Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Holiday Gift


This week, our Twinsie Tuesday theme is "Holiday Gift". We were each assigned to a different Twinsie who gave us a mani that would stretch our nail art talents as a gift. It's like Marching Orders, but less anything-goes, and more challenging. 

My "gift" came from Rachel of Top Coat It.



Rachel gave me three different manis to choose from. I could do a crackle mosaic, iKat nails, or scratch art. 

Of course I had to go with the one that I am least expected to do! ^.^

I started off with The Thames from Nails Inc. on my middle two nails, then used the bottle brush to make what are supposed to be crackle palm trees. I did the crackle mosaic on my other nails.


Now brace yourself for this. In fact you might want to take record of what I am about to say, because it is very unlikely that you'll ever hear it from me again.

You ready? *clears throat* I, um..... *deep breath* actually.... I kind of.... um.... don't hate this. Yea. It's not too bad. For a crackle mani. I kind of like it. I don't love it. It is by far the best work I've ever done. But it isn't terrible!

And I must end on that note. Let's see what all the other Twinsies did!

Amanda at Amandalandish
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Kelly at Tuxarina
Lakeisha at Refined and Polished
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Rachel at Top Coat It
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Traci at DrinkCitra

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I'm with you on this. Not huge on crackle but this actually appeals to me!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks! :) I did like the look of black crackle over a rainbow water color background, but I just never got into it like some people did!

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I must admit that I'm kind of shocked you went with the crackle! I thought for sure you'd scoff at that one and move right along to the others. Way to do something outside of your comfort zone! After I did my first crackle mosaic, I started collecting more colors of crackle polishes just so I could do a better mosaic next time. I'm happy you didn't hate your results. :)
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Well I've tried iKat and they turned out awful, but I've never actually done a crackle mosaic so I figured I'd give it a shot! :)

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Uhm, I kind of don't hate this either! Who would have thunk, love the palm trees!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
I figured palm trees always make anything better in my book, so they couldn't hurt! ^.^

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I really like this! I may need to pull the crackles back out.
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks! I was surprised that I didn't hate them!

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purple_rain · 592 weeks ago

Hey, this is pretty cool :)
I love it that there are new ideas popping up for what to do with all these crackle polishes..
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks! I was really surprised that I liked it!

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Love, love, love! You may have inspired us all to dust off our crackles ;)
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks!! :) I didn't think I'd like it at all but I think this is a pretty neat way to use them!

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I have to say, I dislike crackle, but you knocked this out of the park, my dear! Fabulous!!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks!! ^.^ I really like how they turned out surprisingly!

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Those crackle palm trees are so cool!!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks!! :) They actually were pretty fun!

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GoingtotheShowing · 592 weeks ago

LOVING this! Totally different!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks!! :)

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crackles aren't my favorite! They can be hard to work with and don't always look that great!
However, you did an excellent job! Definitely my favorite crackle mani!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks!! :) They are a pain, but I'm glad they worked for this!

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This looks really great Amber! I'm surprised I like it too ;0). Great job!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thank you! :)

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Love it! Love the color combos and the design. Great choice!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thank you! :) I was hoping the colors would work together because those are the only crackle colors I had handy!

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I like it too!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks!

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nice manicure <3
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks!

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Oh, this is amazing! While I'm not a fan of crackles either I think the end result is interesting and cool!
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks! :) They were surprisingly actually pretty fun to do!

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Nice way to use crackles! I like your mani :)
1 reply · active 592 weeks ago
Thanks you! :)

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i really like this! what a great way to use crackle!
1 reply · active 591 weeks ago
Thank you! I didn't think I'd like it at all but it did turn out pretty neat! :)

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This is one of the most awesome crackle manis I've ever seen!!
1 reply · active 591 weeks ago
Thanks!! ^.^

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