Starry Sky Nail Art

The people around me may have already noticed that for the past few months, I've been quite passionate about nail art. It's like doing a work of art in a canvas I can take around! It always gets noticed, so I don't feel like I'm showing off... and in a few days, I can make a new one! It allows me to play, have fun, and be creative.

The only sad part is that I'm very limited to the brands of nail polish I can use. Since December I'm only using cruelty free and vegan products, and the only brand I've found in Mexico that meets these requirements is Wet n Wild's nail polishes. To make matters even worst, I can only buy them in one store!

Anyway, leaving that aside... I haven't posted any photos of the nail arts I've done because I don't think I'm good enough yet, but this one has a really cute story that I wanted to write down and share!

Yesterday I applied this dark blue nail polish and went to show the color to Oka. He saw it and said "you know, I think that would look very pretty with stars, like a starry sky". I loved the idea, and next thing I knew, Oka was softly holding my hand and painting little stars in my nails. He had offered to help me, and I felt like a princess!

That made me fall in love with him all over again. Almost daily he makes something that makes me say "wow, he's really awesome! I love him so much!". The best part is that it's never on purpose, it's always little, thoughtful things.

(is it just me, or that was a bit too cheesy?)

Anyway, here's the final result. It's one of my favorite nail arts.

Used Blue Moon as base coat, white acrylic paint for the little stars, and stamped the big stars with one of  Bundle Monster's discs.

Anyway, I hope you'll like it :)
Talty

SG 2

Hello there!

As you might know, if you have been reading this, las month I've been working on my First Sanguinary Guard Unit, and I've taken it slowly, caring for every lil bit with care and love, its been slow but quite joyfully.

Last time I uploaded just a quick Pic. from em, and the idea was to take a nice picture afterwards, sadly we afronted some technical difficulties, but finally we managed a new pic, with added detain and a nice format, also to be uploaded to DA. Without further addo:


It seems to me that I've managed to get the hang of the golden armor, and I'm almost finishing the rest of the models, so more pics coming soon.

Mica shift experiments

My first polymer clay blog! yay! I've meant to start writing them for a while, but I suppose I was lazy. I will start writing about a new favorite, the mica shift technique! This techniques yields some of the most amazing results I've seen, it's like an optic effect that leaves everyone I've shown it to mesmerized.

Mica shift is this thing when you align the mica particles in polymer clay, then you somehow disturb them again to produce interesting effects. Most people use stamps, because when you press the stamp in the clay and cut the raised parts, the pattern appears to be 3D while also being completely flat! It's a lovely optical effect.

I'm sorry I didn't take photos of the process, I will next time. I used Premo metallic because I read somewhere that Premo has more mica, so the effect is more stunning.  The most difficult part was aligning the mica particles, because I had to use a rolling pin... it wasn't really hard, but time consuming. Sanding down the pendant was very time consuming too because I did it manually using wet/dry sandpaper.

I don't know why, but at the time I got obsessed with making a dark red pendant. I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to make that pendant and trying the new technique, so this was my first experiment:

I think that it was fairly decent for my first time, even with the uneven spot on the left side. It's more amazing in person, but it does look 3D! I somehow had the feeling that the 3D effect could be more noticeable, and I remembered reading that the mica shift effect was usually less bold when using red clay. So I made another try with golden premo:

It's sooooooo much prettier! The "carved" parts look deeper with gold clay than with red, so the 3D effect is so much more stunning. I also did a better job sanding/buffing this piece, so it's completely smooth. This is incredible, I love it so much :D

When I was sanding the clay, I noticed that the effect was bolder when the piece was wet. It somehow got into my mind, and I started to ask myself if it would look "more 3D" with a nice layer of gloss...

It totally does!!!

A side photo, so you can see that the surface is totally flat.

This was a very fun experiment. I already got a couple of requests for more pendants, they're surely fun to make and I love the way they look! I hope you can appreciate it from the photos, I did my best to make the pendants look as they do in real life... but the mica shift effect may be something you must admire in person.

I will post a new tutorial soon :)

Sanguinary Guard #1

So, as you may have seen, I got lots of Blood Angles love last month, and it has been "Osom"! to work with, I'm taking it slowly and carefully, enjoying every aspect of the hobby, from reading and getting inspired, knowing as much as possible from the unit and the warriors I'm bringing to life.

Only after being aware of what and who i am modeling, I do my best to try to make justice to the lovely models, every single lil bit has its background, every insignia or honor is considered and acknowledged when painted. Whit every stroke of the brush, with every layer on the artificer armor, I visualize the thousands of years it represent.

And just like this, after 3 weeks of work, the first two Sanguinary Guardians are completed, ready to bring a rain of blood and doom to the enemies of mankind, and hopefully with the help of these gorgeous models, I was able to project the magnificence of the Golden Saints.