OMD3 Day 22: Star Sign

Since I was born in late May, my star sign is Gemini. I decided to do a bit of glitter placement. I don't have any loose glitter, so I was attempting to take the bigger glitter pieces from a glitter polish. I used that for the main stars and then I used a silver holo for the connecting lines and as random bits of stars on the other nails.

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National Pride... America or Australia?

The theme for the 29th is National Pride. The question now was is that Australia or America? Well, I have two hands, so why not both? I was originally going to do America on my right hand and Australia on the left because of dominance in that country, but I decided that it would look better according to their flags if I did it the other way. It was also great that the two countries have the same colours on their flags!

The American flag was really easy. I used my new Ulta3 nail polishes for the red and white. For being so cheap they really are good polishes. Not great, but I got them buy one get one free so they were only $2.50 total. I painted those nails white and then free hand painted the red stripes. The blue nail I just painted with a ChiChi nail polish and put white dots for the stars.

The Australian flag proved to be much more difficult. The Union Jack part had to be done layer by layer because the white for the cross overlaps the red parts of the X. I am really happy how it turned out. I don't have the other star that's below the Union Jack, but that's because I don't have a finger there. I thought that it was more important to get the Southern Cross in.

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Galaxy!

I've been wanting to do a galaxy nail for a while because I think they are so beautiful! That's even why I chose to have the background for my blog. But I didn't have sponges for a long time and then I got so wrapped up in challenges that I wasn't able to give it a whirl until this month. I was so glad that the OMD2 challenge included a galaxy nail!

I'm not completely thrilled with my final product, especially the stars, but it was actually really easy so I can definitely see myself trying this over again sometime. I did like the polishes that I chose. From left to right: Radiant Violet by Three Beauties, Lily White by ulta3, the purple shade of Chi Chi magnetic polish, Candid Cameron by Nicole by OPI, and Push and Shove by OPI.

 I did two coats of the Radiant Violet to get the desired darkness. It is hard to tell with my pictures, but the polish is a deep blue with shimmers of blue and purple.

I sponged on some white. In retrospect, I would have liked the overall design if I actually planned where I was going to put the sponging.

 The purple came next. I actually had some of the purple and white mixing on my plastic bag and I liked the effect it gave from the few lighter streaks.

I used Candid Cameron next. I absolutely loved what the greenish blueish colour did to the galaxy effect.

I added some stars. I wasn't happy with this part. I thought that the silver would look good, but I think that the stars in general look silly. I did put the Big Dipper on my thumb, which I do like in theory.

 I found out that we don't have a good light for taking pictures of nails in our apartment, so I'll need to get a good desk lamp. In the meantime, here are a couple of pictures to try and capture them better.

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