Autumn and Plaid Nails and my September Polish Pickup Haul

 Hey Friends

Today I did some autumnal nails :) which I wasnt happy with so I changed them to plaid, which is why its taken so long to publish this post! 

Here in the UK its getting darker and colder by the day so I thought I'd do some autumnal nails before diving into Halloween nails.

I started with a base of Zoya Tasha and Lemming Lacquer The Worst Witch, both good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats. The Lemming Lacquer is from Polish Pickup September, last pic shows my haul, I'm feeling plaid nails for tomoro :) 

I then stamped using Zoya Cooper on my left hand and Mel on my right hand, the pumpkins were stamped with Virago Varnish Pumpkin Everything. The colours I picked didnt quite owrk out so I changed my mani this afternoon.

The plates I used were Dixie Plates Halloween 2017 for the pumpkins and Uberchic Beauty Lovely leaves 2 for the leaves and words.

The plaid nails are a base of MJ Lacquers Pink A Boo, left hand and Fancy Gloss Spook-tacular also thermal.

The MJ is a deeper brown toned red when cold to a bright coral leaning pink when hot, jam packed with flakies. The Fancy Gloss is a very intriguing polish, its blue toned purple when cold, pink leaning purple when warm and clear when hot, it also has metallic flakies. Both good formula if a tiny bit sheer so I did three coats each. I then grabbed the Uber Chic Beauty Pretty in Plaid 3 plate and used Zoya Vivi and Zoya Mila over the MJ thermal and then Zoya Brie and Sally Hansen White On over the Fancy Gloss.

Christmas Nail Art

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Today I share my Christmas nail fail and a win. These are all Zoya polishes except for two chrome ones at the end.

The fail wasnt really a fail, I just used too dark a base colour.

So this is two coats of the gorgeous Nisha, which had a great formula, no running or pooling, then I stamped with Avi and Beverly in an ombre, I then added matte topcoat, you can see that the stamping doesnt stand out very well, I might do this again with either a pale purple or a lighter blue as the base.

I do love how Nisha looks matte and shiny, in the matte she looks much more blue and the shiny looks purple, very cool.

The plate I used for this was a random unnamed one I got in a destash.

Second mani was way more successful, after the pics

So after taking that one off I wanted to try a winter scene mani, so I started with two coats of Zoya Sage, I then used Mel, Charli and Tasha for my trees, for the baubles I used Soko, then two Models Own polishes Chrome Bronze and Chrome Silver, finally I stamped stars with Zoya Meredith. 

I think I should have started with Meredith stars first then done the trees but I still love how it turned out and how cute does Meredith look matte. I'm going to put matte topcoat on my other nails today as well.

Plates used where Mundo De Unas ZZ Forest 1 and ZZ Forest 2, the stars where from plate Maniology BMXL213.

I think these will be my Christmas nails, I just love how they came out, those trees on my middle nails are lush, I am loving how Tasha made the trunks look.