Where's Perry?

Agent P, one of my sisters favourite Disney cartoon characters. He is from the series of Phineas and Ferb and was the requested theme of her design I created.

She had recently bought Greenberry from the Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine collection which reminded her greatly of Perry the Platypus who is also a secret agent that regularly foils the evil villain Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz plans.

On the thumb is Perry's signature foot kick he regularly uses while in secret agent mode. In the cartoons whenever he uses this move they play the comic 'POW!' noise which I wrote across his foot. For the foot I mixed a yellow and orange together by BW shades A and B that came in a set. I used a black sharpie to write the POW! across.

On the index finger is his bad ass face he gives after foiling the evil villains plans. Used the A shade by BW to create his bill using a dotter and toothpick. I then outlined the bill with an orange sharpie. For his eyes I used Energy Source (white) by L.A. Colours with a dotter, dotted on top is You Don't Know Jacques! (brown) by O.P.I. Followed by a little bit of Black Velvet by L.A. Colours. I then outlines the eyes with black sharpie. Finally added a tiny white dot on each eye to help animate them ^_^ .

Middle finger is Perry's little platypus tail. I mixed Mud Pie (brown) by MUA with B (orange) by BW. Then outlined the tail with a black sharpie and criss-crossed on top.

The ring finger is his secret Agent P badge. I used Gold Foil by Barry M, then outlined the badge with a black sharpie.

Little finger is Agent P's hat, I was also able to squeeze in his inquisitive eyes. Mud Pie by MUA was used for the hat and a black sharpie to outline it all. For the eyes I did the same as the index finger.

Left Hand

I mirrored this design on the right hand.

Right Hand

I would be interested in doing more Disney cartoon character theme nails in the future ^_^

Who is your favourite Disney cartoon character?

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Leopard nails

Did you know that leopard dots were Gema's first design? I think it was about a year ago she tried it out, but I haven't got around to it until now. Why I don't know, I got distracted along the way.

The reason I decided to do them now was thatI wanted a fairly neutral design for when starting a new job. I've been told that many companies wouldn't be too happy with their employees using their digits as mini-canvases but luckily that is not often the case in engineering. 

The base colour I'm using is Mint Choc Chip by 17, a lovely colour but not very good quality - it chips easily. For the dots I used our beloved pin (from sewing kit) and then I drew around them with a permanent marker. As I applied the topcoat the marker smudged a lot more than I expected, which worried me, but at the end of the day it actually helped the design.

Pastel colours are also a great way of reminding yourself of the upcoming (sometimes visible) spring!

The Avengers Assembled

It's little less than a year ago that The Avengers Assemble movie came out, but as you might have heard most of our super heroes are returning with solo movies (Iron Man 3; April 2013, Thor 2; October 2013, Captain America 2; April 2014) . We are both huge fans and have for a long time been planning on doing The Avenger nails, now is finally the time.

As you can see we opted for slightly different designs, Gema's longer nails allowed her to paint whole faces whereas Charlotte went for her good old favourite of splitting the design between the two hands.

Charlotte's nails:

I have used the digits for the characters, well aware of having to drop one (Black Widow in this case, since I couldn't find a good enough design and it annoys me a bit that her sole purpose in the movie appears to be sexy). The thumb was left to carry the Avengers' A on a pale blue background.

For all the black details you can see I used Sharpies, also for the red stripes on Captain America's body. Any white details were done with a toothpick and so we were also the red on Iron man's head. The silver detail's on Thor's armour were done using a home made dotter (ie a pin stuck in a rubber) and the As on the thumbs with a silver striper from Primark.

Assembling the Avengers

Gema's Nails:

I tried to fit in as many characters from The Avengers movie as possible! For the thumbs I did black A's on a glitter background as a slightly different Avengers logo.

On my right hand index finger I did Captain America. I used the Peacock Green holographic polish by Kiko for the colour of his blue suit. I then added his A logo on his forehead and face detail with a combination of toothpick and sharpie fun.

On my right middle finger is Iron Man. The gold foil by Barry M polish is the background. Then completed his armour by adding red polish and some red craft glitter to give it a more metallic look. Face details I used a Sharpie.

On my ring finger is Thor. Voodoo by L.A. Colours is the green background (which I also use for Loki on the other hand). I also used silver foil by Barry M polish for his helmet and neon yellow for this golden hair.

I decided to go with the Avengers movie version of Nick Fury on my little finger (pinkie) using silver foil Barry M polish for the background and drew in the detail using a Sharpie.

Nick Fury | Thor | Iron Man | Captain America

On my left hand index finger I used the comics representation of Hawkeye which is a mainly purple suit with a H logo on his forehead above a face mask. I used a Sharpie to outline the details and then filled in the H and mask with purple craft glitter.

On the middle finger is the hulk. I used a neon green for his face and added the rest of the detail with a toothpick.

On my ring finger is the mischievous god Loki. I used the same Voodoo green background as Thor and then Barry M gold foil to colour in his striking head gear. I added a big of gold glitter on top of that to aid the strikingness...

Little finger is Black Widow. She was a tough character to do since her logo is the common marking of the black widow spider in the comics however this is usually a small feature around her waist. I wanted to continue with the faces theme instead of just doing her logo or a black widow spider and based it mainly on the movie representation of her.  

Hawkeye | Hulk | Loki | Black Widow

Am looking forward to The Avengers 2 in May 2015 with the hinted villain at the end of The Avengers Assembled, Thanos as he would be an interesting character to attempt in nail art.

Assembling all our Avengers together ^_^

Mass Avengers Assembling

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We hope you liked these ^_^

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Zombie season

In the end of January I decided to do a zombie theme design. This was influenced by the fact the Science Museum lates I attended (30th Jan) was about zombies and also I had bagged a free preview ticket to see warm bodies (thank you slackers club!).

Went with a rather bright happy green for the zombie skin colour and used both nail art pens and sharpies to do the detail. I sponged some red nail polish ontop to give a bit more of a gorey feel towards it and drew in some fleshy/brain looking parts in the corners of some of the nails.

The Sharpies (or any permanent marker pen) worked well for the detail and I will probably use this trick for future designs as it was easier to control than the brush and you avoid dripping and consistency issues.

Overall am pretty damn happy with how these turned out and they were appreciated at both events.

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