Palm Sunday

I know this is a little late but I wanted to blog this design before Easter came around. I have a couple of designs saved up for a rainy day but there are so many "special occasions" round about now (like Paddy's day, Easter, etc.) that I've had to backlog a few of them. I will be coming up with a couple more Easter designs on sample nails this year, but on my own nails I'm going to recreate one of the three designs from last year. 

Anywho... Palm Sunday is a Special week in the Church calendar. It's where Jesus came back from his 40 days and nights in the desert and his disciples placed him on a donkey so he didn't have to walk (He was pretty tired) and as he arrived into the city to prepare for his crucifixion (which only he really knew about at the time) the citizens placed palm leaves on the ground for the donkey to walk on because its feet were hot on the sand. Also it was a sign of respect towards Jesus. 

So that's a little background story. You don't have to use this design for Palm Sunday, you could simply using it as an interesting palm leaf design.

This design is  different because of the polish I used. If you have this polish, awesome! If not, it's still a nice colour if you have something similar. After a base coat, I applied a couple of coats of Del Sol's "Electrick". It's a shimmery sky blue that in a UV light (or sunlight) it turns bright green. Once that colour dried, I drrew palm leaves on my nails using Nail Jazz "Green" which is actually a dark green. Once the leaves dried, I went over them with another green Nail Jazz colour. It has no name but it's a mossy  shimmer/glitter green. Then when that dried over half of the leaves I added MigiNailArt's "Kelly Green", a neon green to complete the effect. Make sure you let this design completely dry before adding a top coat or the design will smudge. If you skip the top coat, your design with chip and look quite nasty. 

You may notice from these pictures that my index finger has a chip in the corner and my middle finger has a cut. It was so windy here that many large objects blew down my field, including a shed. Just after I finished this manicure I had to throw a jacket and boots over my PJs and run after the objects. They were heavy and the wind was strong as I dragged them back up to the house that I did some damage to my nails/fingers. Kinda sucks because I hadn't taken pictures of this design yet. So for Easter (I think I'll change this design tomorrow... maybe?) I'll try to reshape the broken nail and hope the designs still work and look decent. I hope you have better luck if you complete this design!