Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Vein Nails: I have a semi. A semi fail that is.

Do you ever have one of those ideas?  Really random, weird ideas?  I do.

Well the other day I was thinking of transparent animals, because no one can stop me.  That lead to me thinking of veins that you can see through skin.  And I wondered could I do that on nails?

I knew I was going to have to sandwich blue in between a sheer nutral.  Now I had nothing that matched my skin so I used a random Nailene french mani polish.  As well as Milani Dude Blue(ugh) for the veins.  Finally I added a layer of matte topcoat.

Now there's a few things you should take note of when looking at these photos.  1) The Camera tends to make the Nailene polish look a lot yellower when under light that's not natural.  2) The more light the less visible the veins were in photos.  In real life they look more like the last 2 photos.  Which were taken with a tiny bit of natural light 3) What I'm trying to say is these were IMPOSSIBLE to photograph.  Any lighting I would consider good lighting essentially washes out the veins.

Now this is a semi fail because this actually looks pretty cool in real life.  The "skin" looks a lot more natural and the veins are a bit more visible.  But not too visible.  Enough that they look sort of like veins :P

You guys get any weird nail ideas?  Do you actually go through with them even though they my fail? 




14 comments:

  1. Okay those are weird. But yeah, I guess you did transparent nails. I would never have thought of transparent animals, unless you count jellyfish or ghost shrimp. .

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  2. Kas, these are super cool! I love it when you get "those" ideas. ^_^

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  3. This idea *is* weird, but I love how it looks! I wish it would look that pretty in real life o.O""
    Once in a while I have some crazy idea too and I mostly go through with them... but I rarely post them ^^;

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  4. you have the coolest ideas! it actually came out really well!

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  5. It's so cool and well painted, they look perfect!

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  6. These are awesome! Definitely something I would play around with closer to Halloween.

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    1. Thanks! And they would be really cool for Halloween! And you could get away with more prominent veins! I was going for a more natural look :P

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  7. I really like this idea - it's so weird that it's cool! :D

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  8. Haha this is such a neat idea... a little freaky, but cool! :D

    ~ Yun

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  9. Cool, but I see not only veins, but also lightnings here! ;P

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  10. Cool idea! I don't think it's a fail, it really looks like veins under the skin :-)

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  11. Kind of creepy! Totally appropriate for halloween lol

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  12. That is bit creepy but very cool

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  13. it's actually not bad at all. do it in green or brown instead of you got yourself a nice horror scene in a dark forest for halloween :P

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