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Friday, 5 October 2012

Nail-aween Nail Art Challenge Day 2

Good morning ladies!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend planned :)  To all my Canadian readers, Happy Thanksgiving (aka Happy Turkey Weekend)!  I LOVE turkey dinner, it comes a close second to any pasta dish for me.  I can sit and stuff my face till I'm busting at the seams and still manage to get in a piece of dessert, whether it's Grandma's homemade apple pie or my homemade cheesecake (which I will be baking later today for Tyler's mom's dinner tomorrow), lol!  What is everyone's favourite part about Thanksgiving?

I have for you today my Day 2 design for the Nail-aween Nail Art Challenge hosted by SassyNails/datyorkLOVES.  Today's Challenge is Matte Dotticure.  A couple months ago I got myself Essie's Matte About You top coat.  I really love the look of matte polish.  There is something about it that makes me think it will feel like velvet when I touch it :)  And we all know how much I love dotticures :D




For this design I used Julep Parker which is a true orange.  If you are looking for a true orange, I would recommend this one.  I topped it off with the Essie Matte About You top coat to soften it, I really loved this on it's own.  Then I used Jordana Black for the dots.  I did not apply a top coat to this design as that would take away from the matte-ness of the orange.

And, as you can see, I snuck in a little water marble in there! ;)  First off, I meant to do my ring finger.  I did my chapsticking to my finger, got it in the water, pulled it out and went "awww man!  Wrong finger!"  But I made it work :)  I left my fingernail painted Parker with the Matte About You top coat and for the marble I used Jordana Black and Matte About You top coat  (that's why you can see Parker between the black).  It came out glossier over the orange than I had pictured in my head, but the effect is still slightly there.  Then to tie in the dotticure part of today's Challenge, I took an unfolded paperclip and used the end to dot on Parker onto the black portion of the marble.

I am soooooo proud of this manicure.  I love it so much! :D

Here is what the rest of the Challenge looks like:


If you want to join us, you still can!  Make sure to sign up on the Facebook Event page before OCTOBER 10.  You have until October 31st to complete the entire 10 days of the Challenge.

Don't forget to check out what all the other participants are doing!
Erica's Nails and More  (you're already here!)
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Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Nail-aween Nail Art Challenge Day 1

Hello lovely ladies!  I decided, after some major figuring out and planning, that I am going to start my designs for the Nail-aween Nail Art Challenge  hosted by SassyNails/datyorkLOVES.  I was going to do them every 3rd day of October, but with the couple other Challenges I have thrown into the mix, that isn't going to work, so it's going to be random posting, lol!

The Challenge for Day 1 is Water Marble.  I LOVE me some water marble nail art!  I have been wanting to do a water marble for a while now and just haven't been able to make the time.  It's like this Challenge was reading my mind!  You wanna talk about SPOOKY!  ;D



I love this colour combination.  I was going to do water marbling on my 4 fingers and a jack-o-lantern face on my thumb but my sister told me "no, that would ruin it" so I did my thumb as well.  My favourite nails are my index and middle :)

The colours I used are:
LA Colors Shock base colour
LA Colors Shock, Julep Mystery Yellow and Zoe, and Jordana Black for water marble

I will definitely try this colour combination again!  It looks so bold with the fall/Hallowe'en colours :D

Here is what the whole Challenge looks like:
If you still want to participate you can, make sure to sign up before OCTOBER 10.  You can sign up on the Facebook Event page, and all the details are there as well.

Don't forget to check out what all the other participants of this Nail-aween Nail Art Challenge are up to!
Erica's Nails and More  (you're already here!)
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