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!

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!

Another Spider Mani with New Plates!

Kudos to all the fabulous bloggers who have been doing some amazing Halloween nail art! It's been great to see so many creative Halloween mani's out there. This is a mani I came up with recently (probably not that terribly creative! lol)



I wanted to come up with a Halloween mani that wasn't the traditional orange, purple, green, black, etc. that I have already done (just not posted the mani's yet) so started with a base of two coats of CND Flashpoint.



Stamped using IP T43 with Konad black special polish. (You may see that the dangling spider is missing from my thumb nail...it didn't stamp clearly so I removed it with acetone and a brush.).



Then I thought I'd try my hand at stamping a french tip to cover up the tips of my nails....my first choice would have been a spider web french tip (which I still want to do), but instead I seen my new Essence plates sitting out on my nail station so decided to give them a try. I was super lucky enough to these in a amazing swap I had with Ivana Thinks Pink. So this is how my french tipped stamping turned out.



Hmmmm, not so good :( As you can see, a couple of them were a super nail fail. My stamping nail nemeses is doing french tips - I can N E V E R get them to line up. So of course, I had to hide the tip stamping and decided to add a spider here and there using Beautiful Scratchers IP S8 using Nicole by OPI Positive Energy.



(Here's the Essence plate I just received....so excited to have these as part of my stash...thanks Ivana!!!)



And to be honest, in real life, the nail fail wasn't so obvious - its not like my mani's is blown up in macro for everyone to see like on the blog post! Plus, at the end of the day, its just polish and a bit of time and more reason to do your nails the next day!

Thanks for looking!