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When I started plotting out my ideas for this year's marathon of Christmas nail art, a lot of the designs I was drawn to were the more abstract designs that have become so popular in the last couple of years. As much as I love the more on-the-nose Christmas designs, I think there's definitely something to be said for a more blobby abstract design at this time of year as well. For this mani, I decided to grab for the Pueen Accent Fun 01 Stamping Plate a really bold holiday color palette!

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While I'm not generally one for following trends when it comes to my nail art, I am also not entirely immune. Even though I think cherry red nails are a total classic and always in style at least to some degree, they've really been having a moment trendwise this fall and I've really been wanting to do a mani in red. When I saw someone do their version of this trend in an aura style, I knew that I wanted to do my own spin on that style and that's really what drove me to do this mani. 

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I might be a bit of a broken record here, but November is such a weird month for nail art. Sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas, it can be hard to find inspiration. That being said, the idea for this one sort of struck out of nowhere and I am OBSESSED with how it came together in the end. I feel like fall is a perfect time for a smoosh - though I couldn't actually tell you why that just feels like a given to me - and adding some really strong black stamping on top of it creates a beautiful fall design. 

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As soon as I saw this year's Uberchic Halloween plate - 09, if you're wondering! - I wanted to put together some version of today's mani. I love that they included both a full cover image featuring the vampire teeth as well as the single image. I absolutely love when plates do that because it really allows for a cohesive design without having to try and isolate a single image from the full cover image or just fully cover all of your nails. For me, versatility with plates is really important, so this is huge for me.

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I almost resisted this year, but in the end there was just no ignoring the call of an all over bat mani. I just really couldn't seem to help myself. "It's frickin' bats - I love Halloween!" You know? Anyway, as always, I tried to change up the base for the design a bit and I ended up using two different bat images for this design, which ends up being pretty subtle overall but really does, I think, add a bit of visual interest. 

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I feel like I can't let a Halloween season go by without doing some sort of spooky haunted house or graveyard silhouette nails - they're just such a staple! That said, I do like to change it up at least a bit every time so I'm not just throwing the same mani's out there every year. For this year's silhouette mani, I decided to go with a neon vertical gradient base, which I think is something I've never done before. And I think it turned out genuinely stunning!

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When I was perusing the internet in search of inspiration for this year's Halloween nails, a style that really jumped out at me is what I like to call "blobby abstracts" with spooky Halloween stamping. As a big fan of some blobbiness, I knew that I had to put together my own version of this style and I knew just the plate I wanted to use to create it - the Pueen Halloween Party 01 Stamping Plate! 

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Today's mani takes a significant amount of inspiration from a mani from @hannys_manis from last Halloween season and I just fell so completely in love with the design that I had to do my own spin on it for this year's Halloween season. I have to admit, I've done a lot less reverse stamping this year thamn I did last year because I have a tendency to convince myself it's going to take forever and be exhausting or something, but it really does almost always come together really smoothly. 

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I am definitely someone who tends to revisit design styles that I've done before, though I do try to change things up at least a bit rather than just straight up recreating designs I've done in the past. One design that has become a sort of staple for me is the one I used for today's mani and it's one that I feel like I've done countless versions of over the past few years since the first time I did it. For today's mani I will admit that the changes are somewhat minimal, but I still absolutely love this mani!

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While I do try to be good and not order every single stamping plate I see - even with as much nail art as I do, I already have plates in my collection that I've never used so I hardly need more - sometimes there are plates that I just can't resist picking up. Recently, as I was perusing the stamping plates avaiable from Aliexpress, I saw this Halloween plate from Mr. Fox and I just had to have it, very specifically because I wanted to create this mani or some version of it. There's just something so adorable about these dancing skeletons!

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As I was looking through my stamping plates to come up with Halloween nail art ideas, I found myself particularly drawn to the Manitude x Pretty Creepy Stamping Plate. There's just something particularly enjoyable about the images on this plate and I feel like the possibilities for what you could create with it are sort of endless. I think, in the end, the inspiration for this came from the little bows with skulls at the center - it felt sort of playful, like a teenage goth romance, so that's the direction I took it in. Leaning into my early to mid 2000s emo girl hard.

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One of my favorite and most popular Halloween mani's that I've ever posted was a neon skittle featuring a combination of bats and spiderwebs. While I was tempted to do a straight up recreation simply using a different color palette, I decided instead to do a completely different mani that took inspiration from that one but definitely didn't recreate it. I often tend to lean into either bright or vampy colors for Halloween, but for this one I decided to go with some muted fall tones and I think it works pretty well!

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Today's mani was inspired by a Facebook ad. This is not something I ever actually thought that I would say, but it's true. I saw this ad for some clothing site that had these dresses with skull ice cream cones all over it and immediately I knew that I wanted to recreate my own version of the design and I already had just the plate in my collection to do it. I was a little bit worried that it wasn't going to come together the way that I wanted, but I'm actually pretty much madly in love with the results. 

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I think my brain transitioned into fall vibes around the same time that every store started bringing out their Halloween displays. By which I mean, it was August 1. Honestly, I am not a fan of summer in general, as much as I love playing with fun summery nail designs, so I am thrilled to be transitioning into fall weather (even though it's going to be full on hot as balls here, today....) But I digress. I had this idea to put together what I loving call a Blobby Tip design featuring a bright summery color along with it's darker, more fall appropriate counterpart and I'm super stoked about how it turned out in the end.

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A few years ago, I was trying to recreate the look of those gorgeous bright tipped ombre nail designs that I see nail techs do using colored acrylics and I came up with the technique that I used for today's design. I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of it, I will admit, but I feel pretty proud of figuring it out. That is honestly one of my favorite things about being a nail art hobbyist, figuring out how I could possibly pull off similar designs to professional gel and acrylic artists at home using regular polish. And while it's not always possible, it often is... with some adjustments!

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