Tuesday 7 August 2012

Summer Challenge Catchup, Day 5: Fruits

For this challenge, I'd considered finding a really obscure fruit to try and make my nail design more original. But then I thought if I did that, then no one would understand the nails. So, I decided to do a common fruit but in a way that was different to usual. Just for the fun of it. My friend suggested bananas so instead of just painting my nails yellow, I did this:


It's the Bananas in Pyjamas! I used to watch that program all the time when I was little, although the only part I remember is the theme tune. I'm pretty happy with how these came out. I started with a base of Barry M's "White", then used Max Factor's "Candy Blue" and a thin paintbrush to paint the stripes on all of my nails except the ring finger. Then, I did the details of the Banana using Barry M's "Yellow", Max Factor's "Candy Blue", Barry M's "Mushroom", and Barry M's "Black". After that, I went back to all of my other nails and added 2 small bananas just to make them look less boring.

I'm especially happy with how the Banana turned out, I can never usually get outline lines to be that thin with the brush I have. Thankfully, I ordered some new brushes from Ebay this morning so in the future small details should be much easier. Yay!

6 comments:

  1. OMG adorable! I remember Banana's in Pajamas!

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    1. Thanks! :) And, yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who used to watch them. :P

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  2. Love this, definitely a unique take on the fruit theme! I've tagged you for the Liebster Award, you can check out the details on my blog here: http://globeandnail.blogspot.ca/2012/08/the-liebster-award.html :)

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    1. Thank you so much! That's really nice of you. :) I'll go and check it out now.

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  3. My oldest son and I used to watch that show together! I had forgotten about it. Thanks for bringing up a great memory :)

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    1. No problem! I had fun creating it, I think I'll have to try and create more designs based on childhood memories. They're so fun! :)

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