Happy Valentine's Day!

Here in Australia we're a little ahead of most of the world.
It's already Valentine's here!

So this post goes out to my gorgeous Adonis, Jai.

He is my muse, the odd little things he does inspire me everyday.

The first time I saw Jai was in a calendar for "Men of the Melbourne Goth Forum" *swoons*
Clickable to check out the hawtness!

Check out the nails!

These two were shot and edited by me. 

He had just woken up and I started harassing him with my camera!

I love you baby.

Now, for what you came for!
Now at first glance this manicure may not seem very romantic - but on my 21st birthday Jai got me a lovely ring, with topaz (my birthstone) and diamonds set in gold.
Normally I wear a lot of silver and black, my bridge piercing is surgical steel and I hate clashing metals in my jewellery.
But I'll make an exception for him. :)

So this manicure is one of the new colours I picked up in order to go with my ring. :) I have one more new colour to show you but you'll have to be patient!

The inspiration

Close up to show sparkles and shimmer

It's a very pale gold with super fine shimmer in it. The shimmer occasionally shows flashes of colour - as in the picture above.

Sorry for the bubbles again - it has to be the humidity here, as this is without base or top coat after cleaning my nails with acetone.

Love,

Valentines Pt. III... Can you say NEON?!

Hello again lovelies!

I was thinking how bright my nails are.. would they glow under UV? 

Well being the Darkling that I am - I can answer that for you right away as I have UV and actinic lighting in my bedroom!

I didn't take any under UV as that is a menace to photograph, not to mention I would have to stand very precariously on the back of the couch so you'll have to settle for actinic! [Actinic lighting is often seen in aquariums or in some seedy nightclub bathrooms - this is that really blue light that reacts like blacklight - this is because it emits a light spectrum from blue to UV! :) ]

OoooOOOOoooOOOoooh.

I wanted to play with the UV and I thought it would be annoying if i set up the actinic and it didn't glow! So I added to my nails in case - this way if the pink wasn't UV then I would still have something to show you!

I used Stargazer's Nail Art Pen in UV white - under UV this usually glows like a white shirt in a club - but the pink overpowered it a bit!

I'm sorry for the terrible pictures - actinic light is really hard to photograph under - especially when you're holding the camera with the wrong hand!

Also, please excuse me for not doing any clean up at all today, I was too excited to show you everything!
Love,

Valentines Pt. II

Hello Gorgeous Girls!
I'm feeling really bleh today. I did a cutesy valentines mani - its so cutesy I think I'm gonna barf. In all honestly i'm trying to cheer myself up and get in the valentines spirit - which for my own reasons is really hard right now but ANYWAY.

This is what I did:

For starters - what the HELL causes those damn bubbles?

Also that bright pink is UV reactive. Its one of the stargazer nail art pens. The dark purple has silver glitter though it which refused to show up under any lighting conditions. The pale purple is a franken I made - 4 nail polishes and some mineral eyeshadow. It didn't turn out quite how I wanted but it's still pretty.

Also - I have a formspring.me! (the widget is on the left sidebar) so ask me some mad questions!

What do you think ladies? Are you boycotting valentines or looking forwards to it?

Love,

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Now for your main event of this morning (evening?)

First off we have me trying the technique to remove glitter nail polish from my Goobie Goober post using nail polish remover, cotton pads and foil. Except I didn't have any foil so I used cling-wrap! It didn't work as well because it was really hard to get the cling wrap to stick to itself because it was wet. Bleh.

Here's what I got, before:

during:

Yay! Tape!

and after:

Hahahaha wrinkly!

Not too bad - though it would have worked much better with foil, it was still much less of a nightmare than usual! The remaining glitters came off really easily and felt kind of "melty" and floppy.

Now for my latest manicure - I wanted to give the Konad another go. Unfortunately I only have one plate so it's going to look a bit familiar.

I added some red diamantes and little diamante hearts to my thumbs.

Then I decided this was altogether way too boring and not valentines inspired at all.
So I kept going...

Much nicer! the girl at the shop yesterday almost had a tiny conniption when she saw them!
What do you think?

Love,