Tiny art at your fingertips

FORGET fancy floral designs, this is the nail art that’s really blooming these days. These tiny figures, leafy trees and blades of grass are the work of Londoner Alice Bartlett who documents all of her nail art designs online.

Ms Bartlett got inspiration for the unusual designs after a trip to a crafts and hobby shop, London. She saw tiny figures used for model railway scenery displays and decided to use them to create rural scenes — and then created the abstract art work on her own nails.

With painstaking attention to detail, she attached the figures to her nails, evoking scenes reminiscent of an English summer. She also created a green grass ‘manicured’ lawn effect covering her fingertips using a technique called ‘flocking’, which gives a velvet-like texture when used with colour polish. The end product was a stunning set of digits depicting a pleasant rural atmosphere.

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RECENTLY, the body of a rare two-headed dolphin appeared on a beach in Turkey, leading a man to call the police. According to the early reports, this one-year-old phenomenon is similar to the conjoined human twins.

Reports say that one of the mammal’s heads was not properly opened, along with one of the blow holes. The dolphin was believed to be a one-year-old calf and measured just over 3.2ft in length.

Mehmet Gokoglu from the marine-biology department at the Ak Deniz University is looking forward to examining the peculiar animal.

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JAMES Barney, Jr, a brave little boy, is recovering in hospital after fighting off a nine-foot, 400-pound alligator with his bare hands.

He spoke calmly about his ordeal and described how it was a hot day so he had parked his bike and jumped into Lake Tohopekaliga — a lake that people are forbidden to swim in. When he felt something brush against his leg, “It really amazed me what happened. At first, I thought someone was just playing with me, and I didn’t know what happened,” he told ABC.

“I reached down to grab it, and I felt its jaw, I felt its teeth, and I didn’t know what to do, so I immediately reacted and hit it a couple times. And I had enough strength to pry its jaw open.”

The child pulled the powerful jaws open long enough to slide out and swim for shore. Witnesses say the boy surfaced, screaming that he’d been bitten by an alligator. They immediately called 911.

“There was a big alligator, about five feet away from him,” one caller said. “He was crawling up the shore, screaming and crying and gator bites all over his back.”

He was airlifted to hospital where doctors found he had suffered three superficial bites and about 30 teeth marks as well as scratches from the gator’s claws.

Doctors also found a tooth in one of the wounds which the boy wants to wear on a necklace.