31 Day Challenge: Day 12

Good afternoon everyone!
Today's theme is Striped Nails and I have a fantastic stripe mani for you today!

I knew I wanted to do some sort of abstract stripes, but I had no idea what colors.
So I looked at my "shelf of untrieds" - the place where I lay all my new polishes before I swatch them and put them away. And I realized that H&M had already picked some colors for me!

I got this set of polishes at H&M in Toronto, I believe this would be considered their fall set. They had all sorts of other cosmetics and accessories with this striped pattern.
So of course I knew it would make a great striped mani!

The five colors are Coral, Berry, Mustard, Purple, and Petrol.
I'm going to show you swatches of them alone, before I show you the lovely stripes.

This is Coral and it is just lovely. It is more of a true pink than a coral, though. The formula is great, it covers in 2 coats, and dries really quickly.
I swatched this one last week, and I ended up having to quickly run an errand with this polish fresh on one hand, no top coat. It did not get one dent or scratch! I was totally impressed.

This is Berry which is a nice berry color (obviously) that also covers in 2 easy coats.

Aaaaand this is Mustard which I also swatched before I cut my nails. I'm going to let your imagination run with a color description for this one. It is such a yucky color, I have considered throwing it away. But it ended up working well in my stripey mani, so I'll let it hang out in the little package with the other polishes.

This is Purple, what an original name. This one has harder to capture, this second picture is more accurate:

This is similar to other deep purples I have, but more of a true purple.
Again, 2 easy coats.

Petrol is yet another 2-coater with a great formula. A blue-teal shade, not quite like any others that I have, I don't think. I've worn this as a pedi and it did stain a bit, but it lasted well!

Not only is the formula great on these polishes, but the brush is really awesome too. I found that the brush held enough product in it to paint all 5 nails on one hand, without flooding or letting off too much on the first few nails. Not many brushes allow this! I really liked it.
My complaint is the bottles. Having such thin bottles makes it very easy to tip them over, especially when you try to wipe off the brush on the lip of the bottle.

Time for the stripey mani!! I've included a bunch of pictures because I really like it.

Cute, right? And so perfect for fall!

And see how the ugly Mustard polish actually looks nice next to the others?

Not only is it cute, but it was easy to do. I used Berry as my base coat, and used a striper brush to add uneven, random stripes of the other colors.
It doesn't need to be perfect or even, the uneven look is the point!

The polish colors all match the packaging colors really well, except for Mustard. I don't know which was wrong, the package or the polish. I actually think I like the Mustard color better than the one on the package, at least when you see all the colors together.

What do you guys think? Successful stripey fall mani?

And don't forget! Tomorrow is my birthday, which means my giveaway closes tonight! Someone is going to win a bottle of GOSH Holographic tomorrow!
Make sure to enter, today is your last chance!