The Twinsie Tuesday prompt today is inspired by your favourite food. And with that, I have some cucumber nails! Yes, I know it’s strange, but I shall explain.

I had wanted to do some chillies on my nails to represent the spicy food like Thai curry that I love. But the chilli on my stamping plate looked too large.

So then I was going to stamp some sweets (candies to those of you in the US). However, as I was going through my stamping plates looking for suitable images, I was very taken by an image on Bundle Monster BM-505. I wasn’t sure what it was supposed to be, but it looked like cucumber to me. This plate is from the Sun Kissed collection, which has beach and sea-themed images. So it’s patently *not* an image of cucumbers. But it looks like it. I don’t particularly love cucumber, but I suddenly really wanted to put cucumbers on my nails!

The base is Revlon Buttercup, which is a lovely pale yellow.

I stamped the image using Mundo de Uñas High Green (37) and then filled it in while it was still on the stamper. I used the palest green I could find, SpaRitual Delight. It’s not quite right for the centre part of a cucumber. But hey ho … artistic license and all that!

My husband says they don’t look like cucumbers. But my son – who happens to eat cucumber practically every single day – declared straight away that they were indeed cucumber nails! (Gotta love your only son for nail praise like that!)

It was then that I had a complete catastrophe. I had slaved over these nails for ages last night, but I needed to take them off as I had a meeting to go to today. So I whipped out the acetone and was half way through removing them when I suddenly realised that I hadn’t photographed them. It was late and I needed to paint something plain for today, and anyway I had already removed half of the manicure, so I had no choice but to completely remove them.

It was a huge facepalm moment. I was gutted, but I repainted them this evening when I got home from my meeting.

[EDIT – I had a bit of a Google and it appears this image is of sand dollars – never heard of them, but they are apparently flat sea urchins. Who knew?]

Please take a look at all the other manicures from the Twinsies this week:

• Alaina at The Little Canvas
• Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland
• Amanda at Amandalandish
• Amanda at Fashion Footing
• Amber at Nails Like Lace
• Bridget at A Painted Nail
• Chelsea at Nailed Blog
• ChiChi at Just Me…ChiChi
• Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer
• Lisa at The Polish Playground
• Marisa at Polish Obsession
• Marisa at Polish Those Nails
• Megan at A Beauty in the Business
• Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
• Sara at The Call of Beauty
• Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer
• Savannah Addicted to Polish
• Sharon at Behind Green Eyes
• Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer
• Tiffany at Polished To Precision