Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 19 - Pirate Flags

Flags. Are there really many options for flags that are related to Halloween? Not really. I actually worked two years in a Halloween USA store and I had flash backs to all the pirate gear we used to sell. I also had these nail stencils of skull and cross bones that I've been saving for months to try. They worked really well.

  

The SV on these made them extremely difficult to photograph well.

Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 18 - Tombstone Half Moons

Day 18 in the normal challenge is Half Moons, which conjured up a vision of a grassy hill with a tombstone. This is 100% better than my yellow nails day when I made my first attempt at half moons using those circle stickers.Other than the green hill and the blue night sky (both polishes from Catrice), the other colors are hand mixed acrylic paints.

I love the shimmer of the dark blue polish in this photo.

I really like these nails, but I think they're coming off almost immediately so I can catch up on some more Halloween posts. :)

Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 16 - Flowers

 If you're being picky, you'll notice that these nails don't depict flowers. Instead I chose to go with plants in general. My initial thought was to do venus fly traps, but then I remembered the plant from the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" and decided to try my hand with acrylics again. Here is the image I based my nails on:

http://www.skaneatelessuites.com/tag/little-shop-of-horrors/

The pink base is one of the Jade holographic polishes and it's gorgeous. The rest of the art (minus the brown pants and brown plant pot) were done with acrylic paints. The pinkish-orangish line on the man's face is supposed to be his beard, not his mouth, but my paintbrushes are awful, so it was challenging to paint.

 

My husband was in a school play of Little Shop of Horrors, but I've honestly never seen more than a few minutes of the movie. Have you seen it?

Jewli's 31 Day Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 17 - Blue

If I'm being completely honest, I did these as a back up option for Day 16 - Flowers. I was excited to do the Little Shop of Horrors plant for day 16, but wasn't sure how well I could execute it. I was inspired by the black roses that are common in Halloween shops this time of year. I also just received this Jade polish (the blue base color) and my XL stamper a couple of days ago and I wanted another shot with the stamper and an excuse to use the Jade. I haven't EVER been able to photograph the rainbow in my linear holo polishes, but this one photographed so well! That is why there are so many pictures. Normally I try to narrow down my post photos to 1 or 2 per design/hand, so this won't be a common occurance.

 

I definitely am in love. :) Although I'm nervous to wait until after I shower (aka do clean up) to photograph holo nails because it's so prone to chipping. Oh, and these photos are also with 1-2 coats of SV and you can still see the holo.

Have you fallen prey to the gorgeousness that is Jade holos?

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 13 - Yellow

For day 13 I decided to go back and do the yellow nails (believe it or not, the yellow is what inspired these even though they're more blue than yellow). My idea for these was to do a yellow moon mani with a dark blue night sky and stars. I tried using the circle stickers people use to label prices for garage sale items for the moon shape. As you can tell, my first attempt wasn't perfect, but it worked out WAY better than the one and only time I tried to freehand the same thing. I *love* this dark blue color and the stamping turned out pretty well. If I had had more time, I would have freehanded some stars and maybe used a dotting tool, but we were running late to meet a friend. 

Have you done the moon mani yet? Any tips for using the stickers and getting them to lay flat all over?