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Vintage Hawaii...1930’s

  From the 1930’s we get some great images from post cards, posters, airline ads, etc.  All of these inviting people to visit Hawaii which was not yet a state.  

  To create these vintage hawaii postcards I first painted the nails “silver dollar” blue from Amoresse.  For each post card I first used  a striper brush to paint a yellow border as an outline of the post card.  I used 10/0 liner brush for backgrounds and a 20/0 monogram brush and acrylic craft paints for all the artwork.

Each nail has a different hula girl and message starting with  “Land of Aloha” with a ukelele girl,  “Aloha” with coconut bikini girl, “Hawaii greets you” with Lei maker hula girl, “taste of Hawaii” with pineapple girl and on the thumb, a palm tree and a post mark from Hilo, Hawaii dated 10-21-35.

  To create the 3D hibiscus flowers I used Young Nails fast set clear powder.  I wiped out most of the monomer from my brush and dipped in powder to pick up a very small bead of acrylic, then I placed it on a nail form...only taking up one little square on the nail form...shaped it into a petal, bent the form a little to curve the petal and let it harden. I also made a stamen for the flower with a similar method.  Using a gel glue I placed a small dot of glue where I wanted the flower and with tweezers set 5 petals down then allowed the glue to dry.  When the glue was dry I painted the flower white with acrylic craft paint and then addes red accents to the flower and stamen.   Finally I applied the top coat to give it all supershine!