Hi Everyone! Happy Friday! Today marks the end of our decades week. Very interesting how several of us picked the same decade more than once! I knew the second I saw decades I was doing an Elvis mani. I mean really I HAD to. Elvis is someone I've loved through many a decade. In fact I have been an Elvis fan for 5 decades! Woot! That's a long time, and it will continue because I will be a fan until I draw my last breath.
Today is all about The King! Since I've done a few Elvis mani's I really wasn't sure what I want to do this time. I did some Google searching and found a picture of him from Jailhouse Rock so I recreated it
Here's the picture I found
He was notorious for going up on his toes to dance! And of course had the extra hip swivel in there too!
Here's a pic of my mani with the inspiration
I think it turned out great!
I hope you all enjoyed seeing decades week. I had fun doing it and I think everyone did a great job!
Let's stop over and see what everyone else came up with for the last day of Decades!
Hi Everyone! Well I think we had Spring and possibly Summer and we're moving back into Winter. UG! I put away all my sweaters but here I am this morning digging around trying to find something warm. Yesterday I had to have my little space heater on at work AND put my feet in the heated massager I have. What in the word is going on? This is the middle of May and we still have the heat on! And then I have dear friends in California who are being threatened daily with wildfires! Opposite ends of the spectrum. And now that I think about it, I really shouldn't complain about some cold weather when peoples homes are being burned :(
Okay enough of that, time to move on to today's decade. I chose the 80's because who doesn't want to choose the 80's with all the fun neon we had???
The 80's decade started off the technology we have today. It was a decade of great social and economic change. Ronald Reagan became our President in 1980 and worked hard to spread the end of communism. We addressed drug abuse in the 80's and had many campaigns for the war against drugs with the Just Say No Campaign. Hair bands!!! We had glorious, glorious hair bands through the 80's. My faves were Def Leppard and Winger. I think for sure the one thing we had in the 80's that no one who lived in the decade will ever forget is the overabundance of neon!
That being said here is my mani for today's 80's theme!
I really only got one good pic of this mani as I did it at night and it's neon LOL! If you don't have sun you have to use shade which is a bummer
I tried to brighten it up with a white paper towel--lame!
I just did a basic neon gradient with pink, orange and yellow and then did some stamping with CiCi & SiSi
It's pretty fun! I bet it will be distracting at work today!
Let's pop over and check out what everyone has put together for Decades!
Hi Everyone! Happy Hump Day! Middle of the week means the week is half over woot! I guess I'm a little late to the party today too as several of my comrades have already done this decade but I'm throwing my hat into the ring as well for the 20's!
The 20's gave us Babe Ruth and same great baseball.
Prohibition lasted the entire decade!
The 20's was a decade with prosperity for the US
Jazz was oh so popular and Art Deco peaked
Women wore knee length skirts, and wore their hair bobbed and styled in the "marcel wave" and they were known as flappers!
Today my mani is recreated from a picture I found while Googling (not popular in the 20's LOL!)
Here's the pic
And here's my interpretation
I think I did pretty good!
Placing the silver hex glitters by hand for the hat was a little time consuming! Good thing I only did 3 rows LOL!
Here's a pic with the mani and my inspiration pic
I think it turned out pretty darn good!
Let's go visit the rest of the gang and see what's up for Decades today!
Hi Everyone! Wow if you're in the Midwest I hope you are all above ground and dry! Holy cow did we ever get some torrential rain last night. I was out with friends until pretty late and driving home felt more like motor boating home than it did driving! But it was SO worth it! I love getting together with my nail polish friends even if last night was all about stuffing our faces with yummy food and just talking about nails instead of doing nails LOL!
So how about that first day yesterday?! OMG what another great theme for us! I love being in a group of women who are very diverse, who have different talents for nail art, and who come up with some fan-freaking-tastic ideas!
Today I decided to show case my birth decade and do the 60's. During the 60's we saw a lot of the rigidity in our culture dissipate. We saw the Vietnam war reek havoc on our Nation and for the first time since the Civil War we saw Americans strike out against Americans because of it. John F Kennedy rose to great fame--an Irish Catholic President who was then savagely assassinated right in front of his wife. Not only did we witness the assassination of a president, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Jr and Bobby Kennedy would all be assassinated in the 60's decade.
It was truly a time of unrest and the battle cry of the 60's became Make Love Not War. In a decade of free love war had never been more of out place. Today I'm showcasing my Make Love Not War mani
I had some help with this one from the lovely No More War from Rescue Beauty Lounge
I am a sucker for those "ugly" pretty colors!
I think Tie Dye and Camouflage represent the 60's quite well today what do you think?
Let's stop by and check out what decade everyone else had in mind for today!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday! Today is the start of fabulous week! The Digit-al Dozen is taking on Decades this week. I'm starting off the week with the 90's. Technology in the 90's helped paved the way for technology today. And without it computers, blogging, facebook, smart phones and social media wouldn't be what it is today.
Technology in the 90's gave us the introduction of The World Wide Wide and HTML.
Microsoft introduced Windows 95 as well as Windows 98 and both were amazing!
Email really takes off and Microsoft acquires hotmail.com
Web browsers are created to make surfing the web more user friendly
Digital cameras become available to consumers and become more and more affordable.
The first MP3 player is introduced
Netflix is launched and offers DVD's mailed directly to your home.
The first HDTV broadcast occurs
DVRs are released for the first time.
All of these great things happened in the 90's and by the looks of things they keep getting better and better.
In homage to the great 90's I'm proudly displaying my 90's mani!
I had some help from The Nail Junkie's Apple to create this awesome circuit board
I used Bundle Monster BM415 and just added some gold to make this look totally realistic
We've definitely come a long way and we are able to fit more and more into this like cameras, computers and phones--all thanks to the fabulous 90's!
Let's stop by and see how everyone else is starting off their Decades week!
