hellolacquer: October 2012

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Nail-Aween Challenge: Day 4 - Mummy Nails & Giveaway on Facebook

Simple Mummy Nails for Day 4! :)

For this, I used Elegant for the base color and then I went ahead and drew (using a very thin Nail Art Brush) the lines horizontally with Sinful Colors - Snow Me White. The thick black line behind the eyes, is supposed to be the darkness inside the mummys tomb, I hope ya'll got that :]

Nail-Aween Challenge: Day 3 - Blood Nails & "Happy Home"

Hello & Welcome to all of my new followers :) I noticed my followers went up a little in the past week. Awesome :) Don't be shy... say hi! <3

I started off with my Growth Spurt (Base Coat), I applied 2 coats of Picture Polish - Tiffany, except my ring finger... which I applied Sinful Colors - Snow Me White. I used Tiffany for this mani because I needed a very light creme blue/green to use as my base color, then I could proceed with the designs.

I am sorry, I was super excited about the last step of this design that I totally forgot to take photos after I painted on the flowers :( So sorry...

I had been thinking about this design for a while now... And I am so happy that it turned out exactly how I had pictured it in my mind. I was thinking of the times when I had watched any crime scene investigation shows and there would be blood splatter all over the walls of the "happy home". I decided to go with this vintage wallpaper design and blood...

I almost cleaned up all of the splatter on my fingers, but I thought it looked WAY cooler this way.

Mani Details: CDG - Growth Spurt, Picture Polish - Tiffany (2 coats), Sinful Colors - Snow Me White (Ring Finger - 2 coats), Vintage Flower Designs >> OPI - Cha-Ching Cherry, OldNavy- Preppy Pink, China Glaze - Holly-Day, Blood >> Nail Polish Thinner & Travel Size little squirt bottle (both from Sally's), Butter London - Pillar Box Red, Sinful Colors - Rich In Heart & Under 18.

For this mani & post, I want to give credit where credit is due... to my inspiration. Gini @ SassyPaints2012 created this mani and I just fell IN LOVE with it. I kept thinking, OMG brilliant!! Why didn't I think of that before!?! Without her blog, post and AMAZING nails I wouldn't have been able to come up with a mani this freakin' awesome!!! So thank you Gini <3! You guys can follow her blog >here< and see her specific mani I am referring to >here<

Thank you
<3jlynn

Monday, October 8, 2012

Nail-Aween Challenge: Day 2 - Matte Doticure

Well, for this Day 2 manicure... I wasn't sure what to do. I recently picked up OPI - So So Skullicious Kit from Copious. I decided to go ahead with it for this mani, why not!

I used Serum No. 5 - Fallen for my ring finger and OPI - hi, Pumpkin! for the rest of my fingers. I, then used Butter London's Matte Finish to give it that matte look. For the dots, I used... A-Rose from the Dead, Mourning Glory & Candlelight (all from OPI So So Skullicious Kit).

Very simple [Matte Doticure] I did here. I even got to use some of the decals that came with this kit :)

Mani Details: CDG - Growth Spurt (base coat), OPI - So So Skullicious Mini Kit, Butter London Matte Finish, Serum No.5 - Fall (ring finger)

Thank you for reading ;)

Monday, October 1, 2012

Nail-Aween Challenge: Day 1 - Water Marble

I figured I would get this challenge started right away. I had been thinking about it for the past week now. So here it is... Day 1 - Water Marble. For this marble I tried once and failed. The black I used, wasn't so black. It was too gray for me, so I changed up the polish a bit and ended up with this.

I went ahead and added some dots with my dotting tools on the areas where there was large spots of solid colors and... I filled those up with little dots :) I'm sorry my nails are so short here, I broke 3 of them when I was at Six Flags this past weekend :(

Mani details: Sally Hansen Complete Care 4-in-1 (base), Essie - Fear or Desire (1 coat)... OPI - Black Onyx & Essie - Fear or Desire for marbling... Seche Vite DF TC (1 coat)

Let me know what you all think :) Thanks for the feedback... Now on to the next one!
<3Jlynn

Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge by datyorkLOVES!

So I decided, I will be joining a Nail Art Challenge for this Halloween month. There are 10 challenges that must be completed by October 31st. I really like the fact that this one is pretty much set at your own pace... as long as you get all 10 done, no worries! :) With that being said, my [Day 1] of this challenge will be today... I'll be posting it later tonight or tomorrow :)

If you want to join this challenge, Dahlia will be accepting participants until October 10th. It gives you still plently of time to complete the challenge and join in on the fun with the rest of us #naildivas ;)

Check out the [facebook] event page or shoot her an email at: datyorkloves@gmail.com to join (*by Oct. 10*)!!