Time Warp Challenge: I Remember When...

This last Monday's challenge was to create a design that represents an important moment in history or in your life.
Important moments can be good, bad, or simply life changing.
The moment I chose to remember is a little of all of those. Good, as it changed my perspective in ways I appreciate. Bad, in that I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and life changing in that it put me on a completely new path.
I chose to use the idea of hospital gowns, and create a simple, almost generic pattern.
I was in hospital gowns a lot in 2006 when I was diagnosed, and have a love hate relationship with them. I love that designer try to create a pattern that is not totally depressing, and I hate that the gowns still feel like salt in a wound. I mean, not only are you sick, you have face the well dressed doctors in a low thread count bed sheet that doesn't close in the back.

Using dots and diamonds, on a white base coat, I created a this pattern.

I wasn't sure I wanted to do this design, as it was a hard moment in my life, but honestly, it feels almost cathartic.

So yeah, bring it on hospitals. If I have to wear your gowns with my read end hanging out, I'm gonna coordinate my make up and nails, and still look awesome.

Check out these lovely manis from the other Let\'s Do The Time Warp Challenge Participants!

1. Polished  2. Fishing4Beauty  3. Peace, Love & Polish  4. Ameerah (Valiantly Varnished)  5. Baroque fool  6. Tammy\'s Tendencies  7. Nicole gets Nailed  8. Amber  9. Kayono (Neues vom Kellerkind)  10. Kelsie\'s Nail Files  11. Hand-y Feats and Other Treats  12. Neverland Nail Blog  13. Miss DeVious DiVa  14. Lisa (Nail Polish Creations)  15. GelaNails  16. Frenchie\'s Fairyland  17. The Polish Squirrel  18. carly  19. ceece

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Time Warp Challenge: It's Vintage Darling!

Hello all!
So my first attempt at vintage made me cringe, and my second just didn't make me happy either. I think in this case, third time's a charm-literally!

My inspiration is... the cameo!
To me nothing is more vintage than the cameo. They were very popular in the late 19th century, and in the Victorian period, and have been popular through several different periods. A true cameo is rock (usually an agate) that is relief carved through different levels of the rock.

I LOVE them, and love how they look on my nails.

I started with a dark pink color by Sally Hansen called "Desert Sands" to give that agate look.

Next I added some dainty silhouette  with my NYC Color white polish.

To really give it that "cameo" look, I finished it off with some gold detail all around the nail.

TA-dah!! 

Check out these lovely manis from the other Let\'s Do The Time Warp Challenge Participants!

1. Lisa (Nail Polish Creations)  2. Peace, Love & Polish  3. Ameerah (Valiantly Varnished)  4. Tammy\'s Tendencies  5. Nicole gets Nailed  6. Amber  7. Frenchie\'s Fairyland  8. Hand-y Feats and Other Treats  9. Fishing4Beauty  10. Baroque fool  11. Ceece  12. GelaNails  13. Miss DeVious DiVa  14. Polished  15. carly  16. Kelsie\'s Nail Files  17. Kayono (Neues vom Kellerkind)  18. Neverland Nail Blog  19. The Polish Squirrel

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Time Warp Challenge Day 1: I wish I was born in...

The 1900's. Lace, long sweeping dresses, tea, roses, big hats, soda shops, cute shoes, and Gibson girls. I am one of those romantic throw back type of girls, and I love that stuff. I mean, yeah they didn't have good pluming, heat, or antibiotics, but man, THE CLOTHES.
Anyway, for my first entry in NeverLandNailBlog's Time Warp Challenge channels some of my favorite aspects of turn of the century fashion.
I started with a coat of base, then two coats of Essie "Mint Candy Apple." After it was all dry I pulled out my nail brush. Right now I'm using Winning Nails #306. The tip is short, so I can control it better.

Then I dipped it in white polish to create a lace like design on the right corner of my nails.
To balance it out, both color wise and design wise, I added some bright roses, first in a deep fushia, from Wet'N Wild called "Through the Grapevine," then added some pink lowlights to really get that old fashioned look.
Finally I added some silver polish along the edges of my lace design to create a shadow.

Even my left hand turned out pretty darn good, which is saying something since I'm left handed.

This picture shows how nicely the white shows up on the mint color. 

Over all, I'm pretty happy with how this design turned out. What do you think?

Check out these lovely manis from the other Let\'s Do The Time Warp Challenge Participants!

1. Neverland Nail Blog  2. Miss DeVious DiVa  3. Ameerah (Valiantly Varnished)  4. Tammy\'s Tendencies  5. Peace, Love & Polish  6. Nicole gets Nailed  7. The Polish Squirrel  8. Kayono (Neues vom Kellerkind)  9. Fishing4Beauty  10. Frenchie\'s Fairyland  11. Polished  12. GelaNails  13. Ceece

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