Why am I Such a Misfit?

I find that spirit week sometimes inspires some great, and odd nail art. Today was based on the Island of Misfit Toys, and the criteria was to just be mismatched. I took this quite to heart, and my dad this morning (not knowing it was spirit week) thought I had gone off my rocker!

I used:

Maybelline Onyx Rush

Pure Ice Platinum Basecoat

NYC Sidewalkers

Essie We're in it Together

Sally Hansen Lacey Lilac

Julep Clara

Julep Coco

Revlon Infamous

Stripe Rite Green, Pink, and Yellow

I pretty much just included designs from all the elements in my outfit. This post taught me that I need to figure out another way to take ootd pics without my brother, since all of his turned out blurry. So became the weird leg-selfies. If you want to see my doll make-up you can check it out on my Instagram, @haleighbug333. I only took a picture of that right before washing it off sadly, so it's a little smeared. Expect more spirit filled nails from me this week!

Oh! I included a video of the misfit toys themselves in case you also had the song stuck in your head :)

Greetings Earthlings

*in which Haleigh still avoids doing galaxy nails*

Space! One of my favorite things. Space absolutely fascinates me. If being an astronaut didn't require so much math I totally would have wanted to be one. Weightlessness? Getting to see Earth from an arial view? Yes please! I even have an app from howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com on my phone. Space is wicked cool.

I am a firm believer of us not being alone. The universe is so spacious (hehe space pun), I'm sure that theres plenty of planets in the Goldilocks Zone of their sun. They may not be small and green, but hopefully they would still come in peace! I used new nail art brushes from Born Pretty that I am in love with, they're sooo much better than the ones I bought from Amazon. Great for small details and letter writing.

I used:

Maybelline Onyx Rush

Revlon Posh

Revlon First Class

Revlon Red

NYC Sidewalkers

NYC French Tip White

Julep  Rebel

I'm not ashamed to admit that while I was wearing these I occasionally made spaceship sounds while texting. It looked like a spaceship flying over my keyboard and I am an inner five year old.

Swords and Shields

Anybody here watch Merlin? I just finished the series, and I'm missing it sooo much already. So it was easy to come up with a medieval look, based on all the shields that the knights use.

I used:

Sally Hansen Sliver Sweep

Sally Hansen Co-balt Blue

Maybelline Bold

NYC Chelsea

Sally Hansen Pronto Purple

Venique Rolling Tides

Ciutat Comtal

 So when I googled 'barcelona fashion' there was a lot of topless women. I mean A LOT. I was quite shocked. Amongst all that I found a nice color blocked look which you can see below, third photo from the left.

I rather like the gray/pink combination, something dull with a zap. I applied this look just using the brush from the bottle, I didn't want to deal with tape/brushes/dotting tools today.

I used:

NYC Sidewalkers

Essie Tart Deco

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Dont forget about the giveaway!

Charter

So I'm not really one to be a purse snob, shoes are more my thing. When I do carry a purse it's my hand-me-down Vuitton,  but that doesn't mean I cant appreciate a GORGEOUS piece of arm candy when I see one. 

Introducing Charter, and beautiful structured purse from Rabeanco. You can see more drool worthy photos of Charter here (feel free to peruse through the other pretties too!), and read more about the brand here at Work Play Polishes giveaway!

I looove structured purses. I also love white, even though that's never a good idea for me. They allways get dirty so quickly :\.

I used:

NYC French Tip White

Sally Hansen Sliver Sweep

Klean Color Mocha

DO NOT EAT THE PISTACHIO ICECREAM

Anyways. The second part of the Gluttony prompt calls for painting something that makes your stomach growl, and nothing does that for me more than sushi! Seriously, I will eat sushi anywhere, anytime. Best food in the world. I would eat exclusively at Kona Grille or Ra if I could.

I'm really going to need a sushi fix in the next couple of days now! There's no ignoring it. From index to pinky are as follows: California Roll, Shrimp Sushi, Tuna Roll, and Salmon Sushi. Not featured is Crab Crunch or the Vegas Roll (which is to diiieee for!).

I used:

Clair's Black Nail Art Pen

NYC French Tip White

Revlon Infamous

Revlon Posh

Essie Tart Deco

Revlon Red

What makes your stomach growl?

Think Greek

Today I was inspired by the patterns on greek vases, like the one here. I started to wonder why it is that all Grecian vases are variations of orange, black, and white. I really couldn't find a good a simple explanation, everything was in over explanitory terms. Basically the vase was a different clay than the slip (watery clay) used to paint on the figures, and when fired in the kiln they turned different colors.

I used:

NYC Springstreet

Clair's Black Striper

I think this turned out quite nicely, I kinda like the unevenness of the pattern. Plus twists on french tips are always fun :)

If She Doesn't Scare You, No Evil Thing Will

For the sake of getting caught up, I'm breaking my usual one-post-a-day limit.

This was my second attempt at a sugar spun mani, my first looked like an axe-murder  scene. The colors I choose reminded me of Cruella Deville, hence the post title :)

I used:
NYC French Tip White
Maybelline Onyx Rush
Revlon Red

I really like the sugar spun technique, it's interesting. I think next time though I'll have to mix up more "sugar" for my last to nails so they don't look so faltering.

Lovely Lilies

Next to carnations, lilies are my favorite flower. I love carnations for their scent and range of color, and I love lilies for their simple beauty. I was excited to find out that there is a Casablanca Lily, so I did this weeks mani inspired by it.

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Aren't they pretty? ^-^ I wish I could have a whole garden full of them. Heck, I wish I had a garden in the first place. Summer project perhaps?

I used:

NYC French Tip White

NYC Lexington Yellow

NYC Springstreet

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Don't forget to enter the giveaway here!

Roman Royalty

Maybe one day I'll catch up to all of my challenges... Well, here's a start.

     

The colors gold and purple distinctly stand out to me when I think of Romans, I believe a lot of their statesmen wore the colors. I decided to go with a simple ruffian instead of any fancy nail art today.

I used:

Maybelline Bold Gold

NYC Plaza Plumberry

Hope you guys like it! I have a lot of polishing to do now!

Pretty Please with Chanel on Top?

Hey guys! First I have a story to share with you, I rode the public bus all by myself for the first time (!). It was kinda scary but it was a double decker so that was really cool, though not as cool as the Knight Bus. Anyways, I'm super excited about a contest that I have entered, Rite Aide's Nail Extravaganza. The rules are simple, enter your most creative nail art look and ask your friends for votes. The top 20 finalists then have a shot at the grand prize. So here's my entry:

 THE CLAAAW

I really love this look! It made me smile whenever I looked down on my nails today. I always love when a manicure can do that :)

I used:

Chanel Taboo

Essie Tart Deco

Revlon Red

NYC Lexington Yellow

Clair's White Nail Art Pen

Born Pretty Rhinepebbles

So here's the pretty pretty please, I would really appreciate it if you guys would vote for me! You can vote here every day until the 24th. Go go go! :D

I Just Stole a Poncho from a Wooden Indian

Hey guys! My AP Exam is finely finished so now I can get back to blogging :). There was many sleepless nights, some frustration, a few casualties (ok I broke my index nail ripping tape), but hopefully it will all be worth it when I get my score in July. Now on to the nail art!

Today we visit Mexico city. I always think of those bright, vivid ponchos people wear. So I googled "Mexican Ponchos" and used a bunch of pictures for inspiration for my design. I created this look by spongeing each color on separately (the traditional route just made a muddy mess) then used stripers to make the zigzag design.

I used:

NYC Lexington Yellow

NYC Spring Street

Revlon Red

NYC Plaza Plumberry

Revlon First Class

Clair's Black and White Nail Art Pen

Don't forget to enter in the Around the World Giveaway here!

"By the Sea, Land, and Air we prosper."

This post is super rushed and super fast, I woke up late and realized I had nothing to post and no inlinks set up! So this manicure was done really hurried, I didn't want you guy's waiting any longer for the inlinks to be available.

I used:

Clair's Blue Nail Art Pen

NYC French Tip White

Revlon Posh

Maybelline Bold Gold

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I was inspired by the cool design of their flag for this mani, my representation is kind of abstract though. Vancouver is actually the only city I've been to on the list, I drove through it on a Canada/Alaska road trip with my grandparents. I will be going to New York this summer though!

Again super sorry for the lateness! I'll have next week's on a scheduled posting so it's sure not to be late.

Pin Flowers

You guy's must think I'm crazy with all these challenges I'm participating in, the Time Periods Challenge, my challenge, and now this 7 Deadly Sins Challenge. Honestly these have really helped me out inspiration wise, my creative juice has been sucked up by art class. My AP Exam is next Friday, and I still have around 10 pieces to complete. Yay. So I probably won't be posting much except for the 7 Sins and Around the World (Time Periods has a bigger time slot to enter).

For the first week we focus on lust, and the first prompt is to do something you have wanted to do sooo badly. I've always wanted to do that vintage/flower/pinstripe look, so I took this opportunity to try it. What's really funny is that Kelsie from Kelsie's Nail Files seems to have had the same craving at the same time I did xD. I guess theres a bug going around. You can see her sweet manicure here.

I used:

Essie In the Cab-ana (which still refuses to properly photograph, I will tame you one day!)

Essie Tart Deco

NYC French Tip White

Revlon Red 

Revlon Posh

Polish Days- Seven Deadly Sins

I know it's way late to be doing Polish Days, but I really like my idea for this one and couldn't pass it up. I decided to go with wrath, since I just watched Sweeney Todd for the first time the other day. The whole movie is based around Todd wanting to kill the Judge Turpin for stealing his wife.

I was inspired by the ending part where Sweeney had killed Turpin, and the white stripe in his hair is stained with blood. Kinda gruesome I know, I get really weird ideas sometimes. The songs from the movie have been running around my head, especially Little Priest and Johanna. I was shocked to find out that all the actors did their own singing, I didn't know Johnny Depp could sing.

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I used:

NYC French Tip White

Revlon Red

Clair's Black Nail Art Pen

I rather like this sliver of gradient look, I'll have to do it again sometime. Maybe with less deamon barbers though.

Hey, Taxi!

First day of the Around the World challenge! First stop, New York!

I choose to replicate the popular I <3 NY t-shirt design and incorporated the taxi pattern. I was really happy with how the lettering turned out ^-^.

I used:

NYC French Tip White

NYC Lexington Yellow
NYC Chelsea

Clair's Black Nail Art Pen

Maybelline Onyx Rush (I've broken up with Sally Hansen's Black Out)

BM-319

I can't wait to see your guy's manicures! If there are any problems with using the inlinks let me know, this is my first time using it so there may be some bugs. And don't forget to enter the giveaway here!