Today’s mani theme was ‘Inspired by a book’ and I knew from the beginning that I wanted to do ‘Alice in Wonderland’. It’s a brilliant book with iconic characters and instantly recognisable.

I did the following:

• Left hand little finger: white roses painted red (by order of the Red Queen)
• LH ring finger: Playing cards
• LH middle finger: Tweedledee/Tweedledum’s outfit
• LH pointer finger: The Rabbit’s pocketwatch

• LH thumb: Alice’s skirt and legs

• RH thumb: The Dormouse’s teapot (“twinkle, twinkle little bat…”)

• RH little finger: An ‘eat me’ biscuit
• RH ring finger: The Cheshire Cat’s grin
• RH middle finger: The ‘drink me’ potion
• RH pointer finger: The Mad Hatter’s hat

All of this was done free hand and took me about 3 hours in total. I absolutely love it and can’t bear to take it off so am going to wear it to work tomorrow! I am really proud of how much my free hand has come on since I started, especially my left hand.

It’s 12.30 and I need my bed…pretty nails > sleep apparently!

Lex :)