Last night was THE night. I attended the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games! Lots of people anticipated me having some crazy nail art done. I hope I didn’t disappoint when I showed up wearing these babies:
What do you think?
I’ve also got two little surprises for you. While on the set of filming The Hunger Games I took a few photos (actually a lot). The Effie makeup and fashion was just so intricate and detailed that I had to take photos to remember all the bits and pieces. Here are just a couple of the pics I took of Effie’s nails while on set:


So in honor of The Hunger Games being just a little over a week from it’s wide release date, the lovely China Glaze has granted me with two China Glaze Limited Edition Capitol Colours Collections to giveaway to two lucky and talented winners!
Have y’all seen the collection? “The collection combines rich crèmes, soft shimmers and bold glitters to create the limited edition 12 shade nail polish collection inspired by the most anticipated movie release of the year.”
I want to give you a chance to win the collection! So here’s the contest:
I want to see pictures of your Effie-inspired nails! All you have to do is upload pictures to your profile and post the link to the photo in the comments below. Easy peasy. Contest ends this Friday, March 16th!
The China Glaze® Capitol Colours collection includes the following shades:
· Dress Me Up – A stripped down dark rose pink crème
· Foie Gras – Decadent dark crème taupe
· Fast Track – Soft sandy brown with a gold metallic shimmer
· Hook and Line –Pearlescent light grey
· Stone Cold – Matte slate grey with shimmer
· Smoke and Ashes – Black-based teal with multicolored shimmer
· Agro – Moss green with gold shimmer
· Mahogany Magic – Reddish-brown crème
· Harvest Moon – Crystalized copper shimmer
· Riveting – Bright orange shimmer
· Electrify – High-wattage gold and ruby red glitter blend
· Luxe and Lush – A high octane flaky overcoat
Show me them nails!
Join the Discussion!
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Everyone's nails are super awesome :) @the nail guru thanks for the tips I'm totally gonna try that I tried to do flames on my nails with nail polish and it's so hard! I can't wait to see who won! -
Thanks! I was trying to find a way to get more realistic flames. Turns out magic markers work pretty well. :) -
@The Nail Guru, Those look really great. In the photos it looked like you used China Glaze Electrify as the base, but in the tutorial you used just gold paint, then gold glitter, and then red marker on the tips? i really love the effect. -
In the mean time, you guys can check out my new Hunger Games nails. They are at http://nailartgallery.nailsmag.com/thenailguru/photo/278302/girl-on-fire/user and the tutorial is on http://starfish-onthe-beach.blogspot.com Hope you enjoy them! -
:/ We haven't heard anything about this yet? I wonder if the nail art contest has been forgotten about... -
Man oh man, can't wait to hear who won... In the meantime, the manicure I did after my Effie nails got some attention online, if you girls want to check it out, or like the show Futurama, go to my tumblr page: http://lisannevctorius.tumblr.com/ -
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HERE ARE MY NAILS! Omg I hope it's not too late. I had to reupload the picture again because the other one got deleted somehow. -.- BUT HERE! http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/508022 I know, I know. It's not the best, but I tried! Took me two days to finish both hands. -
Technically Ms Banks is in a plane right now so I think we'll have to wait a few more hours lol.
(Though I too cannot wait to see the winners announced.) -
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Ok so I went a little picture-crazy, but here are my nails!
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/506097/effie-nails
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/506094/effie-inspired-nails
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/506090/details
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/506079/details
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/506078/effie-nails-inspiration
Looking at one of Effie's outfits, I picked out colours and patterns that would match her outfit and totally enhance her look! There's no such thing as holding back when it comes to style in the Capitol, so I wanted to add a lil' sum'n sum'n to make my design go over the top.
Good work, everyone :) -
So when Effie needs a more demure look( are Capitol citizens even familiar with that word?) that still has some glitz, I imagine she'd turn to something like this:
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/505607/pink-glitter-gradient-nails
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/505619/pink-glitter-gradient-nails
These nails have a vibrant pink gradient effect with color-changing holographic glitter to catch the light. While not as extravagant as her special-occasion nails, the color-shifting glitter would elevate this look without drawing attention away from Effie's immaculate face, hair and clothing. -
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Elizabeth! Am I too late?
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/505298
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/505291
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/505282 -
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I LOVE Effie's style so coming up with a manicure inspired by her was so much fun! While the floral brocade peplum dress is my favorite of her outfits I've seen so far, I had the teal and purple jacket/skirt sets in mind when I was designing my nails.
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/502141/capitol-couture-manicure
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/502167/capitol-couture-manicure-close-up
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/502581/capitol-couture-manicure-close-up
http://elizabethbanks.com/user/photo/502197/capitol-couture-manicure-close-up
I used a sparkly blue-green base and two different eye-catching topcoats (1 glitter, 1 flake) for the tips, and then adorned each nail with rhinestones in multiple colors and sizes. To finish the look, I also made purple flowers with Sculpey clay and added them to the thumb and ring finger.
The result is definitely fussy and impractical, so I'd like to think Effie would approve! I hadn't planned on it, but I think I'll be touching these up next week and rocking them for the midnight movie premiere! :)
Happy Hunger Games! -
Hello :)
Here is my entry: http://mauvesouledrainbow.tumblr.com/mynails
I hope you like it! Thank you for this giveaway!
Gwen



