TRON Design

...I'll have to figure out what camera to use to get the best pictures. Nails are small targets and hard to photograph all at once.

For those of you unfamiliar with the theme, TRON is one of Disney's film franchises that tells the story of programmers being transported into a digital world. Two films have been released, one in 1982 and one in 2010, both heavy with special effects and both heavily sporting a black and blue color scheme. The patterns I've etched on my nails are supposed to be reminiscent of the light cycle races.

How did I get them to turn out? I used clear Avon polish for a base and then Wet n Wild "Bijou Blue," though I did have to put on 3-4 coats of the blue. I really like Wet n Wild because it's extremely cheap, but for some colors it really does require a ridiculous amount of coats to make the color show. I put Sally Hanson Xtreme Wear "Shooting Star" sparkles on top of the blue, and the sparkles themselves had a blue tint so they deepened the color. Then a coat of Wet n Wild clear to seal the bottom blue layers...and then the waiting game. It took a good half hour for the nails to really set and dry because I knew I was going to be going at the upper coats with a tooth pick and didn't want to screw up the base.

Once everything was dry I found an old bottle of OPI "Russian Navy" which I put one pretty thick coat on every finger, but I went one at a time and took a tooth pick and drew lines before putting polish on the next finger to make sure they wouldn't dry up on me. The first two fingers I did screw up pretty badly, but went back at the end with more of the navy and patched things up. Again I let everything dry and carefully put some more Sally Hanson Xtreme Wear sparkles on the spots that I didn't etch out, this time the sparkles were a black tint--"Night Lights." I would have rather coated the entire nail in this stuff but it is surprisingly dark and actually covered the blue showing through the etchings on one nail so I had to then paint around them :p Finished up with a couple of the Wet n Wild clear coats and waited an extremely long time before even daring to touch anything.

And tadah! Easy TRON nails. Even blasted the soundtrack while I was working on them. The OPI polish ended up being bit difficult to work with because it was so dark and I had to use thick coats, so I ended up getting it all over my palms and legs when I was working with the tooth pick in an effort to keep the point sharp. But then again, that's what remover is for. I feel like practice would make this design more perfect, but for the first attempt they don't look half bad :)