Hello lovelies!
This month, The Digit-al Dozen focuses on the person behind the nail art, the blogger herself, the individual.. which for this particular little corner of the internet is ME! So the upcoming 5 days, I'll let you get to know me through some manicures and I thought it would be fun to start with my name...
First, let's focus on the incredible polish I used as my base here: Incidental Twin "Married to the Wind", a gorgeous mint crelly with bright gold flakies and a subtle blue shimmer. It dries naturally matte. This is three coats, flawless application and a wonderful effect!
Then I painted the roses, using a dotting tool and a detail brush, with BPS baby pink stamping polish, Essie "Too Taboo", Essence "Wild White Ways" and NYC "High Line Green". I sealed it in with SV.
What does this have to do with my name? Well "Lothwen" is my alias. It's a name I assigned myself when I was 15. I was completely infatuated with The Lord of the Rings and I studied JRR Tolkien's "The Silmarillion", which has a thesaurus in the back. I studied the words and etymologies for ages, I was so intrigued... I wanted to give myself an Elvish name, so I combined the Sindarin word "loth" - flower - with the suffix "-wen", meaning maiden. So "flower maiden". Being a sort of modern hippie at the time, it was very appropriate ;) I was, am and always will be a nerd! Starting this blog, I wanted to use an alias, as I was soon to look for jobs and didn't know whether people would appreciate my hobby, as they googled me. So I used the one I had given myself more than a decade earlier. My last name, "Akira", actually refers to my friend, who convinced me to start blogging and actually ran it with me in the very beginning! It's a mispronunciation of her actual name, invented by one of our idiot professors.
I haven't read Sami's book yet, but it's on my list! And this wonderful polish has bumped it up on the list quite a bit...
And no! I'm not going to give you my actual name! I'm still on a temporary contract at my job, so plausible deniability is everything... Lot's of men in my line of work, you see...
Did you ever give yourself a fictional name?
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