So another couple of challenges went past and here they are:
My bow mani got done when the good weather got absolutely marvelous with days and days full of sunshine and that made me get in holo mood. I chose to stamp the bows and pulled out my Essence plates for this. I still need a lot of practice stamping, but I find it loads of fun when I do it even though fails are the order of the day.
Base colour is China Glaze DV8 and stamping is GOSH Holographic. I used CND Stickey as base coat and decided to try with top coat since DV8 was a bit gloopy and there fore dried a bit uneven. I think it took some of the oooompfff out of the polish but I got some good wear from it.
Definitely not as oooomphy as Nubar Reclaim
I took ages for me to decide on the fruit mani but in the end I took a relatively easy design: Strawberries and Kiwi. As per usual I did my mani in the evening though this time it wasn't until 1 in the night and therefore a somewhat tired polishaholic that did her nails. The leaf on the strawberry should have been made with a nail art brush. Instead I decided in my tired state to use the polish brush instead which made the leaves a tad more...strange. The Kiwi was just...*decides not to go into details about it*.
This is how the non nail art nails looked.
I used China Glaze Phat Santa, Essie Pretty Edgy, a-england Camelot, Sinful Colors, nails inc. Floral Street - with Cult Nails base and top coat.
I am trying awfully hard to get my fruit mani done, I cannot decide whether I should do one fruit only, five fruits or one fruit with accent fruit...haha, just made myself laugh. I have my bow mani ready but I'd rather post that together with the fruit mani. So what to do instead? THIS:
Lynnderella Bride of Franken on top of Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas=Awesomesauce!!
Sorry for the tip wear - got my nails stuck in a couple of film cans at work that day :D
On May 4th, 1945 at half past eight in the evening all Danes were sitting behind dark curfew curtains, listening to their Radio Freedom, BBC. During the occupation it had become the most reliable source for news about the war because the Germans, though not too heavy handed about it, did censor the media. It had also become a broadcast that sent coded messages to the freedom fighters.
After five minutes the speaker turned off his microphone, a colleague had just entered the studio to hand him a note that said that German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark were going to surrender to Field Marshall Montgomery at 8 the following morning. Though he had no confirmation at hand, Johannes G. Sørensen didn't think twice but turned on the mic and announced the happy news.
If you follow my fellow 52 Week Challenge bloggers, you might have noticed that they are doing floral manis this week. Since 4th of July is an American holiday and I am a Dane and this week's start date is so close to a day we have a long standing tradition of commemorating here in Denmark, I decided from the get-go of the challenge to tweak my list to make room for this.
I had actually planned to write the date and year on my ring and index
fingers, but I totally forgot about it which I am SO bummed about!!!
The candle on my pinky details the tradition for lighting candles and placing thmn in the window on the night of May 4th. Since there had been a five year long curfew set by the Germans, a need and sudden inspiration drove many to pull down their dark curtains and burn them in the streets, lighting candles and placing them in the window sill. To this very day burning candles can be seen in many a Danish window, if people are at home, that is.
Unfortunately my top coat dragged the polish :(
On my middle finger is the freedom fighter arm band. Originally made in 1942 and meant for last-minute army draftees to have an emergency uniform(as mentioned in the Geneva Convention of 1907) and a way to signify them as legal combatants in case the German occupation should collapse , it was made from standard military cape cloth with a red and white band sewn on in the colours of the Danish flag. A small metal emblem engraved with with the 3 lions of the Danish National Crest was also attached.
But when the Danish military was dissolved August 29, 1943 the army started to assemble illegal groups in coordination with the civilian resistance movement, and these arm bands soon became a joint symbol of resistance.
And on my thumb the Danish flag :)
And this is how my left hand looked.
Each year on May 4th there is a celebration at Mindelunden, a memorial park in Copenhagen that used to be a military shooting range. During the occupation the Germans overran it and used it as a place to execute freedom fighters.
Some of the nearby military barracks have been converted to kinder gardens, and one is where my children spend their days. Right next to it are one of the other shooting ranges that were used by the Germans, and next to the memorial stone there were flowers and candles today. Both Liv and Silja asked me why there were candles and flowers there, so I explained as well as I could, considering the girls are just four and a half years old. I don't think they understood it all, but at least now there has been sown a seed of knowledge of our collective past.
I'm a Marvel girl. Have been since my early teens when I got hold of my younger brother's comics. This was by far my favourite...and these were my favourite caracters:
Colours used:
Base colour:
BarryM Lemon Ice Cream with two coats of YSL Jaune Surrealiste
Storm:
Color Club Lumini-scent & Cold Metal
Cyclops:
China Glaze Phat Santa, Color Club Foil Me Once & Hot Like Lava
(New) Phoenix:
China Glaze Riveting, YSL Jaune Surrealiste
