Pi Day Nails!

Happy Pi Day everyone! Today is the 14/3, which are the first three digits in the number pi (3.14). Today is also coincidentally Albert Einstein's birthday! For all the maths nerds all over the world, today is a very special day!

I had never heard of Pi Day until last week, when my maths teacher informed us that we would be having a party for it, as she loves pi! I thought that the occasion called for some special nails.

The purple is OPI Planks A Lot. The yellow is Models Own Lemon Meringue, the gold pi sign is Models Own Champagne, the blue is China Glaze For Audrey. 

On the pie on my thumb the light colour is Essence Toffee to Go and the darker colour is 17 Mink. I topped it off with a coat of Seche Vite.

In My Veins ( and arteries!)

I was inspired by a song I recently discovered by an artist called Andrew Belle called "In My Veins". I randomly came across this wonderful song on Youtube and I knew straight away that I loved it. I took my guitar out of its case in the corner for the first time in two months (I have been very busy!) and attempted to learn the chords for the song. 

Unfortunately, when you have a nail blog and you abandon your guitar for long periods of time, your fingernails grow long. It was so hard trying to play the chords that I went and filed all of my nails down. I figured I was probably making a huge mistake at the time, but it feels quite refreshing to have short nails. Maybe they will stay this length!

The song is called "In My Veins" but I thought my nails would look a bit dull with just veins so I added in arteries. Obviously this nail art is not biologically correct because the human heart isn't that shape at all but it was all in the name of creativity!

The nail art was also partly inspired by this post on Chalkboard Nails.

For the base I used three coats of Essence Absolutely Blue. It went on smoothly and dried quickly enough. I find it's much easier to do a few thin coats than one or two thick coats as the drying time is much shorter.

For the veins I painted on Essence Groovy with a long striping brush. For the arteries and heart I used No. 7 Devil's Delight and for the light shading on the heart I used 17 Ruby Gem.

Lavender Stamping

Every time I look at this manicure I think "Lavender". I don't know why, maybe it's the colour or the fact that the stamping is with flowers but it just reminds me of lavender!

I used a polish from a brand called "Prime Collection". I received about twenty of their polishes as a present a few years ago.  It only seems to be sold on Ebay.  Unfortunately all the polishes I received were sheers. This one, a lilac shimmer, took four coats and is still not fully opaque!

I then stamped on 17 Royal Indigo with Bundle Monster 221 and finished it with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Blue and Pink Chevron

 These nails are a bit messy but I just love this colour pairing so much! It was supposed to be a chevron manicure but the triangles turned out a bit dome shaped. I actually quite like it!

I used Essence Sweet as Candy for the pink base and 17 Midnight Sapphire for the blue. I know that Essence Sweet as Candy is probably meant to be a sheer but I just loved the colour so much that I kept layering it until it was opaque ( this is probably 4 layers).