Bee Polished: geeky nails

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

For today's Geek Week nails I wanted to go a little more abstract! I'm a little disappointed in how the ring finger turned out for this. The emblem on the uniforms is meant to be a gold rimmed silver but the contrast just didn't really work for this mani. Still, I love all of it together! If you haven't figured it out yet, it's Star Trek!! These are representative of the uniforms from The Next Generation version of the television show. There were three uniform colors: red, blue and gold. In general, red is indicative of commanders and helm crew, blue is indicative of medical staff and science personnel and gold indicates a security, engineer or operations crew member. There were of course, exceptions to this like in the case of Deanna Troi who wore purple a lot and various other colors. Then there are gold pips on their collars which are admiral insignia. I started with the idea of doing specific pip numbers to represent cast members (like the red with four pip's for Captain Picard) but as the seasons went on many of the crew earned more pips so it seemed a lost cause! Anyway I hope you enjoyed the design! Don't forget to check out what the other ladies came up with for day three!

Colors Used:

Color Club Chelsea Girl

Essence Kiss On Top of the Rock

Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens

Zoya Raven

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A Long Time Ago...

clone trooper

It's day two of the Digital Dozen's Geek Week and today I've chosen to do something which I'm sure you'll all recognize!! Star Wars!! I actually never watched these films growing up. My parents were not very into them and I never really caught the bug. It wasn't until the new ones released in the theater that I ever really got into them and, honestly, the only reason I wanted to see those was...well...OK TWO reasons: Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor. *swoon* I'm still more into the new than the old (I know, I'm totally backwards!) but I wanted to do something that sort of encompassed all of them! So here are some simple little Storm Troopers and a Darth Vader. Let's be honest, no Star Wars mani would be complete without the most evil of all evil villains! Don't forget to check out what the other ladies have come up with for Geek Week today!!

Colors Used:

Zoya Purity and Raven

Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black

LA Colors Nail Art Pen in Silver

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The Digital Dozen does...Geeky!!

atoms

This week the Digital Dozen ladies have chosen to do "geeky" as a theme. I'm very excited about this because, well let's face it I know I'm a geek. I'm probably also a big nerd because I always loved school and learning and I spout off ridiculous knowledge at people all the time. :P I had a million ideas for this week but since there are only five challenge days I tried to do some designs that I feel sort of round out my geek-ism and also semi-reflect my favorite geeky things! So I'm staring off today with something a little more nerd than geek leaning: Chemistry. I LOVE LOVE LOVED Chemistry in school and at one point thought about making a career out of it but then I decided I wanted to go for something more people involved. I intended to go a little more normal with this and do H2O, otherwise known as water on my nails. However, while I was executing it I had a major distraction and ended up making HO2. Which incidentally, is Hydroperoxyl. Never heard of it? Well let me enlighten you!

Hydroperoxyl is what you get when you remove a hydrogen atom from hydrogen peroxide or by pronating the superoxide ion. Hydroperoxyl exists in our atmosphere and is, sadly, what is responsible for the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere. It is very reactive and acts as a "cleanser" of the atmosphere by degrading certain organic pollutants. The chemistry of hydroperoxyl is of considerable geochemical importance for this reason. Yay for destructive nails. Lol...but hey, we all learned a lesson today didn't we?

Don't forget to check out what the other ladies have come up with for the first day of Geek Week!