HPB Presents: Autumnal Leaves - Fall Nail Art

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Happy Monday everyone! This week the members of Hobby Polish Bloggers will be presenting an Autumn-themed mani for you and mine is freehand leaves and an acorn.

I put down a base of OPI My Vampire is Buff (purchased by me) and used acrylic paints to do a conglomeration of random leaves with an acorn.

With a shiny top coat before the acorn...

With Girly Bits matte top coat (purchased by me)...

And finally with the acorn...

Be sure to check out the links below throughout the week to see the other great autumn-inspired manis!

You can also check out #HPBSeptFall on social media to check them out!

For more Fall/Halloween nail art ideas, click here!

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HPB Presents: Holiday Nail Art! - Pretty Packages

Some Press Samples
were used in this nail art

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Happy Friday! This month the bloggers of Hobby Polish Bloggers (HPB) are getting together to show you our holiday/festive/winter manicures!

And I have yet another Christmas-themed mani for you! This one is a framed gradient with bows for some pretty Christmas packages!

For this mani I started with a simple gradient. The base is Zoya Hunter with Zoya Tilda and a plain white creme for the gradient.

I followed by framing the nails with Chanel Dragon...

I then added simple bows on the middle and ring fingers for the finished mani!

Be sure to check out the other great manis from the bloggers in Hobby Polish Bloggers in the links below!

*Zoya Tilda and Hunter were Press Samples
*All other polishes used were purchased by me

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HPB Brings You: Our Fall Favorites

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Today I have another Hobby Polish Bloggers monthly link-up! The theme for this month was Fall Favorites. So of course,  I'm focusing mainly on what I think is On Trend for Autumn in nail polish, but also shades in general.

I'm sharing my post from September...

For fashion I'm seeing lots of the patterns I love and I can't wait to see how they'll be translated from the runway this year to real life. But below are the shades I think will be HOT for Fall this year - for nails anyway. I see nail art continuing to grow in popularity as well, but for now, we'll just tackle the shades of the season...through my eyes.

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HPB October Halloween Mani Link-Up

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Happy Halloween Week! Yes, I celebrate it the entire week. Okay, FINE. The entire month. I like Halloween. What?

So this weekend, HPB (Hobby Polish Bloggers) is getting together to post our Halloween manicures and there's a link-up at the bottom where you can see all the great Halloween manis from the other members.

Hobby Polish Bloggers is a group for bloggers who blog primarily just for fun or more casually. It's a resource for feedback, support and guidance on your current blog or information on how to get your blog started.


Today I decided to do a simple spray marble. My long-time readers know I have let water marbles defeat me time after time and while I haven't given up that good fight just yet, it's nice to do a quick and easy fool-proof mani once in a while.

Well, NEARLY fool-proof. When using a matte top coat over nail art, be sure and use a regular top coat first that doesn't smear. Matte top coats will almost always smear. Oops!

I've used a base of Zoya Rocha and spray marbled with black and purple (Kiko #292). Slap on a quick coat of matte top coat (I used Wet n Wild WildShine Matte Top Coat for 99¢ and it's just as good as my former favorite, Butter London Matte Finish) and BAM! Happy Halloween!

You've probably seen tutorials on "spray marbles" already but I used distilled water at room temperature, put one drop of polish and sprayed it quickly with just plain rubbing alcohol from one of those little spray bottles you get in the "travel section" at Walmart. Once it makes a cool design, I dip my nail in like a water marble. Protip: You NEED tape or glue or whatever you normally use or cleanup is just as bad as you'd have with a standard water marble.

What do you think? Is this something you would try?

Thanks for checking it out and remember to have a look at the great manis linked below!

Happy Halloween!

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