worked well for the tea.


   I hope you all have a fantastic week!

Ramblings

This isn't nail related, so if you only want to see nails turn away now! :)

Part of it is somewhat related to my nail post yesterday though. Sort of. After I painted my Alice in Wonderland I was Google-ing (who knew googling wasn't a word?) Alice related things just for the heck of it and I came across the coolest thing! This is all of the characters from the second Alice book, Through the Looking Glass. The artist did steal a few characters from the first book, but they are mainly from the second. The whole book is basically a giant chess game, so whoever made these made the characters into actual chess pieces! It kind of made my day a little... :)

On another note, my best friend/non-blood-related-sister Ammie (pronounced like Amy) has a blog too! She's actually the one that inspired me to finally create my blog. I had been wanting to make one for a while but never got up the nerve to. Anyways, you should go visit hers! It's really awesome (I think so, anyway)! Ammie's blog isn't about anything too specific like mine, but it's cool! She is amazing! Her blog name is On Mirror's Edge.


I think that's all my exciting, non-nail related news for now! Back to fun 'ole college for me! :)

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

I am a huge fan of Alice! I probably like the book the best, but some of the movies are good too! I absolutely had to do some Alice-themed nails, so here they are! I tried to base them more off the original illustrations rather than any of the movies.

It was so hard to decide which drawings to make! I eventually decided on what you see in the pictures (obviously!). :) For my right hand I painted Alice's dress and stockings, the talking flowers (specifically the Tiger Lily), the Caterpillar and his colorful clouds of hooka smoke, the painted roses, and the Mad Hatter's hat. Then on the left I painted the Cheshire after he's mostly disappeared, the Queen of Hearts' crown, the White Rabbit's checked waistcoat and pocket watch, the Red Queen's Crown, and the Queen of Hearts' royal livery (as seen on the White Rabbit).
(For those of you that don't know, the Red Queen is from the second part of the book, Through the Looking Glass. She is the chess Queen that gives Alice the most advice).

I tried to keep the images true to the illustrations, but it's hard! I'm pretty happy with the designs though! I hope you guys like them! The Caterpillar and his hooka smoke is probably my favorite because it's so colorful!

I used a billion different polishes, so I'll just list them here at the end instead of with the actual designs.
       Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Blue Me Away
       Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Cherry Red
       Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Sun Kissed
       Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Mellow Yellow
       Sally Hansen Maximum Growth Copper Glamour
       Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine Spark
       Sally Girl Pink (EH2901)  
       Sinful Colors Professional Snow Me White
       Finger Paints Sketch N Etch
       Finger Paints Sketchy Character
       China Glaze Recycle
       Pure Ice Splash
       L.A. Colors Art Deco Bright Pink (7090)
       Stripe Rite White
       Stripe Rite Black
       Maybelline Color Show Fierce N Tangy
       Maybelline Color Show Go Go Green
       L. A. Colors Color Craze UK Blue (7288)
       Orly Watch It Glitter
       Revlon Multi-Care Base+Top Coat
       Folk Art Acrylic Paint Baby Pink