Hunger Games nails

The Hunger Games came out on DVD yesterday, so I thought I'd show some Hunger Games nail art.

In the book it is mentioned that Katniss has flame nail art, even though it's not in the movie tons of people have been doing the fire nails with their individual take on what they think it would look like.

So here is the end result of today's nails:

I've done flame nails before and every time I've had the flames coming from the nail bed but I figured I'd try the flame coming from the tip of my nails today since I hadn't tried it like that yet. I also did the mockingjay for the first time.

So I started out with black. ***Quick note, when you are using a dark color like black, always put on a clear base coat first to prevent your nails from staining.

After the black I used China Glaze Riveting from the hunger games collection.  I tore off a little piece of make up sponge and used tweezers to hold the piece of sponge and just dabbed the orange on. Here is what my nails looked like after using just Riveting:

There is a nice shimmer to Riveting which is perfect when making a flame. After that I did the same thing (using the make up sponge) with China Glaze Electrify (also from the hunger games collection).

Electrify is a thicker glitter polish so I concentrated this color more on the tip then had little bits go up like sparks jumping at the top of the flame.

And that is all for the flame.

For the Mockingjay I used OPI Designer...De better. I started 3 times on this. The first too I took off with remover. I used the thin nail art brush to create the mockingjay and pulled up a picture of the mockingjay on google to go off of.

I only did the mockingjay on my left hand. Every other design I have done my left and right hands are the same, but I liked the idea of only one mockingjay, plus it would be hard to do on my right hand, possible, but hard. So I just did flames on all my nails, and here's a look: 

The flame design is very simple and the sponge really helps give the right look for the fire. You don't have to use tweezers to hold the sponge, I just found it easy that way since the piece of sponge I tore off was so small.

So there you have it, Happy Hunger Games everyone :)