Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Monday, 15 October 2012

Halloween: Zombies

Hello.. Welcome to another weeks Halloween mani. This week we're half way through the challenge, I'm finding it so difficult with my nail art skills. I have many drawers full of polish, so lets see what I have chosen to use today...



Base polish: Australis- limited edition 2 (green)
Details: ulta3- lily white, ulta3- crystallina, NYC- red slippers [ dupe for ulta3- English rose], essence- grand pliƩ in black

I squished the eyes on one nail, at the top of the photo. Looks to me like red fried eggs instead of eyes?

Have you bought any new polish just to do the Halloween manis? And what costume are you going to be wearing later in the month?

 

Friday, 12 October 2012

Halloween: Jack-o-lanterns

Hello.. Today's theme for the halloween nail art challenge is jack-o-lanterns, aka pumpkins.



I suck at this halloween stuff, I cant create spooky manis..
Anyway, I don't really like to eat pumpkin myself, so I've smashed up the jack-o-lantern and created pumpkin pie for you, my friends!!
Base polish: Carla 63
Stamping polish: Rimmel- Pop!, Rimmel- Modern art, konad- black, konad- white
Image plate:CH47 (boo/m), BM222 (pumpkin), CH42 (yummy), CH41 (pie)


Monday, 8 October 2012

Halloween: Ghosts

Hello.. Ooh scary things hiding under white sheets???.



Base polish: BYS- black & gold
Stamping polish: konad- white, konad- blue, SH insta-dri- jumpin jade
Image plate: BM223 (ghost), CH47 (boo/m), CH43 (mouse, under ghost 1)


There's a mouse image hiding under the ghost on my pointer nail. 



Quick and easy. I love stamping and letting the base polish shine through in its own right. 
Everytime I see this BYS polish in the drawer I'm reminded of the song black and gold. Sam Sparrow..


Friday, 5 October 2012

Halloween: Not technically a Water marble

Hello.. I confess I suck at water marble. I tried, several times, and it was messy, and wasted so much of my time- I wasn't patient enough to keep trying.... So I cheated !!!


This disaster is why I had to change course.
This is how I performed my "Dry water marble" technique:

1. Blobs of polish on a clean surface. (I used my plastic/ paper paint easel pad)

2. Swirl together until you're happy. (I used a pointy bamboo skewer)

3. Wait to dry. (I left it there most of the day, and in the pic you will se I peeled them off the easel and kept them inbetween plastic, as I applied them to the nails the next day)

4. Apply layer of polish to nails. (I used clear, if the polish is too wet then the dry marble slid around and ripped)

5. Work out the size of polish you need to cover your nail. (Don't make it small, cleaning up by cutting larger pieces worked well for me)

6. Press on blob of dry water marble, mold to nail curve. (Once you can tell it's stuck, time for acetone and cotton bud clean up)

7. Apply clear polish topcoat. Ta-dah :)
 
Some of the blobs on my paper easel.

The polishes I used were:
ulta3- citrus, ulta3- crystallina, NYC (dupe of ulta3)- mandarin, NYC- limelight, BC Co.- Shade 11 (black)
The best bits of the dried blobs on the plastic.
But then I wasn't happy with the appearance, so added my brand new---- Aussie made..
Gloss 'n Sparkle- spectra-flair topcoat.
Awesome shiney-ness for a sunny day.
I was looking through the large cheeky stamping plates for something spooky.. and that isn't going to be used during other Halloween challenge days..
I came across the design that, never in my life I would be willing to choose to use as something pretty for my nails.
CH33: recycling symbol.
Stamping polish: SH instadri- jumping jade
Outside- Sunny Melbourne day :)

Outside- in shade.
Why did cheeky choose that specific design?? So that we nail chicks can get the message out to everyone to save the world by recycling??
So I can now say that yes, I have now used this design...
Then and only then was my crappy non- water marble spooky Halloween challenge mani complete !!
Thank you everyone for giving me inspiration by your inlinkz.

Monday, 1 October 2012

Chucky: This is Halloween Challenge

Hello.. Welcome to the first mani for the month under the "This is Halloween" banner.



To be honest with you, I haven't seen a lot of gorey or horror genre movies. The last time would have been at a sleepover when I was in high school.

Anyway, today my mani is based on the movie character of Chucky.

Haha, a google search pulled up a kids costume..




 
 


Contact me if you want a copy of the inlinkz code so you can take part in the Halloween Challenge :)