Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who may be celebrating today!  I did these nails a couple days ago and have been wearing them all weekend.  Here's what I came up with!

Lantern & Wren ThankFall

UberChic I Always Fall for Autumn

Did a skittle base; starting at thumb and going clockwise:  Essie You Know The Espadrille, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pride Healing Feeling, Color Club Beaches, Orly Lovella, and Sally Hansen Miracle Gel I Don't Desert You.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Did a stamper decal from Infinity 65 after using a shrinking stamper to make it smaller.  I even made it a little too small, or didn't position it well, as I had to hand paint in the top of the free edge the cornucopia.  After sponging Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Colour Instinct on index finger, stamped image from Creative Shop 16S (used shrinking stamper too for it).  Stamped feathers on the middle using image from Lantern & Wren ThankFall, then layered stamped turkey (not very well!).  Ring is Lesly Autumn Leaves with words shadow stamped from UberChic I Always Fall For Autumn and lastly, the pinky is image from Clear Jelly Stamper CjS-220.  Used a few polishes I didn't make a note of for the stamper decal and the following MdU stamping polishes:  9, 13, 46, 53, 66, 75, 106 and 107, along with Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.  

I touched up the base polish over the turkey that I didn't stamp very well, and also added a few more brush strokes of colour for the turkey feathers, then added leaves on the middle (not very well either) using image from CjS-135.  

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend if you celebrated, and if not, hopefully this mani will provide some ideas for your Thanksgiving later in the year!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope that you are enjoying the day with family or friends and thinking of everything you have to be thankful for!  I know I am thankful for a lot; I've been blessed with a husband that loves me to pieces even after 26 years of marriage, three wonderful children, a career that challenges me and has provided well for my family and everyone has pretty good health (everyone but me but I'm getting by lol!).  Lastly, I am thankful that I have the means and time to support my nail art hobby and then be able to share it with everyone who chooses to see it on the various social media accounts that I have for over the last nine years and hopefully you enjoy it as well.  Thank you so much!

Polishes used starting at the thumb and going clockwise are Pretty & Polished In the Buff and then alternating nails of SpaRitual Kindness and SpaRitual Positive Vibes.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

After making a few stamper decals, applied them.  Images are from Lesly Golden Leaves (thumb), Creative Shop 91 (index), Infinity 65 (middle), Lina 4 Season - Autumn 02 (ring) and Delaney Automne 003 (thumb).  Used assortment of MdU stamping polishes for all the decals.

Absolutely love this stamper decal!  I only wish my nails were wider and longer so that it could really be appreciated!  I'd love to do a mani with this on all nails; it is so cool for sure! It didn't help that I didn't place the decal centered on my nail but sometimes these things happen despite best efforts!

The finished nail; not placed very well but at least you see the leaves well on the one side!  Still love it!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Shadow stamped words on thumb using MdU 2 and 106 using image from Maniology M023.  My test hand shadow stamping was much better and I have a feeling that the solid words are to be stamped before the outlined ones but that's OK!  I'll know better for next time!

Maniology M023.

Thanks for looking and Happy Thanksgiving!

Digit-al Dozen Does Throwback; Day 1

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canucks!  I'm sorry for posting late; I did these nails well in advance of Thanksgiving day (on Saturday morning as I was going away for the long weekend), but I couldn't get the pictures to upload from my phone yesterday to do the blog post!  I had to get them uploaded to my computer in a very roundabout way so am late!  I'm also using these nails for day 1 of Digit-al Dozen does throwback, as a throwback to Thanksgiving nails I've done in the past!  Here's what I came up with!

(The above nails are without topcoat; the nails below have topcoat - I couldn't figure out which ones I liked best!

Started with a base of skittles; starting at thumb and going clockwise:  OPI Santa Monica Beach Peach, Sally Hansen Butterscotch, SpaRitual Clay, American Apparel Mac Arthur Park and L'Oreal The Perfect Trench.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Made a few stamper decals using the base polishes and a couple others.

Applied stamper decals, and also stamped a couple fingers.  Used images from Infinity 65 (thumb), UberChic Lovely Leaves (ring), Delaney Automne 003 (middle and ring) and UC mini Give Thanks (pinky).  Used MdU polishes for index and middle.

Delaney Automne 003

UB mini Give Thanks

Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  

Here's a past Digit-al Dozen mani that this mani is (loosely) based upon!

I did Ms. Cindy a little different but liked it enough that I thought I would share!  On a base of Sally Hansen Butterscotch, stamped using Delaney Feuillages A001 on all fingers except thumb which is Helen 19.  Used a few different MdU stamping polishes.

Helen 19.

Here's the other ladies throwback mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hopefully you had a great Thanksgiving weekend!  Thanks for looking!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to anyone celebrating today!  These were the nails I was wearing on Thanksgiving Day back in October which is when us Canadians celebrate giving thanks.

Started with a base of skittles; polishes used starting at thumb and going clockwise are OPI Life Gave Me Lemons, Essie So Racy, Essence Wake Up!, Sally Hansen Butterscotch and Revlon Hot For Chocolate; all two coats; shown with top coat.

I made a stamper decal from my favourite Thanksgiving image, Infinity 65.  I used acrylic paints; I tried to do some shading on the leaves, squash and pumpkin using darker complimentary colours; not sure how successful this was lol!

Applied stamper decal to the thumb, then stamped using Bundle Monster BM-H11 (index and pumpkin on pinky) and Messy Mansion MM23 (middle and ring).  I used the clear jelly stamper to place the images on the middle and ring fingers; it works so awesome for things like this!

Top coated to finish.  There was some drag from the top coat brush; it took me a few mani's to figure out what was causing it but it was a faulty brush; I just exchanged it with an empty bottle) and added a little white to the middle fingers. My brush work needs practise as you can see lol!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks for looking!

Thanksgiving Nails!

Happy Thanksgiving if you are celebrating today!!  This is the Thanksgiving mani I was wearing when we were celebrating here in Canada back in October; unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to share (except on IG) so thought would share now for the US Thanksgiving!

Started out with a stamper decal on the thumb using Infinity 65.


The rest of the base polishes used are Sally Hansen Butterscotch (index and pinky, OPI Don't Talk Bach to Me (middle) and Barielle Peanut Butter (ring).



Stamped using Messy Mansion MM23 on all fingers except pinky, which is BundleMonster BM-H11.



MM23



Did the right hand slightly different; used BM H-11 on pinky and index, MM23 on ring and the leaf on the thumb and Bunny Nails HD-E on thumb.  I didn't make note of the stamping polishes but I'm guessing they were an assortment of Sally Hansen Insta-dri's as I wasn't home when I did this.



Top coated to finish.



Have a great holiday if you are off; otherwise, thanks for looking!