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I felt like getting kinda fancy!
This weekend I pained my nails with OPI Kyoto Pearl (the frosty white base coat here). I felt like making it fancier at the end of the week so I did some gradient glitter tips at the laundromat. :)
The tips are OPI "Teenage Dream," and this was actually super easy! I built it up in 3 coats: first a glitter coat on the tips (like for a french manicure), then a second coat from about halfway down the nail all the way to the tips, then a third coat about 3/4 down the nail to the tips. I tried to make the 3rd coat pretty thin as I started it so it would look gradual. Topcoat on top of everything.
I like it! I'm SUPER INTO glitter nail polish now. Oooh, sparkles. Love. I probably should start cleaning up my nail beds and cuticle areas better after I put polish on.
Also, my problem with bubbling that I was having has mostly gone away. I've noticed that several things made the difference - thin coats are good, but VERY important is waiting for the coats to dry. Honestly, I pretty much need to wait like 10 or 15 minutes between coats which seems excessive, but whatever. The final thing I've noticed is that when I do my nails when it's warm, it's way more likely to bubble. Painting in the early morning or at night is the best.
A black beaded necklace, a clear beaded necklace, and a blue-grey beaded headband are combined into a three-strand gradient necklace.
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This is a bracelet I made for my shop on etsy, to see it and all the other bracelets I may have for sale, please visit my shop at etsy.com/shop/brillosito
Pattern: Smartphone Mittens by me, because I the gradient yarn to flow from top to bottom
Yarn: my own gradient handspun two-ply from FLUFF Rambouillet Combed Top in Ripe Eggplant
Needles: US 7 - 4.5 mm
I wouldn't call these successful yet - this one is the proto-type, and I'll rip and re-knit it. But pretty close!
Another railway survivor, this marks the lowest point of the branch close to the three-quarter mile marker. The 1 in 528 points towards Harrow; the other post (illegible) denotes the gentle climb towards the terminus at Stanmore.