Sunday 10 May 2015

The Nerd-Geek Challenge prompt 3: Favourite TV-Show!


Hi everyone!

Today we have another prompt for the Nerd-Geek Challenge! It's our third prompt: "Favourite TV-Show"! And guess which show I picked... ;)

P.s.: you're warned again - I couldn't contain myself so there's lots of random GIF's in this post! :D

I picked... Firefly!! I don't think this show is super famous - partly because it only lasted for one season (booh), but it's one of my favourites! It stars Nathan Fillion, whom you may know from the tv-show Castle.

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Firefly is a show about a bunch of space travelers who get in all sorts of adventures, and of course there's some romantic subplots going on too. They have horses and cowboy hats and cowboy guns - it's sort of a western in space, really!

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Firefly has such fun characters...

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...and while I love all of them (especially Wash who's in the GIF above), my favourite character is Kayleigh! She's an awesome girl who is the mechanic on Serenity, the space ship they're in. And that's why I did a design based on the interior and on the engine room of the ship Serenity!

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I couldn't find a proper picture of the engine room, but here's how the interior if the ship looks like - lots of rusty copper colours.




I started out with two coats of Layla magnetic effect 09 Golden Bronze (I love this polish!) and then did a dry brush technique with the following polishes: Layla Golden Bronze, Only You African Queen (I hate this name), E.L.F. Smoky Brown, and b.pretty Cinnachrome


Since the Layla polish is magnetic, I used its magnetic qualities to create some more coolness: I dotted some of the Layla polish onto the design here and there and placed the magnet above it - this way it created a cool effect in certain places, without the magnetic effect being on the entire nail.

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After that, I  placed these awesome steampunk pieces from She Sells Sea Shells on my two middle nails when my top coat was still wet. 

I didn't top coat these as they were only intended to last me long enough to make pictures - as you can see, this design isn't really meant to last a long time with all those pieces sticking out!



In my steampunk pieces bag, there were mostly silver coloured pieces so I fished out the gold ones to create this design, as gold matches the coppery colours of the polishes so well.

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I love these steampunk pieces so so much. I don't care that they're not entirely practical because you can do so many cool designs with these, and I suppose if you place them with a bit more thought on your nails they could actually last a while!


 Here's a close-up of those awesome steampunk wheels and pins and whatevers!



What do you think of this design? Yes, I know, not practical, but once in a while it's totally okay to do non-practical designs because THEY ARE SO FLIPPING COOL! :D

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Kayleigh agrees that these are cool. (GIF source)
Do you have a favourite nerdy tv-show? Thanks for reading!


28 comments:

  1. it looks quite awesome :DDD <3

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    1. I love it!! I'm glad you do as well! :)

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  3. Wow this nail art is so COOL!!!! :D

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    1. Thank you!! I really loved how it turned out SO MUCH!! :D

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  4. Just one word:
    SHINY!!!!

    These are awesome! I love these steampunk-thingies! And I love Firefly!
    Actually, we discovered the show after the movie, long after the movie, but we were extremely sad (like the whole nerd-geek community) that this show has only one season!
    All these guys are badass and lovely at the same time! It's a shame they didn't continue it!

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    1. SHINY INDEED!! :D Thank you so much Franzi!! But oh no, it must have been horrible to see the movie first and only then the show, because you already knew the lovely Wash was going to die! :( :( They are indeed all badass and amazing and lovely all together, I really wish there were more seasons!

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  5. What a great design that goes so well with the looks of this ship! These wheels :D I like it a lot, this mani is unique, even if it wasn't meant to last for a long time :)

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    1. Thank you Aneta!! I'm so glad you like it! :D

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  6. When I saw your mani on FB, my jaw was totally on the floor. I can not express my self, how mush I like it. This is so original and unique, you mad a great job!

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    1. Aww thank you so much Andrea!!! That's super super nice of you, your comment totally made my day! :D

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  7. I love firefly too.
    Seriously great nails!
    Those little tiny gears are too cute!

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    1. I am discovering your nerdy side Jacqui, I totally didn't know that!! :D Thanks a lot!

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  8. Wow Robin amazing! We both had something going on on our nails these days hahaha. I really love the outcome an these steampunk pieces. I think I never seen anything like this for nails yet and they really are amazing

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    1. Haha we sure did!! From the moment I saw those steampunk pieces on She Sells Sea Shells I knew I HAD to have them, they are too cool! :D

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  9. Wow, this looks amazing! Who cares about practicality, it's art after all! ;)

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    1. Thank you!! Haha you're totally right, as long as it looks cool it IS cool, practical or not!

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  10. so unique but so artistic at the same time- I love your creativity :)

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  11. OMG FF was amazing. My friend got me into a while back and I did enjoy it :-)

    Great mani, very steam-punky I think :-D <3

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    1. Haha everyone's nerdy side is finally revealing itself :D FF Is awesome! Thanks Ananka!

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  12. Oh my, the effect is gorgeous, even if it's just for the photos :D And I really need to check out this show, it seems interesting :)

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    1. Thanks Joanne, I thought so too! Yes, if you like nerdy shows this is definitely something for you! :)

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  13. Wooow amazing desing. Is original and unique Love it. Big hug.

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