Challenge Your Nail Art: Pumpkins

Hello Readers!

Today I have a response to the "pumpkins" prompt for the Challenge Your Nail art group on Facebook. I've been looking forward to October for months now because I have been so excited to do fall and Halloween manis! So I'm excited to be participating in the group to see even more fun fall manis.

So today's stamping heavily features Bundle Monster's "holiday" round plate collection, which is an older collection. I made a pumpkin decal and had fun shading it in, as well as shading my leaves. I've really been enjoying coloring fall leaves in; they are really fun to do. 

I also used this moyou london dupe plate for the second time this month:

As well as this farm themed plate from Bundle Monster's "Fuzzy and Ferocious" for the little barn:

I was originally going to do a scarecrow on my accent nail. I actually got it all painted for the decal and when I flipped it over, I hated it. So I decided to change directions and try out the barn image instead. In retrospect, I think the overall look would have been better if I had stuck to the basketweave background on all the nails and just had the one with a pumpkin. Oh, well, you live you learn right? I actually tried to take one of the smaller pumpkins and stamp it onto the foreground on the barn landscape, but it just didn't work. The scale was off and it looked too simple because all the other images have thin black borders. I tried to add detail to make it fit, but it was a fail so I ended up scraping it off and re-stamping the lower portion of my grass there. I later added little pumpkins just using a dotting tool, and then added a little highlight on them with a smaller dotting tool. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this fall-themed manicure. Thanks for stopping by today!

31 Day Challenge: Orange

Hello Readers!

It's time for the second installment of the 31 day challenge, which is another color prompt: Orange!

I decided to break out the fall themes for the first time this year, even though it isn't quite fall yet, especially where I live, because orange just seems like the perfect fall color, and because I really wanted to try out this lovely polish I just got:

When I finished this mani, it was too dark outside to take pictures in natural light. I took the below picture that same night, and the above the following morning. Unfortanately my rhinestones shifted a little bit during the night. Yeah, they weren't perfectly straight to begin with but in the morning they were a bit worse! Ha ha oh well. 

For this mani I used two polishes from the Revlon Parfumerie line: Orange Blossom, as pictured above, and Autumn Spice, which is that lovely brown with shimmer running through it. I also used Sinful Colors "Yolo Yellow" to fill in the leaves. My stamping polish is Bundle Monster "Freedom Ring", which is specifically formulated for stamping. 

Originally I was going to use the tape trick to split my middle finger nail into two colors, but I am way too impatient to use that trick and I always end up messing up my nails because I put the tape on them too soon and my polish comes up when I remove it. So I figured a straight line should be easy enough to do on my own. After I painted the offset line, I added a row of rhinestones to help bridge the transition from brown to orange. 

Here's the stamping plate I used; it's from Bundle Monster's Holiday collection:

Be sure to check out all the other orange nail art for today's prompt! Until tomorrow, happy polishing

-The Midnight Stamper

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