



Hiya guys, TGIF! I'm so excited. I have the first three days of next week off from work and it's my birthday on Tuesday! The closer I get to my birthday the more I'm starting to look forward to it. I'm such a little kid trying to find out what I'm getting. Looking in the closets for my gifts, haha. If only birthday didn't mean getting old. But I shouldn't think about that now! It's time for another Disney Heroes vs Villains mani challenge. If you haven't heard about this yet, it's a weekly challenge created by @ hannah_nails_it and @ jessnailedit on Instagram. You pick a partner and create a hero/villain combo mani. Last week my bestie Cheyenne and I did Little Mermaid nails in which I had Ariel and she did Ursula.Today I'll be showing you guys our next mani for the challenge based on A Nightmare Before Christmas. I got the hero again this week so you know what means... Jack the Skeleton King! Can you believe I was actually displeased with this mani? I'm not definitely now though. I really am my own worst critic. I was mostly upset because I couldn't do the actual pose of Jack that I initially wanted to do. I tried for about an hour and even cried when it still wasn't working the way I wanted it to. The hubs forced me to take a few minutes to calm down and I practiced on paper for fifteen minutes until I came up with this pose.It's still so incredible hard to draw on such a small scale. The brushes I received a few weeks ago from my bestie Cheyenne really have helped me a lot though. If you look back at my work in April and May and you'll notice the width of my line work has improved, FINALLY.I had to use my go-to black polish which is Raven by Zoya (just realized, kind of a fitting name for this mani). The background is a gradient from black to purple and the purple shade is Jacaranda Flower by New York Color . Everything else you see here was created using acrylic paints. Sealed in the whole this with a matte topcoat from Butter London . This whole mani took about 2 1/2 hours to complete - time for blood, sweat, and tears included.Before I forget, here's the awesome duo-shot of Cheyenne's mani and mine. She is such an amazingly talented artist, I was speechless when I saw her mani.I really hope you guys like this as much as I do!