Halloween Spotty Mani - BM-224

Please forgive me as I've gone for another simple Halloween mani. I've been far too lazy to do anything intricate or freehand, actually I believe I've lost my freehand skills so I'm going to stick with stamping for now until I get them back! To create the following look I used Barry M Coral, a jelly perfect for sandwiches and Nubar Black Polka Dots. This is the first time I've tried this polish and I'm a little bit disappointed with it as it took some effort to pick up the bigger hex pieces of glitter.

Barry M - Coral and Nubar - Black Polka Dots

Spooky Eyes Halloween Mani

Here's a quick fun mani for you lovely readers that I've been wanting to create since last Halloween and yes it's not the most original but it's a really good way to use glow in the dark polish. Enjoy

And here's a crappy image of it glowing!

Thanks for reading. xx

Barbed Wire Mani for Halloween - BM-323

Continuing on the Halloween theme I wanted to share with you my take on a Sally Hansen Salon Effects Halloween design that came out last year. I remember seeing the limited edition strips and wanting them so badly. My friend kindly sent a couple of the designs, however, one design which I didn't get to try and has been stuck in my head since was 'Hot Wired', a ghoulish green with barbed wire. Do you guys remember them?

To recreate the design I used essence Lime Up! for the base and stamped the barbed wire image from BM-323.

I love how they turned out and actually prefer the overall design to the strips! I will definitely be recreating this using a glow in the dark polish at Halloween. What do you guys think?

Spun for you - my Halloween nails

If you were wondering why I never attempted a spider web nail design this is the reason!

How awesome are these?

They were a little fiddly as none of them fitted my nail shape exactly but they stretch and are easy to trim to the shape of your cuticle using the orange stick provided.

I even managed to use only one packet (which contains 8 strips) for both hands

I'm not sure if I would have preferred a more uniform design. What about you guys?

I added a coat of Seche Vite to prolong the wear and it shrank the strip a tiny bit.

Love them!
Wish they were readily available in the UK :-(

** HAPPY HALLOWEEN **

Halloween - Funky French

Hey guys hope you're all having a fab Halloween weekend. I promised to try and do another nail design for you but I copped out ;-( I had lots of ideas floating around in my head but when it came to putting brush to nail I chose to regurgitate the B&W French mani I did a few posts ago but on orange. I know! Hey at least the orange makes it Halloween-y. I guess my justification for doing this is that it's a little more grown up looking (not that nail designs should be age specific!) and you could probably get away with wearing it for work?!?! So anyway I hope my photos make up for the lack of creativity on the nails.

I added a flakie over the orange but it's not really visible in the photos!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Halloween - Centipede Nails

This morning I finally finished reading We Need to Talk About Kevin so I'm back to creating designs for you guys.
Today's design was a result of another design not quite going to plan. If creepy crawlies make you uneasy then please look away!

Centipedes

This design freaks me out a little!

I got lazy with clean up!

I'm trying really hard to be original with my designs however with so many amazing designs out there it's becoming quite a challenge! Have a good weekend!

Halloween - Cute Skull Nail Design

Hey guys just wanted to share with you a cute nail design I did today. I swatched Color Club's With Abandon last night and by this morning I was bored of it (plus is had receded under the Seche Vite Top coat) so wanted to jazz it up a bit. Don't get me wrong the polish is gorgeous but I just wasn't in the mood for it. The design I opted for was something I had doodled in an ethics lecture earlier this week, the lecture was so boring I wanted to stab myself but I thought creating a nail design was less painful haha. I think they turned out quite well considering it's all free hand. Anyway hope you like them!

Right have to remove them now as I have work tomorrow! :-( Have a good weekend!

Halloween - Mrs Röntgen's Nails!

Hey guys and hello to my new readers. Today I want to share with you a manicure that has been inspired by what I do for at least 8 hours each day! My bf says they look like keyholes (and something rude) but I'm sure you guys have way more imagination... Hope you like them and give them a go for Halloween!

***may not be anatomically accurate!

Definitely dashed my dreams of being a hand model... LOL

Just in case you are completely lost, they're supposed to be the distal phalanges aka bones in the fingertips!!

Halloween Scream Nail Art

I love Halloween but I hate horror/slasher movies, not because I'm scared of watching them but I just don't get any pleasure in watching someone screaming, being chased and then killed. I remember watching Wolf Creek and thinking why did I pay to watch some poor girl having her spine being ripped out of her? Anyway saying that I have watched most of the horrors that have come out in the past and today I have been inspired to do a mani by one of them. I'm not going to win marks for originality here but what do you think of these Halloween appropriate nails?

Ghostface and blood splatter

My first attempt at creating splatter using a straw didn't go to plan but it's ok I guess!

I'm going to try to do more Halloween nails but at the moment most of my time is being spent researching for my dissertation :-(