Monday, February 10, 2014

Digit-al Dozen Does Vintage; Day 1

It's back to Digit-al Dozen challenges for the next five days; this month's challenge is Vintage.  Vintage is anything 20 years of older, so I tried to think back to how life was back when I was a kid for some inspiration (which is more than 20 years...I guess I'm vintage, too!).  The first thing that came to mind was my parents funky wallpaper in the kitchen/dining room which was orange, yellow and green striped wallpaper and then my mother had cut out flowers from another wall paper in the same colour scheme and placed them all random on the striped wall paper.  I also remembered that my mom was into macrame at the time (macrame was popular back in the 70's) and did quite a few macrame towel holders and numerous owl hangers which where all over our house as well as my grandparents, etc.; which is where I took the inspiration for this mani.  This is what I came up with.


Started with a base of skittles, starting at index finger: American Apparel Army Jacket, Sally Hansen Butterscotch, Nubar On the Radar and nails inc. Hamstead Gardens, all two coats topped with SV.


I made a stamper decal using Infinity 07**, using the same colours.


Applied it to my thumb. (Seen I didn't do too good of a job on the decal on the eye but too late at this point.)


After cleanup and top coating with SV.



Used this owl image from Dashica Beauty using the recently released Infinity Nails plates; this is Infinity Nails 07. There are a lot of images on these Infinity Nails plates that can be turned into a stamper decal which is fantastic as it takes stamping to a whole other level IMHO...the designs are great for more traditional stamping as well!







Added more owls using SdP 53 using black Konad special polish.



My first thought was to just add random dots, but I thought I do that fairly often, why not do things a little different, so I dotted the owls using the same polishes and then added white eye balls.



Added black dots for eyes and touched up the stamper decal a little at the tips.


Topped with SV to finish.


I wore this mani for a day and just before I took it off, I thought it would be funky cool matted, so topped with two coats of OPI Matte Top coat.



I did some googling to see if I could find something close to my parents striped wallpaper or the flowers, but couldn't but this was the funky 70's wallpaper that I did find. (If I had have planned this post better, I probably could have found some pix of the funky wallpaper in family albums!)







Macrame owls from Wikipedia.

Here's the other ladies fabulous Day 1 mani's!



Thanks for looking!

**product sent for review; please see disclosure policy for details.

25 comments:

  1. The owls are so cute! This is definitely a vintage manicure and it looks great! I also love the colours you picked :)

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  2. Love this look! I don't normally do stamping, but this look super-cute, and you added lots of detail and color! Love it!

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  3. I love your nails art! You are an artist!!!
    Kisses
    Timeless Mode

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  4. You've knocked this out of the park!!! This looks quite different from your usual manicures. The owl decal is breathtaking!

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  5. WHOOHOO! As soon as this loaded up I cried out in glee, "I LOVE this!" I think the matte finish is the icing on the cake of amazing. Love it!

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  6. These are fab! The matte really ties it all together ~

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  7. How cute and perfect is this!! Congrats :D

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  8. I seriously cannot stand how cute these are! OMG just totally adorable and SO 70's!! Great job!

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  9. Oh my god, macrame!!! I had completely forgotten that was a thing, thank you for that blast from the past! So much time and effort went into these, and it really shows -- definitely one of my favourite of your manis.

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  10. This is so great! The colors are right on, and the stamping is perfect!

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  11. wow its really really really cute! cant say enough cute!

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  12. WOW! The matte topcoat is the perfect finish for this. Too cute!

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  13. I absolutely love this mani - especially with the matte topcoat. I too made my share of macrame owls and plant hangers!

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  14. Owls!!! I so want one of those macrame owls now :)

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  15. Okay, the colors are totally vintage! And the owl decal idea - genius! ANDDD, the matte topcoat really finishes it all off!

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  16. Holy crap wow! The colors are perfect! And that decal on your thumb is freakin' amazing!!! I love these :D

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  17. I absolutely adore this, I was blown away by the final product! <3

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  18. Oh my goodness! This design is amazing! I LOVE your owls! :)

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  19. Love it! Such a cool idea to add the dots in the owls, and your decal is fantastic :)

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  20. very nice owls! i like colored stamps!

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  21. HAHAH THanks for the flashback to the macrame planter holders my mom had hanging throughout the house! I MUST try that advanced stamping!!! This is amazing!

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  22. this is AWESOME! it totally takes me back to childhood with the colors!

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  23. Ok, you know I love this! Owls and fugly colors! Perfect combo that I love!

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