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Holy cow. Today I celebrate the 12th anniversary of my 21st birthday. In other words...I'm now 33. Woah. Were you like me all those years ago as a dorky girl in my early teens looking up to those 30-year-olds you knew, thinking how impossibly cool (and old) they were? Yeah, now I'm beginning my 4th year of BEING one. Lucky for me, I don't feel my age...unless you count the tendonitis in both of my elbows from serving, and the fact that when I move (anything), I make a cacophony of creaks and cracks.

Anyway, to celebrate this blessed? day... I decided to do a non-conventional design on my nails...I really went back allll the way to the beginning...you know, somewhere in Aug/Sept 1980. :-D

Please excuse my thumb wound, Homer the Land Shark got me while we were playing...

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Moonicure Monday - Something to 'Phone Home' About?

Moonicure Monday is late. I'm sorry. My sister is here in India visiting, and though it was painted, I am just now getting to post it! Lucky for her, She decides to come to India when Tropical Cyclone (what we call a Hurricane in the US) Nilam decides to show up! Lots of crazy wind right now and trees down all over. Anyway, this 'episode' of Moonicure Monday is another Halloween-themed one–and one from our pop-culture past, at that! I sure hope you recognize that lovable extra-terrestrial creature best known as ET flying across my half-moon on the bike with Elliot! OK, now I just need some Reese's Pieces!

I also got the chance to use one of the new American Apparel Glow in the Dark polishes I ordered, and I love them! (I got all three, and they actually glow different colors!)

I used:

Off-White: Illamasqua Load (hee hee)
Glow: American Apparel Moon (Glow in the Dark)
Dark Blue: American Apparel Passport Blue

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Moonicure Monday - What a Slimeball!

Ever have one of those days? I did today. lol

Today I had to go to the FRRO (Foreign Resident Registration Office) here in Chennai to apply for my visa extension. Sweet holy hell, whoever thought that place up is a sadist. You go from sitting in a row of chairs (then everyone stands up and moves to the next chair when someone gets to go to the next room), to a room where you do the chair thing again. A lady (or man) looks at your papers, writes some stuff, sends you to another room where you AGAIN do the chair thing. When you get to the front of that queue, that person looks at your papers, writes some more stuff, sends you back to the first room (again doing the chair thing). That person looks at your same papers once more, gives you a token, where you go back to the other room again and wait for your number to be called. Heaven forbid you have some odd piece of paperwork missing that the people in legal didn't give you (because they didn't know you needed it- I swear the process changes daily). What? Someone from the office brought you the paperwork within 45 minutes? You want to hand it over now? Nope, sorry. Your new appointment is in 3 days. Come back then. *SCREAM*. After about 6.5 hours of that, I got to go to the office. :D

That was my day. When I got home, I literally tried 6 different designs for Moonicure Monday, which all failed. (Even the simplest one ever- newsprint transfer!) Now, I've been wanting to use this Cult Nails Deal With It polish for ages. (On my fingernails - it's been on my toes for weeks!!) This is a super awesome and fairly unique polish that is a perfect color for slime. I figured- Halloween? Slime? Yep, I'm in. :) Not my best attempt, but I still love the slime part! lol I hope Coco approves of my use of her polish creation! :-P

What do you think?

I used:

Light Grey: Nubar Marble Tower
Black: Cult Nails Nevermore
Green: Cult Nails Deal With It
Basecoat: Cult Nails Get it On
Topcoat:  Seche Vite + Cult Nails Wicked Fast

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Moonicure Monday - Don't Be a Boob!

Hey there! Today's manicure base color is–get this–PINK. Yeah, I'm feeling alright, I just felt like it was an appropriate color for this one. ;) Looking at my nails today brings out the 12-year-old boy in me, and I giggle every time. This manicure is my twist on two things: a half-moon manicure AND a BCA (Breast Cancer Awareness) manicure. The half-moon lends itself perfectly to a boob manicure, don't you think? I'm so immature. :-D BOOBIES!!

I used:

Hot Pink: Zoya Kimber

Flesh tones:
Zoya Avery
Zoya Flowie
Zoya Dea
MAC In the Buff
MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious
American Apparel Rose Bowl


Basecoat: Cult Nails Get it On
Topcoat:  Seche Vite


What kind of bees make milk?  

Boob-ies!! :D

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Moonicure Monday — It's Got Bite!

Hey there, and welcome to Moonicure Monday, where I take the half-moon manicure and add my twist! This week is Halloween-inspired—zombie bite marks with the VIRUS creeping up the veins and the infection spreading. It's a bruised and bloody mess! Hope you like it–if not, you're the first I'm coming after when this virus spreads from my nails to my brrrraaaaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnnsssssssss! (so beware!)

I used:

Zoya Avery
Zoya Avery + CND Bloodline
American Apparel Manila
American Apparel Imperial Purple
American Apparel Downtown LA + Barielle Unravelled Rust
American Apparel Downtown LA + American Apparel Imperial Purple
Basecoat: Cult Nails Get it On
Topcoat:  Seche Vite

Mmmmm... Braaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnsssssssssss!!!!

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Moonicure Monday - I Always Feel Like...

... Somebody's watchin' meeeee.

This week's Moonicure Monday post is a day late, and for that I'm sorry, but this blogger fell asleep in a rather uncomfortable position (across 2 chairs) last night before I could do the Monday post. Guess staying up to do the Dexter post Sunday night wasn't the best of ideas, I didn't get to bed til 3:30 a.m., and had to wake up at 7 a.m. Super fun. However, that said- the season premiere of Dexter was fan-freakin-tastic. Probably the best season premiere I've seen! If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it, and if you don't have Showtime, they've uploaded it to their YouTube for FREE! Very awesome, if you ask me.

Anyway, this design is creeping me out in the worst way. Not sure it'll last long! lol *shudder*  It's not even a Halloween one!! (hint hint- that will come tomorrow!! :D)

I used

Flesh: Zoya Avery
White: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On
Black: American Apparel Hassid
Eyeball Shading: Nubar Marble Tower
Red veins: China Glaze Hey Sailor

Blue Eye:
Cult Nails Time Traveller
Zoya Yummy
Barielle Aura Angora
Lashes: Zoya Codie

Brown Eye:
Barielle Unravelled Rust
China Glaze Mahogany Magic
Zoya Codie
Barielle Aura Angora
Lashes: Zoya Codie

Green Eye:
Nubar Forest + American Apparel Hassid
Nubar Forest
CND Green Scene
Lashes: H&M Rust & Barielle Unravelled Rust

Red Eye:
CND Bloodline
China Glaze Hey Sailor
American Apparel Hassid
Lashes: American Apparel Hassid

Light Blue Eye:
Zoya Yummy + Nubar Marble Tower
Cult Nails Time Traveller
Barielle U Concrete Me
Barielle Aura Angora
Lashes: China Glaze Mahogany Magic, Barielle Aura Angora & franken of American Apparel Manila, American Apparel California Trooper, and LA Girl Army green


Basecoat: Cult Nails Get it On
Topcoat: Cult Nails Wicked Fast + Seche Vite

He he, I said 'Brown Eye'. 

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Bright Meets Blah

Sometimes I just start a manicure with a color scheme in mind, and let things develop as I paint. Sure, manicures like this generally take way more time than even some of the more complicated ones (surprising, right?), but I like to do them every so often because it's fun to see what happens. I hope you guys don't mind! :D I actually really like how this turned out- and I think I might do a full manicure of just mix-and-match half moons.

Chris and I went to Mahabalipuram this weekend to grab some gifts for him to take home when he visits, and on the way, we stopped to talk to his surfing buddies in Kovallam. I'm pretty excited, when my sister comes, we're both going to take surfing lessons! (I'm also slightly terrified because neither of us can swim) How cool is it that we're going to surf for the first time in the Indian Ocean?! I'm pretty stoked, its going to be an amazing experience! I'm also pretty excited for all the other things that we have been planning to do when she gets here- we're going to visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, stay at an elephant preserve in Jaipur, and tons of other stuff we haven't decided yet! I'm excited to finally see the country I've been living in for almost the past year. I'm totally going to pick up one of those curly toed pairs of leather shoes (and probably a million other things!).

Anyway, the nails. Yes, the nails. I have an array of half-moons, stripes, and dottiness in a bright-meets-blah color scheme for you today!

I used:

Dark Grey: Nubar Stronghold
Light Grey: Nubar Marble Tower
Yellow: CND Bicycle Yellow
Turquoise: Zoya Robyn

Topcoat: Seche Vite topcoat

Basecoat: Seche Vite basecoat

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Sun and Moons

Well it seems to be Weather Week here at TDN, not sure how that happened, but I keep thinking of weather related nail art ideas! I have one more in my head, I'm debating whether to post it, or hold on to the idea for a bit. What do you guys think? Wait? Don't wait? Eh, maybe I'll see if the weather event that inspired it actually happens. Sound like a deal? Well OK then!

Today's nail art is (obviously) suns. Get this though- they're also, what for it—MOONS. Get it? Nerdtastical.

I used:

Blue: American Apparel American Denim
Yellow: American Apparel Manila
Light Orange: Zoya Arizona
Medium Orange: Jesse's Girl Beauty Guru

Topcoat: Seche Vite topcoat
Basecoat: Seche Vite basecoat

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Fly Me to the Moon

I've been wanting to do this Galaxy manicure fad since I first saw it forever ago—it's awesome, right? You know me though, I like to put my spin on things, so I've been thinking about how I go do just that.  I figured why not make a LITERAL half-moon mani?! I actually think I'm a little obsessed with this galaxy manicure thing, it's a wonder I held out until now. It's the best of both worlds- nerdy and pretty, with a bit of awesome thrown in for good measure! :D

So what do you think, did I up the nerd factor on this one, or should this design get lost in a black hole?

I used:

Black: American Apparel Hassid
Light Grey: butter LONDON Billy No Mates
Medium Grey: ORLY Mirror, Mirror
Dark Grey: Nubar Stronghold
Dark Teal: American Apparel Peacock
Turquoise: Zoya Robyn
Yellow: American Apparel Manila
Coral: China Glaze Life Preserver
White: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On
Topcoat: Seche Vite

If you hate it, think of the bright side: instead of the moon, I could've painted Uranus. :-P

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