The Digit-al Dozen Looks Up - My Awesome Lamp

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When I look up from my couch, I see my awesome new lamp. So for this month's "Look Up" challenge, it's the perfect inspiration! I remember walking into the hardware store for paint or brushes or whatever and being swept off my feet by this lamp. I had to have it. It consists of bronze triangles that form a icosahedron that in turn from some angles projects as a hexagon onto my retina and the lamp itself projects rhombus light patterns. 

BEST.

LAMP.

EVER.

Incidental Twin "I Am The Clock"

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It's finally time for some more Incidental Twin Nail Polish swatches! I'm starting with the beautiful fall shade "I Am The Clock", which is based on the popular TV show 12 Monkeys.

Brown Baroque

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Just a little stamping today! 

The Digit-al Dozen does Decades - Terrific Twenties

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Another month, another prompt! This month, The Digit-al Dozen does Decades! And with my newly-acquired art deco pattern plate, the decision for the first manicure was made: The Roaring Twenties during which Art Deco first became popular. (And since 'roaring' means 'terrific', I had my alliterating blog title, whoohoo!) I decided to give it a little twist though, slightly straying from the traditional black-and-gold designs that immediately come to mind. I did incorporate the two aforementioned shades, but decided that my base should be different, just for the hell of it!

Winter Warmth

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I have a nice warm manicure today:

Back to the 70's!

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Gonna keep it short, am super tired! Take a look at my 70's inspired paisley nails!

BPS 春の歌-10 plaid stamping

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Ms. Sparkle's September Duo was the perfect base for some plaid stamping with Born Pretty Store's new stamping plate 春の歌 no. 10!

Ms. Sparkle September Duo

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A new month is on the verge of commencement, which is why I present Ms. Sparkle's September Birthstone/Star Sign Duo!

Incidental Twin "Not His Date" + foliage nail art

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Look at this beautiful fall colour from Incidental Twin!

Essence "Engaged" and "Yummiiii!" and BP-L026

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Got some more Essence pretties for you, that have just been released. And I did a bit of stamping with them and BP-L026!

Born Pretty Store BP-L023

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I got a new stamping plate from Born Pretty Store! It's so cute, with candy and cupcakes and coffee... Let's start with coffee (something I swear by):

Incidental Twin Nail Lacquer "The Dragon"

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I have another wonderful polish from Incidental Twin for you today, belonging to the fandom of The Hobbit! It's called "The Dragon", so it doesn't take much to deduce that this is based on Smaug:

Indiana Weave Motif

Hey hey hey! 

Yesterday we had a carnival themed mani, this time we have a carnival mani that matches a costume! Lieutenant has decided to dress up as an old native american person. Now we love the colours, fabrics and overall beauty of the various indigenous peoples of the Americas. So coming up with a mani wasn't hard. Here it is, "Indiana Weave Motif":

The brown base is our franken polish "Pocahontas". The yellow, blue and red colours are from Essence, "Little Miss Sunrise", "The Boy Next Door" and "Gorgeous Bling-bling". We worked the design from inside out, starting with the red, and a little brush, freehanding the weave motif. The accent nails, the thumbs this time, have real feathers on them, which we glued down using nail glue, after the yellow base had dried. Then we added topcoat to seal everything in :) 

 The thumbnails.

 Look at how well it matches her costume! 

All there is left to say: Let's get this party started!

xoxoxo
Lieutenant & Captain

Pocahontas' Birthday

Here is the first mani color Captain has ever made! And it’s what got me motivated to start up this blog for real, so here goes.

I give you....

“Pocahontas Birthday”
(one pic taken indoors, and one out <3 )

The brown shimmer base color is "Pocahontas", a polish that Captain frankened when she was bored.
It’s a nice shimmery dark brown, with color shifting flakies and glitter that change shades depending on the light’s angle. It got this name because, well, we figure if Pocahontas were to have nailpolish, thats the color she would use.

It was made with a black base, which was getting kind of old and thus turning thick and wouldn’t paint nicely anymore :( But then we added some dashes of reddish polish, brown metallic glitter, gold glitter, transparent flakeys and other various glitters, until we got the shade we wanted ;)
For this mani, I topped the tips with Essence "Time for Romance", which I thought would look nice and add a more 3D feel to the look. So there you go, all of a sudden, it's "Pocahontas' Birthday"!

See?? You can make your own dream colors, or revive ones that were growing stale or dry, very easily. And we really wanted to share stuff like that with you guys ;) And this blog was just the right opportunity :)

Thanks for reading <3xoxoxo Captain & Lieutenant