Take Two Day 1 - Inspired by a band!

The 31 day nail art challenge Take Two

Day Three

Inspired by a band

I had a brief moment of panic this morning when I realised it was the first of December, AKA Take Two (31 day nail art challenge) time and I still had only done one manicure in preparation for it! Still, it wouldn't be a challenge without a bit of stress would it? 

I decided that my band inspired nails would be Missy Higgins. I guess she counts more as a singer-songwriter than a band, but when I made the list, "band and/or singer" was too long to fit in.

I always liked Missy Higgins, but she wasn't in my top five. However, after hearing her latest album she's definitely in my top three! I love what she sings about. My other two favourites are Pink and Taylor Swift... although I'm getting a little sick of Taylor only ever singing about how much she hates/loves her boy of the week. Missy's new album is simply amazing, and some of the songs really mean a lot to me. My Grandad has Dementia, and although it's relatively under control at the moment, I can relate to the song "Cooling of the Embers." I also really like "Hello Hello," "Everyone's waiting," "If I'm Honest" and "Tricks," but my absolute favourite is "Hidden Ones."

Image found here: http://adrianerdedi.com/adrian/missy-higgins-1/

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It's just so much deeper and motivating than your average song. Here's the song and some of the lyrics:

"She's holding a torch in her hand

Pointing towards Heaven

And on the streets below her, people living out of trash cans

Are trying to believe she's got a plan"

(Statue of liberty looking over everyone else who is struggling to get by. Also liberty/freedom, "is there a point to life" etc ).

"Over the water to the east

Two million in a square refuse to sleep

Till every pleading voice is heard

And all the world has seen

Revolution: fallen king down to his knees"

(My favourite part - I assume this is about the Arab rising)

"There is a choice

You can follow the leader

Or use your voice

'Cause this will just keep up

Until we make a loud noise

And the hidden ones speak up"

(The chorus - so inspiring!)

Right, so as you can see, I love Missy and her songs. Now on to the nails!

First I painted them grey with VIP by mode. This is a one-coater, so I naturally love it! In fact, all of my nails dried really fast as there weren't tons of layers! Here's a couple of photos showing the painting progress...

They took about an hour to do, but I only did one hand. Normally I do both, but I was in a rush to get this up, plus I'm going to be taking them off tonight anyway to do tomorrow's nails!

Here's what they looked like before the white writing. I think these look cool just like this, but it's not that easy to identify them as Missy Higgins nails! I wish I had some lighter shades of these colours though - they were a bit too bright but I wasn't keen on mixing them all.

Here they are with the writing. I really wanted to use this nail art pen that I have but I can't find it anywhere! So I had to make do with my M Eizilan dotting tool thing, which wasn't really ideal and is at least part of the reason that the writing's a bit of a mess!

Another photo of my fingers next to the cover.

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