Nail Art Inspired By: Marceline The Vampire Queen

Hi lovelies,

As you would know if you've been reading my Monthly Favourites, I really quite like Adventure Time. It'ss just so soothing and lovely and wonderful. For a children's program it's surprisingly well-thought out and the characters are really quite three-dimensional.

Anyway, I won't go into the rest of the reasons I love Adventure time right now, but if you are interested, I did write a little more in this Monthly Favourites.

While my favourite character has to be Finn, Marceline comes a very, very close second. She is just a pretty cool girl and I love her songs. So when I decided to do Adventure Time nails, she was definitely my first choice. I just think she has more scope to incorporate in a nail design.

Or at least, that's what I thought when I started out. I had a great plan to do a little Marceline face on each thumb, bats on a couple of fingers, one nail of her guitar and one of a full body, or at least a torso, to make sure I could include her fabulous hair! So I started off and did the thumbs and they turned out great! I was so confident I was going to nail this design.

I mean, look at that - it's so true to life! It looks very much like her.

But then, I started doing the other nails. The bats turned out okay but the guitar nail and torso nail just flopped. The guitar was completely unrecognisable as a guitar and I went a little overboard with her hair and she ended up looking a little bit like one of the trees from The Lorax. Well, if the tree bit was bigger and black and the trunk was shorter and was split in two and was red (for her boots).

For defs what she looked like. Only, in black and red and shades of grey. Source here

So, I wore them for a day before realising I really actually hated them and scrapped all except the thumbs. I redid the bats on the same fingers and they turned out a little better, probably because I had had more practice and stuck with lots of little Marceline faces on the rest. And they turned out okay.

They aren't perfect and some aren't actually all that true to life, but they are passable as Marceline, especially when take in conjunction with the rest of the design. The first thumb I did was still the best by far though.

For these, I used a lot of mixed polishes because I realised that I don't have a grey, a dark red or a very dark blue. Isn't that ridiculous?! I guess I'll just have to buy some more. :)

So, the polishes I did use are

Snow Me White by Sinful Colors (white and pictured)

Black Satin by ulta3 (black)

Sizzling Red by ulta3 (red)

Miami Heat by Sinful Colors (blue, which I mixed with black and white to create different shades for her hair)

And that is the story of these nails and how, in the end, I was quite glad to say good-bye to them. Not because I didn't like them, but because of the two different versions I had of these, I ended up wearing these for about 4-5 days. Which is a looooong time in my world to wear black and grey nails. :)