Halloween Shatter

Black Shatter is such a harsh looking finish; I really think it only works for Halloween.  I like my pink shatter, the rest I could do without.  I wanted to create a Halloween color scheme for this mani so I used Orly Green Apple and Orly Life's A Peach with OPI Black Shatter.  Topped with a coat of OTD TC, and this was a simple and quick manicure!

I used 3 coats of both Orlys to obtain opacity.

The green and black look inherently Frankenstein-y.  I removed this after about 12 hours of wear; I have a hard time loving the Black Shatter, really. Blarghork.

Halloween Dotticure

Some of my favorite holiday inspired manicures have more to do with color themes than more literal designs.  I love colors and I love playing with colors, so I decided to make somewhat of a Halloween dotticure for the occasion.

It's not deliberate in your face Halloween, but I think the colors give a nice nod to the holiday!  I started out with two coats of Revlon Royal Cloak. Such a pretty color, I really do think it could place in my Top 20.

Two coats of Royal Cloak, OTD TC.

I wore RC for a day before I added the dots, so there is a bit of tipwear.

For the white pattern, I used BM209 with Konad Special White.  After it dried, I used 3 additional colors and covered up some of the white dots.  I used Orly Green Apple, Orly Liquid Vinyl and OPI A Good Man-darin is Hard to Find for the dots.  Then I added another coat of OTD TC. I love my dotting tools. So much.

China Glaze Frosty & Halloween Stamping

I am most definitely a little late on the Frosty boat, considering it's from last winter's collection and uh, I just got it for my birthday.  I didn't like it at first, but my tastes have changed and now I love it. I jazzed it up with some stamping, too.

Frosty is almost eerily white, so it was screaming for some decoration.  It really almost glows!

This is 3 coats of Frosty.  You could probably get away with 2 if you don't mind some VNL.  I just wanted to see what it looked like all opaque and such.  I really love it.

I used multiple plates from multiple collections for the Halloweeny feel.  I used WnW Black Creme for the stamps and Essence Sundancer for the little moon.  I also dotted some China Glaze Ghoulish Glow around the designs but you can barely see it. Hmph.  My Ghoulish Glow does not glow very much either.

Swampy Halloween Mani

I have a swampy Halloween themed manicure for you today.  I felt a little bit inspired, swampy greens stuck out to me today.  I must say that I do really love China Glaze It's Alive.  It's my only mossy green glitter, it dries quite fast.  I didn't put a topcoat on it though, I don't mind the gritty.

This is two coats of It's Alive over Orly Nail Armor.  I really love this glitter.

This is 3 coats of Ulta Army of 1.  I used WnW Black Creme for the swirls and Konad Special White for the skull.  The dots are OPI A Good Man-darin is Hard to Find.  I used BM plates 211 and 224 for the skulls and swirls.  PSA: Army of 1 stains.

Just lovely!