Fall Brown & Owl

I love fall and winter nail colors, though I don't wear a lot of them in my wardrobe, I dig them on my nails.  So glad it's finally Fall!

This gorgeous polish is Sally Hansen Haute Chocolate.  It's a nice red-toned brown with a lot of shine to it.

I decided to use it as undies for another beautiful Fall polish, Girly Bits Crunchy Leaves.  Flawless application, like most of Girly Bits' polishes.  I love how this just compliments the Haute Chocolate so much!  It's like a glitter version of the same polish.

The leaves made me think of Fall trees, and I decided to play around with some nail art and make a tree with a little owl in it.  I used a lot of polishes... lemme see if I can remember them all!

OPI Loyalty Islands Lilac was the base of the owl, L'oreal Greycian Goddess, Zoya Jules, Essie Penny Talk, and Sally Hansen Black Diamonds for some of the details, China Glaze Midtown Magic for the branches, OPI Uh-oh Roll Down the Window, Pretty Serious VT 100, and Maybelline Bold Gold for the leaves.

 Hoot, hoot!

Owlets

I saw these cute nail owls from Nail Polish Wars, and decided to try my own version.

First, a coat of nude sheer all over the nail, and when that dried, I applied the reinforcement stickers for the half-moon mani and painted different colors on each nail.  The right hand got the same colors.

I have really small nail beds, and my nails are not very long, so I wasn't sure how I was going to fit all that detail on my nails.  I decided to dot the eyes in first, so I could space out where the belly would go.  A lighter, complimentary color was used for the belly.

I used the dotting tool to make smaller black dots for the owls' eyes, and used the owl's body color to make the belly dots. I also used the dotting tool to extend the ears of some of the owls.

 Beaks added, cleaned and topcoated!  Aren't they cute?

 Right hand:

Matching owl mug from a friend.  Perfect match! :)

These days, I rarely wear a mani more than a day - this one I kept for 3 days, I think.  I loved it that much.  Hubby said this was his fave mani so far.  High praise, indeed!