Fall flowers

I've seen tons of fall manis with leaves on them, but I love flowers so I decided to do some fall colored flowers.

I used a base of Zoya Pepper. I added flowers using O.P.I. Chop-sticking to My Story (orange) and O.P.I. The "It" Color (yellow). I dotted the center of the flowers using Barry M Gold Foil.

Smitten Polish ERMAHGERD CANDY CORMS

If you checked out the guest post I did for Elfster, you already got a preview of this polish.  Even though it's technically after Halloween, it's still very festive for fall.

This is my first Smitten Polish, and I really like it. I love glitters in white polishes and just KNEW I needed to buy this one when I saw it.

I ended up using 3-4 coats for this manicure. I was okay with that since, again, I tend to use thinner coats and because white polish often needs more coats than colors.  The formula was really great on this, and the glitter applied nicely: no need to fish around or place the glitter.

Enjoy the pictures!

Pumpkin nails

I decided to paint some pumpkins on my nails. They kind of fit in for Halloween, but they work well for fall too, especially since I made them regular pumpkins and not Jack-o'-lanterns

With flash

I started with a base of Sinful Colors Nirvana (after my base coat, of course!). I used two thick coats to get full coverage. Sorry for the messy job, but I was going to add more and only wanted to do one clean up job.

With flash

Here's what I did on my nails. I didn't take pictures of the steps, but I put down white polish first. The orange is Wet N Wild Sunny Side Up. The stem is Essie Little Brown Dress. For the vine, I used a Migi nail art pen. The highlights on the pumpkin were done by mixing the orange with yellow and red/black.

Without flash, artificial lighting