I had my first “day” of classes, but since its mid-week, most sections and such don’t start until next week, so all I had today was a really super-fun-looking astronomy class. Now that I’m a senior, I can afford to take fun classes, right? Consequently, I did astronomy nails for you today! Sorry about the thumb, the telescope is supposed to be looking AT all those sexy celestial objects, but, I just can’t get my thumb to bend that way! I had to make do and put it below. Hope you understand the concept!
The Heavens, are, full of sparkles?
The Colors:
Since this post is so long, and so many colors were used in such tiny amounts, I’ll only cover one big one here and leave the rest for when I use them more substantially.
Icing’s Blackout is an amazing black jelly with holographic glitter imbeded within the polish. Rumor has it that it’s a dupe for Nfu- Oh GS14, which is a hard to find and more expensive color. To be honest, I am in absolute love with this color even when just layered over black because it has such a great star quality. I love simple constellation manicures, and if you do too, this one is for you. I wore it five days once without chippage, which is rare for an icing polish, but it looked great even then! I usually layer over black, not because of its sheerness, but because I don’t want to waste such a beautiful polish on layering.ALSO:I’ve been lemming an emerald green holo, which OPI says that they’ll try to get working on *lets hope so* but I decided to franken my own in the meantime. I don’t have a name for it, but I was thinking of Emerald Eyes, whatta ya think?

I mixed five drops of China Glaze’s Emerald Fitzgerald with two drops of Nicole by OPI’s Lemon Lime Twist, and two drops of Nfu Oh’s 61. The thumb, which is a tidge lighter, had only 3 drops of Emerald Fitz but I darkened it for the rest of the fingers. I would have loved a pure emerald, but this color is nice too, more of a jade I think….
Also, my mom made Rafik an amazing birthday present, which I have to put up here because its so gosh darn amazing looking. Steal these pictures, and I will hunt you down. No, really… I will. Our apartment doesn’t have great light, so there’s one picture that’s with a flash so you can see the detail, but it blocks out the lion in the clouds, so I put a blurry, non flash picture up so you can see the cool lion in the sky. Rafik likes lions, and my mom likes cross stitching. She’s a crafting genius and there will be more of her projects on here soon. In fact, I’ll be using her beaded ornaments (to die for) as a nail design in the near future.
Its 9″ x 12″ and all cross stitched by hand.