Thursday, October 31, 2013

Halloween Nails, final version

What a fun month of manis it's been!

This one wasn't quite what I had in mind, but I got a late start and was in a hurry. Do whatcha can, right?

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Nails: Milani Black Magic Stamped with Color Club Harp on It and Vivid Lacquer VL013, small red detail on spider with Sinful Colors red glitter striper
Accent nail: jelly sandwich of L'Oréal Mango Mama dotted with Sinful Colors Snow Me White and pumpkin face painted with Salon Perfect Black Ink Striper
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I've had so much fun celebrating Halloween all month on my nails!

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Monsters Inc nails

I threw a Halloween party in my Zumba class tonight and dressed up as a raver monster. A super cute costume that my friend Jen lent to me, which definitely needed monster nails! Since the colors were the same colors as Sully, I decided to go with Monsters Inc for inspiration.

Polishes used:

Orly Nailtrition
Essie Beach Bum Blu x2
Butter London Fishwife x1
Nails: dotted with Sally Hansen Black and Blue, Sinful Colors Let's Talk and Color Club Harp on It
Accent nail: Sinful Colors Innocent, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Sally Hansen Black and Blue, Milani Black Magic and Salon Perfect Black Ink Striper
Gelous
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Zombie Frankenstitches

I am having so much fun with Halloween nails!

Today's are kind of a cross between Frankenstein and Zombies. I love Zombies and Frankenstein is kind of a forgotten Halloween icon in our house. Sad!

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Butter London Trustafarian x3
Essie Wicked
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Salon Perfect Black Ink Striper
Gelous
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Pictures taken in both sun and shade to show the holo shimmer of Trustafarian.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Drive By Posting, v2

A quick mani from yesterday! I couldn't resist that new silver holo - I wanted to see what it looked like on my nails!

Polishes used:
NailTek Foundation II
Color Club Holographic Harp on It x2
Accent nail stamped with Layla Holographic Ocean Rush and Mash-39 plate
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This photo was taken using my old photography light box, as there's no sun outside to make the holo show up.

More Halloween nails coming!

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Yesterday's mani, Stamped

After I posted my nails yesterday, I got nail mail! I didn't want to take the blue off so I decided to stamp on it with my new polish.

This is Color Club Holographic Harp on It, a beautiful silver linear holographic polish that added just a subtle touch of sparkle. I can't wait to use this as a full base color!

Polishes used:
Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Orly Royal Navy x1
Butter London Scouse x2
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Color Club Holographic Harp on It stamped with Shany SH16
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Blue/Purple Duochrome

Blue! I have a thing for blue nail polish. And this one is special - it's a duochrome that flashes between a deep royal blue to purple.

I've had this color for months but haven't tried it before today. Shame, because this beauty definitely deserves wear time.

I was going to stamp over it, but I just love how it looks on its own!

By itself it's a but sheer and would take probably three+ coats to look like the bottle, so I decided to put it over Orly Royal Navy (also an untried. Seriously, for as much as I love blue polishes, I'm surprised I had two shades as gorgeous as these two that I hadn't used yet.)

Polishes used:
Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Orly Royal Navy x1
Butter London Scouse x2
Sexhe Vite

My pictures don't capture the full shift between blue to purple - it's truly better in person!

Friday, October 18, 2013

Sparkling Webs

More Halloween nails!

It's sunny today, which makes a holographic mani just SHINE!

These are an idea I've had kicking around in my head for a couple of weeks and since my friend, my husband and I are doing a Halloween themed BUTI/Hip Hop dance party at a local night club, I definitely needed cool Halloween nails!

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Color Club Holographic Cherubic x2
Stamped with Milani Black Magic and Vivid Lacquer VL013 plate
Seche Vite

I'd love to see if you're doing Halloween manis! :D



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Leopard Nails

How fun! I'm personally more of a giraffe print girl, but seeing how I don't have a giraffe stamp and I didn't feel like freehanding that, leopard it is. ;)

This is the second time I've tried these. Yesterday's attempt was an absolute fail. I used a shimmery gold polish as the base color and it just looked AWFUL with my skin tone. Yuck.

For this, I decided to Google leopard skin to find some inspiration for colors. I found a beautiful photo that showed a multi-colored base of white and tan - perfect.

To create the look on my nails, I started by painting them white. I then sponged on a glittery/holographic brown in random spots, leaving generous portions of the White showing through. I then stamped on the black spots and yay! Little leopards on my nails.

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
OPI DS Illuminate
Milani Black Magic
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RAWR!

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Wicked Vespa Walker Bait

Woo, that's a mouthful!

Several weeks ago when Dollish Polish announced a Limited Edition polish called "Walker Bait" to be released in time for the season 4 premier of The Walking Dead, I knew I had to have it! The fact that it's an awesome green holo with a duochrome shift was a bonus! 

So today's mani is my yay-Walking-Dead-is-back-omgwtfbbq-zombie-brainzzzzz tribute to this awesome show!

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Nails: Dollish Polish Walker Bait x2
Accent nail: Zoya Vespa x2
Stamped with Essie Wicked and Shany SH23 plate
Seche Vite on all nails except accent.

So excited for the show tonight!

Monday, October 7, 2013

Halloween Nails, v1

October is my favorite month of the year for many reasons! Autumn, beautiful crisp weather and gorgeous colors everywhere, Halloween and spooky themed parties and movies, and birthdays!

And since this is the beginning of my Birthday Week celebration, I thought I'd do the first of probably a few Halloween themed manis!

Today's is a Halloween Skittle mani full of fun, spooky stamps. :)

Colors used:
Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
L'Oreal Mango Mamma, Jolly Lolly, Berry Nice, Miss Pixie
Milani Black Magic
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Color Club Halo-graphic
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Stamps used:
Shany SH02, SH09
Vivid Lacquer VL013

My birthday is Friday and I'm already planning what a Halloween/birthday mani will look like. :D

I stamped out all of my Halloween stamps on paper so I can plan ahead for the next designs!

Oh! AND I have a special polish coming any day that will HAVE to be worn Sunday for the season premiere of The Walking Dead!

So many manis this month!

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Sparkling Almonds

I seem to have a theme this week - titles about food and shades of brown polish. I blame the food part on my Zumba schedule, and the brown polish on Autumn. ;)

After I did my chocolate mani yesterday, this lovely gem showed up from ebay. It's another attempt to have a polish that looks like the discontinued and very hard to find OPI Holiday Glow that I posted about yesterday. I think I might like this even more than Holiday Glow!

This is OPI DS Illuminate, a discontinued but gorgeous scattered holographic polish with a duochrome shift. There's so much awesomeness going on in this one!

I couldn't resist and actually did this last night after I got home from my class. I just had to see what it looked like on my nails! I loved the chocolate mani from yesterday, but THIS is just beautiful and might be my go-to color for Fall!

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know x1
OPI DS Illuminate x1
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Salted Chocolate

Drive by posting today!

I have a busy afternoon and evening but I squeezed in a mani - fresh nails always make me feel better!

There's a discontinued OPI polish from a couple of Winters ago called "Holiday Glow" that I desperately want, but I can only find it as a part of a mini set. Today's mani is kind of a "close as I can get for now" homage to it. ;)

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know x2
Essie As Good As Gold x1
Gelous
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They kind of remind me of delicious Salted Chocolate candies! Very Autumnal = ❤