Halloween Challenge: Rainbow Lollipop Nails

Just ten more days to vote for my Monster Mash manicure HERE. #26 in the freehand category!

We are moving right along with our Halloween challenges! Today continues Danielle's Halloween Challenge, which is at the end of the post so you can see what to look forward to!

Sugar coma...I tend to think of those giant, ridiculous rainbow swirl lollipops. Seriously, has anyone EVER eaten one of those? Maybe licked one, but definitely not finished one. So I assume, if you ate an entire giant rainbow swirly lollipop, you would probably crash HARD. Hopefully you find my nails just as sweet :-P

To achieve this look I started with a base of two coats OPI Don't Touch My Tutu. Why? I don't know. I thought there might be some visible nail with this look. But I ended up covering the nail. DTMT may have allowed my colors to be more opaque though as I did not need two coats of any color.

I decided I wanted my rainbow lollipop to be more neon. I used China Glaze Hang Ten Toes, Zoya Arizona, Ulta Sunsational (go to yellow for nail art), Wet N Wild Nerd Alert: Screech, and Manglaze ILF. I topped it all off with a coat of Northern Lights. I was going to do this an as accent nail then loved it so much I did both my hands. O_0. It's definitely attention grabbing.

NOW, I ran out of sunlight before pictures, so please, please, please, come back tomorrow for more color accurate pictures. But for the sake of this challenge, here we go:

 

Danielle's Nail Art Challenge!

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Charlie Brown Halloween Ghost Nails: This is Halloween Challenge!

Now back to our regular Halloween programming. I'm starting late but here I am with the This is Halloween challenge which collides with Danielle's challenge. Today was the ghost challenge. Now does anyone remember the Charlie Brown Halloween movie, where they all are ghosts? Yup, that's what I did.

I took inspiration from this photo:

Then I made these nails: I used one coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme topped with Orly Androgynie. Then went to town:

 

Now here was the ghost inspiration for the other hand:

 

 

My boyfriend noticed my dress matched my nails!

 If you haven't already, please vote for my nail art in Manicured Monkey's nail art contest. Click HERE and chose #26 in the freehand category!

Blogger Collaboration - Most Expensive/Least Expensive Polish

Hi all! A bunch of bloggers decided we wanted to post our most expensive and least expensive polish...so here we go.

Well, my most expensive polish is Illamasqua Raindrops. But it's not because I dropped the ebay prices ($100-$150!!) but because a dear polish friend found some stock and I bought it retail. I haven't thus far spent crazy amounts on polish, but $23 is a lot for me! I decided to layer Raindrops over two coats of Butter London Sprog. I will say Sprog is THE first polish I have ever felt the need to buy a back up for, and will most likely do that this week haha. Sprog is much brighter, but the weather here is dreadful. I will probably update this tomorrow when the sun is out! I have put two coats of Raindrops on my index finger but I don't think it makes much of a difference.

EDIT: Sunlight pictures:

 

Illamasqua Raindrops over Butter London Sprog

Illamasqua Raindrops over Butter London Sprog

Illamasqua Raindrops over Butter London Sprog

Butter London Sprog, 2 coats

Butter London Sprog, 2 coats

My least expensive polish would obviously be any extras, or giveaway winnings (I've won three), or RAOKs but I decided for my least costly to me. Anise Late Night Party. As far as I know, this is exclusive to DSW stores. These are usually at the registers so for me, this was an impulse purchase. It rang up at 24 cents. Yes, $0.24! It's amazing looking in the bottle, but I played around with layering. 

Thumb: one coat LNP over L'oreal Raven Strength. Index: One coat LNP over Zoya Hope. Middle: One coat LNP over Essence Blue Ray. Ringe: 4 coats LNP. Pinky: 2 coats LNP over L'oreal Raven Strength.

If you haven't voted for me in the Manicured Monkey's nail art contest, please vote for 26 in the freehand section HERE

Flashback: Hocus Pocus Nails!

Okay, so don't laugh. This was the second nail art I ever did and I took it with a horrible camera and painted it with a toothpick. But I just had to show you what really turned me into a nail art loving machine. Last year, OPI did a nail art contest based on a spooky movie. Well, I love Hocus Pocus and when I was little (hmmm about 7 years old?), this movie definitely was spooky! Of course I didn't win the contest (actually, I've entered countless and never won, so why not head over the Manicured Monkey's nail art contest and vote for me #26 in freehand HERE). But I had fun doing this manicure. These were the only pictures I had that were not blurry. Can you understand the references? (Yes, I realize my flame isn't the "virgin flame" haha).

If you didn't get it: The thumb is the movie cover, index is the candle, middle is Bette Midler as Winnie,  ring finger is Thackary Binx, and my pinky is the witches' cauldron!

I have been posting a lot on my Facebook page, so head over there and take a gander!

It's Time for Autumn: Falling Leaves Nails!

Don't forget to vote for my Monster Mash nail art every day! Click HERE and enter #26 in freehand category.  Thanks!

Well here is the first nail art challenge part of Polish, Glitter, and Rock & Roll's October nail art challenge which you can find here. The first category is Fall Into Fashion...and well, I translated that as choosing the colors I love to wear in my fashion around this time. My brown and black riding boots, my maroon corduroy skirts, chunky glitter scarves....ah, I love this time. 

I randomly found Harvest Moon on clearance the week it came out. Pretty sure it was a mistake but I snatched it up. I waited to wear it because it was so autumnal. What a gorgeous color! Two coats and no brushstrokes. I then did a gradient with Zoya Cheryl, another one I've had since last December (eek!). I will continue to use untrieds through this challenge! I loved this so much I left it on for a day before doing the art.

I googled "falling leaves nail art" and nothing really came up. So I made this up. It's a bit more abstract as my dots represent leaves. Hopefully you can tell those are barren trees. This reminded me of my college town in upstate New York. It had to most gorgeous foliage and this instantly brought me back there!

 

I really didn't want to take this off! For my trees, I used OPI I Brake for Manicures and for the leaves I used: Maybelline Autumn Leaves, A England Dragon, China Glaze Fireside Glow, Zoya Evvie, Butter London Wallis, and Wet n Wild Magic Trident. Phew, that's a lot of colors. But I think they worked! Don't forget to check out everyone else's Fall into Fashion manicures!

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