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Halloween Nail Art Challenge – Day Three: Villains

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Bundle Monster, butter London, Challenge Your Nail Art, freehand, Halloween, halloween nail art, Konad, Nail Art, rafriendlynailart, saran wrap, Seche Vite, Sephora by OPI, splatter, stamping, Wet n Wild, Zoya

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I tried a couple of ideas for today’s manicure. My first was ghosts, but I was not really feeling freehand work. For my second I finally tried Frankenstein patchwork but it looked too crowded. After that bought of freehand, I felt pretty discouraged so I sat down and flipped through my stamping plates. I came across a nocturnal creature and I was suddenly inspired…Vampire Bats! And to top it off, I combined two RA-friendly techniques: splatter and saran-wrap!

So here’s a fun story…sort of…When I worked the morning shift at the animal hospital one of my duties was to walk the dogs in the outside yard. These walks took place at 5 a.m. so I stood outside with the “barkers” to make sure they didn’t bark. One morning while I stood next to this patch of decorative bamboo in the yard, I heard a rustling in the leaves. I thought it was a person or animal but it was coming from the top. I freaked out thinking whatever it was might jump on me, grabbed the dog and ran inside. Later, I was telling this story to one of the receptionists and she told me bats were pretty common in our neck of the woods. She also told me she never walked her dog, at night, in forests or patches of trees and never ever let her dog out by itself. Bats carry rabies!

I love watching bats in captivity but out in the wild!…Nope! Anyways…

I hope you like it!

 

Halloween Nail Art Challenge - Villians | The Rite of AgingI started with two coats of Zoya Goldie as my base.

I “saran wrapped” with Sephora by OPI 212-Sephora and butter London Scuppered. I sealed the base with a generous coat of Seche Vite.

 I “splatter painted” with Wet n Wild I Red Good Book.

I stamped with Bundle Monster plate BM-314 and Konad Special Polish Black.

 

Hi my name is Monica and I have RA.

 

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Halloween Nail Art Challenge – Day 2: Pumpkin Faces

29 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Challenge Your Nail Art, Color Club, distressed nails, freehand, Halloween, halloween nail art, Nail Art, Nail Art Ideas Linkup, Sally Hansen, Sephora by OPI, Wet n Wild

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I combined the NAIL prompt with the Halloween challenge today. When I googled pumpkin faces most of them were traditional orange background, line marks and funny or scary faces.

I love pumpkins but I always got bored of the bright oranges ones. They were so monotone! My favorite were the tiny abnormally colored ones. They were a lot more rare and just looked cooler!

 

white orange mini pumpkin

Distressed nails are very RA-friendly and work perfectly with these pumpkin’s look. I am very excited I can inject a little more “nail art” into today’s manicure to make up for yesterday!

Anyways, I hope you like my “jack-o-lantern” nails. These were really fun to do!

 

Halloween Nail Art - Pumpkin FacesI started with 1 coat of Milani Spotlight White as my base.

I “distressed” with Color Club Almost Famous, Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Short Cir-cute, and Sephora by OPI Metro Chic.

I detailed with Wet n Wild Black Creme and Sephora by OPI 212-Sephora for that candlelight flicker inside 🙂

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

 

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Halloween Nail Art Challenge – Day 1: Classic Orange & Black

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Challenge Your Nail Art, Formula X Sephora, Halloween, halloween nail art, Milani, Nail Art, Revlon

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Whee!! Today is the first day of the Challenge Your Nail Art group’s Halloween Challenge. First, a little information on the group. The group was started by the wonderful Jessica who runs the blog Be Happy and Buy Polish. Every few months Jessica puts together prompts (with input from the group!) and inlinkz codes for short, bite-size challenges. There are never more than four daily prompts but each theme is different and usually touches on the time of year. What I especially love about these challenges is how unique each prompt is! And even though they are different, I can take it any direction I want. Perfect! But be warned, the link-ups are only open for 24 hours! Mwahahaha. (That was my poor attempt at Halloween humor…)

Moving right on past that…

 

I hope you like my classic orange & black manicure. I cheated a little since I did not do “nail art”, per say, but as you know, I am not all that into Halloween so I usually feel pretty uninspired in this department! But hey, I will take any excuse to use my Formula X Halloween topper during this time of the year!

 

Halloween Nail Art Challenge - Orange & Black | The Rite of Aging EarlyI used 2 coats of Milani Spotlight White and 2 coats of Revlon Parfumerie Fresh Linen as my base.

I used a sponge-tip eyeshadow applicator with Formula X by Sephora Bombshell at the cuticles.

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

 

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Nail Art: Simple Halloween

25 Saturday Oct 2014

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Born Pretty Store, Formula X Sephora, Glisten & Glow, Halloween, Nail Art, Seche Vite, Sephora by OPI

Except for challenges, I have not done any Halloween-inspired manicures this year. Last year, around this time, Sephora launched their new Formula X polish collection. There were so many options and I managed to walk away with one: Bombshell. Bombshell was a glitter topper from the Explosives collection. I had and still do not have any similar polish.

I did not know this at the time, but they discontinued this one shade. I am not sure if it was always limited edition though I am pretty sure it was not. Regardless, I am glad I got my hands on it.

I have been totally uninspired in the nail art region, the last few days so I opted for water decals. Unfortunately, this Born Pretty decal would not sit still on my nail, even after it dried, and top coat just wrecked it. In person, at the very least, I could not really tell there was supposed to be a pumpkin and the ghost was severed in half…

I considered not even posting this manicure but I wanted to show off the glitter. FYI, this is ONE coat…That is how much you get with one brush load (I even had to scrape off a little in the bottle). I used the dab technique for even coverage but I did not have to double-dip! Better yet, I did not have to fish for the large pieces! I have not tried any of the other Explosives but if they are similar to Bombshell I would highly recommend them!

I hope you like it….and please excuse my index finger.

 

Halloween Glitter Topper | The Rite of AgingI started with 2 coats of Sephora by OPI Metro Chic and 1 coat of Formula X by Sephora Bombshell as my base. Just look at how dense that glitter is!

The decal is from the Born Pretty Store. I usually have trouble with smearing regardless of which topcoat I use but today was particularly bad. I used Glisten and Glow HK Girl Fast Dry Top Coat and experienced total severing of this decal. I do not know how much of it was the top coat or the decal since the decal was not sitting still anyways. However, I have never had as much disaster with Seche Vite. Thoughts?

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

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NAIL (October 2014) – Week One: Splatter

03 Friday Oct 2014

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blogging community, freehand, Halloween, INM, Milani, Nail Art Ideas Linkup, rafriendlynailart, Seche Vite, Serum No 5, splatter, Zoya

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The first NAIL prompt for October is splatter-painting! Splatter is one of my favorite techniques. It is fun (who doesn’t like getting messy?), abstract, and RA-friendly!

In honor of October, I used Halloween colors. I really like the final effect but I do not like this orange. It is too yellow and dulls the white base underneath. It also stains the skin like mad. I should have used my trusty Wham! Pow! but I am running low so I used this Zoya polish instead. Oh well, I learned my lesson for next time.

I hope you like it!

 

NAIL October week one: splatterI started with 2 coats of the Julie G White Orchid and Serum No. 5 Happy Special Day as my base.

I splattered with Zoya Gwin and  Milani Black Swift.

I sealed the detailing with Seche Vite before adding a generous coat of INM Northern Lights. I noticed however long I wait the Milani polish always smears which is a bummer because I love this polish otherwise.

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

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