{"id":1566,"date":"2013-08-25T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wp\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:53:43","slug":"steampunk-manicure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/steampunk-manicure\/","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Manicure Using Actual Watch Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"

So even though I don’t post about it much I am still buying nail varnish and painting my nails like a woman possessed.\u00a0Today I was creating a double page for my gorgeous niece, Macayla, in my Smash Book<\/a> when I was hit with the inspiration to use watch parts so create a steampunk manicure!<\/p>\n

I bought the parts from eBay some time ago to use in my scrapbooking endeavors, so while I was fishing through my embellishments trays, I was looking at the little parts and thought, “These would work as decorations for nails and would make a killer steampunk manicure!” It took me a while to fish through them and find the thinnest parts because I absolutely hate having chunky nail decorations, but once I had a few together I got comfy in front of the TV (where I usual do my nails) and got cracking. Some of the wider pieces I had to bend to get them to fit the\u00a0curve of my nails which was a bit tough as they are made of very strong metals. I started with my usual base coat of OPI’s Nail Envy and then 2 coats of Essie – Licorice. Once that was dry I used a tiny dab of clear nail varnish on the bottom on each piece and used tweezers to place them on my nail. Once I’d done one hand I topped each nail off with a thick coat on Seche Vite then started on the other hand. A 2nd tick coat of Seche Vite was needed to finish it off.<\/p>\n

This is how it came out…<\/p>\n

\"Steampunk <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Steampunk <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

It’s not something I’ve seen before and I’m really, really happy with how it came out and I’ve received really positive feedback on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So even though I don’t post about it much I am still buying nail varnish and painting my nails like a woman possessed.\u00a0Today I was creating a double page for my gorgeous niece, Macayla, in my Smash Book when I was hit with the inspiration to use watch parts so create a steampunk manicure! I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[258,217,259],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-manicure","tag-nails","tag-steampunk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RawE-pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}