Heroes in a half shell and long lost loves - TMNT

When I saw there was another incarnation of one of my favourite cartoons of my (relative) youth, I knew I HAD to do some nail art to celebrate!  I can still name all four of them too, can you? (No googling!)
Although I'm a bit old school and much prefer the cuter version of the late '80's than the more 'realistic' looking ones of 2014.
I mean let's face it, there's nothing 'realistic' about four turtles living in a sewer, eating pizza and taking instruction from a rat!!?! lol Even so, it's still one of my favourite old cartoons and although I always enjoy doing my cartoon nails, this is definitely one of my favourite mani's I've done to date.


Polishes used:
OPI - 'Alpine Snow'
Orly - 'Iron Butterfly'
Glisten and Glow - 'HK Girl top coat'

There's method in my madness .... somewhere

On my white nails I started with their  heads, simply because I'm impatient and wanted to see how they would look and I still hadn't entirely decided what I was doing in the background - Pizza?Sewer bricks?Pizza?Sewer bricks?Ooh maybe a star burst?
Happy with my turtles I started experimenting (turned out I liked the sewer bricks best) and ended up entirely covering my base polish with my acrylic paints lol talk about doing things the hard way ;)

On the Orly nails I very carefully painted the new TMNT logo with acrylic paint. Considering how much my hands shake, I'm really pleased with how it turned out :D
I sealed everything in with two coats of My HK Girl top coat to help extend wear - especially where there's a lot of paint at the tips.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

(heroes in a half shell)

 Thanks so much for stopping by, have a wonderful day wherever you are :)