Mani Monday: Matte Camo Nail Art in Honor of the Soldiers

A little more love can't be bad for anyone

It is already the 10th day of firefight in Zamboanga City. A lot of people wounded. Innocent children killed. Families displaced from their homes. Whoever wins this fight, the people will surely lose. 

Someday, I wish that pride will be the only thing wounded in people and innocent children are killed with tickles and laughter and families are displaced from their homes for better ones. Someday, I wish we don't need to send our young valiant men to fight with other men because of ideals bigger than them. Ideals they sometimes do not agree with or even understand.

But seeing these things happening now, that someday seems a little too far. Until then, we should give honor to the men and women who stand guard so that we can sleep peacefully in our homes, the men and women who risk being away from their families so that we could be with ours and the men and women who took the bullet and died so that we can walk the streets without fear.

We do not and must not condone any form of warfare but if it is inevitable, we do and must give honor to the men and women who are courageous enough to face it so that we don't have to.

 

How to do this mani?

1. Make a DIY matte top coat. It is super easy make! Just mix cornstarch in your clear polish.

How much cornstarch? (rhymes. wow)

- Well, it was trial and error for me. But I think I ended up with 2 parts clear polish, 1 part cornstarch.

2. Then, paint your nails black except for the ring finger.

3. While waiting for the other fingers to dry, make the camo on the ring finger.

4. After you finished doing the camo, your other fingers will mostly be dry. It is time to apply your DIY matte top coat. The consistency is thicker than usual and you might need to add a little more solvent. Don't worry about the creases though because they will dry flat. I used two coats of the DIY matte top coat for all the fingers for this mani.

5. Finally, using the black polish, I painted diagonal lines over the now matte black nails for that beautiful contrast between matte and glossy.

   

Whenever the thought of how bad and unfair life is creeps on me, I say to myself "Someone died so that you can live." I think of the pain that someone's family might be experiencing now and how I am demeaning their pain by not being happy with my life. Then, I will come to the realization that "Someone gave his life up for me, might as well make it worth his while"