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 12 - Red

Okay, so the red day is usually day 1 in the regular nail art challenge and day 12 is supposed to be stripes. As you saw, I did my stripes mani on day 9 (which was supposed to be rainbows). I thought this would be a good opportunity to go back and do one of the manis I missed during week 1.

I'm sure you've seen a similar mani before, but this is my take on it. I quite like them. :) Normally red isn't my "thing." However, the base on this mani is the red jelly from Sinful Colors and I think it'll be my go to red for full nails from now on.

 Have you done a similar mani to this one? I'd love to see 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?