Fall Leaves Nail Art

Yay it is fall! I love fall weather and the beautiful foliage all around.  I am from New Jersey, so if you live somewhere that this does not happen, I'm sorry.  You are missing out.  However, New Jersey's weather is so crazy that fall lasts a whole two weeks.  I just want to say now, I am not a professional photographer, so with each blog post or nail design, I may try something new to find the best lighting for my nails.  I am aware this was not the best; bare with me as this is a learning experience.  

For the background of the nails I used Ulta Sun-sational, China Glaze Stoked to br Soaked, a little no named polish from a Sephora OPI collection, and Essie Luxeffect As Gold as it Gets.

I started by painting all my nails yellow. 

Using a make-up sponge to get a good ombre effect, I painted a row of yellow, orange, and red.  Then dab the sponge on your nails, it does not have to be perfectly placed, the slightly messy it is, the less streaky it becomes.  Then I added a coat of the gold glitter.

For the leaves, I am using three new polishes I just bought and am excited about!!!  Finger Paints Artist's Inspirtation, Orly Prince Charming, and Nina Ultra Pro Gladiator. 

Using a small detailing brush, I started to paint leaves.  I only did this on my pinky, middle finger, and thumb, but feel free to paint leaves where ever you want.  I started painting the leaves with the darkest brown and used the other two polishes to add more depth.  

Here is the finished product!

Pumpkin Patch Nails

Welcome to my how to for pumpkin patch nails.  When I think of fall I think of...

I took this picture last Monday while apple picking on my day off! So why not celebrate that on my nails???

For this mani I used these colors.  Nail Tek Intensive Therpay II as a basecoat, OPI- You're so Vain-illa, China Glaze- Stoked to be Soaked, Ulta- Sun of a Gun, Revlon- POSH, Ulta- Soho Pretty, and Essie Good to Go Top Coat.

To start, I painted all of my nails with the You're so Vain-illa, but I changed my mind throughout this process.  You can leave the ring finger without it and just paint it with the green.

On the middle finger and thumb I did a pumpkin.  For this you take the polish brush and paint the lighter orange on the bottom half of the nail. With the brown, add a stem.  I just used the polish brush for this as well, nothing fancy.  For all of the details on this mani I used a toothpick.  So use the small end of the tooth pick for the details.  I added darker orange to out line the pumpkin and went over the stem in the same brown.  I also added a little leaf with the green that you can see in the first picture.

On the pinky and pointer finger I did some nice lines.  For this I thought it would be better to not do lines on the whole nail.  I used skinny nail tape, you can buy it on amazon or eBay for ridiculously cheap.  I thin k I got 10 rolls of nail tape for like $2. Place it on your nails to make 3 or 4 stripes.  I put a think line at the top as a buffer, because I tend to get messy.

Paint the stripes green.  While the polish is still wet take the tape off.  If you wait til it dries the paint will peel up, you can see this happened to my nail a little.  That's what I get when I am taking pictures in the sun, they dry too fast. 

Again take the small side of the toothpick and add dots with the darker orange. 

Once you paint your ring finger nail green, you are good to go!!!

Happy Fall!  The next couple posts will be Halloweeny, I'm excited.