Fall Into Autumn Challenge: Fall Leaves

In case you missed the memo, I live in Texas. Just for a second, picture Texas in your mind. You just pictured horses, tumbleweeds, and cowboys, right? There wasn't a single tree in that image. That's because Texas is the worst. The few trees we do have look super unnatural and they don't change colors. Ever. Sometime in the late winter the leaves just rot and plop to the ground in a horrible, soggy mush.

LUCKILY I lived in places (namely Indiana) that actually experienced seasons. I reached into the recesses of my brain to pull out my distant memories of leaves in the fall. I kinda failed at 1) picking colors that show up in stamps 2) smearing the topcoat.

Fall & Football Nails

This weekend the bestie came to visit!! I forced her to let me test out all of my new nail stuff on her. Since college football is starting up (Hook 'Em!) and it's supposedly almost fall (109 degrees...) we went with that.

Longhorn Nails

Mine were really boring/simple.

Base coat: UT Burnt Orange (from the Co-Op)

White polka-dots and clear top coat

Dot maker! It worked really well!!

Fall Nails

For Laura's nails, we tested out the Konad nail stampers! Since she has strangely small nails, I just used part of the stamp (one leaf instead of three).

Base Coat: Pure Ice Orange

Konad plate.

 The plate looks a little smeary because I was playing with it. We used the leaves in front. I bought a set of 20 plates from Amazon for $20 or so, so they're really not too expensive.

Konad Special Nail Polish - White

 Ok, so once the base coat dries, you paint the "special" polish onto the stamp that you want and use the little metal scraper to scrape off the excess. Then gently/firmly roll the stamper across the paint. Make sure that you get the whole image, and then roll that over your nail.

Scraper and stamper.

Once the stamp dried, we decided to add some gold dots. - just for the heck of it. Once it all dries, apply a topcoat of Sech Vite, and you're done!