Digit-al Dozen Does Spooky Days; Day 1

The Digit-al Dozen is doing an optional week of Halloween mani's this week; here's what I came up with for Day 1!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (no pix as have shown before).  Sponged candy corn nails using Revlon Alluring Amber (orange) and Sally Hansen Insta-dri Lightening (yellow).

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. (While I could have stamped on top of the sponging without top coat, I top coated in case I needed easy removal of any of the images; good thing I did because I had to stamp the index finger 3 times before I got it somewhat straight on the third try!)

Stamped using black Konad special polish using images from MJ JR-22 (thumb, middle and pinky) and Chez Halloween 005 (index and ring).  

MJ JR-22

Added bats from T23 and spiders from T43 randomly for spooky interest and filler.

Topcoated to finish.

I did my right hand slightly different; really liked how it turned out too!

The next night, I decided to do some lead lighting with jelly polishes.  One the fence if I like this look or not but extended the mani for a day anyway!

Here's the other ladies Day 1 Spooky mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen, Love and Heartbreak, Day 5

Here's the lone mani I did for this weeks theme that had heartbreak as part of it.



Started with a base of two coats of Sinful Colors Cool Gray, topped with SV.



Stamped using red and black Konad special polishes using Mash-31 (pinky), SdP D-07 (middle), SdP 85 (you and me on index), and HD-A (wording on thumb and heart on ring ringer).



Added a few more images using VL003 (cross out circle on index), HD-A (separated heart on index; I stamped one half then the other as I was concerned it would be too large to fit the area), T23 (heart on thumb) and E01 (black roses on index).



Topped with SV.



Hope you had a fantastic Valanetine's Day....and I hope you didn't have any heartbreak....because unforrtunatey Love Sucks sometimes.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Holo-ween!

A huge thanks to nailXchange, who let me know last week that the local supplier of Color Club nail polishes in the GTA, Designer Cosmetics, had the Halo Hue collex in stock. While the winds and rains associated with Hurricane Sandy were pelting down last night, I thought I'd turn one of them into another Halloween mani; here's what I came up with.

Started with a base of Color Club Harp On It.  The pix below is one coat.

Added a second coat.  The pix below is without top coat.

These next couple of pix were taken will my iphone so I could send pix to all my friends to tell them to run to the mall now and get them! And its nice that they are relatively easy to find in our area complared to Layla's, Jades, or nearly impossible to find like the HTF OPI DS's!

A bottle shot.  I seriously cannot believe how holo these are! 

For stamping, I wanted to add an image that didn't cover all the holo but still with a Halloween theme, so added spider webs from T23 using black Konad special polish.

I'm not sure if my nails had moisturizer on them or if the thin lines on the web dried particularly fast, but I had quite a few of the webs mis-stamp.  I really botched the thumb nail so decided to add a few random spiders from T23 for cover and for some creepy spider interest.

To finish, used Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Flash Fast Dry Top Coat (aka the one in the black bottle) to coat.  I didn't notice any fading of the holo even with topcoat which was awesome!

Color Club Halo Hues are available locally at Designer Cosmetics at Bramalea City Centre or their Bay/Bloor location for $8.99 or 2/$16.99.  They are also available online via Color Club directly here; however, they do not ship internationally.  I also seen a FB update that Nail Polish Canada will also have them in stock as of Thursday, November 1, 2012!  Edited on Nov 2 2012 to add that Harlow & Company is also carrying Halo Hues!

Happy Holo-ween! 

Yet Another Halloween Mani

Are you tired of Halloween mani's yet?  Hopefully not because here's yet another one I did not too long ago!

Started with a base of two coats of Revlon Alluring Amber and FingerPaints Black Expressionism.  Alluring Amber seems to be my go to orange polish the last couple years for Halloween mani's...I seem to think I picked it up at a bargain bin someplace but need to find a backup before I run out!

For some interest, added a coat of Lacquistry Pickin' Punkins' in the Patch to accent.

Another pix to see the Lacquistry at a different angle.

The mandatory bottle shot!

I really wasn't too keen on stamping the mani at this point because I was kinda digging my nails without any stamping...but then I remembered I had done some trial stamping of some images that I've never used before, so I decided to add them for fun. Used black Konad special polish using plates W234 (skull on ring, witch on middle, frankenstein on pinky), W215 (boo on index), OB26 (house on thumb and flying witch), T23 (bat above boo on index as well as small bats on thumb, middle and index, spider on ring and pinky and pumpkins placed on middle and thumb).  The green polish is Sally Hansen Insta-dri Lickety-Split Lime.

Added green dots in eyes of frankenstein, the witch and the pumpkins using Lickety-Split Lime and touched up the base of the house on thumb using a small brush with the Konad polish.  The witch was too freaky with green eyes so dotted black on top of the green so I wasn't all freaked out!

Topped with SV to finish.

Another pix to see the pumpkin at the base of the house.  It was suppose to mimic putting a carved pumpkin outside your door like on Halloween night...and then most of the pix, I cut it out of the frame!

Have a fantastic weekend...and thanks for looking!

Another Halloween Mani

I recently picked up Different Dimensions Smashing Pumpkins over at Missi Barry's Etsy shop and decided to do a Halloween mani using it....here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Guy Meets Gal Veston. 

Added Different Dimensions Smashing Pumpkins.  This is one coat.

While one coat had some interesting glitter, I decided to add a second coat for more glitter interest, then topped with SV.

Stamped using black Konad special polish using images from fauxnad XL K (spider on index), BM209 (hat on middle), T29 (pinky), T23 (web on thumb and cat on ring) and SdP 76 (bats randomly placed).  Please note that I may not have every single image of what I stamped or the exact polish over for this pix or others for the next little while....I kept all this information on the notepad on my iPhone but a resent mishap resulted in having to reset the phone one day last week...and I lost all my notes, contacts, pictures, etc.  So while I'll try to either remember what I used, or try to go back and find the images, I may simply not remember.  Unfortunately, this holds true for about the 30 manis I have in archives.  *sigh* 

Added a few random dots using CND yellow as well as added yellow accent to the hat, cat and ghost dude on the pinky, whatever his name may be. The Grim Reaper, maybe?

Added a few more dots using CND Eclectic Purple.

Topped with SV to finish.

Here's a bottle shot of DD Smashing Pumpkins.  As described on Etsy:

"Smashing Pumpkins is a glow in the dark glitter bomb! It glows orange in the dark (not as intense as some other colors, but still very bright!) It has black hexes in a couple different sizes, orange hexes and iridescent color shifting glitters."

 

After I discovered it glowed in the dark, I took a couple pix to share a day or so later. 

   

And another pix.  Unfortunately, no matter how much I tried, I wasn't able to get a clearer pix than this. 

Want to hear a funny story regarding these glow in the dark pix? When I went to take the pix, I thought, OK, pix for blog, better moisturize my cuticles for the camera so I did....only to think....why?!?...they are glow in the dark pix!! But I hope you can see my cuticles are well moisturized! lol!

Thanks for looking!

Halloween Nails

With Halloween less than two weeks away, I thought I had better start to do some Halloween mani's.  Here's the mani I'm wearing today.

Did a sponge gradient for some mock candy corn over a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet (no pix of plain white as I've shown it many times before...and my posts are pix heavy enough!)  The colours used were Revlon Alluring Amber (orange), China Glaze Go Lucky (yellow) and OPI Bride's Bouquet (white).  My sponging technique still needs work... I'm sponging more of my skin than my nails which happened the last time I did this too!

After cleanup.  Sort of judging by this pix.

For a little accent glitter accent, added LA Colors Sparkling Apricot on index and ring fingers. 

Topped with Girly Bits Candy Corn, then SV.

Stamped using T23 (pumpkin on index, cat on ring and web on thumb), T29 (witch on middle), Dash 17 (skeleton on pinky) with Konad black special polish.

Filled in some bare spots by adding images from D04 (Boo on index) T29 and T43 (bat above cat on ring and random spiders on middle, pinky and thumb).

Topped with SV. 

Here's a rare glimpse of my right hand.  I used a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, topped with layer of Girly Bits Candy Corn, then added stamping.  I didn't jot down the plate numbers as I didn't think I was going to share but some of the same images were used as other hand.

Hope you're having a great week....thanks for looking!