Diving Girl Orange
I’m fond of vintage advertising and old ephemera- like bits of antique wrapping paper or old postcards. I put some old fruit-crate label stickers in my kitchen, and I was inspired to make a franken by the mysteriously named “Diving Girl Apples.” No word on why the ‘apples’ are actually orange, or why they look sort of like basketballs with a stem. But the color inspired me.
I got the entire China Glaze Summer Days collection, but found I wasn’t crazy about the Raspberry Festival shade, because it was too orange for my pale hands. So…..franken time!
I used 1/3 Rasperry Festival, 1/3 OPI Lemonade Stand by Your Man, and 1/3 OPI Megawatt?!
Here’s the result:
May 6, 2009 at 11:07 am
What can be better than use polishes you’re not that fond of and make a franken? I’ve not done it yet but I have in mind. Even though it doesn’t really look like an apple the idea is nice! I like this franken.
May 6, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Pretty color. Good idea to use the color for something else. The apples look like peaches.
May 6, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Yum, they do! They definitely look more like peaches than basketballs!
May 6, 2009 at 6:38 pm
very glowy! I have never heard of those apples, is that a real kind of apples? got me curious over some orange apples! Changes the meaning of comparing apples to oranges though, doesn’t it?
May 6, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Brooke- LOL! I think the artist was just trying to imagine what they looked like- unless apple shapes have totally changed since the 1940s. I like OPI Megawatt?! for making a sort of glowy franken, but any color with a yellow or gold flash will do nicely.
May 8, 2009 at 7:57 pm
ooo I like this one.