stripes on stripes on stripes

By and far one of my absolute favorite designs I have ever done. I was inspired by something from my childhood...a toy, a book, honestly I couldn't put my finger on the actual thing (If you can think of something that it reminds you of let me know because it has been driving me crazy). Not only was it one of my favorite designs but it was one of the most complimented ones I have ever done and lasted a solid three weeks without chipping before I could bring myself to change out the polish. 

To begin the design I painted one coat of butter LONDON's Horse Power Nail Fertilizer and another coat of Nail Foundation Flawless Basecoat. 

The process of painting the stripes was the most time consuming nail design I have ever done. In an effort to make the nails look more unique I painted a color pattern that was completely different on each nail as opposed to painting a stripe of blue on each nail then a stripe of orange etc. Thus I had to paint one stripe of yellow, clean the brush, paint a stripe of red, clean the brush, paint a stripe of black, clean the brush etc. and do that about 17 times on each nail on each hand. My patience is only so great so after about two nails I would take a break and do something else around the house then come back for two more. This was about an 8 hour nail design...not something I would recommend to anyone on a time crunch. 

For the stripes I used a number of different polishes from a few different brands. My goal was to use the brightest, boldest shades I had for a few key colors I wanted to include. I used Essie polishes for both my black (Licorice) and white (Blanc) as well as the vibrant blue (Butler, Please). For the bright purple I used Illamasqua's Jo'mina. The remaining brights I used butter LONDON polishes: yellow (PIMMS), green (Sozzled), orange (Silly Billy), and red (Ladybird). After painting many, many, many stripes I topped it off with one coat of butter LONDON's Hardware P.D. Quick Topcoat which lasted quite well since I didn't get a chip on these nails for three weeks. 

What do you think about this design? Are you as mad for these as I am?