A Different Kind of Olympic Mani

Hey all!

We're back to do another Polish Days! This is a monthly event where bloggers agree to do a mani based on a certain theme and post them all at the same time. The event is organized by the lovely Hannah aka Polly Polish who does (what I can assume is) a buttload of work to make sure this event goes smoothly. This time around the theme is the Olympic Games!

As some of you may know, I'm from and live in Puerto Rico. We're a tiny island (100x35 miles) with a lot of people and even more living in the US. We're also proud, and yesterday one of our own made us even prouder by winning a bronze medal in the 400m race in the athletic program. It's our first olympic medal in this event and the first in these olympics as well. This is sort of my nod to him, for uniting an entire island for the brief moment it takes to watch the race. I'm not kidding, offices literally had signs saying "Closed to watch the race". We're also not a very productive people.

For this I used O.P.I Dutch Ya Just Love OPI and did the saran/cling wrap technique with Essie Penny Talk. For the two accent nails I did a caviar/fish egg/microbeads and on my thumb I just freehanded P.R. with Penny Talk again. I used purple because the "string" that holds the medals is purple. Plus, I've seen a lot of purple in the decorations and banners, etc.

The color of the beads and the polish wasn't 100% but I googled SOO many images of "bronze" and there were very different results in there, so I just rolled with it. I was originally going to skip this Polish Day because I could not come up with any ideas worth doing. I felt like every idea had already been done and a million times better than I could do, so I went with something a little more abstract and close to the heart. It's most assuredly definitely not my best work, but it was also 2am when I finished these so...yeah sleepy.

This is for you, Javier Culson. We're still super proud even though you wanted to bring us the gold.

Sorry if I babbled, have a good day and don't forget to check the links for all the other Polish Days manis!

Alexis - Glitter Tips
 Chiro - Nail of This Week
 Cuti-CLUE-les
 Hannah - Polly Polish
 Heidi - Pretty Painted Nails
 Inky - Inky Polisholicious
 Ishah - Ishah X Beauty
 Jen - The Nail Polish Project
 Jenny - Beauty By Jenny
 Jessica - Sparkles & Shine Nails
 Joanna - The Treasure Chest
 Kat - Hooked on Polish
 Kate - The Polish Cart
 Keisha - Refined & Polished
 Maria - So Marvellous
 Melissa - The Crimson Petal
 Mihaela - Lacquer Buzz
 Nail Tart
 Nicole - Nearly Nailed
 Pris - Pris Nails
 Sabine - My Polish Stash
 Samantha - Polished Art
 Sammy - The Nailasaurus
 Sophia - Unhas a Trois
 Stephanie - Sincerely Stephanie 

 Wendy - Wendy's Delights 

Fish Egg ... Monday? or Caviar Manicure

Good morning! I'm enjoying a day off because it's a holiday here in Puerto Rico! Sorry to those of you working ;)

Now, you might have caught the hint that I was doing a caviar mani for my cousin's wedding if you saw the end of this post. Truth be told, it didn't really work out for the wedding. I was in too much of a hurry getting ready and wasn't completely sure what I wanted to do so I just did simple red nails. When I got home though, I did swatch what I had in mind just so I could have practice for next time.

Enter last friday's posts. If you follow other blogs you probably saw 'Fish Egg Friday' as a rebellion towards a company sending C&D letters for using a mani that they neither invented nor have trademarked....yet. I didn't have time to post them on friday but I present to you my caviar nails!

 Lots of pics today so be sure to keep reading after the jump!