Falling for Nail Art Challenge: Halloween

Halloween is getting close! I don't know if you celebrate or not, but we enjoy trick or treat night when we can see all the kids dressed up in Halloween costumes. Since Halloween is tomorrow that is when our neighborhood is doing trick or treat.

Today's theme in the Falling for Nail Art Challenge is, you guessed it, Halloween!

 

Polishes Used:
-Wet 'n Wild - Sunny Side Up
-Pahlish - Singing In The Garden
-Pahlish - Mind Like A Diamond
-MASH - Black
-Bundle Monster Plate - BM-H08
-Barielle - Topcoat

Seeing as this is almost the last Halloween themed mani of the year I decided to go traditional black and orange. I was going to do a sponged base with purple and green on top of the orange but when I sponged on the Pahlish, only the glitters transferred, and I really liked the look of the green and purple shimmer/glitter so I kept on going. Sort of a random, dirty, halloweeny look. Next I used one of my Holiday Plates from Bundle Monster to add the zombie arms and black cat.

Here's a closer look at the cat image (really liked it):

What do you think? Does this look nice and Halloween-ish to you? Make sure to check out what everyone else did for their Halloween looks!

Falling for Nail Art Challenge: Other Realm

Today's theme in the Falling for Nail Art Challenge is "Other Realm". I had a mani in my mind for this and it pretty much came out just how I had hoped (don't you just love that?!).

Here is the challenge list as a refresher:

And here is my mani:

Polishes Used:
-OPI - Nail Envy
-OPI - Alpine Snow
-Essence - Black is Back
-Konad - White
-Konad - Black
-BPS - Glow In The Dark polish

These other realm ghosts are just too cute for me; hehe. With the exception of the spider mani I posted last Sunday, I don't really like creepy / gross things, I like more of a cutesy Halloween scare. lol. Anyway, I knew I wanted to do something glowing and unfortunately I am horrible at capturing the glow but it looked awesome in person, trust me!

What do you think of this look? Are you loving the cute little ghosts?

Falling For Nail Art Challenge: Creepy Crawlers & AIS - Stamping over a Holographic Base

Happy Sunday! Today I am killing two birds with one stone and using one mani for both the Falling for Nail Art Challenge and Adventures in Stamping themes.

And here is the look that I came up with!

Polishes Used:
-Different Dimension - Nessie's Revenge
-Konad - White
-Konad - Black
-Cheeky Jumbo Plate 6
-Mash Plate 38

For the 'Creepy Crawlers' I decided to go with Spiders/webs. I don't really like spiders and we seem to have those house spiders all over now that the weather is cooler. I am not sure which I hate more, the thousand leggers or the spiders, lol. The spiders that I added to the webs are gross and creepy, we had grass spiders in our house one and it was terrible, these remind me of that type. (Gross, I know)

Source: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/node/2169

Sorry to leave you with that image, but check out what everyone else did!

Falling For Nail Art Challenge: Sweet Treats

I was excited to see this theme come up in the lineup for the Falling for Nail Art Challenge. Sweet Treats didn't seem so "fall" themed to me so I was able to spice things up and use some bright colored polishes. It was a nice interruption from the vampy, darker colors of fall.

Polishes Used:
-China Glaze - Bottom's Up
-Konad - White
-Konad - Blue
-Wet 'n Wild - On a Trip
-Bundle Monster Plate - BM306

I tried to capture the neon-ness of this mani and did better than I had in the past. I wanted to use colors that sort of reminded me of cotton candy and seemed very sweet and I think that I achieved that with this mix. I randomly splotched on the white, blue and purple onto my plate which is why each nail is a little different.

I have to admit that I love the look of this mani but probably not as much as I like actual sweet treats (I am a junk food junky with a focus on sweets lol). What do you think of this look? Does it looks sweet and delicious to you too?

Falling For Nail Art Challenge: Cloudy Skies

Today's theme in the Falling for Nail Art Challenge is Cloudy Skies. Usually in Pittsburgh every fall day (and winter day, and spring day...) is cloudy but this season has been unusually sunny (aka not cloudy every day)

I knew I wanted to do something blue and gray for this look and this that the mani I created captures the theme perfectly.

Polished Used:
-OPI - Nail Envy
-China Glaze - Electric Beat
-Sinful Colors - Slate
-Konad - White
-MASH Plate 37
-Hard Candy - Matte-ly In Love

I started with the blue base of Electric Beat and added the gray Slate with the saran wrap technique. Once that dried, I stamped on the white clouds. Since cloudy days aren't normally shiny, I mattified this look and think it looks perfect like that.

Like I mentioned, this really captured what I was envisioning in my mind, what do you think? Does it look like a cloudy sky to you?

Falling For Nail Art Challenge: Great Pumpkin

Today's theme in the Falling For Nail Art Challenge is Great Pumpkin!

I decided once again to use my new stamping plate from Cheeky :)

Polishes Used:
-Julie G - Sugar Rush
-Julie G - Tangerine Dreams
-Konad - White
-Cheeky - Jumbo Plate 6

I wanted to do stamping since my freehand pumpkin skills aren't exactly up to par (you can see an old one here) and I didn't want to do it over a plain orange base, so I added both of the JulieG shades as undies to the stamping :)

What do you think of this look? Does it look, "great pumpkin" to you?

Falling For Nail Art Challenge - Bobbing For Apples

Happy Wednesday Loves!


I can't believe we are already into our first October post in the Falling For Nail Art Challenge! Today's theme is Bobbing For Apples.

Here is my look!

Polished Used:
-Essie - Bobbing for Baubles
-Acrylic - Red
-Acrylic - Brown
-Acrylic - Green
-Acrylic - White
-Glisten & Glow - HK Girl Topcoat

This was only my second time doing freehand apples (you can see my first attempt here) honestly, the first time looks pretty similar except that I have better photography skills now. I can't believe those nails are from a year ago (I sort of wish my freehand skills would have improved more by now but I know I don't do it enough). I did these nails on a dark background for 2 reasons in case you were wondering. 1. I wanted it to be like apples in water and 2. the Essie has Bobbing in the title, so um yeah, perfect. lol.

Anyway, don't forget to check out the other awesome ladies participating in the Falling For Nail Art Challenge.

Falling For Nail Art Challenge: Crunchy Leaves

Today's theme in the Falling For Nail Art Challenge, is Crunchy Leaves.

I decided to go through my stamping plates and found one with leaves, so I knew it was a perfect combination. There is really no way that I can freehand leaves because I really suck at free-hand lol.

Polishes Used:
-Essie - Meet Me At Sunset
-Konad - White
-Konad - Yellow
-DIFFERENTdimension - Nessie's Revenge
-Bundle Monster Plate - BM-H11
-Pueen Plate - Pueen12
-Glisten & Glow - HK Girl Topcoat

I was excited that I had an opportunity to use this stamping plate. I had had issues with other BMH plates stamping but this one worked perfectly. I stamped the image using both white and yellow. Next, I topped it with Pueen 12 in Nessie's Revenge. It's a leaf image as well but the green is really sheer so it sort of just added a different dimension (no pun intended) to the look.

Make sure to check out what the other ladies did for their crunchy leaves manis!