I’ve been looking for more current inspiration for the pieces I’ve been making – more current than “Hey, I like purple let’s make all purple stuff,” which has generally always been my MO.  But now that I’m temporarily over purple, I’m looking around me, through magazines and online to figure out what people are going to be wearing in the coming months.

Let me just say that there are thousands of “trends,” so nothing seems to ever be like “the thing” until it suddenly goes viral and everyone is like “ZOMG I love whales I really need a whale t-shirt.”

SO, beyond my future fascination with whalephernalia, I looked online to net-a-porter to consolidate the upcoming trends that I might use as inspiration, starting first with PASTELS.  A color zone that I am entirely uncomfortable with, possibly due to excessive overuse during my high school years.  (Like, baby blue pleated skirt with a white t-shirt adorned with pale pink rosettes, with a lavender cardigan. Ew, right?)

Inspiration Image:

I looked at the other clothing images, but this one really was my favorite.

So pastel pink and minty blue, eh? Not my strong points, nor my stash contents at all.  In fact, I have zero baby blue / minty green anywhere… except my nail polish bin.  So.

Side note: after I started writing and crafting, I realized that actually, I do not own pink nail polish.  I had to go buy some specifically for this project.  Totally feminine, girl.

So.

I made these

I was thinking about making a full DIY of this, but at that point I was (once again) dizzy on nail polish fumes, and had forgotten to take “during” pictures.  I think one can figure out the process, though:

1. Cut four pieces of small chain – mine were about 4″ each.
2. Paint the ends with your desired nail polish color (minty blue)
3. While that is drying, paint the adjacent sections your second color (pink), leaving the center section unpainted.
4. Paint, dry, paint, dry, paint, dry.
5. In between coats, it is good to flex the chain around to keep the links from sticking to each other too badly.  Though, this will happen regardless.
6. Hang 2 chains per earring from around the center, staggering where the ends fall for a nice uneven fringe effect.

The pink nail polish I bought? Not good.  Very translucent.  Looked like nonfat milk when I put it on my fingernails.  But I’m not willing to purchase any additional pink polish to try to accurately represent a Spring 12 fashion trend… so there you have it.  A pair of super cool, customizeable color earrings for any fashion trend that may happen upon us in the upcoming years.