November Haul

I haven't been to "nail polish heaven"  for couple months and that's a pretty long time in nail polish land because so many new polishes are always being released. Anyways, it basically means I bought a bunch of nail polish! I wanted more, but I'm not made of money so here's what I picked up:

China Glaze's 2011 Holiday "Let It Snow" Collection:

L to R: Velvet Bow, Winter Berry, Poinsetta, Ring in the Red

 L to R: Holly-Day, Glittering Garland, Blue Year's Eve,  Champagne Bubbles

L to R: Tinsel Town, Icicle, Snow Globe, Twinkle Lights

O.P.I.'s "The Muppets" Collection:

L to R: Warm & Fozzie, Designer... De Better, Pepe's Purple Passion

L to R: Wocka Wocka, Meep-Meep-Meep, Animal-istic

L to R: Divine Swine, Gettin' Miss Piggy With It, Excuse Moi

L to R: Rainbow Connection x2, Fresh Frog of Bel Air, Gone Gonzo

L to R: Zoya Kissy (from Zoya's Holiday 2011 Gems and Jewels Collection) and Color Club  Wild and Willing

I'm lucky the nail polish store I go to sells these for half of what you would pay anywhere else. The OPI were $4.25 each, China Glaze were $2.75 each, Zoya was $4, and Color Club was I think $2.50. I think I'm going to get more Zoya's from the Gems and Jewels Collection, but at the time I told myself no because I thought it would be overdoing it lol. As you can see, there are TWO of Rainbow Connection. Since it seems to be so popular (and GORGEOUS), I decided to grab an extra and since my birthday is coming up, I will have a giveaway for Rainbow Connection and announce it on my birthday! I can't wait until my winter break from nursing school next month so I can finally play with everything.

Halloween Mani #3 Water Marble with Spiders

Happy Halloween everyone!! Here's my last Halloween mani. I had so many other ideas, but unfortunately just didn't have enough time to do them. I guess I'll have to wait until next year for those. Anyways, I wanted to do a marble with black in it, but I decided not to because I wanted to stamp over it. I first used a base coat of Wet n Wild French White Creme and then marbled using Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed, and China Glaze Life Preserver. I stamped using BM 13 in Konad Black. I tried using the spider image from the same plate and it wouldn't pick up for the life of me! So here you go, you can all laugh at my freehand spiders =P

Halloween Mani #2 Candy Corn Water Marble

Okay so I saw a few candy corn manis this month and thought they were really cute so I wanted to give them a try for myself. First, I tried doing a water marble with just the color scheme, but wasn't loving it very much, so I just decided to just do a water marble of it without the actual marbling. I used a base coat of Wet n Wild French White Creme and then marbled using Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed, and Color Club Almost Famous. I topped it off with China Glaze Fairy Dust.

Halloween Mani #1

Everyone's Halloween manicures that I saw throughout the month were really inspiring, but they made me sad at the same time because I couldn't do mine until this weekend. I finally had some time today to do a few and here's one that I came up with. My base color is China Glaze Papaya Punch. I used several Bundle Monster image plates for this mani including BM: 13, 209, 211, 223, and 224. I stamped using Konad Black, Konad White, and Konad Princess Apple Green. I've got another one for you all tomorrow =]