Nail Gems

The H Man writes:

"the character had "bright eyes.""

I would have just glued an astronaut in his arms, but that's just me.

Oval ones, add wire legs for bugs.

Multi faceted ones for micro flying saucers, robot heads, buggy wheels, turrets. Grenades.

For fancy dungion tiles/bases.

Maybe crush orange red and yellow and mix with glue for fire/lava effects.

Or other colours for magic and water effects.

The crushed pieces may need smoothing in a container of fine sand to regain their transparency.

Use for snow and ice crystals.

Give a chicky babe mini a huge stone on her finger. If anyone asks, just say your taking Beyonce's advice.

Trade with kids for more useful fairy garden components, such as stone walls and dead fairies. Up the gems value by saying they are real.

Or just try your luck at a jewelers/pawnbrokers.

Spray them black and sneak them into Christmas stockings.

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Editor in Chief Bill writes:

I picked up a few packs of something called nail gems recently at Dollar Tree.

I understand the purpose is to add bling to your fingernails, but I am more interested in blinging my minis!

The L.A. Colors range provides a sheet of gems, a flower-shaped container of 'flower' gems, and an eraser pencil (used to pick up the gems). I got the 'sapphire' pack, but they have others that look like diamonds or pearls.

The Mila Studio product provides a container with six compartments.

These nail gems provide more variety, but at slightly larger sizes.

What could you use these for? Treasure in a dungeon. Jewels on a character. Accents on a starship. Alien eyes. Sensors on a 'mech. Tip of a magic wand. Advanced sci-fi controls. Elven shields and armor. Weapon lens. Have fun!