KB Shimmer Rock This Way

I picked up KB Shimmer from the Polish Pickup table at Polish Con Minneapolis. It's absolutely stunning.

Fall Plaid Nail Art with OPI Peru Collection

When I saw swatches of the OPI Peru Collection Fall 2018, I was a bit disappointed in the colors. I studied aboard in Peru 8 years ago, and it was such an amazing experience. The Peru I knew has tons of earth tones of the mountains and valleys but also bright colors of the clothing. I wish we could have some more of those bright colors.

However, I still decided to get 4 of them because sometimes I'm a sucker for names. I used two of the colors to create a fall style plaid manicure inspired by Nails by DanielleT.

For this mani, I used OPI Como se llama? (the Spanish teacher in me cringes soooo hard at this terrible grammer) and Machu Peach-u. 

Great Lakes Lacquer No Salt No Worries

I picked up this stunning polish from Great Lakes Lacquer called No Salt No Worries at Polish Con. It was actually the first one I put on when I came home (I'm a bit behind on posting, oops!). It's green and glowy and shiny 💚💚💚

Fall Glitter Gradient

Hello! Today I went for a sort of fall looking mani using some older polishes from my stash.
I used China Glaze Cowgirl Up and I Herd That.

Halloween Nails 2018: Old School Witches

For today's Halloween manicure, I went old school and dug into my stash (which is actually pretty small for someone who's been active in the nail polish community for 7+ years).

I used China Glaze Something's Brewing which is part of their Halloween 2015 collection along with China Glaze Light As Air which is part of the core collection but my bottle dates from 2012.

I love the juxtaposition of the soft feminine purple with the bold glitters. So cool!

I freehanded a witch's hat detail on my middle finger using colors that matched the glitter to bring the whole look together.

Halloween Nails 2018: Cute Ghosts

Today’s Halloween manicure uses the super cute stamps from MoYou London 53 again. I can’t help myself!

I used the advanced stamping technique for the ghosts.

My base coat is the gorgeous You’ll Move Mountains from Tonic Polish

Halloween Nails 2018: Zombie

For today's Halloween manicure, I went on the slightly gory side.

For my base, I used Dollish Polish Zombie Flesh. I first picked up this polish back in summer 2012. It still is as great of a polish years later.

Next I added red strips down my nails to represent blood. I used a red jelly polish here so it would seem more blood like.

Finally I added some black stitches. They don't have to be perfect :) I topped it all off with a fast dry top coat of course.

Halloween Nails 2018: Pastel Bat Nail Art

As much as I love to use traditional colors for holidays or certain times of the year, I also find it fun to use something unexpected!

For this Halloween manicure, I stuck to traditional black and purple. Except to change it up, I used a pastel purple! That purple combined with the adorable bat image makes this such a sweet manicure.

The products used are Glisten & Glow Mother Flora and Little Black Dress plus MoYou London Festive 53 which has a ton of adorable images for Halloween.

Halloween Nails 2018: Black Cat Boogie

Black Cat Boogie is from Painted Polish and is a black/dark grey base with rainbow glitters. I cannot find out any info for this polish, but I assume it's not available right now (my mom purchase it in a destash).

KBShimmer Hide and Eek

KBShimmer Hide and Eek is part of their Falloween 2018 collection. 

It’s a pretty white crelly full of Halloween colored glitters (green, purple, orange, black, and yellow). It takes 3 coats to be opaque.