Jim Henson's The Muppets

As you might know, I hate posting the nails I've painted out of order. This is because I really like to see my chronological progress. But, when I painted these an hour ago I just knew that they needed to be up today. And the reason for that (of course) is because it's Jim Henson's birthday! I felt like I needed to pay tribute to the man who so much changed my childhood and the world. From thumb to pinky:
Gonzo
Kermit
Miss Piggy
Fozzie
Beaker (my favorite)

The background is Milani's 3d holographic in Hi-Tech and the right hand says "Muppets" (which hopefully is obvious...)

NOTE: Design for Kermit was created by Leslie at Polish Art Addiction. She had an awesome tutorial for him there and I knew I couldn't top her design!

Goats and Pizza

For Ron's actual birthday I put the things he loves most (or at least 2 of the 3... I didn't do hamburgers) on my nails. First I did a pizza with a candle on my thumb. Next I had to decide what to do for the rest of the nails so I used the fact that Ron really wants to own goats. He thinks they are the best animal that exist and is perpetually trying to convince me that a goat would be a great pet. I, however, am not an idiot and I know that a goat would eat all of our stuff, poop everywhere, and climb on everything. These are of course significant facts since he wants an indoors goat. So this, Ron, is the closest you will ever get to being a goat owner while I'm around... At least until you convince me otherwise.

Brazil

As I'm sure is obvious at this point, my boyfriend Ron and I love movies. It probably isn't a stretch to say that one of his all time favorite movies is Terry Gilliam's sci-fi classic Brazil. So as an early birthday present for Ron (whose real birthday falls on June 23) I painted Brazil nails. The thumb is the logo, the index finger is the baby mask, the middle finger is the wall of infinite filing cabinets , the ring finger is the singing telegrams outfit, and the pinky is the Ministry of Information logo. The entire reason that I did the signing telegram is because Ron believes that she is the most fantastic girl in the world. I'm not exactly sure what he likes about her, but he thinks she's great!

Liz's Birthday

My friend Liz turned 22 this year (I know, you never would have guessed). Her birthday is May 7th and she's one of my best friends so of course she needed extra special nails. She got balloons, numbered birthday candles, regular candles, a cake with her name on it, and for an even more personalized touch: a crew paddle! (I'm sure there's a name for the paddle that one would do crew type things with, but I don't know it). Liz started coxswain-ing and discovered a new passion -- screaming at a bunch of fit guys. No, really though, she loved it and I think it's one of the great things that defines her!

Mark's birthday

Every year for my friend Mark's birthday, he changes his profile picture on facebook to a photograph of a red panda that is "wearing" a photoshopped party hat. So for his birthday nails, I decided to run with that theme. I painted candles on my pinkys and middle fingers, red pandas on my ring fingers, and party hats on my pointer fingers.

And of course, on my thumbs I painted some yummy looking cakes. Mark is an awesome baker, so usually when he makes cake it tastes way better than these look, but hey, I can't be perfect.

 

This is me pretending to blow out Mark's candles. I think I had too much time on my hands.

This is the red panda actually *wearing* the party hat.

Here is the actual panda with the party hat!

Happy Birthday, Steve!

These nails were for my friend Steve's birthday show on January 22, 2011 played by Orodruin, Demontage, Infernal Abyss, and Malformed. It was the first time I did a design other than the one from the previous post.