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I used to do quite a lot of nail art. Like it was a whole THING for me. For various reasons I don’t keep long nails nor paint them any more, but because I did it for so long I’ve quite the library of fun shots or neat ideas for nail art. An app I use shows me photos I’d taken that day from years in the past and I have been seeing some Halloween nail art that were fun as hell, so I thought I’d share!

I’m just using Flickr embeds, but I’ll add a wee bit of commentary. We’re just flipping through an album together here.

First, some moody pentagrams, a fave tbh with the nail shape I did.

This was fun, doing movie poster inspired nails was a fave (see: Jaws).

This turned out pretty, and is a bit more “medical” than “spooky” but: skeletons. The plum base was what makes it work best I think.

This was a re-do because I tried to make it look like the ends of fingerbones but it didn’t read. Listen, cartoon bone is: SO much funnier.

This is more vibes-based but I think empty stage has some good classic theatre horror core to it. Evil circus, etc.

Okay, and you can close this tab now if you want because the next are a little gross. Zombie nails! We will work up from ick to nasty.

Just shittily remove your nail polish, it does make for a good “just clawed my way out” look.

You can also layer colours and partly remove, that makes for a “flesh falling off” chic. This is part of a flickr album with steps, if you are so interested.

Okay, the penultimate zombie nail: painted stitches. Looks actually pretty effective from a distance.

And now: the gnarly. I apparently made a latex appliance to look like a stitched-through nail one year. WTF, my mind. There’s an album if you want more.

That was fun! It is nice to remember all the stuff one has done, I guess that’s why we take pictures.

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Well, I can admit it. I totally failed at my month of nails. First I decided to extend it through May and about a week ago I realised that there was no way I was going to meet my goals. Lame. But hey, at least I can admit it. No excuses, I just lost the drive during the bleh period of time I am calling Maypril.

Failure happens, and my monthly focus thing is not going to stop because I screwed up one month. There will be a focus for June and I’m so going to do it, not going to fail twice, thank you.

I did totally produce some stuff for this focus, so image dump below. All images link back to their Flickr page, with more info.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

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This month is my birthday month, so the focus is going to be something I am so all about: nails.

Sometime between 2006-ish, when I was still scared of the makeup aisle and spent evenings pretending I wasn’t following white rabbit hyperlinks about drag, false lashes, makeup and hair falls to the summer of 2009 when I started painting my nails about once a week (though I didn’t start doing it regularly each week for a while), I got over it. “It” being my gender presentation and self-perception. Which is so complicated and all I want to do is explain why getting my nails did is so important to me. Like, Jo’s hair in Little Women important. It’s the thing I’m vain about.

Anyway. I like bling. I like shiny things and the LA look and the crumbs of makeup that I still carried from the mandatory girl-kit of my late teens included a pair of silver false lashes. This month is about nails, not lashes, I know, stay with me. Lashes and nail polish both are something that complete a character, when you’re acting or in an editorial. They’re more decidedly costume and they can be fabulous. And I figured out I could do fabulous. That wasn’t girly, when I still cared about if something was girly, it was just fancy.

I literally dipped my finger into painting my nails. I used to use a little mobile internet thing and grew out the nail on my index finger a bit so I didn’t have to use the stylus. The rest of my nails I kept very short. I started painting just the longer nail, for strength and because it was fancy. Sometimes I would do them up a little more for events.

Early summer 2009 Chase and I were in a new apartment, a place with no memory of former roommates, I was figuring some stuff out myself and part of that was a style direction that sort of wove the sunshine fashion of 1980s Miami with the rather sick street looks of LA. I found a blog called The Boobs (now over at The Boobs LA) that would post image dumps of hella nails did, with 3D pieces and sick bling. A couple months later, I was already starting to amass a collection of polish. It helps that Chase is a total enabler.

And now, almost two years later, I’ve been doing my nails every week. I’ve grown them out crazy long on my non-dominant hand, learned to square a femme habit with the rest of me and fallen in love with the tiny canvases that adorn my hands. I have dozens of nail polish colours, an airbrush and a legit obsession. My nails may now be trimmed down now for boxing, but they’re still fab.

So. This month I’m focusing just on the thing that I think I love the most. I want to do at least four different sets of art nails on acrylic tips and get shots of them, like extreme versions of ones I’ve done for friends.

I have a nerdy thing I do where I screenshot nails in a film and then try to replicate them. I’ve already done Ginger’s nails in Casino and I’ve got a file of stills of Nomi’s nails in Showgirls that I need to delve into. Any tips as to other notable movie nails would be awesome.

Other than that it’s kind of up in the air. It’s gonna rock. Local friends who’ve been wanting their nails did should shoot me a line for surely.

Now for the kind of impressive grid o’ nails did from my Flickr:

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

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I’ve been blogging for work, helping Chase with his art book and reading the crap out of City of Roses which has been crazy fun, and everything is ramping up to busy season again, so here’s a quick dump o’ stuff: