Nail School - Day 38

Tomorrow is my last day. At 1pm tomorrow I will be done with nail school forever. But that won't be the end of my adventure. As soon as I'm done with my school day, I will begin the quest to pass my state licensure exams. This adventure will begin at the doctor's office. By 2pm tomorrow I plan to be at the doctor's to get a form signed that certifies that I'm infectious-disease-free. Luckily, I'm pretty confident that I am, so getting this paper signed won't be a big deal. After the paper is signed, I have 30 days to get my temporary license. The difference between a temporary license and a regular one is that "temporary" signifies that I haven't passed my state exams yet. However as soon as the temporary license is in my hand, I can start working. To get my temporary license I have two options. I could either do it by mail (which could take weeks) or I can drive to Syracuse (approximately 1.5 hours away) and get it in person. The office in Syracuse is only open on Monday's, so bright and early Monday morning I'll be making that journey. I have high hopes to start working on Tuesday, but again, we'll get to that when we get to it =)

I am so happy that everyone has followed me along for this journey and I'd just like to say that without the support of this blog, and without having my own little corner of the internet to vent to, I'm not sure if I could have done it!

Since I started school I haven't just been changing my nail art, I've been changing my nails constantly too! So here's what's on my nails today! I did a fill on the gel nail extensions I had on and added some 3D roses. What do you think?

Another Set of Hearts

Hearts and flowers for a belated Valentine's day look. I think the flowers didn't turn out so hot, but the interlocking hearts turned out pretty cute!

Genesee Bock Beer

Man, I sure was a sour puss yesterday. On the plus side my grumpy mood has made motivated me to have some awesome stuff for you tonight! There will be a photo of me in my uniform, some explanations of the licensure process in NY and best of all a VIDEO TUTORIAL on the Chevron nails I posted yesterday (I already took the video so now I just have a little bit of editing to do! 

Here in sunny Rochester, NY (I'm being facetious, Rochester is pretty much never sunny) our local beer is Genesee. It's pretty awful and the joke is that the disgusting Genesee River water is the main factor to its grossness. It is widely accepted that there is only one type of good Genesee beer: Genny Cream Ale. I will admit, the Cream Ale isn't that bad. I still don't understand why people choose to drink it. More recently, Cream Ale's status as bearable has been compromised because of the rising popularity of Genny Bock. A bock beer is a spring-time beer that is usually a pretty strong lager. Ron (the fiancee) enjoys a good Genny Bock now and again (I'm not much of a beer drinker, you're more likely to see me sipping a glass of bourbon), which he claims to like because of the flavor but I'm convinced he likes bock's because of the official spokes-animal, the billy goat (Ron adores goats). But either way, he was having a beer with dinner the other night and I realized how perfectly the can could be turned into nail art! Even the green background with flower details was beautiful! 

Lotus

When I started painting these, I was trying to mirror my engagement ring which has a long oval in the middle and two side-ways ovals framing it. The design turned out looking more like abstract lotus flowers to me, which is awesome! This was one of those really simple designs that I ended up loving! Plus it was super simple to do. I have a feeling I'll be doing this design again!

Mod-ish Flowers

One way that I come up with new nail designs is by flipping through fabric patterns and this is a design that was inspired by a pattern that I saw. I didn't take a picture of the pattern, but I do remember that it was lime green and white. I decided to mess around with some possible wedding colors so I used a very light lavender (it looks more grey in these photographs), chartreuse, and black.

I loved how these nails turned out! But they didn't get much of a response on tumblr. What do you think?  I'm starting to think that my bad photography skills are affecting how awesome my nail art looks. 

More Flowers

The height of my flower phase! The flowers above are brown, light blue, and pink over a maroon background. And below were blue flowers that faded into a yellow center. I wore the above flowers on my left hand and the below flowers on my right hand. I really disliked both of these designs, so I don't think that they lasted very long!

Also, I'm sorry about the HORRIBLE picture quality for these pictures... The picture quality gets better and better as the posts go on, and these are definitely the worst quality pictures I have.

Abstract Flowers

I went through a flower phase, but since I'm not particularly girly, all the flowers are kind of abstract. These were some what inspired by Kawaii's Cath Kidston nails. I thought it would be interesting to see if I could make what Kawaii (and Kidston) use as a background into a flower itself. I wasn't very happy with these, but looking back on them, I feel like I might be able to use this design to inspire me further.

Roses

This was a first attempt at roses (expect for the single rose I did for an early Valentine's Day). They ended up looking more like dots than roses, but I learned a lot about the spacial aspects of nail art while doing them.

Mod Flowers

This is another design that I repeat a lot now-a-days. I like it because it's simple and looks great with any colors. This color combination and design came from The Daily Nail.