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NAIL (October 2014) – Favorite Indie

24 Friday Oct 2014

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I knew exactly which indie polish I wanted to use when I saw this week’s prompt. Serum No. 5’s Happy Special Day! is one of my favorite polishes! Sadly, I rarely use it just because I do not generally reach for glitter toppers.

I loved my sprinkled sugar-spun manicure from Bundle Monster’s birthday challenge, linked (here) and I wanted to re-create it. However, every time I sat down to make this manicure I started too late in the evening and could not finish! I finally finished it tonight, though, and was so excited to share it! I am really pleased I managed a good variety of the pieces found in this polish.

I hope you like it too!

NAIL (October) - Favorite Indie | The Rite of AgingI started with 3 coats of Color Club Wham! Pow! and Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Short Cir-cute as my bases.

I cling wrapped with Pahlish Le Bijou du Roi before sealing everything with Seche Vite.

I sugar-spun with Wet n Wild Black Creme. I love sugar-spinning with this polish. It dries so shiny!

I used a toothpick to add Serum No. 5 Happy Special Day!.

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

Bundle Monster 30 Days of Screams – Day 20: Black & Orange

20 Monday Oct 2014

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What goes better with a two color palette than sugar-spun? Hehehe. I also had a neon orange Mundo de Unas stamping polish that was supposed to work well over black! I am a little bummed the two oranges did not match up. I was also surprised how sheer the stamping polish came out. It worked well over other colors, I guess I should give it a break since it is difficult to show up over black.

I hope you like my manicure!

Bundle Monster 30 Days of Screams - Black & Orange | The Rite of Aging

I used 2 coats of Wet n Wild Black Creme as my base. I really love this black. The consistency is awesome, the polish itself is cheap. I am thrilled I found it in the back of my stash!

I sugar-spun with my trusty Color Club Wham! Pow! and I stamped with Mundo de Unas Neon Orange (28).

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

Bundle Monster 30 Days of Screams – Day 19: Vampires

19 Sunday Oct 2014

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…or vampire bats!

I hope you like my manicure today!

 

Bundle Monster 30 Days of Screams - Vampire | The Rite of AgingI used 1 coat of Essie No Place Like Chrome as my base.

I saran-wrapped with Nails Inc. Foubert’s Place. (I almost did it the other way around and caught myself! If you own the Essie polish you know how annoying clean-up is!)

I stamped with Bundle Monster plate BM 301 and Konad Special Polish Black.

I detailed with Milani Black Swift.

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

Bundle Monster 30 Days of Screams – Day 15: Trick or Treating

15 Wednesday Oct 2014

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I hope you like my Trick or Treating manicure! What’s funny is I would not have been allowed to eat half the sweets on my fingers! My mother tossed  the unwrapped candy in my loot. It made sense but it sucked to give up such lovely candy.

Initially, I wanted to create this candy corn Picasso Swirl manicure I did last year, linked (here) but it would be difficult to stamp over that texture so I settled on a candy-corn splatter base with stamping on top.

I will definitely revisit the Picasso-Swirl at some point this month (hopefully)!

 

Bundle Monster Halloween Challenge - Trick or Treating | The Rite of AgingI started with 2 coats of Milani Spotlight White as my base.

I splattered with Color Club Almost Famous and Wham! Pow! I evened out the blobs with 2 coats of Seche Vite.

I stamped with Bundle Monster plate BM-306 and Konad Special Polish Black. I had a lot of trouble stamping today. The design either smeared on the stamper or did not pick up the image. But, it felt like it was the polish…I’ve had this Konad polish for a while, does it “dry” out?

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

Bundle Monsters 30 Days of Screams – Day 13: Chains

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

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I can’t seem to put words to paper right now so this is going to be a short post.

I hope you like my bloody barbed wire manicure!

 

 

Bundle Monster 30 Days of Screams - Chains | The Rite of AgingI started with 2 coats of Milani Spotlight White as my base.

I splattered with Wet n Wild I Red a Good Book, I stamped with a Bundle Monster plate and Konad Special Polish Black.

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

Bundle Monsters 30 Days of Screams – Day 12: Black Cats

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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I do not own any of the Bundle Monster cat stamping designs so I was thrilled to use my new Pueen water decals! The black cats may or may not have drawn me to this specific set. Heh…But, since this is a Bundle Monster contest I stamped a base for the little kitties.

I fell in love with my first Pahlish lacquer a few weeks ago so when I re-purchased my coveted Color Club Wham! Pow! I couldn’t help but buy a few more nail polishes from Pahlish. I was excited to use this grey base because I knew exactly what other colors I was going to use! Don’t you love it when you don’t have to pour over colors for hours and hours to decide which to use??

I had trouble with the water decals, they applied well but my hands were shaky so I couldn’t position them properly. These specific designs have very thin necks (literally!) and I, unfortunately, wasted a few because they folded over. That was definitely a bummer. I did not have trouble with air bubbles with these and they smoothed out nicely in the end. Better yet, they didn’t smear with top coat application!

I hope you like today’s manicure! The bottom is a closer look at this awesome Pahlish base!

 

Bundle Monster Halloween Challenge - Black Cats | The Rite of Aging

Bundle Monster Halloween Challenge - Black Cats | The Rite of Aging

I started with 3 coats, for good measure, of Pahlish Mind Like a Diamond. It is an awesome light lilac-grey with black, potentially dark purple (sorry, I’ve got terrible eyesight apparently) and a light purple shimmer throughout.

I stamped with Sephora by OPI Domestic Goddess and Bundle Monster plate BM-315.

I finished with Pueen water decals and Seche Vite.

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

NAIL (October) – Week Two: Textured

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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I am not the biggest fan of textured polishes, I own a couple but I got them as gifts with purchase. I’ve used them a couple of times but was not feeling particularly creative…And then I realized, textured polish is not the only way I can achieve texture! Why not go with one of my favorite techniques??

Ever since I started blogging I wanted to do a bumblebee manicure. When I got my Bundle Monster plates it was the first stamp I tried! However, due to my inexperience I never managed to transfer the design correctly to the stamper so I gave up. What better time to re-try than a textured manicure prompt for the Link-up?

I hope you like it!

 

NAIL October - Textured | The Rite of Aging

I started with Color Club Almost Famous! as my base.

I detailed with Wet n Wild Black Creme and stamped with Konad Special Polish in Black with a Bundle Monster plate (sorry, I mixed up the plates and can’t find the one I used!).

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.