Shades of grey

I did something a little bit different this week, while managing to use one of  my alltime favourite designs. I nearly always go for simplicity - if I can't draw/paint it with my left hand (and I'm not left-handed) then I really don't want to do it. Ok, my right hand looks awful regardless, but at least not *as* bad as it could.

The basic colour scheme this week evolved over breakfast on Saturday. As anybody who knows me well knows, I am always on the look out for colours and patterns that I like. And if I see a friend wearing a colour that I like, I am always going to figure out a way to use it.

So on Saturday morning I was sitting in my neighbours' flat, and looking at my friend Heather's grey nail polish. And I liked it. I have a few silvers at home, but I don't have a nice flat grey. And looking at it, I realised it was the perfect thing to go with my purple. But first, I had to figure out a design.

In the end, I plumped for the classic French polish - a design that would never interest me the 'normal' way, especially as my bare nails look better than that anyway - and hovered between grey with purple tips, or purple with grey. Such a hard decision - it took me ages to ask Heather to borrow the polish, just because I couldn't decide.


In the end, I went with grey with purple tips, I can't even remember why. I just thought it would look stunning. And it did.

I also, however, loved it with just the grey and was seriously tempted to leave it like that.

It's actually really good nail polish - that was the covering with one coat. But I ended up with two, just for the extra staying power. I also painted my right hand with green tips, instead of purple, as I realised the green would also look good with the grey. Though, writing that out just reminded me forcibly of my school uniform, which is not so cool.

And of course, with my left hand, I have awful nail painting skills...

I don't think the green looked *quite* as good as the grey, but in real life, it is still pretty nice. The purple however, was just perfect. Unfortunately, without my chip skip, basecoat or top coat, it started chipping on Monday. But on Sunday, just for a while, they were perfect.

Split nails and woollen scarves

I think I'm currently working on a weekly blogging plan. Basically, whenever I paint my nails. And anything else that can be reported - like the scarf I'm making - can be added at the same time.

This week has been super busy, now that I have classes sorted out, and the Uni has all their stuff sorted out too. I have at least 2 linguistic talks to go to every week, and every second week it's 3. Plus I have lots of reading to do, and questions to answer for readings I do. Everything right now is really go go go. But I've done all my reading for Tuesday, and I hope I can actually go to the wool store tomorrow, as I really want some new wool. I started working on a scarf last Monday at KnitSoc.

It's just an 8ply, Alpaca wool (of some type, I bought it in Germany), and I'm just doing rows of treble (double for Americans) stitch. I've got through an entire ball now and it's looking quite good. It might be a bit short, but I don't really feel there's much I can do about it. I'm hoping to actually do some knitting as well soon, because there's something quite infectious about being surrounded by knitters. Knitting is like a hidden passion - quite hidden - because every now and again, I just really feel the need to knit. I don't really understand why, as crochet is easier (for me) and far far quicker.

Still, the ability to make something is always nice.

But my nails! I still only have 3 colours to play with, so I have to be a bit creative if I want to avoid just 10 nails the same colour. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and I'm sure at some point they will all be painted the same colour, but right now I'm still trying to mix it up a bit. So I did a bit of eeny meeny miny mo this morning, and put the colours together to see which I liked best. I had already decided on a bit of a classic 'split' design. One nail, 2 different colours. I considered polka dots, but they can get messy and look awful. So I went with this instead - and I think I chose the right colours...

 Half painted

 One coat of each

The finished product.












And now for the final test I do, to see if ut reakkt worked. Sorry the lighting is so bad, by the way, I don't get much natural here - at least, not when the sun isn't shining.

The side shot. I love the fact that my nails look one colour from one side, and another from the other. But then, maybe I just like confusing people...