Book Club Nails: Pym
My two book clubs met one week apart, and both of the selected books had striking cover graphics that were the obvious choice for inspiration.
Mat Johnson's 'Pym' is a complex and occasionally hilarious satire/social commentary/riff on Edgar Allen Poe's only novel that has a whole lot to say about race in America by transporting everyone to Antarctica.
I started with the blue i found closest to the icy Antarctic ocean on the cover, OPI I Believe in Manicures. This was a less than ideal base because it's streaky AF on the first coat in the way where you're really not sure if it's going to be ok even by the time you're painting a 3rd, but then one thick layer of TC magically brings it all together. Though 3 coats was more than I wanted to wait to dry, ultimately it wore great, and the end result is a nicely saturated robin's egg blue. The ice-covered mountains of the cover are recreated with the geometric mountain design from CB-005, and the yeti image from IT Girl LE 107 stands in for some mysterious folks that arrive later in the book (attempting to avoid spoilers nobody expected in a nail polish blog!)
Happy reading!
~Michelle
Mat Johnson's 'Pym' is a complex and occasionally hilarious satire/social commentary/riff on Edgar Allen Poe's only novel that has a whole lot to say about race in America by transporting everyone to Antarctica.
I started with the blue i found closest to the icy Antarctic ocean on the cover, OPI I Believe in Manicures. This was a less than ideal base because it's streaky AF on the first coat in the way where you're really not sure if it's going to be ok even by the time you're painting a 3rd, but then one thick layer of TC magically brings it all together. Though 3 coats was more than I wanted to wait to dry, ultimately it wore great, and the end result is a nicely saturated robin's egg blue. The ice-covered mountains of the cover are recreated with the geometric mountain design from CB-005, and the yeti image from IT Girl LE 107 stands in for some mysterious folks that arrive later in the book (attempting to avoid spoilers nobody expected in a nail polish blog!)
Happy reading!
~Michelle
Haha how cool! Love these nails :-D
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