The Mock Turtle

Yes. It's a long time and people can try lots of different olympic themes

I like that idea too.

We might fancy doing nails themed to a particular event or something as well as the opening.

I like that idea a lot, I was a bit worried about poor Pip having to judge from her hospital bed!

I have not got a clue what to do as I generally just copy other people see my dotty nails I copied off George so I might have to wait to see what people do and see if I get inspired as I havent got a creative bone in my body

I shall save doing mine until I actually go to the Olympics. So I have a little while to decide what to do.

I quite like this, it's very simple but quite effective:

That's one I looked at, but I'm not sure about the white nails. I might go for pale pink or something.

Nude or pink nails would work, or any colour that was quite plain, I think.

I may struggle with this - white nails give me the horrors. It looks like Tippex. Perhaps silver or gold could be used.

That is nice, Shoe. And good glitter, Pepper!

I have tried a gradient effect with the ring colours, which didn't look great, and the medal colours, which was ok. I also tried and very badly failed at marbling.

Gold and yellow would worry me, but silver might work

I really like that one but there's no way I could do the lines neatly enough.

There's a tutorial on YouTube but even without watching it I would hazard a guess that there was liberal use of those wee circles that you put on punched A4 paper to stop it ripping out of a folder.

ETA: They haven't, I probably would though, for ease.

Mine is going to be shit.

I'm not ready to start yet, I've literally 20 minutes ago done my nails in a blue magnetic! And now I want to take it off and do my Olympic nails instead. Doh!

I tried that Olympic manicure a couple of weeks ago and can confirm that it is impossible for a mere mortal to do the circles nearly enough. Vodders could probably do it though.

I am experimenting with white nails and dots. So far, I can confirm that yes, it does look like I've put tippex all over my fingers.

Ok here is a hastily done first effort. There are 47 layers of glitter to achieve anything like the desired coverage.

Sorry about the ginormous photo!

Like.

Want.

I'm going to see some bands at the Olympic Park, hopefully. I would like to do spangley nails.