Stripes Day 2: Nautical Feeling..

Hello everyone,

   Still having a bit of fun on my stripe week adventures. How are you, by the way? Trust you're doing splendidly. Great? Good! Welcome!..

 Not wasting much time. My stripe art today was inspired by the nautical blue and white stripes worn by sailors. Remember all those sailor-type clothes with a cape our mums used to dress us up in whole growing up..lol. As a girl, i remember mine came in yellow and pink instead of blue. Anyway i simply free-handed white stripes using my nail art striper brush on a blue background. Lines ain't straight, sorry, but you get the idea. You like? I hope you do.. enjoy!

blue and white stripes galore

bear got stripes too!..lol

(was in a bit of a hurry going out today else i'd have used nail art tape instead of free-handing the stripes with brush. Got a surprise lined up for tomorrow though...)

model of life, TV Remote again helping me do  my thing

(I'm just gonna stop captioning TV Remote again, you guys are already well acquainted with my photography partner..lol)

such a calm thumb pic.....

love how the stripes came out..

closer shot. need more work on my technique but this works for me..*smile*

I'll just let you be the judge of today's art. Frankly glad i was able to do this since network has been so shaky all day til now. Why not let me know what you think? Always happy to hear from you guys..until next time, do take care.

Stripes Day 1:Happy Candy Freehand.

Hello everyone!

    Welcome to a new week, I trust yours has started as great as mine and all is going splendidly with you wherever you are. Hope no problems? Be sure we will all have cause to smile before the week is over..amen!

  Let's go!


    This week is Stripe Nail Art week as i promised and I'm already off to a banging start. My stripes will all include freehand and tape stripes so I hope you find it interesting to see. I'm not gonna toe a certain beaten path and just gonna switch it all up and go with the flow. You ready?

  Day 1 of my stripe art sees me starting with free-handed stripes applied using my striper brush from my nail brush set (reminding myself to do a page post showing the tools i use to achieve such excellent art!). For starters i painted orange and yellow lacquer on alternating fingernails, coulda chose any other colours but orange and yellow are so sunny and i was kinda listening to Pharell's "Happy" song so felt sunny on the inside too and all i could think of was yellow and orange were bright happy colours. Bi mo se lo won niyen..lol.

  Start off with a clear base coat before applying the colours and then topcoat, as usual waited for them to dry before proceeding with the striping.

   Thank God i had the sense to assemble all i needed first else i woulda cried. Got my striper brush and proceeded to freehand the stripes in black. Make i no lie ooo, the stripes would have been a lot straighter and the patterns more assymetrical throughout if i wasn't too busy watching "Chopped" on Food Network (love that show so much!). Long story short, the lines came out higgedly-piggedly but i kinda like it cos it looks so bohemian (*raises fist and yells*.. Freedom!!!.. *chokes on laughs*.. All the same i love how it looked, reminded me of the Ankara material we Nigerians cherish so much for making clothes and shoes and bags and just about anything Ankara goes with..

   Hope you like it, i cringe a bit at the funny lines but hey, practice makes perfect. Let me know what you think dears. Enjoy!

my trusty friend again called into service, thanks TV Remote!

staring at them and i'm thinking candy chewing gum or butterfly wing-ish

 Thankfully this was a daylight picture session unlike the dotted art series which i did at night due to something generally known as Only Girl Syndrome whereby if you happen to be the only girl amongst your sibs, you sometimes end up doing almost all the house chores and cooking..*laughs*.. I kid around, love that!

I'm a bear, see my claws.. GRRRRR!! (bears do nail paint too!)

still gripping my bestie for dear life..lol

 Yellow and Orange kinda confusing the eye, ain't they? They are both so close on the colour spectrum so relax, your eyes will adjust..lol. Sowiee!

close up of those unruly stripes..hehe!

my little nubs looking all candy-like..tooots!

very subdued shot, i like the calm.

Thanks again for dropping in, hope i get to see you here again soon. I continue stripe art tomorrow so please let me know what you think by dropping any comments or criticisms in the comments box, i'd really appreciate it. Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.. cheers!!

Advance Warning..I think..lol

Happy Sunday everyone!! Short quick post and I'm out..
  First off  thankful for a new week beginning which means new stuff coming up on my blog. Last week was my dotted nail art week though you'll have noticed that I didn't do all 5 days 'cos i started on Wednesday (assume weekends are off except I feel like it..lol). Posted 3 different dotted art and it felt really good and I heartily promise more examples of such will follow in days and weeks and months to come.

  Okay! This week I'm doing stripe nail art. Another favourite of mine and I promise you lots of eye candy, never mind how consistent i promise to be (strenght I pray for, Dear Lord!..*laughs*..)

  I look forward to seeing you all this week. Please feel free to go through previous posts and let me know what you think.

 Have a wonderful week ahead folks, stay blessed!

Dotted Day 3: Polka Thingies!

Hello everyone!

    As surely as the sun would rise, i was gonna keep my promise to do dotted nail art even

though right now i'm staring at a cake and thinking of cutting me a slice of it..invariably

looking for milk to accompany it and then quietly settling my butt down to watch Cartoon

Network or something.. *sighs*. A girl can only wish sha, duty always calls.I am maintaining

my discipline in the face of cake temptation.

   Okay! My dotted nail art today is a Polka Dot creation inspired by the screensaver of my

Nokia 103 phone. There I was sitting quietly, staring at nothing in particular and trying to

figure out a theme for my next dotted art when I noticed my small Nokia phone screen going

into screensaver mode, falling dots piling on each other kinda like a small avalanche.

Ding!! My brain booted immediately, there was the next theme starting at me.I immediately

decided on black and white for my polka dots, which look as elegant on clothes as  they do

on my nails.Did my thing and here they are..

white polka dots on a black background

 Now for my polkas, I did white dots on a black background but switched it up on my thumb

by having black dots on a white background. Personally I loved the contrast and was

absolutely delighted with it.If you  noticed, the dots are of two different sizes; big dots

with little dots dispersed in the spaces between. The falling "rocks" on my Nokia

screensaver were all different-sized too!

black polka dots on a white background on my thumb

(My partner aka TV Remote, was on hand to help with my photography again..pun intended!..lol)

see the contrast? I just love how it came out!

Looking closer...

  

aren't they just darling?..lol

ah, ha! that softly blurred effect i like very much

Why not let me know what you think? Got ideas for my next theme? Drop it and I may just

surprise you by trying it out.


Thanks again for visiting my blog, look forward to having you come enjoy again. Please let

me hear from you, I'd love to know how I'm helping to keep you in good spirits. Look forward

to hearing from you. Stay blessed.

Dotted Nail Art Day 2:Rainbow Kid.

Hello darlings,
      I was watching the preview of Russell Crowe's "Noah" on TV when it occurred to me that I could create something from it. Race off to get my Bible and read the story again and what stuck in my mind was the Rainbow, symbol of God's promise to never again destroy the earth with floods. Wetin man pikin go do? Sharply the babe don assemble wetin she go use do the rainbow..(pidgin again..lol)

    In keeping with my theme of dotted nail art this week, I first applied a plain white lacquer as a background colour because I have discovered over time that white really emphasizes other colours (many thanks to the numerous nail bloggers whose blogs i read to get great tips..#appreciative). This step requires some patience cos i had to wait for the white to dry before starting my dots. Experience has taught that if I layer dots on wet lacquer, it kinda sinks in and I'm left with something that looks like a batik disaster..yeurkk!!

     All went well, it dried quick when i applied a topcoat and chilled watching Cartoons (don't roll your eyes jur, I'm a Disney addict..lol). Now came the fun part of painstakingly placing the dots like so presented. Me sef wey set task for myself, see as i tire after a while ehhh... Gotta admit though, i really loved the end result of all my hard work.
       

All shades of joy!

 

AH! My trusty friend and picture-snapping partner, Monsieur TV Remote..lol

Every day i improve on each one. So loving this right now!

Basically just having fun with myself ni oo!

 

Just loving this! Proud of every mistake i might have made..helps me grow. *grin*

once more, once again!

Softened look. I think the angle i was bending either the phone or my neck was responsible for this. Either way i love the shot! #kiss

 Thankful I am for the promise of a Rainbow which inspired my dotted nail art for the second day. I gotta thank you for taking time out to visit my blog and hope you liked what I had to show/share with you today. Look forward to hearing from you, be sure to give me a shout-out when you visit.

  Cheers and best of luck to you!!..

Dotted Nail Art Week (First Of All...)

Hello darlings,
            now for some strange reason i decided to give myself a tasklist of things to do daily, weekly or monthly as a way to combat my seeming lethargy when it comes to doing what i ought to be doing..me sef know say partial laziness dey worry my life..*laughs*.. Not gonna make any excuses though, I just am but it was out of my stubborn determination to combat it I came up with this..lol

*clears throat*.. Aheemmm!!

One of my resolutions is to this week post a series based on Dotted Nail Art which is hands-down my most absolute favourite style of nail art. I love na understatement; positively adore!. So this week, y'all gotta put up with my sweet obsession. Hope you like it.

   Today's art was a simple polka dot pattern I created. I used a pale blue lacquer with a hint of shimmer in it which needed a 3-coat application to achieve opacity (me that can like to form impatient eh, had to be waiting for each coat to dry out a bit...lol). I used my tiny size dotter to create the dots right down the middle of each leaving the sides bare. Nice to think i could match an outfit to my nail art, an idea. Imma dig out any polka dot item I own and copy it, na threat be that..lol.


 Why not skip through the pics and let me know what you think? Enjoy dears and don't forget to leave your comments and criticisms..
(all pictures snapped using mobile phone camera. Saving up to buy a digital except God just accidentally clunks my head with one.. I will be soooo grateful!..lol)

Taken with flash, this has to be the best pic i took of the lot.

I was even forming baddo while snapping pic ontop say my hand no too dey steady ( for any foreign visitors sorry for the seemingly atrocious english, we call it Nigerian Pidgin English which is a deliberate mashup of normal english and some of our local dialects)

Blurry a bit i think..but looks okay

This is clearer. Took this shot in a darkened room with flash.

Lights On!.

Had to switch on the lights for this shot.

See the blue? With the flash it kinda looks silver cos of the shimmer

You see am?

Thank you for viewing, I look forward to hearing what you think. Keep your eyes peeled for more post dears, much love all round. #hugs

Happy Good Friday!!

Hello Darlings,

    so it's Good Friday. This is a day when christians the world over celebrate the sacrifice Our Lord made in dying for us all and redeeeming us all with His Life and Blood. I am Christian and proud of it but also grateful to have all friends from all faiths (yes, even those who traditionalists, I respect all..) . All in All, Good Friday is a good day for us all, God bless us all..

     My post today is just simply a small tribute to some of the elements of Good Friday that touched me the most.               

 

                                                                                                                                   
As usual, my faithful photography companion, the TV Remote, has so graciously sacrificed itself for my snaps and for your viewing pleasure (pun intended..lol)


I kept my nail art simple, honestly tried to convey the starkness of what today meant and how close it meant to me. All interpretations are mine, I do or did not consult anyone and i respect all opinions. Pics are subject to personal interpretations.. Let me describe each as much as i can..

 The nail art on my thumb was intended to represent the Blood and Water which gushed from the sides of Jesus Christ when He was stabbed in the side by the spear of a Roman soldier to ascertain if He was dead. I deliberately roughened up the art because the truth is Blood and Water coming out of anyone is not a pretty sight. Scary, yes!.. I can only imagine how horrified the soldier was after the deed was done. This was Negative Space in red, no black blood please!

Reflecting The Light. Symbolic..

The Index Finger: kept bare. I thought of it as God becoming man and shedding all toga of His divinity. All laid bare and taking on all the worries, struggles, frustrations and "wahala"* man is capable of having in his life.

My middle Finger: On a plain white background, I imposed two symbols. A Heart representing His own beating with Love enough for mankind and black xxx-es representing the thorns on his crown before cricifixion (sad-looking thorns i drew, please manage..*laughs*)

The Ring and Little Fingers: I painted blue. My ring finger has pale blue dots on it because i simply am too fond of dotted nail art and i find it really hard to do any kind of nail art without having dots in them (a weakness!)

God bless the TV Remote!!

I wish you all a wonderful Good Friday and Easter ahead. Got a surprise planned for you all in the weeks to come and I promise to improve myself daily. Let me know what you think and be sure to drop all comments and criticisms in the comments box.

May The Good Lord bless us all..

Happy Easter Everyone!!