Day 19: Galaxy Nails

For the 19th day of our challenge, we all had to create some Galaxy Nails. I've done some of these in the past (see here and here) and I love the look. You really can't get them wrong! Rie and Cris both agree with me today - they're so much easier than they look. 

So if you're looking at these pictures and thinking you want your nails to look like this but doubting your ability, DON'T! Just grab a sponge, some nail polishes and have a party on your nails. I promise it'll look great.

Rie and Cristina have created some gorgeous galaxy nails today.

Here are the polishes I used in order, left to right.

When you look at these mismatched colours lined up, you wouldn't think they could combine to make such a pretty manicure.

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Week of Geek Day 5: Doctor Who Nails

I don't know how familiar American readers will be with Doctor Who but here in the UK pretty much everyone is aware of it. It's been running on the BBC since 1963 which makes it the longest running Sci-Fi series in the world and you could definitely tag it with 'cult favourite'. Since 2005 they've been filming it in the city where I go to Uni and live for most of the year but so far I haven't spotted them filming anywhere. 

However, they filmed a bit for BBC's Sherlock in the University when I was driving past with friends one night and stopped to get a closer look. A security guy came up to the car and we asked what was going on, when he said they were filming, I blurted out 'IS IT DOCTOR WHO?'. It wasn't! 

AND I walked right through the set of Killer Elite last summer. If I knew Jason Statham and Robert De Niro were in the area I would have stuck around a while.

10 nerd points go to the first person to tell me what TARDIS stands for. No cheating please!

Pinky to thumb: 'Nebula nail', the TARDIS, Dalek, 'Nebula nail', Doctor Who logo.

I used: 

George - Bloom as a base for all the nails. Collection 2000 - Moonlight Shine for all the outlines. BYS - Glittering Purple, Gosh - Holographic and Models Own - Juicy Jules for the Nebula Nails.

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Week of Geek Day 4: Live Long and Prosper (Star Trek Nails)

I can remember watching Star Trek: The Next Generation with my Dad all the time when I was little but I never really knew what was going on! I had to do a bit of wikipedia-ing for this mani to make sure I got all the colours and badges right. The uniforms and insignia are all (mostly) based on The Original Series.

Pinky to thumb: Science and medical, engineering and security, command and helm, ST for Star Trek, Vulcan Salute.

I used:

Uniforms: No7 - Poolside Blue, Barry M - Raspberry, Mixture of BYS - Astro Gold and Go - Shade 04.

Collection 2000 - Moonlight Shine. W7 Black.

ST: George - Mysterious. Gosh - Holographic. BYS - Metallic Fuschia. Collection 2000 - Gold.

Vulcan Salute: No7 - Betty Blues. Collection 2000 - Moonlight Shine.

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Nebula Nails

Here is my attempt at creating some of those 'Galaxy Nails' that have been floating around a lot recently. I first saw one of these designs months and months ago but I thought it would be too hard so I didn't even attempt to create it myself. Boy, was I wrong! Considering how pretty this look is, it's some of the easiest nail art I've ever done and I think it's absolutely fool proof. I was worried it wouldn't turn out very well, but I don't think this look could turn out badly even if you tried to mess it up! That's the beauty of it.

All you need is a selection of cosmic colours and some textured paper tissue (i.e. kitchen roll) and I'd recommend using at least one holographic polish in the mix. Paint on your base colour and just start dabbing the colours on in patchy, thin layers. 

Asami has a great video tutorial of the method.

This was the colour inspiration for my version.

The polishes I used (in this order) are:

NYC Glossies - 243B

E.L.F - Party Purple

BYS - Glittering Purple

GOSH - Holographic

E.L.F - Twinkle

Collection 2000 Maxiflex - Moonlight Shine (dotted on for the stars)

And of course, a Top Coat of NYC (not pictured)

Has anyone done their own galaxy nails? Please leave a link to your mani in the comments, I love looking at them!