Succulent fingernails and living wedding rings

Wearable art is the future of fashion according to a north Queensland botanical artist, whose succulent jewellery is attracting international attention.
               

Mackay's Roz Borg has been making art out of succulents for around two years.

While her jewellery had captured the eyes of celebrities, she said her career path happened almost entirely by mistake.

"I started by doing the interior design for my sister-in-law at her cafe — I did a few living walls with succulents in them and people showed interest and wanted to buy them, and it just snowballed from there," she said.

Initially Borg just sold her Arozona succulents at markets and stores across north Queensland, before discovering her talent for succulent jewellery.

That is when Borg had the idea to make succulent fake nails.

"I propagate lots of baby succulents — remove them from the leaf, stick them with special florist glue on an acrylic nail and then glue that acrylic nail to my thumb," she said.

Borg said in a practical sense the nails were no good for everyday use, but said they were a unique and interesting addition to editorial photoshoots and weddings.

Are You Into The Fur Nail Trend?

It’s Fall and we’re going into the holiday season. As you prepare for colder days, you might consider getting fur (faux, of course) to keep you warm…but have you ever thought of it as an option for your nails?
                   

They made their debut on the fashion runways at the Libertine F/W ’16 (who seems to just take the lead in nail fashion) in February and don’t seem like they will be going anywhere.

Surprisingly, it’s not too hard to achieve this look. I outlined in 3 easy steps below for DIY.

1.Paint your nails with a base coat then apply a nude or neutral (or color if you are funky!) nail polish. Color won’t really matter, because you aren’t going to see it.

2.Get some faux fur and cut it out in the shape of your nails (do this step before-hand).

3.“Glue” the nails down with your favorite clear top coat. Give a liberal coat to the bottom of the fur and stick onto your nails. Now you’re ready to go!

I’m all about fur coats, fur vests and even fur on my shoes…but fur on my nails? It creates many questions for me: how do I eat? What happens when I wipe? How easy is this for me to get off?