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This month's Lacquer Legion theme is "On Holiday." As it is summer and not December, this is obviously referring to the British (read: fancy) definition of holiday, commonly called vacation. Now, I could have done something a little more summery, but I decided to stretch the theme a bit and do a manicure I've wanted to do for a while now: a lumpy space landscape! Given the choice, this is where I would go on vacation if I could.

Confused? Don't be! This is another Adventure Time nail art manicure, inspired by the crazy Cartoon Network show. You may recall my character manicure or my Lady Rainicorn nails; these are the third addition to the group.

My favorite Adventure Time character, Lumpy Space Princess, is from Lumpy Space (go figure), a spacey world with pastel clouds and soft stars. I chose to paint a landscape spanning over my four nails with some additional clouds on my thumb.

Polishes used:
OPI Push and Pur-pull
OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?
Sally Hansen Pacific Blue (old version)
LVX Aster & Misa Loveliest of Lilacs (mixed)
Misa Ripe Raspberry
China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle
Finger Paints Lemon Sour
Nicole by OPI Matte Topcoat

While I didn't do a full tutorial, I did take some informal phone snaps of the nails along the way! You can see how you have to build up the clouds in layers: first blue, then purple, then aqua. The final steps include adding some soft yellow stars and a matte topcoat for that cartoon effect.

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Blue to Green Flakie Gradient

Hey guys. Here's an old "Night of the Living Draft" post that had been sitting in my unpublished posts for a while!

This flakie gradient was made using Inglot 204 (the blue flakie) and Finger Paints Flecked (the green flakie) over a base of OPI Black Onyx. You may have seen a similar manicure on More Nail Polish -- I love her three color, mattified version!

This look is an easy one to achieve. You apply each flakie color like you would a glitter gradient, concentrating one flakie color at each end of the nail. After you have applied both colors, grab the one you applied first and add a couple of extra flakes to the middle of your nail. This helps to give the flakies a more "blended" look.

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