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    Week of Geek Day 4: Live Long and Prosper (Star Trek Nails)

    6th July 2011
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    I can remember watching Star Trek: The Next Generation with my Dad all the time when I was little but I never really knew what was going on! I had to do a bit of wikipedia-ing for this mani to make sure I got all the colours and badges right. The uniforms and insignia are all (mostly) based on The Original Series.
    Pinky to thumb: Science and medical, engineering and security, command and helm, ST for Star Trek, Vulcan Salute.

    I used:
    Uniforms: No7 – Poolside Blue, Barry M – Raspberry, Mixture of BYS – Astro Gold and Go – Shade 04.
    Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine. W7 Black.
    ST: George – Mysterious. Gosh – Holographic. BYS – Metallic Fuschia. Collection 2000 – Gold.
    Vulcan Salute: No7 – Betty Blues. Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine.
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    Week of Geek Day 3: Autobots, transform and roll out!

    5th July 2011
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    Maybe it’s not credible to like Transformers since it’s now a multi million dollar franchise but I really like the films. Robot fighting, explosions and amazing CGI, what’s not to love?! I saw the third film yesterday. The 3D is stunning and the action sequences are much better than in the last two films because you can actually see them Transforming instead of it being a blur of metal and camera cuts. It’s very long and it kind of drags towards the end but it still gets a thumbs up from me!
    I posted a picture of these nails incomplete on Twitter to see if anyone could guess the theme and Jenni said that she saw Darth Vader in there and she is so right. Check out the middle picture and tell me that an upside down Autobots logo doesn’t look like Darth Vader’s mask!
    Pinky to thumb: ‘T’ for Transformers, Bumblebee colours, Autobots logo, Optimus Prime colours, Decepticons logo.
    I used:
    W7 – Black, Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine, NYC Glossies – 243B, George – Natural White (under the yellow), Go – Shade 4, George – Scarlet Kiss.
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    Week of Geek Day 2: Gotta Catch Em’ All (Pokeball Nails)

    4th July 2011
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    Today’s geeky nails are Pokeballs! I have to stress that this is not my original idea, I saw these somewhere on the internet but it wasn’t on a blog. If anyone knows the origin of this design, please drop a link so I can credit the person that thought up this amazing piece of nail art. I like giving credit where credit’s due and I think there is definitely some deserved here!

    I used:
    George – Natural White, NYC Nail Glossies – 223, W7 – Black, Stargazer – White. Also scotch tape and a dotting tool.
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    Week of Geek Day 1: Marvel Nail Art

    3rd July 2011
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    Hello everyone and welcome to the Week of Geek!
    I do not profess myself to be a real geek but I have some geeky tendencies. I’m always making a fool out of myself by making obscure sci-fi references in a room full of people that have never even seen Star Wars and I can easily spend a whole evening reading Marvelpedia. So I decided to dedicate a week of Nail Art to geeky stuff.
    I’ll start the week with some Marvel inspired nail art. I’ve tried to stay true to the comics as much as possible by using some of the iconic imagery related to each character. From pinky to thumb, the heroes are; Spiderman, Hulk, Wolverine, Iron Man and Captain America. 
    Iron Man is definitely my favourite nail. It took freakin ages but I still wish I’d done a while hand of just his face!
    It’s all freehanded except for the star in Captain America’s shield which I stamped from Bundle Monster plate BM05 and then painted over.

    Here is every single polish I used:
    Spiderman: George – Bloom and Scarlet Kiss. Stargazer – White under the red.
    Hulk: Collection 2000 Hot Looks – Martian and BYS – Fern mixed for the base. Rimmel – Blue My Mind for the shorts.  La Femme – Grey Cream for the muscles.
    Wolverine: George – Natural White as a base. Go – Shade 04. Barry M Cyan Blue. W7 – Black. Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine.
    Iron Man: George – Natural White as a base. Go – Shade 04. George – Scarlet Kiss. W7 Black. Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine. La Femme – Grey Cream.
    Captain America: Barry M – Cyan Blue and George – Bloom mixed together for the base. Stargazer – White for the star and ring. George – Scarlet Kiss for the rings.
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    My Harry Potter Mani

    20th November 2010
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    I’ve been meaning to do a Harry Potter mani all week but was completely lost for ideas.
    I sat down yesterday night and decided to just paint them E.L.F Smoky Brown then decided to do the Deathly Hallows on my thumb – then came the rest. It was largely inspired by Melissa @ The Daily Nail‘s HP manicure.
    And I did the house colours on my right hand. This is the first time I’ve photographed my right hand and it was really tricky to position my hand and angle the camera properly.

    Left to right:
    Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Slytherin
    I used a lot of polishes for this one and don’t have them in front of me to list right now so if anyone wants to know what any of them are, just let me know.
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