Halloween 2018 Recap

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Before my favorite holiday is over, I wanted to share a recap of all the looks I did. I didn't do as many Halloween manicures as I had hoped, but I also wore these arts for way longer than I had intended. That's okay! I really digged what I wore. So let's take a look at my 13 looks!

13 Days of Halloween: Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas Nail Art

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It's my last Halloween art! I'll do a recap later today, but I wanted to share my art for today. Instead of a Halloween look with a pumpkin, I decided to match my costume! Because it's a Wednesday and I have to go to work, I found a work-appropriate dress that doubles as a costume! Then when I get home later, I can add fun makeup and take this baby out! So who am I? Sally from A Nightmare Before Christmas.

13 Days of Halloween: Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas Nail Art

13 Days of Halloween: Black Cat in a Pumpkin

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So for today, I went with total cute! I actually screenshot this adorable pattern from Em and Sprout on Instagram. If you aren't following her, you probably will now! She makes adorable patterns, clothing, and jewelry! This pattern was posted during Halloween 2017 season. Now, I think I was tired and it didn't come out as cute as the pattern, but I wanted to share it!

13 Days of Halloween: Black Cat in a Pumpkin

13 Days of Halloween: My Past Favorites

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Hope your Monday is going well! Today, I wanted to share a recap of some of my favorite past looks. I really wanted to recreate these, I just had a hunk of a time trying to get time to be on my side! This is like the clip show of blogging. Honestly, these were too good not to share!

13 Days of Halloween: My Past Favorites

13 Days of Halloween: Pumpkin Take 2

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Happy Monday. I finally got around to some swatching and have come to the realization I might only get 12 days of Halloween! I'll see if I can swatch an art, which I hate doing. Doing 13 days of art (2 weeks), means that I haven't swatched and it's piling up! I've also come to the realization that I have to chop my nails off. I really hate typing with my long nails haha. Like, it's actually annoying me. I might even chop them off today.

13 Days of Halloween: Pumpkin Take 2

Red Dead Redemption II Nail Art

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Today, I'm taking a little break from Halloween looks to share my nail art for Red Dead Redemption II. I'm not a video game player at all, but I thoroughly enjoy watching certain games! One of those games is Red Dead Redemption. It's a Western Cowboy type game, but it's sooo much more than that. It's a timepiece. My darling says it's a combination of spaghetti western-inspired films and Pulp Fiction. It's really just so cool! It came out in 2010 and today, the sequel comes out! While he hasn't picked this up yet today, I will probably force him just so I can watch! He hasn't played video games in ages but I told him he has to get this (and he agrees!)

Red Dead Redemption II Nail Art

13 Days of Halloween: Candy Corn Nail Art

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It's not Halloween if you don't have candy corn nails! I really wanted to do PLAIN old candy corn nails since I currently have almond-ish nails. My nails look like candy! I really wanted a classic look, so a little gradient with some glitter is all I needed for today!

13 Days of Halloween: Candy Corn Nail Art

13 Days of Halloween: Halloween Galaxy

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Again, I'm checking off a list of manicures I had wanted to do last year and got around to this year. My 13 Days of Halloween have so far been sort of obscure and more festive looks without being in your face. I'm digging the different type of art, but I do love how this came out!

13 Days of Halloween: Beetlejuice

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So this was on my list last Halloween! I wanted to do some Beetlejuice-inspired nail art! I had grandiose plans and just no time. I originally wanted to do a sandworm on the middle nails. Next year, I guess! Ok, so this nail art is more obscure! I feel like if I met the man (should I avoid typing his name three times?!), he would totally love my nails!

13 Days of Halloween: Beetlejuice

13 Days of Halloween: Halloween Plaid

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Good evening! Sorry for the late-night post but I'm continuing my 13 Days of Halloween nail art! I feel like I'm going in an entirely different direction this Halloween, taking classic arts and turning them into Halloween colors. Well I continued that tonight with some Halloween plaid!

13 Days of Halloween: Halloween Plaid

 

13 Days of Halloween: Glow-in-the-Dark Ghosts

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Does anyone remember the excitement around Wet N Wild Tombstone polishes?! Because I would buy them every year! I haven't seen them the last few years. Have you? I'm wondering if I'm just missing them! Anyway, before indies, this and the pumpkin polishes were the most exciting Halloween polishes, so I had to pull one out. It was my first Glow-in-the-Dark polish and I'm excited to say that like 8 years later, this one still super glows!!

13 Days of Halloween: Glow-in-the-Dark Ghosts

13 Days of Halloween: Halloween Leopard

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I actually did Halloween Leopard last year but wasn't too thrilled with it, so I wanted a second chance! I think this year is still festive. It's fun to do Halloween manis without overtly always doing pumpkins and ghosts, so I think this is for people who want something a little more subtle.

13 Days of Halloween: Halloween Leopard

13 Days of Halloween: Pumpkin Stamping

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It's not Halloween without some pumpkins, and why not some pastel pumpkins?! I'm sure I'll be back with another pumpkin nail art, but I wanted to give this Born Pretty Stamping Polish called Pumpkin Fairy (how appropriate!) some love!

13 Days of Halloween: Pumpkin Stamping

13 Days of Halloween: Halloween Ikat

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I'm using my Halloween challenge to do some nail art I had wanted to do for a long time. Last year, I had Halloween Ikat on my to-do list but never got around to it. So I finally did it today! I didn't think I really liked how this came out, but then time made me wear it for 5 full days and I had tons of people grabbing my hands, telling me how much they loved it. Isn't that how it always goes?!

13 Days of Halloween: Halloween Ikat

13 Days of Halloween: Blood Drips

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Hey all! So I decided to try to do the 13 Days of Halloween, which I actually did last year. You can check out my recap of my Halloween looks HERE, and I'm excited to do it again. Instead of doing 13 straight days, I'm doing 13 days of nail art over the next few weeks. I'm also being a little bit laid back, and instead of a schedule, I'm just doing whatever Halloween manicures I feel like!

13 Days of Halloween: Blood Drips

Alter Ego My Own Worst Enemy Soap and People & Pet Potion

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This past week was a whole lot of Alter Ego! I hope you don't mind. This time it's a soap and lotion  bar/cuticle balm! I meant to post this on Friday but I really needed a few days off from blogging. Life seems to be a bit overwhelming so I just needed a short break!

Alter Ego My Own Worst Enemy Soap and People & Pet Potion

Girly Bits October CotM, Red Sky at Night & Aurora Twilight

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October. One of my favorite months. I love Halloween, autumn, riding boots, flannel. YES. So I have the Girly Bits Colours of the Month today! At first, I was like hmmmm, what makes these good for October. Well, tune into my art next week! You'll be like yes, it makes so much sense! This duo is awesome, so check out more photos below.

Girly Bits October CotM, Red Sky at Night & Aurora Twilight

Alter Ego Falling Leaves Harvest Colors, Fall 2018

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Autumn collections tend to be my favorite, when they are done right. Don't give me 20 vampy colors. Give me inspiration from nature and the beautiful surroundings of life. I love being outside in the autumn and I love looking at the beautiful trees in my area. Cynthia's newest collection has me getting all the leafy feels, and it's exactly what I want!

Alter Ego Falling Leaves Harvest Colors, Fall 2018

Hella Handmade Creations: Stella Chroma Queen Margaery & Girly Bits Celebrity Is, As Celebrity Does

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Good morning! Today I'm sharing two polishes that will be available through Hella Handmade Creations October 14-21st. I decided since I had two polishes for the event, I would combine them into one post, especially since there's a time crunch and I'm working on a ton of Halloween post. Both Stella Chroma and Girly Bits are favorites of mine, and both creators are named Pam, and they are both awesome!

Hella Handmade Creations: Stella Chroma Queen Margaery & Girly Bits Celebrity Is, As Celebrity Does

Alter Ego White Lightening, October Facebook Custom

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Alter Ego has been doing a color of the month for the last few month's and they've been awesome. Lats month was Space Octopus, which I LOVED, and now I have White Lightening. I think it's great that makers are constantly creative!

Alter Ego White Lightening, October Facebook Custom

Born Pretty Loose Flakes

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More loose flakes! I tell ya, I can't get enough of these. I also have fun experimenting with these over different colors. I think I mostly prefer either blackened colors or a white. But I used an in between brighter purple this time, and well, let's get to it.

Born Pretty Loose Flakes

Girly Bits Misguided, October Polish Pickup

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Hey there! I have a quick post today of the Girly Bits Polish Pickup! I have a super busy weekend (actually the next three weekends!). This pretty landed at my door Wednesday night, so I threw it on and wore it for two days and am posting it today. In fact, I'm going to have a LOT of Girly Bits on my blog for the next month!

Girly Bits Misguided, October Polish Pickup

Zoya Element for Fall 2018, Swatches and Review

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We are definitely finally feeling fall. I know you've seen this collection, but honestly, it was just so hot, I couldn't bring myself to swatch this large collection haha. But now that it's FINALLY starting to be a high of 70s and not 90s (please don't come back), I'm sharing the Element collection. This is a very pink-heavy collection with some surprise standouts, so if you love pink, this is your jam.

Zoya Element for Fall 2018, Swatches and Review

Stella Chroma Fall Mattes Falling Leaves Nail Art

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I adore the new Stella Chroma Fall Mattes collection, and they begged to be in some awesome art together. I was really feeling autumn and trees and leaves, so that's what I went with. I love to do art with collections to see how well they coordinate and of course, I'm loving this collection!

Stella Chroma Fall Mattes Falling Leaves Nail Art

6 Harts Life from Destruction, Disorder and Chaos, October Polish Pickup

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Another Polish Pickup for you today and this time from Fifth Element. This is such a fun movie! I've seen it so many times and their costumes are super unique and fun. So I love that Courtney was inspired by Zorg's green/orange shifty outfit and made that her polish! This one has a cap, so if you want it, best to add it to your wish list before it goes for sale tomorrow morning!

6 Harts Life from Destruction, Disorder and Chaos, October Polish Pickup

Stella Chroma Playing with my Emotions, Smokey, October Polish Pickup

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Polish Pickup is this Friday, and what better than a polish inspired by the movie Friday?! This polish is sooo creative, inspired by Big Perm...or Big Worm! I love how creative people got with the villains theme. I figured it would be the super basic villains. But I am totally laughing at this!

Stella Chroma Playing with my Emotions, Smokey, October Polish Pickup

Leopard Nail Art with Morgan Taylor African Safari Collection

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I couldn't imagine doing any other nail art with the Morgan Taylor African Safari collection that wasn't animal print. I think you know my love affair with leopard print nails. I'll say it again: I do not like leopard print designs anywhere but I LOVE them on my nails!

Leopard Nail Art with Morgan Taylor African Safari Collection