House Baratheon

If you're one of my peeps on Facebook, you may have already heard that I'm dedicating this months manicures to Game of Thrones, in honour of Season 3 (airing March 31st, 2013).

The first house up is Baratheon!

Whole Hand.

The house sigil for Baratheon is the deer, so antlers were a definite must, as you can see the french on my index and ring fingers are outlined by black antlers, while I have the main deer in the center, even though it's just a close up of the head. 

Main Four.

The deer was done using, believe it or not, regular India ink by Speedball and a nib pen. You can see little crackle marks which appeared after I top-coated, but I love the way it did that. I found that it was a lot easier getting the fine details in using this method than using a brush and paint/polish.

Thumb detail.

I originally wanted to do another deer head on the thumb, but I came across an alternate symbol when I searched Baratheon on Google, it was an image of symmetrical antlers on a yellow-gold background; although my antlers are not symmetrical, I think I came as close as I'm going to.

So now on to the polishes, the base colour I used for my thumb and middle finger is "Fast Track" by China Glaze, from their Hunger Games collection. On the other nails is "Expresso 58" by Kleancolor, a nice rich metallic chocolate brown.

If you would like a set of these, be it false nails or nail decals, feel free to contact me at my email: ayeshaskhan27@yahoo.ca. Please put a subject in, so that I don't accidentally mistake it for spam.

Have an awesome week!

Dry Marble

Simple dry marbling today, its technically just needle dragging, because I wanted to water marble but it wasn't working, so this was better. Colours used are "Fast Track" and "Smoke and Ashes" by China Glaze from the Capitol Collection.

Game of Thrones House Sigils

So for those of you who are also fans of the novels by George R.R. Martin, and a fan of the HBO series

Game of Thrones, you probably know Season 2 is fast approaching. And to be honest, I'm dying of

excitement. I love the first season, and can't wait for the next one. 

To show my support, I painted each House's Sigil on my nails, I used the one's off of the coasters.

Whole Hand

Left to Right: Stark, Targaryen, Lannister and Baratheon

Bad close up on the Thumb.

The base for these was "Fast Track" by China Glaze, from their Hunger Games Collection. I hand painted all the Sigils, and the words on my thumb. Terribly sorry by the way for the blurriness, it was the best picture I could get. Maybe when I get some money I'll purchase a new camera.
Enjoy!