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Image 1 — Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Algae
Image 2 — Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Algae
▲ 158 r/RedditLaqueristas

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Algae

BKL Bog Dweller and Touch Moss, BCB Lacquers And You Have My Bow, Mooncat Tales of Ba Tsing Se, with J&B neutralizing base and Mooncat Speed Demon on top.

u/cateschism — 5 hours ago
▲ 173 r/RedditLaqueristas

Happy Algal Independence

J&B base
Deadly Nightshade (MC)
Touch Moss and Bog Dweller (BKL)
And You Have My Bow (BCB Lacquers)
Speed Demon top coat (MC)

u/cateschism — 5 days ago
▲ 20 r/RedditLaqueristas

Golden Toad

Base is b Stronger by Lyn B
3 coats of Arcana’s Golden Toad
Mooncat Speed Demon top coat

Simon approved.

u/cateschism — 14 days ago
▲ 90 r/shortynails

Root of Hemlock!

BKL Root of Hemlock, glass bead style with the spinner. Jen & Berries top and base.
I think Nacho approves.

u/cateschism — 16 days ago
▲ 87 r/shortynails

Eat Sleep Photosynthesize!

3 coats of Arcana’s Eat. Sleep. Photosynthesize.
Super easy to work with, and I lurvvv the color.
The first 2 pics have Essie GC top coat. The second two have no top coat. A nice satin finish.

u/cateschism — 22 days ago
▲ 17 r/RedditLaqueristas

Eat. Sleep. Photosynthesize.

DeEnti PH Plus
ILNP Lockup bonding base coat
3 coats of Arcana’s Eat Sleep Photosynthesize
Essie Gel Couture top coat, except on the third photo, no top coat on that one.

Without the top coat it has a pleasing satin finish, but I wanted that gloss lol.

It’s a bit sheer, super easy to work with after all the dang fussy fine particle magnetics!

u/cateschism — 22 days ago
▲ 127 r/RedditLaqueristas

Chilled to the Bone

Lyn B B Strong base
3 coats of Chilled to the Bone by Bees Knees
Jen & Berries Photo Finish top coat
A minute in the 5d + lab spinner with a horseshoe magnet on top for each coat

I’m enjoying the neutral greyish tone with the surprising green flash in the light. Nacho remains unsure.

u/cateschism — 1 month ago
▲ 102 r/crowbro

Basking?

We have a regular visitor to the pond now. Today we saw this behavior- beak open, wings just a bit apart. Is this basking in the sun? Or something else?

u/cateschism — 1 month ago
▲ 6 r/breastcancer

Chest tattoos and lymphedema?

A year post-DMX, 4 weeks post DIEP flap. Had radiation last Fall. Thinking of elaborate chest tattoos next year - or I was until I read somewhere that this could trigger lymphedema.

Any collective wisdom on this?

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u/cateschism — 1 month ago
▲ 35 r/breastcancer

No nipple piercing because

No nipples.

Processing having a mastectomy takes time, I guess. I was thinking of getting my ears repierced (they’ve closed up), and casually considering other piercings - can’t get a nipple piercing! No more nipples.

It’s fine. I’m fine. (Am I fine?) You know what they say, better no nipples than cancer!

And in a year or so, I can get a trompe l’œil tattoo of nipples.

Then I’ll get to say “trompe l’œil” a lot. Or at least, more than I have done, generally.

I could also get a trompe l’œil tattoo of something else! Like a door. Or … idk, what would Magritte do here?

Losing my mind a little bit. DMX was a year ago. I’m a month out from DIEP flap reconstruction, here in my rented recliner (if anyone is looking to have surgery soon, and can swing it, I recommend renting a motorized recliner. It is so helpful.) I am 53. I want to get all of the piercings and tattoos that I was never brave enough to get when I was younger. Or at least a few. But I can’t get nipple piercings. I never even wanted nipple piercings!

I’m tired of being stoic.

Some of this process is just so freaking weird. I have a bruised Frankenstein scar across my belly. I didn’t expect the scars in the inframammary fold to have so much …texture. Unexpected lumps and bumps, like the batter wasn’t mixed well enough.

How does everyone get used to their changed bodies?

Ugh. Fuck cancer.

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u/cateschism — 1 month ago