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The Lacquer Legion Fandom: Avengers Nail Art

28th July 2014

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#LLFandom // The Nailasaurus

For this month’s Lacquer Legion theme – Fandom – I was completely spoilt for choice when it came to my inspiration. My mind has been going in circles since the theme was announced but in the end I settled on some Avengers nail art. I’m a big fan of the Marvel Universe and with all the buzz around Age of Ultron at Comic-Con over the weekend, I just couldn’t help myself! If you want to browse my past Marvel manicures, there’s a whole category dedicated to them here.

If you’re taking part in today’s Lacquer Legion challenge, don’t forget to use #LLFandom when you post your mani and share it on the Facebook page. If you’re just spectating this time around, it’s easy to follow along on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook using the hashtag.

For this nail art, I used a lot of nail polish. Too much to name it all here but my base colours are No7 Just Black, Cult Nails Time Traveler (Whovian bonus, woo!) and Revlon Bordeaux. I freehanded all of the detail using a nail art brush.
Polishes worth noting are A-England Excalibur Renaissance, a super opaque silver and the Sweet Color Liner Polish, the perfect white for freehanding although I used a nail art brush, not the liner that’s included.

Marvel S.H.I.E.L.D. Nail Art // The Nailasaurus

Marvel Avengers Nail Art // The Nailasaurus

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Superheroes Challenge: Ultimate Hero… Wolverine

5th July 2012

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I scored myself a great job this week which is very exciting but it’s been a shock to the system to go from unemployment to full time work! I’m really tired so I’ll just drop this here without too much explanation and go to bed. Kthanxbai!

(Wolverine Wikipedia, Marvel Wiki)

If you’ve got more stamina than me and want to see more hero manicures, head over to these blogs!

Jo from Northern Nails

Charlotte from Charlotte’s Nails

Debbie from The Crumpet

Kerrie from PishPosh and Polish

Sarah from Spellbinding Nails

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Superheroes Challenge: Marvel Hero… Wasp!

14th June 2012

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So we’ve seen the Villain and today, Marvel’s hero is riding, or should I say flying, in to save the day! I know that Venom is Spider-Man’s arch enemy but I’ve done Spider-Man nail art in the past so I thought I’d try something new today. I’ve actually done most of the popular Marvel heroes before (Marvel even has it’s own tag!) so I had to reach a bit further than the Hollywood blockbusters for today’s nail art.

I chose to do Wasp, aka Janet Van Dyne. Some of you might recognise her from one of the Avengers cartoon series. I know that’s where I first saw her and when I was coming up with ideas for today’s nail art, I had an idea for her immediately! The wings came out better than I expected since I had the idea to make them pearly right at the last second and it definitely makes them more convincing as wasp wings!

I used NYC Lexington Yellow and Cult Nails Cruisin Nude as my base colours. All the black detail is done with a small nail art brush and black acrylic paint. Finally, I used Rimmel Daisy Chain to go over the wings and give them that delicate, pearly effect.

I finished it all of with two coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.

Previously: The Amazing Spider-Nails, Marvel Nail Art and Avengers Nail Art

Shoot over to these blogs to see what the other ladies came up with today!

Jo from Northern Nails

Charlotte from Charlotte’s Nails

Debbie from The Crumpet

Kerrie from PishPosh and Polish

Sarah from Spellbinding Nails

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Superheroes Challenge: Marvel Villain… We Are Venom!

12th June 2012

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Welcome to the Heroes and Villains challenge! I’m so excited about this challenge, I love love love nerdy nail art so I know I’m going to be creating some kick-ass manis over the next four weeks and I’m sure the other ladies will too. I can’t wait to see what we all come up with.

In case you missed it, I posted all the details of the challenge on Sunday. This week, it’s Marvel and today a nasty villain has come to town. I chose Venom who normally appears as Spider-Man‘s arch enemy! I can’t think of much else to say today so I’ll just leave you with the pictures!

I used W7 Black as my base colour. All the white detail was done with White Acrylic Paint and the grey is Rimmel Grey Matter.

Previously: The Amazing Spider-Nails

Head over to the other ladies’ blogs to see which Marvel villain they chose to immortalise on their nails!

Jo from Northern Nails

Charlotte from Charlotte’s Nails

Debbie from The Crumpet

Kerrie from PishPosh and Polish

Sarah from Spellbinding Nails

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The Punisher Nail Art!

7th May 2012

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So today’s nail art is based on Marvel’s Punisher. I’ve never read a Punisher comic or seen a Punisher film, but I’ll take any excuse to draw a skull on my nails!

I’m starting a new challenge in June which Jo from Northern Nails came up with and I was gonna save this idea for then but it doesn’t quite fit the criteria. I don’t want to give too much away but given my history with this theme and the fact that I’m super excited, you might be able to guess at what it is!

The colours here are W7 Black and a red from L’Oreal which has no shade name on the bottle (gradient tutorial here). The details are done with white acrylic paint.

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Avengers Assemble!

6th May 2012

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I finally went to see The Avengers (or is it Avengers Assemble now?!) today! It was released last week here in the UK but today was the first chance I got to go and see it!

Of course, I loved it but I was distraught to find that there was no stinger at the end of the credits. Even though I’d already read that there was no final surprise on the UK release, I waited right until the very end out of habit and defiance anyway! I almost feel cheated that I went to see a Marvel movie and there was no credit cookie!

Well these are the nails I wore which I kind of threw on last night but you can see some more in detail Avengers nail art from the archives here.

The base colour is Rimmel My Denim and I used a coat of Girly Bits Cosmic Ocean on my pointer for a bit of sparkle. I used Barry M Silver Foil and black acrylic paint for the ‘A’.

I’m slowly falling in love with Rimmel polish. I’ve been finding a lot of them at bargain prices recently and although I probably wouldn’t pay full price (£3-5) for them, I find myself reaching for the ones in my collection a lot recently.

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Spider-Man Nail Art Tutorial

28th February 2012

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Today I have a tutorial for the Amazing Spider-man nail art I created a few weeks ago. You can see the original post here.

This is the first tutorial I’ve made for a very long time! I normally procrastinate on them and then give up hope altogether because I’ve failed quite badly at making them in the past but I actually had a really good time making this one. I hope you enjoy it!

Step by step instructions after the jump!

You will need Red Blue and Silver polishes but you could also use black in place of the silver.

I’m using Cult Nails Quench, Cult Nails Time Traveler and Barry M Silver Foil (which is currently on sale at asos.com!).

I’m also using a small liner brush from eBay. Details here.

1. Paint on your red base coat.

2. Use a nail art brush to paint on a blue tip with a scalloped edge. Aim for 4 or 5 ‘waves’.

3. Using a nail art brush and silver polish, define the wavy line between the red and blue sections.

4. Draw lines from your cuticle to the tip ensuring that they cross through the points of the wavy line. In the blue section, link these lines to make it look like a web.

5. In the red section, draw a few more lines from your cuticle to the wavy silver line from step 3.

6. Join up all the lines with more wavy web like lines, add your top coat and you’re all done!

The accent finger is easy to create than it looks. I drew on the eyes first, then the webs using the same principle shown above and finished by outlining the eyes using black acrylic paint.

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