Gel Mani: Lattice Roses
Kirby Apodaca
Hey guys! For all of February, me and #CBBxManiMonday girls are sticking with the Pink & Red theme. With the weather having been so absolutely crushing here this past week, I found myself really wishing for spring and I feel like my choice of mani this week really underscores that. Rather than going in the distinctly Valentine's Day direction I was planning, I went with something a lot more spring-like and I'm kind of in love with it. (That said, keep an eye on out Thursday for some Valentine's Day nail art as well!)
For a closer look and to see how I got this look, keep reading!
This mani wasn't really conceived before I started, it just sort of came together as I sat and wracked my brains on what to do while rewatching Veronica Mars. I started with two coats of NAILSINC Holler-Graphic in Ghetto Galactic. Next, I went in with BornPrettyStore White Stamping Polish and my new favorite image from my much loved Harunouta L-010 Stampting Plate. I chose this image because I wanted a simple and straight forward background that sort of gave the look of lattice and I really like how it looks when paired with the roses.
For the roses, I used BornPrettyStore Black Stamping Polish along with the BornPrettyStore BP-L067 Stamping Plate. I love this rose image because it's quite large and you're able to really play with the placement to get a different look on each nail. To fill the image, I used Ceramic Glaze Shell Me About It for the roses and Essence The Gel Polish Write On My Chalkboard for the leaves. I chose these colours because they were vibrant but soft and had a very cool toned, spring-like feel.
When doing reverse stamping, it's important to wait until the stamped images are dry to transfer so that the image stays sharp when it transfers, but not too dry or else you'll end up with cracking and it won't adhere to the nail smoothly. I used a coat of Yellow Stopper Base Coat and waited about 1-2 minutes for it to get tacky before transferring. Once everything was trimmed and cleaned up, I finished the mani with a coat of Essence The Gel Polish Top Coat on all of my nails. Voila!
All Products UsedNAILSINC Holler-Graphic Nail Polish - Ghetto GalacticCeramic Glaze - Shell Me About ItEssence The Gel Polish - Write On My ChalkboardYellow Stopper Base CoatEssence The Gel Polish Top CoatBornPrettyStore Black Stamping PolishBornPrettyStore White Stamping PolishHarunouta L010 Stamping PlateBornPrettyStore BP-L067 Stamping PlateBornPrettyStore Clear StampersBornPrettyStore Dotting Tools
The more I look at this mani - both on my hands and in the photos - the more I'm aching for spring to be here. Like I said, keep an eye out for some more Valentine's Day themed nail art coming later this week and be sure to head over to Cosmetic Proof, See The World In PINK, and Tea & Nail Polish to see what they're doing with the Pink & Red theme for #CBBxManiMonday today!
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Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! I probably should have done my Valentine's Day nails for this week's Mani Monday, but... I ended up really, really loving my lattice and roses nail art and decided to save Valentine's nails for today. I have to admit, I'm kind of a sucker for nails themed around special occasions, so there was no way I was going to skip the opportunity to do really, really on-the-nose mani for this particular special occasion.
Keep reading for a closer look!
I knew that I wanted to do a pink base with red and white stamping for this mani, because if I was going to do Valentine's Day nails it was going to be a situation of going hard. I started with Essie Gel Couture in Moments To Mrs from last year's Reem Acra bridal collection. It's a really cool toned pink jelly with really gorgeous flakies in it, which makes it a perfect base for stamping in my opinion.
For the stamping, I used the UR Sugar UR-M01 stamping plate for this look, which was... a little bit tricky but I think I managed to make it work. Using a clear stamper, I started with Born Pretty Store Red Stamping Polish for the bottom layer and then used Born Pretty Store White Stamping Polish for the second layer. I think doing the white on top of the red really popped the images and gave them some oomph.
I finished with a generous coat of Essence The Gel Polish Top Coat and voila!
All Products UsedEssie Gel Couture - Moments To Mrs.Born Pretty Store White Stamping PolishBorn Pretty Store Red Stamping PolishUR Sugar - UR M01 Stamping PlateEssence The Gel Polish Top Coat
I've actually gotten several compliments on this mani and I'm super happy with how it turned out. Like I said, it's very on-the-nose, but I feel like sometimes you just really have to go all in.
Whether you're celebrating with a partner or with friends or not celebrating at all, I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day and that you feel very loved on this day that celebrates that particularly vital emotion!
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I have about 80 clematis in zone 5A Vermont. Decided that most roses would not survive our winters but wanted a flowering plant that climbs and is cold hardy in our area so started buying clematis. I especially enjoy the following clematis; Arabella as she only grows 3 feet tall and produces many flowers, Betty Corning that is very fragrant and has a charming flower, Huldine a hulking monster that has a beautiful white flower, Helios a smaller size tangutica, Asao a beautiful type 2 clematis, and Ville de Lyon which has an exquisite colored flower.
Impacco-urto: stendere uno spesso strato di crema, indossare guanti di lattice o avvolgere le mani in pellicola trasparente; lasciare in posa almeno 5-10 minuti. Risciacquare con acqua tiepida e applicare ancora una piccola dose di crema facendola penetrare.
The emerging demand for the production of nonlinear optical materials with high optical limiting performance has an apparent impact in the field of nonlinear optics owing to their wide application in photonic devices. In this regard, transition metal molybdates have received attention owing to their remarkable optical and luminescence characteristics, leading to their extensive use in next generation optoelectronics devices. Herein, we report the nonlinear optical response of yttrium (Y3+) doped cadmium molybdate (CdMoO4) nanostructures synthesized via a co-precipitation technique. The X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy results confirm the formation of CdMoO4 nanostructures with a tetragonal structure having the I41/a space group. High resolution scanning electron microscopy (HRSEM) of the pristine CdMoO4 exposed the cubic flat edged nature of the nanostructures and that doping results in particle size reduction due to lattice contraction. X-ray photo electron spectroscopy confirmed the chemical state of the elements present in Y3+doped CdMoO4. The optical properties of the samples were studied using UV-Vis Spectroscopy and the bandgap was found to increase upon Y3+ doping. The NLO response measured using the open aperture z-scan technique with a Nd: YAG pulsed laser (532 nm, 7 ns, 10 Hz) exhibited a reverse saturable absorption arising from a two photon absorption (2PA) process. An increase in the 2PA coefficient and simultaneous decrease in the onset of the optical limiting threshold clearly suggests the great potential of the yttrium-doped CdMoO4 nanoparticles for good optical limiting applications.
Among the fancy (non-blue) sapphires, natural padparadscha fetch the highest prices. Since 2001, more sapphires of this color have appeared on the market as a result of artificial lattice diffusion of beryllium.[15]
The known electrocaloric materials include ferroelectrics like a prototypical one, barium titanate25,26, but also relaxor ferroelectrics27,28,29,30,31 (including polymers32), antiferroelectrics33,34, nanoparticles15 or ceramics35. However, it appears interesting to extend the studies of electrocaloric materials to new class of systems. This leads us to interest in strongly correlated materials, the physics of which can be essentially captured with the help of the canonical model called in such context - the Hubbard model36. Constituting a complicated many-body problem, the Hubbard model allows the exact solutions only for a range of low-dimensional systems. In particular, zero-dimensional clusters belong to that class, since for a finite and limited number of the lattice sites exact diagonalization approach can be effectively used to characterize the thermodynamics of the system. In that context numerous theoretical works can be mentioned37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50. Presenting a detailed studies of various thermodynamic properties, however, none of these studies was focused on electrocaloric quantities. Moreover, only a few included an external electric field within Hubbard model Hamiltonian, mainly focusing on the description of electric-field controlled magnetism in graphene-based materials51,52. The situation is slightly different in the case of the magnetocaloric effect, which has been a subject of some theoretical studies for the exactly solvable model spin systems. Such examples like zero-dimensional systems, in a form of nanoclusters53,54,55,56,57, should be mentioned in this context.
In this paper we concentrate on the rigorous solutions of the extended Hubbard model for small clusters when the electric field E is applied. In this model approach the influence of the electric field on the Hubbard Hamiltonian parameters was neglected, and these parameters are considered to be constant. This is the usual approach (e.g.62,63). However, it should be noted here that for the electric field with the potential changing markedly on the scale of lattice constant, the atomic states which give rise to the Hubbard model could be deformed in comparison with the states without field. The example of the study when the atomic 1s states were modified to follow the varying interatomic distance parameter was given, for example, in ref.64. As a result, this deformation under the action of the electric field will influence both the hopping integrals as well as the Coulomb interaction potentials. Therefore, one should be aware that for very strong electric fields, the Hubbard model with constant interaction parameters can serve only as an approximate description of the physical reality, being, on the other hand, a starting point for more sophisticated treatments of the problem.
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