Purple Patchwork

Hello, Fireflies!

It's the last purple nailart for this month's purply NCC theme!  I reach back in the vault to mix it up with a little red and a lot of shine.

The Nightmare Before Christmas - Jack and Sally

Hello, Fireflies!

For my last NCC Stripes challenge of the month, I wanted to incorporate stripes and one of the most popular Halloween traditions - watching The Nightmare Before Christmas.

This mani was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest, but I cheated and used a 3-D charm for Jack's face.

I painted all but my middle finger with Revlon Spirit, and then used a black striper to freehand the black stripes.  The middle finger was painted with Milani Black Swift, and then the charm was applied.

Bottle shot:  Revlon Spirit, Milani Black Swift, and a black striper.

What's Jack without his girl?

 This was inspired by a mani done by The Nailasaurus, but it reminded me of Sally.

I started off with a white base to make sure that the colors were bright.  Then, I used striping tape to mark off the different sections.  Even thought it would be nice to paint one color at a time, it dries too quickly for that - and dry polish gets pulled off with the striping tape.  So, do one nail at a time.  I painted over the white lines with black polish and made the stitches, too.

Bottle shot:  Revlon Spirit, Nails Inc Bond St., Wet 'n Wild Pleasure Pier, Urban Decay Bang, Finger Paints Go Van Gogh!, and a black striper.

Wouldn't it be neat to have one hand done like Jack, and the other like Sally?

I said, DANCE!

There's a new polish company that's sweeping the land, from, of all places - Russia.  Dance Legend has come on the scene with some amazing polishes, including neons, texture, crelly glitters, and temperature changing polishes with 2 or 3 colors.  I fell in love with some of their holos, so I'd like to show you the ones I have today.

Fantastic Trip. They call it a 'peach-orange with a touch of brown' but on me it looks pink.

Optical Illusion.  "dark violet and bordeaux wine"  is actually pretty accurate on me.  I would even throw in words like 'cranberry' maybe.  This one is so pretty, I wore it all day - on both hands.  Crazy, I know.

Robots v. Humans. "dark brown"  More like a cocoa brown on me, but still a great polish.  I love the orange flash.

All of these are really pigmented, one-coat polishes, if you apply carefully.  Like most holos, they will patch and bald if you don't work quickly - or wait until the layer is completely dry before putting more polish on top.  No special undies or buffing required, and all of these pix are without topcoat.

I saw this holographic patchwork nail art by Shades of Beauty, and I wondered if it would work with these polishes.  I like the effect, but they are almost too opaque for this technique to be fully appreciated, as a sheer polish would allow different levels of color to peek through.

I applied Fantastic trip on the whole nail, Optical Illusion on the diagonal, and Robots v. Humans on the vertical half.

Bottle shots:  Fantastic trip, Optical Illusion, and Robots v. Humans

What do you think of these holos?