Frosty Snowflake Nails!!!!

Snowflake: Med Light

First nail art I've been able to do for a while - I've been busy handing off work and getting ready to visit family for the holidays. But, that's all over and done with now! First festive nail art of the season. I dunno if I'll do more nail art or just a mani with some of my holiday polish next but there will be moooore. 

Details on this look after the jump!

Dark Sign Free Hand Nail Art

Dark Sign: High Light

Just a simple one today. This is another game I'm terrible at but I'm making progress, just really, really slowly... The one thing I love most about it is how the lore is revealed - not in your face, in most cases you have to look for it.

Anywho, it's the middle of the week so this one was quick and easy! Details after the jump.

Labyrinth Nostalgia Nails

Labyrinth: Low Light

Was feeling nostalgic for Labyrinth, David Bowie and his insane hair and pants. I've always had a thing for masquerades (the gorgeous extravagant kind, not the cheap Halloweeny kind), and that is the scene this look was inspired by.

Details after the jump.

Hotline Miami: Med Light

I've been listening to the soundtrack to Hotline Miami almost every day at work. It's sooooo good I just don't have the words. I wish I was less terrible at the game, but I"ll keep working at it. T_T

This one was really fun. It's been a while since I did a gradient. Details after the jump!

Persona 4 Golden Nail Art

Persona 4 Golden: Medium Light

Even though I have a rather large list of nail art ideas, Persona 4 randomly popped back into my head and then this happened. Pretty happy with it since this is the most free hand I've done so far. Considering how noob I am it could have been much worse!

Details after the jump.

The Outsider Nail Art

The Outsider: Med Light

From one of my favorite games - This nail art is inspired by the enigmatic Outsider from Dishonored. 

Details after the jump.

Hawke Blood Stripe

Hawke: Med Light

Today's nail art is inspired by Hawke, the player-character from Dragon Age 2 - or more specifically, it's inspired by his/her blood stripe. This one was super simple which was nice. Sorry for the crappy lighting. It's winter and Canada, so it gets dark fast these days.

Details after the jump.

Happy Day of The Doctor

Heart of the TARDIS: High Light

Celebrating the Day of the Doctor with some TARDIS inspired nail art! 

Unfortunately though, I'm not super happy with this one. I was up late doing this one and it ended up a bit sloppy. :/

Anywho, more details after the jump.

Tali'Zorah Inspired Nail Art

Tali'Zora Nails: Medium Light

I've recently started another playthrough of Mass Effect and my brain's been swimming with Mass Effect inspired nail art ideas for weeks. Here is the first! Details after the jump!

Here goes nothing...

Hello, and welcome to my humble blog!

My main reason for starting this up is that I've recently become re-obsessed with everything to do with nail polish, nail art and manicures. In the past couple months my collection of nail polish has gone from about 12 to 150 and is ever growing (I have no self control...), and I'm changing my mani at least 3 times a week. I love this hobby! Since I've started I've only wanted to get more involved with the community (nail bloggers, indie polish makers, etc.) - another reason I'm giving a blog a try.

I'm also a fan of art, comics, video games, and various other "nerdy" things. I've always been interested in arts and crafts - drawing, painting, even a brief foray in 3D modelling in college - but I had trouble staying with it regularly. I hoping this might be my happy medium since being creative and making art of some kind takes me to a happy place. Since I've started my brain has been filling up with "themed" ideas for my nails (example below, sorry for the crappy quality).

N7 stripe, crappy photo taken on my phone. Sorry!

As you can see from the image above there's room for a lot of improvement still - photo quality, nail/cuticle maintenance, mani tidiness, etc. Hopefully if you've stumbled across this small corner of the internet, and you stop by again later you'll see some improvements and some cool ideas. I'll also be updating on my tumblr.

Here goes....