The Digit-al Dozen Does Metals: Day 5 - Metallic Toothpick Marble

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Good Morning, it's FRIDAY! That's good and bad. good because, well...it's Friday, and bad because this is the last day of Digit-al Dozen week.

Today I have one of my stand-by techniques - the toothpick marble.

I used Pure Ice Magic for the middle and Silver Mercedes on one side with Borghese Lira on the other. Then while they were still wet, I just used a toothpick to drag the colors back and forth across the nail starting at the cuticle and ending at the tip. Of course you have to do them one nail at a time so they don't dry. This is one of the quickest and easiest nail art techniques I know how to do.

Since this is the last day, I thought I'd show you a couple of Metals Week manis that didn't make the cut.

A scroll-y one...

And a splotchy one...

Have a great weekend!!!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Metals: Day 4 - Magnetic Mixed Metals

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Today I have a mixed metals mani for you with magnetics.

It wasn't terribly creative so I tried to add a little with a striping brush on the thumb and pinkie with contrasting stripes.

I used Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, Electra-fy Me, Totally Amp, Magic and Ion-ically Yours.

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Metals: Day 2 - Periodic Table - Metals

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Happy Tuesday!!! Day 2 of Metals Week for The Digit-al Dozen brings my smart-alec take on this theme. As I said, I finally had inspiration strike with tons of ideas, none of which I could pull off. So I resorted to my smart-alec side (yeah who am I kidding, it's less a "side" than about 90% of my personality) with my mani today.

What makes this one even funnier is the fact that my "talents" lie more in the English, literature areas than the sciences. That is to say I was a total failure in science and the mere sight of the Periodic Table of Elements makes all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

But if you're not like me, you will recognize these as gold, titanium, copper, iron and platinum. So in my mind, this fits into the "metals" theme quite well thankyewverymuch.

I used Salon Perfect Sugar Cube and Wet n Wild WildShine Black Creme.

So you be the judge, smart-alec? Or brilliant? Perspective is everything!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Metals: Day 1 - Mixed Metals Skittlette

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The Digit-al Dozen is baaaaack! This week the prompt is metals and I can tell you I had no CLUE where to even start with this prompt. Totally lost. And then I sort of had a surge of ideas. Wonderful ideas! Ideas I couldn't pull off in a million years. Ha!

So I did what I do when I have no clue - I just started. So this was what I ended up with first...a sort of "mixed metals" skittlette.

I used a base of Pure Ice Black Velour and for the thumb, ring and index fingers I used Pure Ice Kiss Me Here, Silver Mercedes and Wet n Wild WildShine Black Creme. I did circles in the grey and then went in with the silver and black and quickly "blotted" then with my finger tip to blend a bit before they dried. At a distance, they do look 3-D but up close in these shots you can definitely see what I did, shattering the illusion. For the middle and pinkie I used Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, Magic and Totally Amp.

Stay tuned the rest of this week - I have 4 more and one might just be my smart-alec "take" on the whole "metals" prompt. *giggle*

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