Eyeballs

There is something about how eyeballs look on nails that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.  My most common nail design is problem different attempts at eyeballs and these are some of my favorites! The first thing that I love about these is the semi-french tip-ness of them. By this I mean that they don't extend all the way down to my cuticles. That is one of my favorite nail looks. I also really like these because they have a gradient effect (largely this was covered up by the white of the eye, but if you look closely, you can see it). But most of all (as per the picture above), I like these because if you look at them from afar they totally look like Alec Baldwin's finger-tip eyeballs in Beetlejuice!

Blood and Gore

As I said in the Clapboard post, Ron is making a horror movie. The plot is pretty generic -- a bunch of kids go to work on a co-op and start disappearing -- but everything else about it is exciting and unique. I got enlisted to help out with a lot of things. I'm acting, doing special effects, and (da-da-da-daaaa the thing that I painted these nails for) helping with casting. For the casting, I got to read lines with all the actors who were trying out, and since I was so excited about the occasion, I figured it deserved special nail art! So I made blood drips and splatters on my nails! I went a little bit cartoon-y so that I didn't scare anyone away (but I guess in casting for a horror film, that might have been a good test). On my thumbs I did some eyeballs, which ended up having veins that were way too thick, but oh well! At some point I will do a post with bonus pictures of me doing goofy things with my nail art.... I took a bunch of pictures of these in front of Ron's eyes... It looks so weird!