April 29, 2013

Manicure Monday (14): The Indigo Spell

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Manicure Monday is a weekly feature that combines my love of nail polish and reading. Each week I’ll show you one of my current reads along with a matching book manicure.

There’s kind of a funny story about this week’s Manicure Monday. If you follow my on Twitter or FB at all you might know a bit about it already. Last weekend when I went home to see my parents, I figured it would be a great chance to finally read the next book in Richelle Mead’s Bloodlines series. So I am at the hospital waiting room, waiting for me dad to get out of surgery, and I am reading and it’s great. Love Adrian and Sydney and the whole VA world. There are a few things nagging me – characters I don’t remember, a few references that don’t make sense. About 60 pages in, it dawns on me that I should just double check to see if the book I was reading was indeed book 2 in the series. And guess what – it wasn’t. Yes, I was reading The Indigo Spell when I should have been reading The Golden Lily. But I had brought supplies home to do a manicure to match The Indigo Spell and I figured I go through with it anyway.

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The Indigo Spell is shown with a funky French manicure. I used American Apparel’s Mount Royal as the base with Wet N Wild Black for the black tips. I freehand drew the tips. I normally would have used those French tip stickers but I was too lazy to wait for the base to be really dry in order to use the stickers. I think I did an OK job though it was a little uneven in person. This was a fun look to do and I think the colors matched pretty well. I also liked the idea of having a French manicure since it seems like the type of style that Sydney would wear if she wore polish. It’s traditional but also a little unexpected – like Sydney.
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Hope you liked this week’s Manicure Monday. Have you ever had a reading brain fart like me? Thank goodness I am back home now and can start The Golden Lily. Have a good week!

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