{"id":19714,"date":"2013-09-04T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19714"},"modified":"2013-09-04T07:10:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T12:10:27","slug":"temporary-tattoo-nails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19714","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Tattoo Nails"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"X-rayI recently ran across these fantastic X-ray nails and tracked them back to Nailgasm<\/a>. They’re done by printing the desired image on temporary tattoo paper<\/a> and then transferring it to the nail. This is just a brilliant idea, and it opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities.<\/p>\n

The site nas a step-by-step tutorial<\/a> for creating the effect, along with some handy photos of how the transferred images look applied over different colors of nail polish. In addition to the X-rays, there’s also a set featuring the art of Francis Bacon<\/a> which were worn to a gallery opening (an excellent use for them, methinks).<\/p>\n

The blogger credits the original idea to the site More Nail Polish, which has a somewhat similar tutorial<\/a> and lots more examples of the effects you can create. I particularly like the autumn leaves<\/a>, purple dragon<\/a>, and (most particularly) these adorable little ghosts<\/a>. Search “tattoo” on the site for many more ideas.<\/p>\n

This is just marvelous, because it means that if you’ve got access to image software and a color printer, you can put pretty much anything you want on your nails. For those of us without the artistic skills to hand-paint miniature images,* this is a huge help.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, in addition to the temporary tattoo ideas, both sites have loads<\/em> of other amazing nail art. Check out Nailgasm’s spiders<\/a> and really outrageous armored nails<\/a>, and More Nail Polish’s bats<\/a>, witches<\/a>, graveyard<\/a>, and amazing 3-D spiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to WitchArachne)<\/i>
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\n*I, personally, have the artistic skills of Rembrandt. If he were hogtied and thrown in a bag of rabid weasels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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