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Beauty tips for Women – Thanksgiving / Autumn Leaves Manicure

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With Thanksgiving happening just around the corner I wanted to try my hand at doing a Thanksgiving manicure.  I was defiantly inspired to try by all the awesome nail art that has been popping up on facebook and instagram.

I decided to make a turkey but my own nails were to short to pull off the look, so I tried my idea out on a practice wheel.  I think my little turkey came out ok for a freehand design and I felt inspired to try out an autumn leaves design as well.  I really liked how the leaves came out so I decided that I would do these on my nails.

 

I started off with painting my nails China Glaze – Kalahari Kiss. 

Then I added a coat of Sinful Colors – Pumpkin Spice.

I went through my stamping plates and selected 3 Bundle Monster plates to make the leave designs: BM04, BM05 and BM19

Next I selected the polishes to stamp the leaves with. I really wanted to get that autumn feel in the leaves when they are changing colors.  So I wanted to see if I could mix the colors on the stamping plate to get that effect.

From left to right:
Color Club – Red-ical Gypsy
Essence – Wake Up
Sally Hansen – Rapid Red
Ulta – Envy
Rimmel – Hot Coca
Seche Vite
Sinful Colors – Pumpkin Spice (didn’t stamp with it, just forgot to remove it from the line up)

I started off with my right hand since I always have a hard time stamping or doing any designs on my right hand.  The pinky, index and thumb were stamped with the leave image of BM04.  On the ring finger I wanted to try the full leaves image from BM19.  This plate is from Bundle Monster’s first set so their full images are small and never fit my full nails across. So I ended up having to try and add to the side that was left bare.  I think it came out ok. On the middle finger I stamped the solid image of a leave from BM05.  My nails are not long enough to fit the leave and stem in nicely so I tried to cover it up with the other leaves from BM04.

Taking the lessons I learned from stamping my right hand, I opted to leave out the image from BM05 on my left hand.  I still used the full leave image from BM05 but when I stamped it I took individual leaves to rearrange them so that it would cover my whole nail across.  I think it came out ok.  I gave the manicure a good topcoat of Seche Vite.

I shared my manicure on Bundle Monster’s facebook page and I got a nice compliment from them and others who liked the manicure.  I’m very pleased that it was liked and for all the encouraging words.

Beauty tips for Women: Halloween Nail Art 2

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Here is my second Halloween nail art manicure.  My girls have been going crazy asking for candy corn and I finally purchased some.  This was inspiration for my festive candy corn Halloween nail art manicure.

Here is a picture of the polishes I used for the manicure:

Konad Special Polish – Black
Seche Vite – Dry Fast Top Coat
Sally Hansen – Yellow Kitty
Sally Hansen – Parrot
Wet n’ Wild – Sunny Side
Wet n’ Wild – French White Crème
Essence – Wake Up
Color Club – Clear Coat

I started off by doing a gradient using the French White Crème, Sunny Side and Yellow Kitty.  I did three coats of the gradient because the yellow and orange colors where just two light and I wanted it a bit more richer in color.  Once I got the colors the way I wanted, I applied a clear coat to blend the colors.  I waited for it to dry then started applying random dots in Parrot, Wake Up, and French White Crème.  Once that dried up, I thought some stamping would be cute.  I used Bundle Monster – BM225 Skull image on the thumb.  The cat and witch used on the index and middle finger are from Shany – SH02.  The ring finger skull is Bundle Monster – BM211 and pinky finger is Bundle Monster – BM222.  Topped everything off with Sech Vite.

Here are the pictures of my festive candy corn Halloween manicure:

 

 

Beauty Tips for Women: Halloween Nail Art

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This is my first every attempt at Halloween nail art.  I don’t particularly like scary Halloween stuff and neither does my little girls; so I opted to do something a little cutesy and spooky.

Here is a picture of all the items used to get the manicure going:
Wet n’ Wild – On a Trip (213C)
Wet n’ Wild – Sunny Side Up ( 405)
Sinful Colors – Black on Black
Color Club – Clear Coat
Seche Vite – Base Coat (not in pic)
Seche Vite – Dry Fast Top Coat
Konad Special Polish – Black
Konad Special Polish – White (not in pic)
Milani Nail Art Precision Brush – Black (not in pic)
Bundle Monster Plates: BM13, BM213, BM223, BM224
Q-Tip
Makeup sponge

The thumb background was created using the gradient effect.  I started off with Seche Vite – Base Coat (forgot to place it in the picture).  Then applied one coat of Sunny Side Up.  Using the make up sponge (cut to a small size) I applied On a Trip and began to sponge from the top of the nail down and beginning to shape the sunset.  I let it dry a little before I sponged on Sunny Side up to define the sunset area more.  Waited for that to dry a bit before sponging on Black on Black on the tip of my nail.  I applied the clear coat which smoothes the colors into each other.  Once dry I stamped with Konad – Black the house image from BM224 and used the bats image from BM213.  I haven’t mastered the art of cleaning up the edges of my nails, so pardon the mess but I’m no professional.  I gave it a coat of Seche Vite and wala!

The rest of my fingers got a base coat and two coats of On a Trip.  On the index finger I tried a freehand tree using Milani nail art black.  Then stamped using Konad – White the ghost image from BM223.  The middle finger was stamped with Konad – Black using BM213 bats image and part of the pumpkin image of BM224.  Ringer finger was stamped with Konad – Black using BM224 pumpkin image. Lastly the ring finger was stamped with Konad – Black using BM13 bats image.  All received a nice coat of Seche Vite.