Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 24 - Inspired by a Song

I worked two seasons in a Halloween store and one of those seasons we were only allowed to play cds that we were also selling. We only sold 2 types: spooky noises and classic songs. Among the classic songs were Thriller, Somebody's Watching Me, Monster Mash and, of course, The Time Warp. (here is hopefully a video that works if you aren't familiar with The Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show)

I was torn between Monster Mash, Somebody's Watching Me and The Time Warp, so after googling some images for inspiration, I found the image below:

http://rugbyhair.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/top-5-reasons-why-hamilton-is-a-great-rugby-world-cup-venue-1/

I thought it'd be cool to do one of the steps on each of my nails (but I left out # 6 since I only had 5 nails). If you've seen my tennis nail art then you've seen me do a similar stick figure. I still have my spider webs on my left hand because I love them so much, so that meant I needed to do the nail art with my non-dominant hand and it needed to be simple enough.

With flash

With flash

With flash

Natural light

Natural light

Natural light

I mixed the grays with acrylic paint in two batches, which is why 2 of the figures are lighter shades than the other three. And I am not the tidiest person when painting my nails, which is why there's that dark gray dot on the tip of my ring finger. 

Since yesterday was Halloween, this will be my final challenge design. It didn't quite last 31 days, but I think it'd be weird to do Halloween designs after the day has passed.

I saw a few trick or treaters last night, but none of them rang our doorbell. :( What did you do for Halloween? Did you dress up?

Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 23 - Inspired by a Color

The color I was inspired by was Riveting by China Glaze. I just love this polish and how it glows in person. So many people have done the spider webs, but I tried one out on one nail and loved it, so I went with it. To mix it up a bit, I put a big fat black spider on my thumb. My husband called while the topcoat was drying on my thumb and I smudged the poor spider's head. I didn't have time to fix it, so please forgive me if you can see his imperfections. He's still pretty cute, if I do say so myself. :)

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Without flash

Have you tried out the spider web design?

Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 15 - Delicate Print

I have sort of hopped back on track! In the original nail art challenge, Day 15 is Delicate Print, so I went for a Halloween-ish black lace look. I used one of my fauxnad plates from Born Pretty for the gray nails and an Essence plate for the orange.

These weren't my best stamping effort, but it's rare that I get the fauxnad plates to work well and I was trying out my new XL stamper. Honestly, none of these nails were done using the XL stamper because I couldn't get a single image to even transfer from the plate to the stamper. Since then, I received a tip to use tape to clean the stamper instead of acetone remover (but still the acetone on the plate), so here's hoping!

What Halloween nails have you done recently?

Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 14 - Orange

Yay! Orange pumpkins! For Day 14, I used Day 2's theme: Orange nails. These pumpkins remind me of the stitching on Sally's dress in The Nightmare Before Christmas. It also reminds me of barbed wire a little. 

For these nails I painted the orange base on my tips with curved tops. Next I used a dotting tool to lay out the green stems. To add in the detail, I used a striper to create the ridges on the pumpkin and the stems. Of course I capped them off with a layer of SV.

What do you think of nail art towards the tips of the nails with a naked background? I find I really like it. :)

Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 10 - Gradient

 These are my aforementioned fall gradient nails and I love them. Mostly it looks like I only used 3 colors, but I actually used a red (Essence), orange (Color Club), yellow (Color club), and green (Finger Paints) to create this look. I didn't do as good of a job mixing the colors on the foil before sponging them onto my left hand, but I did better on my right. That is why the colors are more vibrant on the bottom picture.

These colors also remind me a bit of Jamaica (red, green, and yellow), but these are also the colors of fall leaves. Either way, I find them beautiful. :)

Which look do you prefer? The more vivid colors or the more muted ones?