tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86564336076812684232024-03-12T23:34:43.229-07:00Hand-y Feats and Other TreatsA blog about nail art, life, and the other treats that are found along the way.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961509298551498524noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656433607681268423.post-43324008562642474852013-03-28T11:50:00.001-07:002013-03-28T11:54:36.840-07:00Back to Blogging...finally!Hello! So yes, I dropped off the face of the earth. And yes, this is my first post of the year. Boy, is that just tragic. It was devastating to stop blogging but sometimes life gives you too many lemons at a time and the joys in your life are the things to suffer. I won't go into too much detail but let's just say 2013 started off rocky and it's just barely starting to level out. There's been illness and death, along with an ungodly amount of stress in my life. I barely have been on my computer, thus why the long absence. For those of you who know me, I use my blog as a creative outlet, to escape the pressures of life. This blog is very important to me and the fact that I haven't updated in quite some time has deeply saddened me. With all that said, I am now back to blogging. It's good feeling to be back to sharing my creations.<br />
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So even though my personal life hasn't been great lately, things are certainly looking up, especially at work! I currently work at a Boys and Girls Club here in Arizona. With our after school program we offer "clubs" or classes for the kids to take and I am teaching a nail art class! I couldn't be more excited! So I have 8 weeks to teach a group of girls all sorts of tips and tricks about nails and of course the fun and different techniques of nail art. Yesterday was the first course and it didn't go very smoothly but I only have 45 minutes and when the girls kept asking questions, it was hard to get down to the painting. Overall it was a fun experience and I can't wait for next week.<br />
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I have decided to recap my classes on the blog with pictures of the girls hands. Since yesterday was day 1, I didn't quite plan a lesson but rather an introduction to the course and a sort of free for all. I was surprised and delighted on how creative these girls were.<br />
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For some reason not all of the pictures I took would download but I hope you get the idea. I didn't help these girls come up with the designs or anything. I really just painted some of their left hands. haha. The rest was all them. I must say, I'm really proud. The picture quality will be better next week, since I have been instructed to teach the class outside from now on...due to the powerful fumes. So at least the lighting will be better. Next week I am going to teach the girls how to make and use their own dotting tools! Should be a lot of fun. I'm not sure when I will be back to doing challenge posts but I hope it will be soon. </div>
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<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961509298551498524noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656433607681268423.post-63709623736632931732012-11-21T09:11:00.000-08:002012-11-21T09:11:07.358-08:00Llama Nails: ABC Challenge! K is for Kirby!Hello all! I am excited about today's nails. As my readers should have noticed, I am a nerd. A nerd who loves "old" video games. I have done Yoshi nails and Luigi and to add to the collection, for the letter K I would like to present my Kirby nails! Kirby is one of the cutest video game characters of all time and he is my #1 choice for Super Smash Bros. He flies and has the ability to steal other abilities. Anyways here are the nails:<br />
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At first I painted my nails two coats of <b>Sally Hansen Coral Reef </b>but it wasn't the right pink, (it was a little too dark), so then I painted over it with <b>Julep Carrie. </b>I used Coral Reef for the cheeks though. I wanted to do several of his cute faces. I just LOVE the way he came out, just sooooo cute!!!</div>
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I just can't stop smiling! These nails are so cute. I now have the urge to play Super smash bros. Might need to convince the boyfriend to play with me. Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I will be going out of town and that means that I will probably be M.I.A. for the next few days. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!<br />
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For I, I wanted to do something fun and since an igloo would have taken so long, I decided to do icicles. I thing they came out pretty but they don't look exactly like icicles haha. For my base color I used <b>Sally Hansen White On. </b>I then used <b>essence Gleam in Blue </b>and mixed it with the white for some of the icicles. To create the look I used a thin tipped nail art brush. </div>
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I let Blake choose what I should do for J. He replied with jalapeno...on a stick. For those that don't get the reference, it's from a Jeff Dunam joke. So I had this pepper stamp and decided to do the jalapenos. The base color is <b>L.A. Colors Wave Length. </b>For the stamping I used BM 06 with <b>OPI Jade is the New Black. </b></div>
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For my base color I used <b>Nubar Reclaim. </b>I will never stop loving this polish. Anyways. I also used <b>Piggy Polish Blue-ing Romance</b> for the base color on my ring ringer. I then used <b>OPI Jade is the New Black, </b>along with BM03. I then used BM 19 with<b> NYC Skin Tight Denim. </b>The frog and flies were done with acrylic paint. For G I thought I would keep up with animals, so I immediately thought of giraffes.</div>
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C is for Cat<br />
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To see what polishes and techniques I used, check out the guest post <a href="http://passionforpolish.com/2012/10/feature-friday-cat-nails-by-hand-y-feats-and-other-treats/">here</a>.<br />
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So then I thought, "Hmm... what should I do for D?" There's nothing better for D than dog, since it goes great with C for Cat.<br />
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This is a pretty simple design. I painted my nails two coats of <b>Sally Hansen White On</b>, then I took black acrylic paint and painted on the spots and face. Voila! </div>
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I'm excited for E, F, and G. I will probably post them when I get off work tonight! </div>
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Normally the challenge posts will be every Wednesday but since this challenge actually started back in September, I have to catch up a little. I only found out about this group a few weeks ago and by then the challenge was well underway but it's never late to join right? Plus why not start from the beginning.<br />
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A is for Apples. When I think of the letter A, I generally think of apples. I don't know why but I do. I just bought a giant bag of Red Delicious apples from the store and thought that the dark red color would be perfect for my apples.<br />
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I used <b>Sinful Colors Happy Ending</b> as my base color and <b>Orly's Grave Mistake</b> for my apples. The rest was acrylic paint that I applied with a thin tipped nail art brush. </div>
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B is for Balloons. I'm not sure why I came up with balloons for B but I just love the way they came out! I am definitely going to do this design again, maybe for a birthday mani!</div>
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For my base color I used <b>OPI Skull and Glossbones</b>, then I used a fan brush and applied some white polish. For the balloons I used <b>Sally Hansen Pacific Blue, SH Mellow Yellow </b>and<b> Ulta Non-stop Red</b>. I created the balloons using a large dotting tool and a small one. I placed the small dots right at the base of the larger ones. I then outlined the dots and drew a small line for the tied part of the balloons.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed my post for today. Stay tuned for C and D!<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Bullying is not funny. It is not cool. It is not right. And more importantly, it is not okay. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of us are, thankfully, residents of countries that support tolerance and many of our families have settled in these places simply for that reason. Generations later, it is our responsibility to perpetuate that message of tolerance across our new social platforms, including the internet.<br /><br />As members of the nail polish blogging community, we all share a love of beauty, color, and lacquer. Other than that, we are remarkably different: from our race to our religion to our hair color...even to our polish application techniques. To marginalize anyone because of those differences is completely unacceptable and today I take a stand against that. I refuse to allow other people's view of "normal" dictate how I behave, believe, and blog.<br /><br />In solidarity with a multitude of bloggers linked below, my purple manicure represents my proud commitment to the No H8 movement. Today, November 8, I dedicate my post to ending bullying of any kind and to encouraging diversity and imperfection among our colorful community.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello! Today is a special post, for me and for many others. As it reads above, I wear purple nails today to show my support against bulling and also to bring awareness to the bullying that goes on in our nail community. Not only that but I feel today is about showing no hate in any aspects of our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I, like many others, was a victim of bullying growing up. It was a daily thing. Kids would tell me I was ugly and make fun of my hair or my glasses. It was a nightmare. It took me a long time to get over it and there were days when I felt like I should end it all. No child, no person should ever feel this way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been blogging for almost a year now and I have been fortunate enough to only come across kindness and support. I finally feel like I have my own little place on the internet, creating nail art with so many beautiful and kind souls. Unfortunately, there are some not so kind people in this community. I am a firm believer if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all. If people have the courage to share their nails with the world, don't cut them down if you don't like them. That is not what the nail community is about. I have learned throughout my year of blogging. that many bloggers are helpful to those starting out. They provide tips and tutorials of all sorts. Bullying someone just because their work isn't perfect just isn't right! We should all support one another. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are my nails for today. Not perfect but that's ok. We are all human and we all make mistakes. We need to show each other support and love, especially for something we are all so passionate about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hearts have become a symbol for love and that's the point of my nails today, we should so love toward one another not hate! So if you are new and starting out, don't be discouraged. So what if you manicures aren't perfect? No one is! Heck I'm not! I share my nails because I love to paint them and I know others would like to see what I come up with. Thank you to all who have shown me nothing but kindness and support, I am very </span>grateful<span style="font-family: inherit;">. And much thanks to all the wonderful people participating in today's No H8 post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/" style="color: #784d96; text-decoration: none;">National Suicide Prevention Hotline</a> - <span style="color: #323232; line-height: 18px;">800.273.TALK (8255)</span></span></span></div>
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As for my nails, I decided for each of my thumbs I would do the Cheshire's face. For my right hand I only did the smile because I'm still not that skilled painting with my left hand due to being right handed. For the rest of my nails I did his stripes. I painted the purple first which was a bad idea because it made the fuchsia color much darker than it really is, you can tell my looking at the thumb with his full face. </div>
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I'm pretty happy with the way the nails came out. I started doing this mani with tape but I don't have proper nail tape so I lose patience and start painting the stripes themselves. So that's why they aren't perfect.</div>
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So I made my costume with furry ribbon stuff, safety pins, a sweater and jeans. I also made my ears with a headband, felt and cotton balls (genius idea thought up by Tara). I'm pretty happy with the way it came out.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The idea behind my costume was that I was the Cheshire Cat disappearing. In the original Disney movie he says, "Most everyone's mad here. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself." He says this while he is vanishing. Below is the picture I used for my inspiration. </span></span><br />
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I hope you all enjoyed the nails I painted to go along with my costume and my costume itself! What did you guys where on your nails for Halloween? And if you dressed up, what was your costume? I hope everyone had a fun Halloween this year!</div>
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961509298551498524noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656433607681268423.post-1427895335149379282012-10-31T11:25:00.000-07:002012-10-31T11:25:04.356-07:00"This is Halloween" Challenge! Day 11: Recreate Your Favorite ManicureHello! It's HALLOWEEN! AHHHH! I am excited! I get to dress up at work, along with all of my co workers! It should be fun, the theme is Disney! Can you guess who I will be? I will be posting my costume nails tomorrow, along with me dressed in my costume! (Maybe if I get a good picture!) Anyways it's the last day of the "This is Halloween" Challenge! The objective was to recreate your favorite manicure done by someone else. I choose to recreate <a href="http://amokiscorner.blogspot.com/2012/10/this-is-halloween-gradient.html">this adorable mummy gradient</a> mani done by <a href="http://amokiscorner.blogspot.com/">Amoki's Corner</a>.<br />
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Aren't they just the cutest mummies ever?! I loved the way Amoki did her nails and what an amazing idea for the gradient challenge! I was very impressed and really loved her look, thus why I recreated it. :)</div>
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It wasn't that hard to do, I am actually rather impressed with myself on how clean my lines look. That was all done with my shaky hands people! WOO! I definitely have on my smug suspenders today. </div>
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I wore these nails yesterday and had lots of compliments on them! This is definitely a look I will be doing again, I think they came out so cute! I'm said that October is basically over! It went by way to fast. I hope you all stick around to see more of my nail art. Thank you to my followers both new and old, I share my art for you! :) HAPPY HALLOWEEN!</div>
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So like the Manicure Monkey, I did a Frankenstein face and then some stitching for the rest of the nails. She used two different greens but I decided to just use one. I think he came out so cute but I wasn't too happy with him so shiny so...</div>
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I threw a matte top coat over him! I think it is so much better! Sometimes matte is the way to go. What do you guys think?</div>
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Here's a comparison of the two top coats. The shiny normal top coat came be seen on the left and the dull matted top coat is on the right. Which do you like better?</div>
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I had just a blast with this challenge! My favorite nails that I did where my <a href="http://hand-yfeatsandothertreats.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween-challenge-day-6-things-that.html">Monster nails</a> from Things That Go Bump In the Night. I hope you all loved my manicures and my recreation of The Manicured Monkey's adorable Frankenstein nails. Hope you visit my blog again soon!<br />
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I just painted my nails with a holographic polish, in this case OPI DS Extravagence, and once dry, I painted the candy corn shapes. First with white acrylic paint, they I painted most of it with the yellow and then the middle with orange. It was pretty simple and I think it came out so cute!</div>
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Now it's time to recreate my favorite from another challenger! I loved so many and this was a hard choice but I am currently wearing my recreation so look out for it tomorrow! Halloween's eve! I can't believe how fast time has flown. We get to dress up for work and I'm pretty excited. I'm doing special nails (which I will post probably on November first) and hopefully I will get a picture of me in my costume to share with you guys!<br />
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See you tomorrow!<br />
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I've been seeing some awesome graveyard manicures! Mine are simple but I like them. Only two days left of the challenge! I love doing challenges, I'm just a little sad that I didn't put my heart into the Halloween ones as much as I would have liked but starting a new job and having my family emergency has been very distracting. Up next is Trick or Treat nails, my design is simple but I hope you guys like what I came up with.</div>
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I think this mani came out pretty creepy and cool. What do you guys think? I used masking tape to create the black section of the nails. I then stamped silver spiders over the dividing lines of the two colors. </div>
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Only one challenge left! It's going to be hard to choose a manicure to recreate! I think it's more fun to recreate another challenger's mani but there are so many good ones! Everyone did such a cool job! Decisions, decisions!</div>
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Only two days left of this challenge! It's going to be hard to choose which mani I will recreate. When there is a recreate day in a challenge, I like to choose another challengers work to recreate. That's why it will be so hard to decide, because there has been some really awesome manicures!</div>
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<span style="color: #757575;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;"><b>I just adore the Peanuts and Linus is by far my favorite! I just think he is the cutest thing, for the most part I think he came out pretty good. I think my pumpkins need some work though.</b></span></span></div>
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So what do you guys think? I hope you like Linus in the pumpkin patch! Up next is blood/gore/splatter. Since I am incapable of doing splatter, expect some bloody nails. </div>
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See you tomorrow with more pumpkin nails!<br />
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Looking at it now, I realize I should have done the white bats first to create a shadowing effect but oh well. I still think it came out kind of neat. I painted by nails yellow then sponged on a deep red color. I then used BM 31 to create the bats.</div>
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Next week we have Gradient and Witches, should be interesting but fun! I should be feeling better by then (hopefully.)<br />
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So what do you guys think? Cute right? I just love how they came out. I have gotten so many compliments on them so far. I keep getting asked if they are stickers and when I say that I did them by hand, people are shocked. I feel very proud of this! I really think they came out so cute!<br />
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To create this design, I painted my nails two coats of a lighter color; lime green, light blue, light orange, lavender, and a lighter hot pink. Next I took a darker color (that matched the base color, ex. dark green with the lime green) and painted small lines for the monsters fur. I then added the eyes and mouth. I tried to create a different look for each monster. On my left hand I tried to copy the same nails from the right but my index fingers ended up looking different. I think the blue nails totally look like cookie monster, is that just me?</div>
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I think I will do this design again in the future, it came out so cute!<br />
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So we have Frankenstein, Wolf man, a mummy, Dracula, and Frankenstein's bride's hair. Making a design for my pinky nail is so hard, since it is so small! What do you think? </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Hello Hand-y Feats and Other Treats readers! When Erin asked me to do a guest post for her, I was so unbelievably excited ... and then completely terrified! Erin has such a talent for nail art, and I'm a bit nail art challenged, so it took me forever to come up with an idea. Erin specifically requested that I use some form of 3D nail art, so here's what I came up with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The shimmery pink foil is Studio M Nail Lacquer Hot Like Lava. On my two middle fingers, I used 3 coats of OPI Alpine Snow, and stamped the flower design with Hot Like Lava and image plate BM-211. I finished it off with gold steel ball nail accents from the Born Pretty Store for the centers of the flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">As pretty as the steel ball nail art is, this isn't a manicure that's going to last very long. If you seal it with a good, thick layer of top coat, you can get a few days of wear out of it at most. Since they're so tiny, they won't stay put as well as something larger, like a rhinestone. But I still love them! Thanks so much to Erin for having me over to visit today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">I have never used any </span></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">type</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> of 3D nail art and I just LOVE what Ashley did with the gold steel balls! I think these nails are simply amazing! I would </span></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">definitely</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> wear them for a night out or to a wedding. Thank you Ashley for writing such a wonderful guest post! I hope you all enjoyed her post, I know I did. Make sure to check out her wonderful blog! I really enjoyed having a guest post and I hope to have more in the future. If you are interested in writing a guest post for me, I will gladly do the same for you. We can do a swap of sorts! Go ahead and email me or write me on Facebook if you are interested. :) Ashley also featured me on her blog today, you can see the post <a href="http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/six-odd-facts-pokemon-010628069.html">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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I really don't have much to say about these nails, I think they are awesome and I hope you all like them. I used Nubar Reclaim as my base color and Sally Hansen Sun Kissed for the pumpkins. Everything else was acrylic paint. I hope you guys enjoyed my nails for today, later on I will be posting a guest post! And don't forget to check out the other Jack-O-Lanterns for today. I'm not sure where the new posts start though...<br />
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Later!<br />
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Hocus Pocus is one of my favorite movies, I try to watch it every year for Halloween but sadly I no longer own it and it's not like I can go to a video store and rent it now... Anyways, I still need to work on my faces but for the most part I think my nails look like the Sisters and their cauldron of potion for the children!</div>
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I used polish for Winnie's hair and for the cauldron but everything else was acrylic paint. So what do you guys think? Don't be too harsh! I really like how my cauldron came out. The thumb looks crappy but I didn't know what to do for it. In hindsight, I should have done "the book." Oh well, I would like to do more Hocus Pocus nails in the future. </div>
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Next week is freestyle and things that go bump in the night...Should be interesting. I feel like this topics are vary vague which leaves a lot of room but I'm so indecisive that sometimes it's hard for me to decided haha. I can't wait to see what everyone came up with today!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
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So I tried to create the creases with blood, just like the Daily Nail. It is much harder to do then you would think! For my own twist, I added in a brain and zombie face. What do you guys think? I find these nails creepy but then again Zombies are suppose to be creepy. </div>
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<b>What I used:</b></div>
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<li>1 coat of Orly Grave Mistake</li>
<li>2 thick coats of Orly Decades of Dysfunction</li>
<li>More Orly Grave Mistake for the blood</li>
<li>OPI Schnapps Out of It for the crease</li>
<li>Sally Hansen Coral Reef for the brain</li>
<li>White, black and yellow acrylic paint</li>
<li>Fine tipped nail art brush</li>
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Next for this challenge is witches! I adore witches, so this should be fun! I have been a witch for Halloween many many times.<br />
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Until next time,<br />
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