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 :)

Christmas Coco

So originally I only intended to take the first month of my senior year away from blogging to really focus… but then it turned into a whole semester. The longer I stayed away the harder I found to get back into it. I wanted to come back when my year bloggiversary was, but I had to work on my school's premier gala. Then about halfway through November I figured I would just come back after my ORLA was done, this huge assignment that all the seniors have to do where you basically write fourteen essays on one book. It was no bueno. So now as of today it's been four months since my last post, and high time I get back into it. I need more than just school and Netflix to stay sane lol. So today while I was deciding what I should paint, I was inspired by my mug of hot coco. I've got a sore throat and it really helps. I started playing around with the colors and patterns on it and really liked this one.

The trees on my cup have these little starbursts patterns, so I did this kinda loose interpretation of them. I think after this I'm going to end up making another cup.

I used:
Revlon Posh
Pure Ice Platinum White

I hope you are all keeping warm this winter and have a hot beverage of your own!

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.

I'm Looking for a Blonde in a Union Jack.

A specific one, mind, I din't just wake up this morning with a craving.

My friend Jessica is currently back home in England, not in London though. She's from Nottingham. I asked her to bring me back the crown jewels, but since she's not willing to commit theft I settled for some chocolate Penguins instead. 

I used:

Pure Ice Platinum White Magic Basecoat

Revlon Red

Clair's Blue Nail Art Pen

Blick White Acrylic Paint

Don't forget to enter the giveaway!

Scuttling Scarabs

*Does Egyptian walk* I love egyptian things! I've always liked there rainbow-winged scarabs, so I decided to do a simpler one on my nails.

I used:

Maybelline Bold Gold

Revlon First Class

Revlon Red

Clair's Black Nail Art Pen

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?

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.

Polly Want a Cracker?

This post is going to be lightning fast today, I have to get ready for prom!

For Rio de Janeiro I was inspired by the bright tropical Macaw Parrot.

I used:

Revlon First Class

Sally Hansen Brisk Blue

Revlon Posh

Stripe Rite Neon Green

Revlon Red

Revlon Infamous

Don't forget to enter the giveaway! :)

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

(source)

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.

(source)

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.

Golden Orange

Instead of the Golden Apples from The Garden Hesperides, today we have the Golden Orange. Because nymphs need citrus too. 

This is a very bright update I did later to the plain orange polish I wore out a while ago, its kind of the opposite to this manicure. I used paper reinforcers from Staples to get the half-moons, and it made life waaay easier from what I was doing before. I will need some practice to get all of them even though.

I used:

Revlon Infamous

OPI Rising Star

PIE/3.14

Happy Pi Day! I don't really know how one might celebrate Pi Day, but I would assume with pie. And appropriately themed nail art. This is a short post today, I've been super busy planning my schools prom. It's getting to be crunch time to get all of the decorations ordered. It's Tim Burton themed, if you have any ideas feel free to say so in the comments!

I used:

Revlon Posh

Clair's Black and White nail art pens

The pencil was given to me last year by my Geometry teacher. See you tomorrow!

Valentines Socks

So normally I NEVER match my socks, life is honestly too short to match socks. Buuut ever since I was little my Grandma Jeanie has bought me wonderful holiday socks, on these days are the only days I will match my socks. So this year I decided to match my nails to them :)

I used:

Midgi Hot Pink Nail Art Pen

Sally Hansen Black Out

Revlon Red

I myself did not have a valentine this year, but my friend shared some of her chocolate bar with me so I felt loved anyways ^-^. I hope you had a great holiday, and if not, weeell all of that chocolate goes on sale tomorrow ;)

Lazy Doesn't Even Begin to Cover It...

Ok long story short I haven't been blogging because I got caught up into a new show and Netflix has this handy little "watch the next one right this second" feature and before you know it it's midnight and I haven't eaten anything or done anything else for that matter. So yesterday I was like, "Haleigh, get your butt up and contribute to your blog." So I did, but this seriously just. I don't even. Yeah. I didn't even clean up my cuticles. 'Cause Sam and Dean were like watch us and I was like, "Yes. Yes of course." Oh and yeah this is day something (flag day) of the 31DC.

Oh and I'm now posting this today BECAUSE ALL I DID WAS ONE COLOR OF POLISH BUT SOMEHOW I NEVER GOT UP TO MAKE A POST.

This sums up like the past two weeks -__-. Can this post be over now? Yeah I think that's all I have to say. Oh yeah the color is Revlon Posh.

Serendipity

Hello lovlies! Today I'm going to a friend's birthday party, which is being held at Serendipity 3. To my understanding its like a fancy ice cream parlor.

I do know for a fact though that we are getting this:

It's called the treasure chest, and it's every single ice cream/ dessert packed into an edible chocolate chest. I think I will have a sugar high for the rest of my life.

I decided to frostify my nails for the occasion. Starting from my thumb are the flavors; strawberry, chocolate with raspberry syrup and whip cream, vanilla with sprinkles, mint chocolate chip (my favorite!), and vanilla with chocolate syrup and a cherry on top.

I used:

Maybelline Green With Envy

Revlon Red

Revlon Posh

Clair's White, Pink, Blue, Black, and Green Nail Art Pens

NYC French Tip White

Petite's French Pink

Sally Hansen Stony Creme

Sally Hansen Lacy Lilac
Stripe Rite Yellow

Midgi Yellow and Blue Nail Art Pens

 Anybody else hungry now?