Peculiar Polish Series- Candy Candy

It's another Thursday and time for more Peculiar Polish! Nev from Nevorpurify's Nail Art  is helping me out by designing looks that are from different cartoons that may be a bit less traditional. If you have a suggestion for her, just fill out the embedded form at the bottom of the page!

Ängeles Díaz sent Leslie a really nice note about the cartoon Candy Candy, which she loved while she was growing up. She is from Spain and said that Candy Candy was very popular there. I, not being from Spain, hadn't ever heard of Candy Candy before so I did a little bit of research. I found out that Candy Candy is a Japanese cartoon that features an American girl who was orphaned. The story follows her trials and tribulations and seems surprisingly optimistic. Candy Candy has been a novel, an anime series, and manga over the years, which is relatively typical for Japanese cartoon, what surprised me though was that her first appearance was in 1975! That means Candy Candy has been around for almost 40 years! I think that's awesome! For my nails I did Candy Candy on my index finger, the distinctive bows that she always wears in her hair, and her pet raccoon Klint. Have you seen Candy Candy before? I watched the opening sequence and it looks like it was a great show!

Klint, bows, and Candy Candy

Close up of Candy Candy


Great job Nev! These are so sweet and girly! You keep proving to be the perfect choice for helping me out with this series. :) -Leslie

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Flakies to franken with

Back around Christmas time, I received a very small sample of some raw flakies from Kaila at TKB Trading.  She wanted to know what I thought of them and whether they should get them in stock.

Cause the sample size was very small, I just mixed a little of each colour provided into a mini 5ml bottle with suspension base.  I then applied it over black. I only took comparison photos against other flakie polishes, as I wanted to show Kaila the difference, and stupid me didn't take a photo of the fully mani!

My bottle mainly comprised of gold and green. I only had a tiny amount of the red and blue flakies, so they don't show up much in this polish, but the red flakes look more pink and purple in my photos. The blue ones are clearly blue, but there aren't many in my bottle.

I was so excited to try these out mainly because until now, I have not been able to locate any raw flakie that you can add to polish and it didn't lose it's colour.  I know MK over at Polish and Pigments has done a huge amount of research on this too.

Anyway, I told Kaila that they should definitly still stock these, even though they are not as bright.  Mainly because there still isn't anything else available as a flake.  I will be getting some more because  they will certainly make an interesting addition to my frankening supplies.

I think these same flakies are also now available from You Mix Cosmetics and Frankenpolish Shop.  I have no experience yet with either of these companies, although I have recently ordered from You Mix Cosmetics so will know in the future.  

TKB Trading now have these in stock and my experiences with them has always been excellent.

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Fiji Weejee Fawn

I just…I just don't even. What is this? I would accuse this bizarre and incomprehensible name of being selected by the world's least propitious random noun generator, but that would be far too generous considering that an entire third of this name is not in fact a noun and is not, so far as I can tell, even a word at all.

Suggested by lovely reader Gillian.

You know what? I need to retain some level of faith in humanity. I am going to assume that this name is a brilliant Wittgensteinian, Dogg's Hamlet kind of epistemological critique on how, despite years of apparently successful communication, there is really no way ever to know that we mean the same thing as anyone else by the words we use. Except instead of "plank" meaning "pass me the next piece," "Fiji Weejee Fawn" means "Don't ever let me name a nail polish again or you will be liable for gross negligence to our shareholders."

It is really almost besides the point to mention that in no possible way does this color resemble Fiji or a fawn. I am sure, however, that it is a dead ringer for weejee.

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Nail School - Day 17

We began acrylic nails today. Whenever we start a new procedure, the day goes approximately the same: First we do all of our book work (which usually consists of an exam and "theory" which is the teacher reading us the important part of our book), then the teacher demonstrates the procedure, then we get to practice the new procedure. When our teacher demonstrates, we all gather around and watch her do the service on the fake hand. This is incredibly helpful as it helps to solidify the procedure and it is a chance for the teacher to give us tips and tricks.

I was really excited to start acrylics after discovering how much I love doing wraps last week, and I wasn't disappointed! They are tons of fun. During the day we get two 15 minute breaks and a 45 minute lunch. I usually don't take either of the two short breaks, and I'm typically done with lunch in about 20 minutes. This was awesome today because I got a head start on putting a set of acrylics on my fake hand. I think I did a great job for my first time. I didn't get the acrylic (which is made of a monomer liquid and polymer powder) on the hand at all and my application was really thin. Those of you who have worn acrylics probably know that thick acrylics are not very good.

After finishing my first set of acrylics I got to do nail art on one of the seniors! S is routing for the NY Giants in the Superbowl on Sunday because her boyfriend is routing for the Patriots. But her actual team is the Cleveland Browns. So we did the NY logo, some footballs, and brown thumbs with a bulldog for the Browns.

My favorite nails! I think these turned out great! The one on the left kind of looks like a girl dog though... not quite as mean looking! 

These are the logos. I didn't do as good of a job as I usually do, my lines were really shaky. I think it's because I'm not used to painting other people's nails. 

These are the footballs on the pinkies. I think they looked awesome! She ended up using a Shellac polish (which has the UV curing feature) to top coat these nails, and I didn't get a chance to photograph it. But this is what it looked like with one thin coat of top coat. 

EDIT: I forgot to say, I got my grade on the 100 hour practical exam that I felt I did so poorly on. It was a 98%. The good grade still does not make me feel better about what I consider a poor performance though.

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