Day 2 of the Nerdy Nail Challenge-My Favourite Virus!

When I was studying virology in my 4th year, I came across a virus I would never forget. It had a shape that I thought was so cool and caused an equally memorable infection. May I introduce you to rhabdovirus, the virus that causes rabies! Its known for its distinctive rod-shape and infects a broad range of hosts like insects, fish and mammals. Here is the prettiest diagram I could find and although I couldn’t fit all of this information on my nails, I hope you enjoy them anyway!

 

 

I started off with two coats of Barielle – U-Concrete-Me and then hand-painted each of the little rhabdoviruses with pink, purple and black acrylic paint. I even drew their little viral RNA! I then finished off with a coat of…you guessed it, China Glaze – Fairy Dust!

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rhabidovirus3

rhabidovirus6

Hope you guys enjoyed Day 2 of the NNC!

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42 comments

  1. HLJanuary 11, 2013 at 11:20 PM

    You are nerdtastic. I love it.

    I also now have to decide what my favourite virus is...

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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 7:49 PM

      Hehe, thank you!
      A lot of people really like bacteriophages!

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  2. Teresa [themakeupnut]January 12, 2013 at 2:16 AM

    That looks like pretty case of rabies. Ha It looks so cool. Nerdtastic and fabulous right?!

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  3. UnknownJanuary 12, 2013 at 2:53 AM

    ohh those patterns on your nails are super cute!
    would you like to follow each other?
    A
    xx
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  4. Bea L LJanuary 12, 2013 at 3:06 AM

    fantastic!!

    Bea =)
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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 7:51 PM

      Thank you Bea! I figured you would appreciate them!

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  5. AleezaJanuary 12, 2013 at 5:48 AM

    Who knew rabies could be so pretty! :) x

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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 7:52 PM

      Hehe, I know right! I think the pink and purple helped ;-)

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  6. UnknownJanuary 12, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    Nothing cuter then rabies with glitter! Wish I was this talented when it comes to nail art!
    :) Chelsey

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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 7:59 PM

      Glitter makes EVERYTHING better! Even infection! HAHAHA!

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  7. UnknownJanuary 12, 2013 at 6:10 AM

    Ha! I love it! I never would have thought to do a virus! :)

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  8. Beautiful Onyx and MickJanuary 12, 2013 at 6:31 AM

    LOL great Jayne!

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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:00 PM

      Thanks Gen!! I thought you might appreciate it!

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  9. BlondeBrittanyJanuary 12, 2013 at 7:46 AM

    haha Love it!

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  10. gl0ssyJanuary 12, 2013 at 9:59 AM

    Only you can make nerdy nails cool Jayne!

    Love this!


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  11. UnknownJanuary 12, 2013 at 11:48 AM

    Your manicure is wonderful! I studied biology and my favorite virus were the Retroviridae maybe.

    Kisses.

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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:00 PM

      Oooh, yes, retroviruses are very cool too! I love their mechanism of action!

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  12. ChantelJanuary 12, 2013 at 9:09 PM

    Cool nails!

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  13. UnknownJanuary 12, 2013 at 9:30 PM

    Great job! Who knew rabies could look so cute... :P

    Elle
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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:03 PM

      I tried to make the little guys as cute as possible!

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  14. Inge LakawaJanuary 12, 2013 at 9:37 PM

    the nail art looks unique xD

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  15. JadeJanuary 13, 2013 at 7:33 AM

    Wonderful nails!
    I like bacteriophage's shape :P

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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:04 PM

      Thank you!
      Bacteriophages were a VERY close second choice for this manicure ;-)

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  16. PolishandCharmsJanuary 13, 2013 at 4:40 PM

    This is awesome!

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  17. drinkcitraJanuary 13, 2013 at 11:12 PM

    Ooh great inspiration! It kind of does look cool haha. Love the mani!

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  18. JulieJanuary 14, 2013 at 7:26 AM

    I feel like virology would be a class that SOUNDS interesting, but I probably would have hated it. I definitely hated my one semester of micro! This is so fun though! I love how cutesie they are :)

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    1. JayneJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:13 PM

      It was actually a super tough course because you had to memorize everything about each type of virus and their mechanism of action which were similar enough to each other to mix up the steps. Micro was fun for me, but so so hard especially immunology.

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  19. theCieniuJanuary 15, 2013 at 1:12 AM

    OMG these molecural nails are so amazing, love them and love your ideas! :D virology is wonderful, my master thesis was about influenza virus, for the conference where I was preseting my results I made nails with influenza M1 gene coding sequence on it by newspaper method, but yours are so much better! Such a great idea for mani, i'd like to recreate it some time :)

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    1. JayneJanuary 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM

      LOL, omg I wish I could have seen them! Those nails sound awesome!!

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  20. LizJanuary 15, 2013 at 8:17 AM

    Adorable! I really love the base color, too.

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  21. Marie BarnsJanuary 15, 2013 at 11:17 PM

    Awww...this is so pretty. Love the combination of colors and the design as well. You def did a great job here. Love it!

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    1. JayneJanuary 16, 2013 at 5:40 PM

      Thank you very much! I'm so glad you like them!

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  22. beauty ∞ infinitumJanuary 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM

    Love it! yay rabies!

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