Pitch Midnight

I am so excited to tell you guys.... For the longest time, all the pictures that I took on my little pink Sony camera were stuck because I lost the USB cable a year or two ago. The better quality pictures on this blog were either taken with my Dad's little digital camera, or his epically expensive professional one. I don't want to delete any of his pictures and I do have to sneak the cameras at times, so I don't always get the opportunity to take several pictures until I see a good quality one, BUT THAT WILL ALL CHANGE! My Birthday is next month and I received money from my Grandparents early and for a while I have wanted a video camera, so I wandered into Black's at the mall and had a great (and slightly flirty) conversation with a very helpful man there and ended up finding a Sony HandyCam and falling in techy-love. I bought the camera, a memory card, and a card reader for said card. The cool part is that car-reader is compatible with my digital camera's memory card, so my photos are free at last! I really don't have an excuse for rubbish webcam photos anymore. The moral of this paragraph is most or all of my pictures will be GOOD quality, and I will be able to film more and better nail art tutorials (the three that I have filmed so far have all been on my webcam using PhotoBooth on my MacBook). This doesn't mean that I can post more on youtube, because my internet still sucks, but I'll try for you guys, even if it does cost a lot. That's how much I love you all!

If you're still awake, I'll get onto the latest design. Despite using my digital camera for these photos, they do look better in person. And a lot darker. I'm hoping to try out "the straw technique" soon, where you blow polish out of a tiny straw to get a speckled or star appearance, but I don't own any straws (yet), so I had to apply the stars by hand. The design did look better before I applied the stars, but also in need of... something. To start, I applied China Glaze's "Liquid Leather" as a gradient on my tips. Because it's not a completely opaque black when you apply thin coats, I did hand paint the free edges to make them extra dark. Once that dried, I sponged on Sally Hansen's Inta-Dry "Co-Bolt Blue" on top of the black, and finally NailJazz* "Royal Blue" as a gradient on top of the black and blue. Once everything dried, I took NailJazz "White" and with the pen tip, I tapped the white tops over the top for stars. To give the sky a little texture, I used the same white and very lightly sponged it over the tips randomly to simulate dark clouds. To be honest, I prefer the cloud look in these pictures, and not so much on my nails themselves. I covered my design with a top coat and cleaned my cuticles. Because I used black and other dark colours, I had to make sure I used a good base coat to protect my nails before starting this design.

Before I had the idea to turn this into a night sky look, I had just the plain black gradient tips on my nails for all of five minutes, and I really liked the black tips, but I can't just keep posting different coloured gradients on this blog or you might get bored. Oh, also, I still have both of my thumb nails in case you didn't notice. I'm still applying the liquid bandage and other products to keep the rip secure. I did have the idea to apply a tiny gel overlay on the rip instead, but the liquid bandage seems to be doing to job nicely, even if it does make my thumbnail smell a little funky.

*I organized all the folders on my laptop and made a dedicated nail art one, and I have 251 photos of my nails just for this blog (obviously I haven't posted them all)! I discovered while naming the pictures that 16 of my MigiNailArt polishes are NOT actually MigiNailArt, even though they look identical, and so did the packets they came in. I was wondering why I seemed to own more polishes than they advertised on their website. So all of the polishes from the neon and metallic collections are actually Nail Jazz. That's probably going to confuse people and myself. At least I know the names of all the Nail Jazz colours, and quite a few of my MigiNailArt ones now.