Happy Thanksgiving! (Late to post)

 Yeah, as the title says I was too late to upload these to my blog. I uploaded them everywhere else, but neglected to upload them here because I didn't feel like typing all the polishes I used. I was just being a lazy bum.

Anyways..

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope it was a good one! :D

For this mani I used: 

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• ULTA 'Set the Nude'
• Zoya 'Arizona'
• Butter London 'West End Wonderland'
• ORLY 'Grave Mistake'
• Maybelline Color Show 'Fierce n Tangy'
• Sinful Colors 'Last Chance'
• Stripe Rite: Red, Yellow, Green, Black
• Acrylic Paint: Orange
• ULTA 'Taupe on a Rope'
• Maybelline Color Show 'Porcelain Party'
• Seche` Vite

Whew. That was crazy. D:

Dreamcatchers and feathers.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of winter themed manicures around, and while I live in Texas, I can't seem to get into the winter spirit. That and Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so I feel compelled to stick to neutrals and fall colors and themes.

I was also waiting for my feathers to arrive in the mail so I could do a mani with real feathers. I'll save that one for Turkey day. c:

*Also, a lot of editing went into my cuticles because:

1. I do a messy top coat job.
2. I didn't take a picture until the next day so the top coat dried all over my fingers and looked like nasty clumpy bleh.

(Ignore my bad photoshop job)

I used for this mani:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• OPI 'Don't Pretzel My Buttons!'
• Stripe Rite: White
• Red + Green = Brown Acrylic Paint
• Hand placed glitter
• Seche` Vite

A word of advice:
Don't try to do hand placed glitter with Seche` Vite. ;(

My go at the galaxy drip!

I saw these by the lovely Coewless and just couldn't resist doing them myself. ;3

How fun, right?

These took a while.. Also because I was watching TV and eating during the whole process. And as I write presently, I haven't painted my dominant hand's nails. There won't be enough time tonight if I want to shower. Especially since freshly painted nails before a shower is never a good idea. I'm already risking it with my left hand.

For this mani I used:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• Maybelline Color Show 'Porcelain Party'
• Butter London 'Slapper'
• ORLY 'Halley's Comet'
• Wet n Wild fast dry 'Teal or no Teal'
• Sinful Colors 'Midnight Blue'
• China Glaze 'For Audrey'
• China Glaze 'Kinetic Candy'
• China Glaze 'Fairy Dust'
• Stripe Rite: White
• Seche`Vite

The much anticipated gradient graveyard tutorial. (Well, just the gradient part)

I'm a bit lazy.. But I did show my gradient process. c:

On a side note, I won first place in 'It's So Easy''s Halloween themed polish contest. Thank you, gradient graveyard. You will always be remembered. <3
And thank you again, gradient graveyard, for the 70+ followers and 6000+ notes received on Tumblr.

I never thought people would enjoy gradient graveyard so much.


Step 1: Lay down your base coat.

Step 2: Using a make-up wedge, blotch your second polish color to your desired spot. I recommend closer to the top. And for the bottom half, I do a second coat to make it seem darker on its own.

Step 3: Sponge your base color over the second polish color for a better blending.

Step 4: Sponge your third polish color over the second polish color. Then if you want, sponge the second color back over the third color to yet again, blend it better. (I don't think I did because my second and third color are relatively similar)

Step 5: Sponge your fourth polish color. 

Step 6: Yuck! That didn't look good, huh? Well, grab your second polish color and sponge over the fourth color. Then, sponge your first polish color over the second, third, and fourth ever so slightly.

Step 7: Yay, that looks nice. Now, FAIRY DUST!

Step 8: The rest of creating gradient graveyard is all thanks to these bad boys right here. And a steady hand. And my ever-growing ambidexterity.

Also, the removing of gradient graveyard. (I don't like cotton balls, so I avoid them as much as possible)

Bonus cat:

Gradient Graveyard.

So, when I posted these on Reddit, I didn't expect them to be so admired. It completely blew my mind. Honestly, I think they're too simple. Like.. Nothing special to look at. Cause I like to do crazy stuff that's eye-catching. Not that this isn't eye-catching, but it's not as exciting as other things I've done.


And I know there were a few requests for a tutorial.. The best I can give now is like, my process.
1. Base coat of polish
2. Sponge 2nd color
3. Sponge base color over 2nd color (this is for better blending)
4. Sponge 3rd color
5. Sponge 2nd color over 3rd color (this is for better blending)
6. Sponge 4th color
7. Sponge 3rd color over 4th color (this is for better blending)
8. Cover with glitter polish -let dry a little-
9. Draw moon (I use stripe rites)
10. Draw grass
11. Draw cat
12. Draw grave
13. White details (RIP, cat whiskers)
14. Give cat flakies for eyes
15. Draw black around the flakies so they aren't so obnoxious and chunky like they're supposed to be
16. Seche` Vite top coat

And that's it. (<---Understatement) Each hand takes about two hours. c:

For the cat, I used flakie bits for the eyes because cat eyes change colors in the dark however your light/angle is. It's way cool in person. :3

For this mani I used:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• China Glaze 'Sweet Hook'
• e.l.f. 'Lilac'
• Butter London 'Scoundrel'
• Butter London 'Marrow'
• China Glaze 'Fairy Dust'
• Stripe Rites: Black, Yellow, and White
• China Glaze 'Luxe and Lush' (For the cat's eyes)
• Seche` Vite 

Mr. Bojangles and Candy Corn.

I was requested at work that I should do the skeleton nails that connect through all the nails for Halloween. This request was made some time ago.. But now it's mid October and there's no better time than now. :D

Now bear with me, I can't turn my thumb to where it perfectly lines up with its body.

This is the first time trying out my matte top coat besides on my nail wheels. I'm in loveeeeee with matte now. <3 <3 <3
I also love how it turned out over the skeleton bones. Originally, it was like a snow white. A few layers of matte top coat and it turned into the yellowed down white that only brought the bones to life even more.

I used for this mani:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• China Glaze 'Liquid Leather'
• Stripe Rite: White and Black
• Butter London Matte Finish Top Coat

Also, the previous week I painted my sister's nails as little candy corns. This was right before bed on a week night, so I wasn't able to clean up too much or be as patient as I had wanted. I was also a little lazy to upload it.. But here they areeeeeee nowwwwww... c:

My dad clipped her nails. So.... Yeah...

For this mani:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• Zoya 'Arizona'
• Maybelline Color Show 'Fierce N Tangy'
• Maybelline Color Show 'Porcelain Party'
• China Glaze 'Electrify'
• Seche` Vite

Jack-o-lanterns!

It's getting closer and closer to Halloween!

Sorry, I've been a bit delayed with uploading. I've been really under the weather with a cold. It started off as laryngitis, which I get at least 3 - 4 times a year, with painful coughing, congestion, stuffy nose so I can't breathe, followed by losing my sense of taste for a few days, stuffy ears.. Uhhghh. Now I'm at the, 'Don't worry Megan, you're healing!' phase for sure. All that's left is manly coughs and stuffy nose and congestion for about a week longer. ;(

Anyways, I saw this design on google and decided to give it a go. The original picture had all nails being jack-o-lanterns. I thought it was a bit much, so I decided to toss in some accent nails to give it some pizazz.

Also, on the accent nails, I had put down the black glitter polish on ALL nails, so then I covered them with orange polish because I was too lazy to remove the black glitter....

For this mani I used:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• Butter London's 'Gobbsmacked'
• Zoya's 'Arizona'
• Stripe Rite: Yellow
• Orange acrylic paint
• Seche` Vite