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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I really am having a resurgence of excitement for nail art now that we've transitioned into spring and I feel like I can delve into the designs and styles that I love for this time of year. I particularly, for some reason, love to do gradients in the springtime and I've been fully leaning into that for the past couple of weeks. There are a lot of different ways that you can sponge on gradients, of course, and I have to admit that I pretty much love them all, but this style of vertical rainbow gradient will always hold a special place for me and it seemed like a good time to dive into one.

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Sometimes when I'm stuck for nail art ideas - or just not in the mood to do the things that I already have ideas for - I just sort of wing it, as you do. Honestly, a lot of the time that ends up being a disaster that leaves my going to bed with naked nails, but there have also been times that I've done some of my all time favorite designs during those sessions, so it's worth it. This mani definitely started with frustration and a lack of inspiration, but ended with a result that I'm pretty in love with and I'm really excited to share it.

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As I continue on with my Harry Potter Marathon - I'm nearly done at this point - I clearly had to do another Hogwarts themed mani to continue with the back to school theme. This one came together with a few stumbles - by which I mean this is actually my second attempt at this design, with a few important alterations, but I love the way it turned out in the end. The thing that I sometimes forget - and I fully blame my neurodivergence for this - is that designs and techniques don't have to be complicated to be impactful and beautiful. I need to remember that!

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When I conceived of the idea of doing a week of wildnerness themed nails, I knew that I would be reaching for some Uberchic Beauty stamping plates from my collection that I don't reach for enough. I have both of the Uberchic Woodland Chic stamping plates and they're so, so good but I just don't remotely reach for them enough and now seemed like the time. You can check out the Muted Minimalist Mountain Smoosh Mani from the other day, which features the original Woodland Chic plate, if you haven't already. Initially, I had a racoon mani in mind and it really would have been completely different from this one, but when I sat down and started looking at the plates, my whole plan changed, I grabbed for another Uberchic plate, and I went to town... as you do.

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