Super Spiderific!

I have totally fallen I love with the the spider designs. Pretty much most of the halloween designs have incorporated at least one of the spiders.

This lace design is also one of my favorites.  So I have done atleast 4 halloween Mani's with the lace. The lace below is done the Konad Black Gold color where the spiders are black.

Both designs re pretty basic.

1. Paint blush over full nail

2. Paint tips.

3. Stamp tip design over tip or along the time line.

4. Stamp on little spiders

5. Add a crystal to each big spider!

Super spideriffic!

Konad Boo! Kit GIVE-AWAY.....Enter Today! ENDS 10/19

This is one of the easiest give-aways you will enter!

No trick here...just the coolest Halloween Treat for your nails. Enter to win the OCNailArt Exclusive Boo! Kit. Like the B Kit, it comes with 2 plates, 3 polishes, a stamper & scraper (there is a bonus pack of crystals!) However, this kit was especially designed for the Halloween Season.

This is how it is packaged, in your own little Konad mini-bag

And here is what is inside. There are also clear crystals in this goodie bag of nail treats!

Additionally I have 2 OPI Tatoo Ta-boo Kits to give away for the runners up!It includes 4 mini polishes (including a GLOW IN THE DARK!) that work beautifully with any of the Halloween Konad designs.

Grand prize winner will receive one BOO! Kit. 2 lucky runners up will receive 1 of the OPI Tatoo Ta-boo kits each.

How to Enter

1. Comb the Internet for YOUR favorite Konadicure.

2. Email me a picture AND AN INTERNET LINK to the picture. Please please make sure you don't just email the link i need you to CUT & PASTE the picture into the body of the email. I don't have time to open ALL links in the email to GET to the pic entry.

jdrunchkin@aol.com

3. Include your zip code in the email. If you are selected as the winning entry, your prize WILL ONLY BE MAILED TO AN ADDRESS with that matching zip code. Last time I had a heck of a time with multiple entries under fake profiles! (lame I know)

4. Only one entry per person PLEASE?! There will be three winners....& this is going to be a FAST contest turn around (so your chances will be good).

This contest IS TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE! I will decide the winner based on which Konadicure Design I fancy most. I am looking for layered designs with attractive colors, interesting base nail techniques. See what I mean...you have NO idea what I'm talking about. It's totally subjective. Every one has different taste. What I mean by "attractive," may totally different than your definition. So.....ENLIGHTEN ME! Show me YOUR favorites. You know as well as I do, sometimes it is hard to articulate just WHAT makes that mani so special! But we know a great one when we see it!

THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED Monday October 19th. I want you to have time to play with your spooktacular kit!

And let's give a BIG FAT thank you to Kathleen @OCNAilArt for sponsoring this give-away!!!!!

THANK YOU!

Oh, & a shameless plug for myself....check out her website-she was kind enough to trust me with designing some graphics and logo for her new web layout.

Blue Petal Tips

I did these a while back...early this summer. Just now getting around to posting it. I wanted to try out a Konadicure with china glaze. Sassy is always using it to come up wit new designs.

I have to say that while I like this manicure, and the style of the "water mark" konad looks good on this mani.... I am not impressed with he strength of the imprint. The design isn't strong enough to qualify this as a "truly konad compatible" color. So, do experiment with China Glaze, but don't expect it to reveal a dark design.

And don't forget the toes! Actually I used a different plate for the toes, but using the same colors can make the two look cohesive. Because of my skin tone...I don't prefer the blue on my toes, not very flattering. But, perhaps it would look better on a lighter peachier complexion?

What you need: Plate M24, base color, I used China Glaze for Audry here. A nail art polish w/skinny brush, stamping color (china glaze) and a sheer blush (my franken)

The Steps:

1. Paint tips free hand from left to right in a horizontal motion

2. Stamp on image onto tips. Here you can choose a tip design, OR any design with a dense pattern.

3. Clean the smile line to remove extra polish & overlapping design.

4. paint sheer blush on the bottom 1/2 of nail.

5. cover smile line with a purple nail art polish, making a thin line

Chinese Take-Out

My mother in law , Loiscame for her weekly mani. I have been wanting to do a sponge art nail for a while...but my fingers were full of other konadicures I had already drempt up! Any how, Lois was very generous in letting me wing it. Now when she comes over for a paint job, she knows to just throw her hands over, and let me do my thing. Very trusting of her indeed. So here is what I'm Calling Chinese Take Out. Maybe I should had dubbed it China Town Because take out really would be a white nail with red Konad on it? Anyway...

Here is what you will need. Sally Hansen intsa dry in Lightening, Petites in Mango, Konad red, any black that works with konad. For a VERY complete list, see sasse's stamping stampede.

You will also need the Konad sponge art set. But really, you can use any dense foam like material-not a regular sponge! I think the gray art brushes from the craft store would work (it appears to be the same material). Then you would need a plate/flat surface to put polish on, maybe a magazine page...so you can just toss it later?

1. Paint base coat

2. Sponge nail tips and graduate color to tips.

The picture below shows how you apply a "blob" to the plate, then pick up a small amount of color on the sponge.

3. Stamp image from plate24 in red, then again in black.

4. Finish with dragon flies on thumb, or any other finger there is extra room.