Blood Splatter Nails

Tomorrow's finally Halloween!

I have some kinda gruesome, really awesome splatter nails to show you today.

For this manicure, I started out with two coats of Julep Kate and then using a straw, made the splatters with Revlon Raven Red. 

I had some difficulty getting the polish to splatter at first. If you're going to do this technique, you need to make sure to completely cover the opening of the straw with polish and blow sharply. 

I found it was easiest to cover the opening of the straw by painting it directly with the nail polish brush.

The two pictures above are of my right hand. I kept the straw pretty close to my nails so I got a thick splatter effect.

When doing my left hand I held the straw a little further away, so the splatters came out thinner.

I'm not sure which look I like better. I'm leaning more towards the thicker splatters!

My favorite nail was from my left hand, though.

I feel like it looks like classic blood splatter. If there even is such a thing!

This technique was pretty messy. I put vaseline around my nails which helped some but I still had to go back with nail polish remover and clean them out. 

Despite the clean up, I'm really pleased with how they turned out!

The Cute Count

3 more days until Halloween! ONLY Halloween nails are appropriate for this week :)

Today I'm sporting some super cute Count Dracula nails.

My pointer finger nail got a little weepy when I put topcoat on him. It might be the fact that he knows he's not gonna make it til Halloween. Sorry little guy.

I started out this manicure with two coats of Revlon Charming. Such a nice lavender color.

Next, I painted on the Counts hair with Sinful Colors Time Off. 

Then with a dotting tool I made the eyes with Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White and more Time Off. I freehanded the noses mouths and fangs.

Then I dotted the white into the fangs so they would look more like teeth and added some Revlon Raven Red to the tips of the fangs.

I'm so pleased with how these guys turned out!

Because I'm too lazy to do my right hand, I let my roommate try her hand at a Count and did blood dripping on the rest of my nails with the Revlon Raven Red.

I liked how her's looked like he had a little tongue sticking out!

My favorite Count was my middle finger on my left hand.

He's almost a little cross eyed which makes him so adorable, in my opinion!

Stay tuned for more Halloween nails.

Galaxy Nails

I'm back! And finally feeling better :)

I've done this manicure before but didn't have any decent pictures of it, so I decided to re-create it so I could show it off.

Galaxy nails, space nails, whatever you wanna call 'em! These are easy and I love how they look.

I started out with a coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme. To layer on the colors, I used a cut up make-up sponge. I cut up the sponge into nail sized pieces. Then you just dab on a few different colors (I used blues, a purple, and a pink). 

The colors don't have to be right on top of one another, it looks better if you spread them out around your nails.

I used Love & Beauty Light Blue, Maybelline Color Show Amethyst Ablaze, Maybelline Color Show Navy Narcissist, and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Twisted Pink.

It's kind of hard to tell in the pictures but I also put dots of Milani Art of Gold on so my galaxy would have some stars :)

Of course I finished off this manicure off with Seche Vite to smooth and blend all the colors!

I'm happy with the results. And so happy that I'm back to painting my nails

Trip to Disney?

This weekend's been pretty rough for me. I've been feeling under the weather and avoiding everything that has any chemicals whatsoever because I was randomly breaking out in hives. So no nail polish for me :(

I do have a Minnie Mouse Manicure to show you that I did on my roomie (the tiny nailed one) a while ago.

To make the half moons, I used those stationary adhesive labels and Rimmel London Stiletto Red. 

Then with a dotting tool I dotted on Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White. 

This is a picture of her nails pre Milani Art of Gold (and pre-clean-up! excuse my coloring outside the nails).

Andddd post Milani Art of Gold. I think it added an extra little pop, but looking back at it, they're pretty cute without the gold line too.

Hopefully I'll be able to get back to painting my own nails soon!

Candy Corn Nails

Halloween's less than two weeks away so I'm starting to be less of a crazy person with my Halloween themed manicures!

Today I've got some super cute candy corn nails to show you.

These were super easy. I just painted two coats of Julep Kate and then free-handed the orange and yellow with Milani Awesome Orange and Julep Blake. Put some Seche Vite on top and bam, done.

I got a lot of positive comments on these nails. (I'm not the only one getting geared up for Halloween!)

Keep tuned for my next Halloween-crazed manicure.

October is Breast Care Awareness Month!

So I did nails with the Breast Cancer ribbon. To show my support for all the ladies and men fighting this illness.

The base is two coats of Julep Lynn.

The ribbon was done with So Easy Stripe Rite Hot Pink. Love striper polishes.

If you want to learn more about breast cancer, visit http://www.breastcancer.org, or just google it and you'll find plenty of resources!

I went home this weekend so I also gave my mom a french mani and used a nail pen for the first time. I'm not really sure if I liked it, it's so different from polish. Maybe it just takes some getting used to.

Look at those beautiful hands! My dad's a lucky man to get to hold them ;)

Thanks for stopping in.

Day of the Dead Skulls

I have been majorly slacking with my posting lately! I need to get back to regular updates.

I, of course, did yet another Halloween mani.

I call these Day of the Dead skulls. My roommate calls them Candy Skulls. Either way, they're cute and slightly spooky.

I realize the actual Day of the Dead isn't until November, I just thought that these would be much more unique and fun than your average skull.

I didn't take any pictures during the actual process, but I'll still talk you through it. 

Started out with two coats of Julep Kate. Then with a dotting tool I made the eyes and drew on the noses and mouths with Sinful Colors Time Off.

The dots around the eyes were done with Revlon Posh, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Twisted Pink, Rimmel London Stiletto Red, Maybelline Color Show Amethyst Ablaze, and Nina Ultra Pro Blu Blaze.

My thumb was definitely my favorite nail (I always pick a favorite nail).

17 more days until Halloween!

Pumpkin Patch

In case I haven't already made my love of everything Halloween clear, I have another Halloween themed manicure today!

I went out and bought orange nail polish just so I could do these nails.

If pumpkins aren't festive then I don't know what is.

For once, I actually like my nails on my right hand better than my left. But I'll show you my left hand too.

I really like how my middle finger turned out on this hand, but I was a little too generous with the black stripes on my ring and pinky, in my opinion.

So, for this manicure, I started with half circles of Milani Awesome Orange.

Then with a nail art brush I made the stems with Revlon Posh.

To finish off I made black stripes with Sinful Colors Time Off.

Here's a bonus picture of my nails that I posted on Instagram:

It's kind of dark, but I like it for some reason. It has that Halloween feel to it!

Thanks for reading :)

Holographic Diagonal French Manicure

I've been wanting to use my holographic nail polish again, so I've been brainstorming a design that would work well with it.

I think it's pretty beautiful on its own, so I didn't want anything that would distract too much from it.

There you have it, the holographic diagonal french manicure. Possibly the first of its kind.

I think it turned out pretty good. 

I know that picture is blurry, but it really shows off the holographic-ness that is just too pretty!

I used Layla Flash Black and Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White for this manicure. If you want to see a swatch of Layla Flash Black click here.

Like I said before, the only thing I don't like about this polish is how easily it chips.

This is my manicure after 1 day with Seche Vite topcoat. I thought maybe the white on top would keep the tip wear from being so awful, but no luck :/

I still adorable Layla Flash Black no matter what though.

Pink Skulls

So it's October and I'm planning to do a looootttt of Halloween nails. Because Halloween is awesome. And spooky grotesque nails are even better!

Only these nails aren't so spooky. Or grotesque.

They're pretty girly. But they've definitely still got the Halloween element to them.

These nails make me very very happy ! How did I create such an adorable festive manicure?

Well I started out with two coats of Wet N Wild Tickled Pink.

Then with a dotting tool I dotted on blobs of Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White. I added three lines with a nail art brush for the teeth.

They look kind of like jellyfish, don't they?! Definitely gonna have to have a jellyfish mani soon.

To make the eye sockets I just dotted Tickled Pink on top of the skulls. I used Milani Disco Lights for the eye sockets on my ring fingers for accent nails.

I'm looking forward to doing more Halloween themed nails.

Bring on the festivity!

Spider Webs

Happy October! To bring in this lovely month, I decided to do some festival nails.

Spider web nails! Sans the spiders, because those are just a little too creepy for my taste.

For these nails, I started out with a coat of Wet N Wild Black Creme.

Then I put my NYC Matte Me Crazy topcoat over them to give them a more 'black night' feel.

Then I just painted on the webs with Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White. Originally I was just going to have a web on my ring finger as an accent nail, but I decided that was too plain.

Can't believe Halloween's right around the corner. I still need to find a costume!