31 Day Nail Art Challenge - Day 23: Inspired by a Movie

I think I've known from day one of this challenge that I was going to pick 1 of 2 movies for today's theme - Wall-E or Up. These are probably obvious choices for this part of the challenge, but they are 2 of my favorite movies and I couldn't resist recreating one of them. Fair warning, this is a long and rambling post!

I ended up settling on Wall-E for a few reasons. The first is probably weird, but it stems from the fact that Wall-E has been interpreted into nail art far less than Up has. I wanted to be able to put my own spin on them without too much outside influence...if that makes sense? The other reason was that robots felt much less daunting to paint than cartoon humans - I thought I'd have a better chance at staying true to the look of the characters with Wall-E. Regardless, I just love Wall-E and think it's such a great film and am so happy with how they turned out! 

31 Day Nail Art Challenge - Day 22: Inspired by a Song

Today is a bit of milestone for me - this is my 200th blog post! And I am so incredibly happy that today's mani turned out even better than I was hoping for! 

Today's theme was "Inspired by a Song"...which can be taken a few ways I'm sure, but I decided to be inspired by a specific lyric. One of my all time favorite artists is Florence + the Machine. I'm obsessed. Total fan girl. If any of you ever have tickets to see her, I will trade you my polish collection for them. 

I was listening to the song Shake It Out and when she got to the lyric "It's always darkest before the dawn" I had a sudden burst of inspiration and knew exactly what I wanted to do...so, without further ado, here they are!

Fall into Fall

Happy first day Fall!!! I am so excited for the weather to start changing, for the rains to come, for the smells of great cooking, for bundling up in warm clothes, for snuggling by the fire with a book and for the family oriented holidays - not to mention my birthday and anniversary are all during the Autumn months! Everything about fall makes me happy. So, to celebrate, I thought I'd do a mani to help me get some of the excitement that I'm feeling over this time of year out of my system. 

Doing a google search for "fall" made me really jealous of people that get to experience the very drastic changing seasons where all the trees turn bright shades of red, orange and yellow. Additionally, apparently everyone lives next to an awesome foot bridge surround by these beautiful colors because every other image had a bridge or an old wooden fence in the image ;) I decided to be inspired by one such image and created my very own picturesque foot bridge amidst the changing fall trees. I apologize that the pictures are all so similar...I just wanted to try and match the bridge up!

Review - Born Pretty Store Water Decals

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I've got another review to share with you all - these are some super easy to use water decals from The Born Pretty Store and I was pleasantly surprised by them!

I've never used water decals before this mani and I was kind of nervous I was going to completely mess the process up. To be frank, the instructions that come with these are terrible. I was confused and (like a dunce) didn't take the plastic off of the decal the first time I put it in the water. Don't be like me! Take the plastic off before putting it in the water or the decal with just adhere itself to the plastic. Yeah, I'm not always the sharpest tool in the shed ;) 

Review - Born Pretty Store Silver 3D Stickers

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I've got another Born Pretty Store product to share with you all - this time it's a bunch of 3D stickers! 

To be completely honest, when I opened up my package from Born Pretty, I was shocked these were in there! They are completely outside of my normal style and I was surprised with myself that I had chosen to review these. Because of that, I was a little bit intimidated by how to use these.