Halloween Witch

Another Halloween theme and I'm continuing to avoid pumpkins! I'm still in love with glitter so I wanted to make this one sparkly too. I went with a base of Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Loves Me not. Then I did 1 coat of Sinful Colors I Miss You which gave me a purple starry night sky effect. I had to freehand a moon to get the witch to show up. The moon was a little sloppy, but it worked.

I'll be honest. I had to do some photoshop cleanup on this one to remove the next day cracking. I'm not sure which polish caused it, but that's what I get for not taking pictures the same day.

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Loves Me Not

Sinful Colors - I Miss You

Wet n Wild - White Creme

Wet n Wild - Black Creme

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Silver Sweep

NYC - Fast Drying Top Coat

Shany - SH02

Shany - SH03

Snow White

I've been staring at the 2 Fantasy Makers polishes I got weeks ago and trying to think of something for Halloween. I got the red glitter Once Upon a Time and the purple based Rest in Pieces. The two of them together kept reminding me of Snow White's apple and the queen. So for the first attempt at Halloween this year, I went with more dress up than the tradition pumpkins or black cats.

Of course these were an impulse buy. After putting on the one coat of Once Upon a time, I realized it's exactly like Spoiled Ants in My Pants. Both have a gray base and take about 5 coats to get coverage. I'm not sure, but I think Rest in Pieces may be black with purple micro glitter. It definitely looks purple though with all those sparkles.

Fantasy Makers - Once Upon a Time

Fantasy Makers - Rest in Pieces

JLB - Immortal Gold

Seche Vite - topcoat

BM - 215

SE18

Pulsating Pink/Purple

I hate this Sunday's Challenge. However, in the spirit of things, I made sure it was as obnoxious as possible!

Kleancolor - Pastel Pink

Kleancolor - Barbie Pink

Kleancolor - Metallic Purple

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - topcoat

Shany - SH04

Rain Card

I did a gradient of Wet n Wild Rain Check and Wild Card. The polishes are way too sheer for an easy gradient though. The amount I had to put on made it hard to work with and slow to dry. I peeled it off about 24 hours later and the bottom layer was still mushy. I used a small stamp on this one to not take away from the base colors. The stamp polish is Sally Hansen Hard to Get. This one works great for me because it's gotten thick and goopy over time.

I tried to get a few different angles to showcase Pure Ice Oh Baby! that I put over the other 2 colors, but it didn't photograph well. Oh Baby! is a pretty clear base with tons of blue micro glitter that has a pink holo effect. It looks great over blues and purples especially.

This one is the most color accurate. I should have added at least 1 more coat of Oh Baby! but there was way too much polish already.

Wet n Wild - Rain Check

Wet n Wild - Wild Card

Pure Ice - Oh Baby!

Sally Hansen - Hard to Get

Seche Vite - topcoat

Shany - SH18

Glistening Purple

I recently discovered the best Dollar Tree ever! I've been in some that have a couple of rows of nail polish but this one had the biggest selection and each peg was crammed full of L.A. Colors nail polish. I really really love L.A. Colors and the best part is, they're only $1.00! Anyway I found a couple of glitter polishes I had to have and this is the first one I couldn't live without.

It was gorgeous alone, but I'd just gotten a bunch of new plates, and really why not stamp? The glitter is in a clear base so this is 2 coats over black.

L.A. Colors - Glistening Purple

Wet n Wild - Black Creme

Sally Hansen - Silver Sweep

BM - 322

More Sinful

The color wasn't turning out quite right, but these are the 2 attempts at showing Winterberry as a grayish purple. This was an easy day with 1 color 1 stamp. I didn't get a full stamp on the ring finger. I gave it a valiant, but far from perfect, effort of stamping over the top to correct it.

Sinful Colors - Winterberry

Pure Ice - Paying With Platinum

Seche Vite - topcoat
BM-202

Dolphin Gradient

Very first blog post!


For my very first post (other than the tutorial), I chose to show you possibly the best gradient I've ever done in combination with a How To! For this look I used a base coat of Wet n Wild White Creme, SH Lacey Lilac, SH Mint Sorbet, NYC Cashmere Creme for the gradient, Wet n Wild Black Creme for the dolphin, and topped it off with one coat of Seche Vite. For the dolphin tutorial click here.