Showing posts with label les mis nail art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label les mis nail art. Show all posts

Friday, 12 April 2013

Do you hear the people sing?

Confession: I am obsessed with Les Mis. Musical, films, novel, soundtrack, being french means I've been exposed to it all from a very young age. I saw the musical for the first time when I was 7, the year I moved to London...and I distinctly remember wanting to be Gavroche. To be honest, I still do.

So when the movie came out, and I went to see it not once, but twice (stay tuned for a review), I felt, for the first time in my life, like I should flaunt my french-ness. See, painting your nails like the french flag felt a bit tacky. In the context of a cinematic phenomenon, on the other hand...



I couldn't tell you what nail polish I used, because I was having one of those "my room is so messy I can't find anything $%*(@%tuwilfsdjlk" moments and had to resort to mixing colours on a plate to get the shades I wanted. 

I got the design idea from another blog, and decided to try my luck. The flags were done by using a sponge as a stencil on a white background.

Funnily enough, it's easy to tell who hasn't seen Les Mis - they always ask me why I have "one red nail and one black nail"...