31 Day Challenge (v.2!) Day 25: Inspired By Fashion!

Morning all! Happy Halloween! I'm pretty excited about taking the kiddos out for some trick-or-treating tonight! One of the houses near us has a full Haunted Mansion set-up that is always amazing. The 2 guys that live there once worked at Disneyland at the Haunted Mansion and has some of the older tech stuff from there. Down the street from them, is the guy that owns one of the original style Batmobiles, and his house is done up like a laboratory, except he has Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees hiding around the house waiting to chase you all the way down the street. I won't be taking the kids there, but I'm certainly going!

Today's challenge is not very Halloween-like. It's the Inspired By Fashion Challenge!

I'm not much for Haute Couture, but I know what I like, so I took my inspiration from that. Outside of Nail Polish, my only other real guilty pleasure is shoes. Namely heels. High, sexy heels.  While perusing the internet one day, I came across these really awesome Lady Gaga Inspired Heels, and knew I had to attempt to align this manicure with them.

I started with a base of NYX Girls Pure Red Pearl, then added the wavy stripe using tape cut with craft scissors and painted with Gosh Black Passion.  Then, since I couldn't find my Silver Studs, I added the gold studs down the other side.

I dig how this turned out, but using this many studs makes top coating a pain! These studs are also the Kiss brand, and they have that annoying sticky tab on the bottom, which means no matter how you place them, they will shift into their own position immediately after you top coat them. I can't wait to get some decent studs! (Probably from Born Pretty Store. Don't forget! 10% off using code KWL91 at checkout!)

I also didn't realize how hard it is to photograph that many studs! It really wreaked havoc with my lighting! I swear my hands are trained to go into my usual photo poses and they tried to resist anything new. Weird, right?

And here are the really killer heels that I used as my inspiration. I believe they are Lady Gaga 4 Red by Lady Couture and can be found at Lulus.com. (Oh yes, they will be mine!)

Image Source: Polyvore.com

Pumps (see more platform shoes)

This was a really fun manicure to create, and I've been having fun wearing BAMF studded nails. I don't know why I haven't played with studs before this, other than I tend to forget that I have them. Time to order some good studs and start wearing those puppies! I do think this mani would look better on longer nails, so I'm sure you will be seeing some studded manis once my nails grow out a bit more. I'm pretty pleased with how fast they're already growing, save for my poor index finger that had to be filed back since it was totally lopsided once the curl popped out of it!

What do you think of studded nails? BAMF or Boo?

Be sure to check in with all of the awesome Varnished Vixens to see their Fashionable manis!

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish 
- Robin Sparkles  

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber