Reeses Pieces Nails!

Posted in decals, Nail Art, Nail Art Ideas Linkup (NAIL), Nails, Stickers by Craftynail

The theme for Nail Art Ideas Linkup this week is TREATS AND SWEETS. This time of year I think of trick or treating- and aaaahhh those lovely little bite-size candy bars and single-serving packs of candy!! When I was a kid I remember dumping out all my halloween candy on the floor and I’d gauge how successful the night was based on how many chocolate and peanut butter treats I had. If I had 6 or more full-size peanut butter cups then I hit the motherload!!! Throw a bunch of mini snickers on top of that and I’m in heaven. Chocolate and peanut butter- I LOVE YOU.

Well, since I love PB so much I felt inspired to do some Reese’s Pieces nails! Check me out!

My cream-colored nails were easy to do- I made some some simple dots with a large dotting tool- hopefully the dots look like little Reese’s Pieces! I also wanted to spell out the word REESE’S. But I thought it would be hard to paint directly on my nails so I painted the word on a plastic baggy instead and made my own peel-off DIY decals. Here’s an example of how I’ve done DIY decals in the past: Hunger Games Mockingjay Nails. The word REESE’S came out kind of long and a bit too-stretched out to fit on one nail, so I had to snip the word into three segments. This allowed me to span the word across three of my nails. If you apply a decal like this on top of tacky or still-wet nail polish then it will stick pretty well. Unfortunately I got some bubbles at the end when I applied my seche topcoat. But it still looks cool and I guess the bubbles aren’t too noticeable.

Here’s a list of what I used

base coat ♥ Sally Hansen Maximum Growth

off-white ♥ Fresh Paint Coconut

bright orange ♥ Zoya Paz

light orange ♥ AVON Orange Creamsicle

bright yellow ♥ Sinful Colors Pull Over

light yellow ♥ Butter London Cheeky Chops

brown ♥ Sinful Colors Nirvana

top coat ♥ Seche Vite

I also had to add this cute prop to my photo. Reese’s Pieces were one of E.T.’s fave snacks in the movie, right? Well, check out my authentic E.T. movie stickers from 1982! It’s hard to believe that I held on to these for 31 years! I’m only 36 right now so I’ve been in possession of these stickers most of my life. Crazy, right? Here’s a little movie trivia for you- I just read that the movie production company wanted E.T. to eat M&M’s instead, but the Mars brand turned them down on the free product placement. Their second choice was Hershey’s… who said YES, of course. That’s why E.T. was always munching on Hershey’s Reese’s Pieces. Apparently, Reese’s Pieces sales skyrocketed after the movie was released! Who woulda thought an alien would persuade us to eat more candy like that?

I hope you like my Reese’s Pieces nails!! Feel free to create your own TREATS AND SWEETS mani, or try out any of the other October NAIL themes! The links are open all month:

Breast Cancer Awareness :

Autumn Trees :

Things That Go Bump in the Night :

Treats and Sweets :

Hallow E’en :

1Aug2013

Day 31 of OMD Challenge- Starfish

Posted in Nail Art, OMD Challenge by Craftynail

Oh mon dieu!! Is this really my last manicure for the OMD challenge? How the month flew right by! Not sure why it feels so fast considering how much time we all put into the challenge. I estimate that I put 3 hrs into each theme’s post…multiply that by 31 days… and that means 93 hours spent on my nails this month. WOW!! Obsessed with nails much? Yes, yes I am… thank you very much! And from seeing all the amazing daily entries from all of you- I estimate you are just as obsessed as I am! I’m so glad we were all able to collaborate and meet up (virtually) via this challenge! Let’s keep in touch, oui??

For RECREATE YOUR FAVORITE DAY I initially selected a mani by Emma from Cambridge Nails. See her stunning Lichtenstein’s Ben-Day dots design here! I absolutely loved the styling of the woman’s eye that she painted on her nail! The first time I tried it- I messed up the shape of the eye. Out comes the nail polish remover. The second time I tried it I messed up the eyebrow. Hence, why my day 31 post is a day late! Please forgive me :). Props to Emma for tackling such a difficult design!! It was harder than I anticipated! So I decided to move on and try a different manicure of hers. I picked Emma’s Rock the Boat/Starfish manicure- see it here!! I loved this mani! She based hers on the Chalkboard starfish tutorial (which I’ve been dying to try for a while now). Another cool thing is, Emma used one of her untried blue polishes as her base color… and I just happen to have the perfect untried blue too! So here we go- check out my starfish mani!

What I’m wearing:

blue base color ♥ Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Breezy Blue

red stars ♥ Snog by Butter London

peach dots ♥ Color Club’s Coral Cascade

yellow dots ♥ Cheeky Chops by Butter London

star_nails_breezy_blue

It took a really long time…. but I love it! Thanks to Emma for inspiring me to finally try out that starfish tutorial!

Thank you for reading, and thank you for being a part of our OMD Nail Challenge! Stay tuned for more info on the raffles!!!!! And don’t forget that you have til Aug 5th if you want to enter any last minute manicures!

31. Recreate your Fave (by someone else) :

5Jul2013

Day 5 of OMD Challenge- Butter London Skittles

Posted in Cheeky, Nails, OMD Challenge, Skittles, Stamping by Craftynail

I have been so looking forward to DAY 5/Skittles Day of the OMD Challenge! I don’t normally wear a lot of skittle manis, but I’ve been longing to try out my new Butter Londons (and all at once)! I have a cute story about these too…

My boyfriend asked me what I wanted for my birthday this year. I couldn’t really think of anything until it hit me- I want some Butter London! How can I not own even one bottle of that stuff? So I showed him the website and asked him to get me my very first bottle. Fast forward to the day of my birthday- he mentioned that he hopes the UPS truck comes. I’m thinking, ‘Greatttt… he ordered me a bottle last minute and it hasn’t arrived yet’. Then later we were sitting on the front porch and the UPS truck pulls out of the neighbor’s driveway and drives right past our house. I saw my bf’s face drop, like he was really disappointed. At this point I figure, OK no gifts I guess. But………. shortly after he comes downstairs with a big paper shopping bag filled with wrapped gifts! He fooled me pretty good. He got me 5 bottles of Butter London and each one was wrapped in a separate box which added to the excitement. That really blew me away! I told him that I only asked for one, but he got me five?! He said if every many tried to please his woman five times as hard then there’d be a lot more happy women in the world. He said it with a smirk on his face… but hey I’m not gonna complain!