Clouds&Rainbows

It is finally sunny and warm in Minnesota, and I think it will last this time - fingers crossed! I used two coats of wet n wild's Chambray Showers which is the perfect sky blue color. I added an extra stroke here and there that I thought would look horribly bumpy, but the polish settled down without a hitch. 

 I used white paint to make the clouds and then I added the rainbow onto my middle finger and thumb nails with paint was well that I watered down a bit. Really fun and easy to do nails!

Enjoy the weather,

Tamara

Ezra

Last Tuesday, I was able to go to George Ezra's sold out concert at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis with my sissy. We got there around 5:30 to join the short line that had already formed. We ate Subway while we waited to the doors to open at 7; while waiting a car full of college guys drove by THREE times. Round one and two resulted in cups full of water being thrown near the line - they didn't have enough power behind their tosses, cute. For the third trip round, my sister stood in shock as she watched a guy lean out of the same car with a water gun - luckily they had horrible aim.

Under 21's got "VT" written on their hands.

The Ruen Brothers from London were the opening act for George; they're pretty good, but I personally wasn't going crazing over them. Sorry, my heart was set on Georgie!

A set shot. My sister and I were able to get into the second / third row behind tall people, it didn't help that there was a slight ramp that made them giants. Doesn't help that I'm barely 5'1".. 

George Freaking Ezra. I can never take clear concert pictures and it drives me nuts! But how gorgeous is he? Six feet of man right there! Someone brought out tea for him to drink which made him even more charming on top of his British accent. I took a bunch of videos, but I didn't realize how loud the amps were blaring, so most of them only give off loud static. 

He sang maybe half of his set on his own with his guitar: Barcelona, Leaving It Up to You, Blind Man in Amsterdam, and Benjamin Twine. There were probably more..

His encore ended with Did You Hear the Rain? and foam rained down from machines on the ceiling; it was awesome!

I had a blast, but by watching him, you can tell that he needs time to mature into preforming and interacting with the crowd. He was very much into the music. He would close his eyes and just sway to the music which was a great thing to see since it shows how much he loves his music. So much fun!

We bought a concert shirt and a CD. The reason I bought it was because it was pre-signed, yay!! 

After the concert, my sister and I waited outside the theater for our ride - there was zero chance I was going to drive downtown. No thank you! We noticed a large group being lead by security guards back into the theater, so we quickly entered behind the last people to meet George!!

We got to hug him and get our picture taken!! I had our tickets out to get them signed, but my mind completely emptied of all intelligence and common sense. CRAZY, RIGHT?!? I wish I could have bought him! Only joking.. 

Such a fun and cool experience! I'm so grateful to have had this (relatively cheap) opportunity since he's gaining fame fast. 

He's so adorable, eek!

Tamara

Spring Tribal

Phew. After a super fun and busy week with friends, I finally had time to sit down and do my neglected nails! 

This is the first time that I have experimented with negative space, and there is a lot of it in in this design. It was easy in the sense that I only used Wet n Wild's clear coat and orange, green, and white acrylic paint. 

I laid down a coat of clear and when it fully dried, I free-handed random designs radiating off from the half moons of my nails. Clear coat to seal the paint down. 

Tamz

Pentatonix

I am so behind! I went to the Pentatonix concert on the 7th with my sister and my friend Bekka. It was incredible! They're amazing live and at times I forgot that they were acapella. My only disappointment was that the balcony was dead.. Here are the nails that I did for the concert!

I used two coats of wet n wild's Black Crème. I went in with watered down white paint to write PTX on my nails. I tried doing their logo on my thumb, but it was a flop. 

I used Sinful Colors' Love Nails to add a blue into white gradient on the lower part of each letter of the larger PTX. I used Love Nails and wet n wild's Buffy the Violet Slayer (haha, very cute, wet n wild) to do a purple into blue gradient on the pinky. 

I wish I could have done something more special for the concert, but I didn't have enough time. They deserve a super cool design though! 

The sign outside the Orpheum Theatre

 Shot of the stage before before show time

Spider shell

Today's design is based off of this tiny pumping spider that I saw on Facebook several months ago. I HATE spiders, but this little guy looked, dare I say, cute?! And the design on its "shell" made me think of nails, but when am I not thinking of my nails honestly!

I put down two coats of white polish before using two coats of Wet n Wild's Spitfire. It has a neon quality to it, so the white brought out the bright color and I didn't have to use as many coats of the orange. 

I used white paint to frame out the nail and did the vertical and horizontal lines. Top coat.