Candy Corn Dotticure

From the vault:  October 2013

As you can see from my blog archive I did not post in October of last year.  That doesn't mean I wasn't doing nail art.  It just means I was lazy busy to share it with all of you lovelies.  So I will try and post them this month.

The biggest problem with designs from the vault is I may not remember the polishes used. . . This is one of those cases.  I a pretty good idea on the white and yellow, but the orange is a bit of a guess. . .  So I think the polishes used are China Glaze Dandy Lyin' Around, Papaya Punch, and Happy Go Lucky with Essie's  matte top coat Matte About You.

The design idea came from Smashley Sparkles.  I really like the design, but I could execute it better.  Maybe next year I will give it another go.

Tootles!
Fitz

52 Week Challenge: 3 color Gradient

I was going to use a design from the vault for this, but decide I wanted to do something new.  I had an idea in my head and wanted to see if I could execute it.  I know for Halloween time and being a three color gradient this isn't that original, but I still wanted to do.  I mean it is candy corn, what is more Halloween than that?

While trying to find the right polishes for this design I found I don't have a lot of orange polishes.  It is not that I don't like orange, I just don't seem to have a lot of them.  My favorite orange polish, Orly Crush On You, is a jelly. . . but it was the only "true orange" without any shimmer I own.  I need to fix that.  So started sponging the colors over white, but that was just a disaster!  So I removed everything and started again with COY as the base color and that worked much better!

The other colors are Nina Ultra Pro French White,  Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Butter-fly Stroke, and China Glaze Glitter Goblin.

I wasn't sure how I felt about the manicure until I put GG over everything as I had intended.  It seemed to soften the gradient and make it much more wearable.

I really like this design.  Of course the pictures don't do it justice, because it doesn't capture the sparklyness of GG.  I hope you like it anyways!  Don't forget to check out the other participants!

Tootles!
Fitz

An InLinkz Link-up

Friendly Candy Corn

My best friend came to visit so of course I had to do her nails.  She asked for candy corn this go around and so I did a nice simple stripe.

I used the nail polish brush for the stripes.  The only problem was that since the yellow has to go over the orange it needed two coats before I couldn't see the line.  Hence drying time was a beast.  She loved it and is rather festive.  I appreciate the chance to work on someone else.  It seems to take a bit of transition to do someone else's nails, so I can use all the practice I can get.

I used Finger Paints Paper Mâchè, Orange You In Love?, and China Glaze Sunshine Pop.  I think I would like to try and do a candy corn stripe with dry water marbling.  I wonder how that would turn out. . .

Tootles!
Fitz