October is Breast Care Awareness Month!

So I did nails with the Breast Cancer ribbon. To show my support for all the ladies and men fighting this illness.

The base is two coats of Julep Lynn.

The ribbon was done with So Easy Stripe Rite Hot Pink. Love striper polishes.

If you want to learn more about breast cancer, visit http://www.breastcancer.org, or just google it and you'll find plenty of resources!

I went home this weekend so I also gave my mom a french mani and used a nail pen for the first time. I'm not really sure if I liked it, it's so different from polish. Maybe it just takes some getting used to.

Look at those beautiful hands! My dad's a lucky man to get to hold them ;)

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Day of the Dead Skulls

I have been majorly slacking with my posting lately! I need to get back to regular updates.

I, of course, did yet another Halloween mani.

I call these Day of the Dead skulls. My roommate calls them Candy Skulls. Either way, they're cute and slightly spooky.

I realize the actual Day of the Dead isn't until November, I just thought that these would be much more unique and fun than your average skull.

I didn't take any pictures during the actual process, but I'll still talk you through it. 

Started out with two coats of Julep Kate. Then with a dotting tool I made the eyes and drew on the noses and mouths with Sinful Colors Time Off.

The dots around the eyes were done with Revlon Posh, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Twisted Pink, Rimmel London Stiletto Red, Maybelline Color Show Amethyst Ablaze, and Nina Ultra Pro Blu Blaze.

My thumb was definitely my favorite nail (I always pick a favorite nail).

17 more days until Halloween!

Pumpkin Patch

In case I haven't already made my love of everything Halloween clear, I have another Halloween themed manicure today!

I went out and bought orange nail polish just so I could do these nails.

If pumpkins aren't festive then I don't know what is.

For once, I actually like my nails on my right hand better than my left. But I'll show you my left hand too.

I really like how my middle finger turned out on this hand, but I was a little too generous with the black stripes on my ring and pinky, in my opinion.

So, for this manicure, I started with half circles of Milani Awesome Orange.

Then with a nail art brush I made the stems with Revlon Posh.

To finish off I made black stripes with Sinful Colors Time Off.

Here's a bonus picture of my nails that I posted on Instagram:

It's kind of dark, but I like it for some reason. It has that Halloween feel to it!

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Holographic Diagonal French Manicure

I've been wanting to use my holographic nail polish again, so I've been brainstorming a design that would work well with it.

I think it's pretty beautiful on its own, so I didn't want anything that would distract too much from it.

There you have it, the holographic diagonal french manicure. Possibly the first of its kind.

I think it turned out pretty good. 

I know that picture is blurry, but it really shows off the holographic-ness that is just too pretty!

I used Layla Flash Black and Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White for this manicure. If you want to see a swatch of Layla Flash Black click here.

Like I said before, the only thing I don't like about this polish is how easily it chips.

This is my manicure after 1 day with Seche Vite topcoat. I thought maybe the white on top would keep the tip wear from being so awful, but no luck :/

I still adorable Layla Flash Black no matter what though.

Pink Skulls

So it's October and I'm planning to do a looootttt of Halloween nails. Because Halloween is awesome. And spooky grotesque nails are even better!

Only these nails aren't so spooky. Or grotesque.

They're pretty girly. But they've definitely still got the Halloween element to them.

These nails make me very very happy ! How did I create such an adorable festive manicure?

Well I started out with two coats of Wet N Wild Tickled Pink.

Then with a dotting tool I dotted on blobs of Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White. I added three lines with a nail art brush for the teeth.

They look kind of like jellyfish, don't they?! Definitely gonna have to have a jellyfish mani soon.

To make the eye sockets I just dotted Tickled Pink on top of the skulls. I used Milani Disco Lights for the eye sockets on my ring fingers for accent nails.

I'm looking forward to doing more Halloween themed nails.

Bring on the festivity!

Spider Webs

Happy October! To bring in this lovely month, I decided to do some festival nails.

Spider web nails! Sans the spiders, because those are just a little too creepy for my taste.

For these nails, I started out with a coat of Wet N Wild Black Creme.

Then I put my NYC Matte Me Crazy topcoat over them to give them a more 'black night' feel.

Then I just painted on the webs with Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White. Originally I was just going to have a web on my ring finger as an accent nail, but I decided that was too plain.

Can't believe Halloween's right around the corner. I still need to find a costume!

Donut Nails

What could be better than donuts? A donut manicure!

Delicious, no? 

How to do these adorably fun nails, you ask? Good news for you, they're pretty easy.

I started out with a coat of Revlon Gray Suede. My favorite nude everrr if you recall.

Then I just painted Julep Niecy on the tips. It doesn't have to be perfect. I actually purposefully tried to make it uneven so it would look like the icing on a donut.

To make it look more clean and add some 'pop' I outlined the pink in Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White.

To finish them off I added 'sprinkles' of Nina Ultra Pro Blu Blaze and Julep Blake with a nailart brush.

They look good enough to eat! 

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