If love be rough with you, be rough with love...

baz luhrmann



It's day six of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! 
Today's theme is Love and Heartbreak. Last time this theme came round I used it as an opportunity to make warm, fuzzy, red and pink nail combinations and get all the lovey dovey Valentines Day cooties out. :P  THIS time I wanted to avoid all things pink, lovey and resembling anything Valentines Day! I wanted instead to do something more abstract.  So...I've done a Romeo and Juliet theme! To me, their story is sort of the epitome of love AND heartbreak and it's also one of my favorite plays so it's kind of a win/win for me.  Obviously there are MILLIONS of versions of Romeo and Juliet but I've chosen to base my nails on the version I feel is most recognizable today and that is the Baz Luhrmann 1996 film version.  So here we go:

 On my index finger I have some textured "armor" to represent our ostracized hero Romeo. On my middle, the cross which makes up the "AND" in the title and on my ring some sparkly wings to represent Juliet a la the picture you see above. In the picture you can also see that Romeo is turned, to show his arm while Juliet faces forward showing both wings. This is the imagery I was kind of going for! My pinky is almost a throwaway, I didn't want to take too much away from the other two but it's a rocky grey to represent the stone wall where Romeo recites his famous lines to Juliet under her window. I hope you enjoy my out of the box nail art for the day! 

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Death and Desire...

art

It's day four of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's challenge was art.  Although I enjoy art as much as the next person, I'm not super artistic so last time we did art it was a bit of a challenge for me.  This time I wanted to stick with something I know I'm pretty good at and also try to recreate something.  I caught this picture of a Cy Twombly painting called "Hero and Leander" and I fell in love with it. This is actually the fourth in a series of paintings done by him. All of his work is sort of defined as calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors.


Hero and Leander were lovers in ancient Greek mythology who both drowned. The painting is an evocation of death at sea, as well as their desire for one another. I love the colors and the emotion that this particular painting evokes and it was easy for me to decide to reinvent it on my nails!

I hope you love these as much as I do!!
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Festival of Colors...

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It's day four of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's theme was festive! In keeping with my orginal festive designs, I went with an Hindu holiday known as Festival Holi. Festival Holi is based off of a story in Hindu religion which I won't go into detail about but Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying farewell to winter. Here is a picture of some Indian people throwing colors into the air to celebrate:


Gorgeous isn't it? It's hard not to be inspired by that! I didn't use powder for my colors because I wanted it to have a really 3D effect so I put various colors of flocking powder onto a sparkly sandy base. I hoped to imitate the bright colors on the sparkling sands of the desert. I hope you all enjoy them!

Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!


 
 This is a Replay mani! Click the icon above to see the original art!

Do You Hear the People Sing?

DDSS


It's day three of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's theme is music! Last time this theme came around I did tapes and records and other musical things but this time I wanted to do something a little different! So I did art based on one of my favorite musicals, Les Misérables!  I used my index finger to sort of represent the little pins the revolutionaries wore and then did the iconic cover art work on the other nails. I hope you enjoy these!
 
Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card!  And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!


Sugar Skulls

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It's day two of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again!  Today's design theme is Halloween.  Halloween is one of my most favorite times of year! I love dressing up and going to the parties and the fall weather! I can't wait for it to come around again! Today I decided to do a design based on sugar skulls.  I've seen a lot of people doing them and I haven't tried them yet so I thought now was as good a time as any! I found these super easy to do with just a simple dotting tool. I added a bit of glitter to make them more fun and sparkly but the great thing about them is that you can fancy them up any way you like!  Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!




Colors Used: 
Zoya Purity and Raven
LA Nail Art in Gold Glitter 
Holographic Glitter Pen
Lime Crime Lavendairy and Parfait Day and Pastelchio

Blue Waterfall

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It's the first day in the Digit-al Dozen's year anniversary series, The Digit-al Dozen does it all...AGAIN!  I'm really excited to relive the themes from the last year with you.  Last September we did blue as a theme and if you remember, I chose to use the Deborah Lippmann shade, Let's Hear it for the Boy as a base color and to build on it all week long. In a nod to that design I have chosen to use the same base color and to use some varying shades of blue to make a waterfall manicure! I hope you enjoy it and please don't forget to check out the September Spectacular we're running right now!  You can win a $200 prize!! Check out all of the fellow Dozener's art below or check out my original blue designs by clicking here! :)



Colors used: 
Deborah Lippmann Let's Hear it for the Boy
butter LONDON Scouse, Henley Regatta, Victoriana and Blagger

The Digital Dozen does it all AGAIN!

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I have something REALLY exciting to share with you guys today! As you know if you follow me on Instagram (@bee_polished), September is the month of giveaway's for Bee Polished! You'll definitely want to be following along this month because you'll have a few chances to win some super awesome stuff.  This is the first of the giveaways this month and ladies and gents, it's a doozy. :) 

I'm sure you've all been following along with my Digital Dozen monthly challenges.  Myself and 21 other gorgeous ladies, bring you one week of art based on a different theme every month.  It's our one year anniversary and to celebrate, we're bringing you a CRAZY amazing giveaway AND twelve days of art based on all the themes we've done over the past year.  This giveaway is open internationally and will end on the 15th of September. The winner will recieve a $200 gift certificate to their choice of nail polish stores!! Just think of all the nail polish that will buy you! You can enter the giveaway below, and don't forget to stay tuned over the next two weeks to see us do all the themes again!! :)
Also be sure to stick around for Octobers upcoming series on small nails BIG art.  I'm trying out a new nail growth product and want to use my nubbin time to celebrate shorter nails!

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