Friday, August 15, 2014

The Nail Art Guild: Music

Hello lovelies!

Do you guys know what today is? Do ya, do ya, do ya?!...

No guesses, okay, well....1 year ago today I wrote my first post here at Hey, Darling Polish! I can't believe that it's been a year since I started this blog. My main goal was to have a place to share my nail art but it's turned into so much more. I've met so many awesome nail polish addicts and I want to say thank you to everyone who had made this year a fun one!  I have something special planned but I can't post about it yet, but I promise it'll be good so keep your eyes open for that!<3

But I have some nail art for you today!
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The Nail Art Guild is back today with music inspired nails!




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Here's what I used:

So, I decided for my music nails that I would do a "Music Monday" like post! Today's nails were inspired by The Academy Is... album called Almost Here. The Academy Is... was one of the first bands that I found on my own back in middle school and Almost Here is my favorite album of theirs. Here's the album art:
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These nails started with 2 coats of Vera. I then sponged on a gradient of Vera and Parker for my background and the green sun rays were painted on with Francis. I sealed in the background with a layer of HK Girl. I started the album design by painting the sun first with acrylic paint and when that had dried, I painted on the hills. The last thing I painted on was the brown tree and I sealed it in with another layer of HK Girl.

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I'm so happy with how these nails turned out! I've wanted to paint this album on my nails for so long but I always was too afraid to actually do it. I never would have imagined myself being able to pull this off a year ago, it's weird man haha!

Don't forget to check out the hashtag #TNAGmusic on Instagram for more music nails! I do have swatches for you guys this week but I was too tired to edit the photos so that'll be up tomorrow. But thanks for reading guys!

-Marisa! (:



24 comments:

  1. Congrats hun! *big hugs* I love that tree, it's gorgeous spanning across your nails! And you should do Music Mondays more often, I always like them!

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  2. Great inspiration! It looks just like it too. Awesome to hear that you've been writing the blog for a year now too. Congrats!

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  3. Happy blogaversary!!! :D Gorgeous nails too!

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  4. looks wonderful! Congratulations!- one year means a lot of designs :D

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  5. Happy Blogaversary! You did a great job with that tree. Making all those branches must have taken a very steady hand.

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  6. Happy Blogaversary!!!!! The album art you did on your nails turned out so well!!

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  7. Happy blogiversary! I just had mine in June! I think this design is a really great interpretation of the album cover, that tree is so awesome!

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  8. Happy blogaversary! You did a great job! For some reason the sun made me think of egg yolk..haha. I think I'm hungry.

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  9. Happy anniversary to you! You have such great nails and nail art, and you should be happy with how far you've come. :) This nail art looks so great, and bang on for the inspiration!

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  10. Aww thank you!! I'll keep that in mind! I realized that I missed doing them while doing this one but I have to admit, a lot of the album covers in my iTunes currently are very intimidating haha.

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  11. Haha yeah it does, I blogged so much this past year...whoops! Thank you!

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  12. Thank you! To be honest, all I did was dab my brush on my nail. The tree was probably the easiest part haha!

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  13. It's crazy to think that it's been a year! Thanks so much!

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  14. Thank you! Haha it does kind of look like an egg!

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  15. Happy anniversary! How wonderful! This mani is awesome! Terrific interpretation of that album cover!

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  16. Congratulations! You've done a wonderful manicure for the occasion !

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  17. HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!!!!

    I love this mani, it is really pretty and it looks so well! I must youtube it, with such an awesome album-cover-that-can-be-turned-into-a-mani :D

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  18. Haha go listen! I promise it's awesome! Thank you (:

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