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Friday, October 31, 2014

13 days of Halloween | Nightmare Before Christmas

Sadly it is the last day of the 13 days of Halloween. My obsession with nail polish and nail art began 2 years ago today when I saw somewhere online that you could paint Jack Skellington on your nails. Who would have thought, Right? I had to try it out. I had about 4 bottles of nail polish and 2 striping polishes at the time. I wont scare you at the beginning of this post with a throwback picture of that failed attempt at nail art, however, I will post it at the end. I will also mention that at that time I had just found out that I had Psyriosis which had severely affected my skin especially parts of my hands. So when It comes to the last picture of this post, please excuse my skin. So lets get into day 13 with some Nightmare Before Christmas nail art.
 
 
You'll have to excuse the Sally pattern. I had taken pictures shortly before going to bed and when I had woken up the next day to start editing the pictures, they were gone. So over night Sally had gotten a little squished. :(


Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White
ELF - Dark Navy
LA Colors Rapid Dry

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints:

White
Black
Mosaic Blue
Apricot
Pink Eraser
Bright Yellow
Laguna

Now for the throwback. Please remember these were two years ago when I had NO IDEA what I was doing and looking back still have NO IDEA what I was going for. At the time I thought they were the greatest things since sliced bread. Boy was I wrong!


Looking back at this picture I would have never thought that 2 years later I would go from 4 nail polishes to over 700 nail polishes and still be doing this. You can definitely see the improvement. If I only knew then what I know now :).

Well that's it for the 13 days of Halloween series for 2014. I've had so much fun that I plan on doing it again next year. Hope you all enjoyed. Have a great and safe Halloween!

Thursday, October 30, 2014

13 days of Halloween | Sugar Skulls

We've almost come to an end of the 13 days of Halloween. Its already day 12 and I have sugar skulls for you today. I will say that I wanted these to turn out differently but my mouth was in a lot of pain from having my teeth pulled only a few days before I did these. So I did my best not to mention these were my first time doing sugar skull nails.



Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White
LA Colors Rapid Dry

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in:
Black
Apricot
Kiwi
Bimini Blue
Mosaic Blue
Fuchsia
Bright Yellow

Flower fimo slices

Tomorrow is the last day of the 13 days of Halloween and then its off to Fall nail art. I'll see you back tomorrow with the final Halloween design.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

13 days of Halloween | Horror Movies!

I love horror movies so I had to do some horror movie monster nails for day 11 of the 13 days of Halloween. I have monsters from 4 different movies and I love how these turned out. I was sad to take them off.



Items Used:

Index Finger (Sam from Trick R Treat)
ELF - Smokey Brown
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in Black, Nutmeg Brown and Pewter Grey

Middle Finger (Jason from Friday the 13th)
China Glaze - White on White
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Black
 
Ring Finger (Jigsaw from Saw)
China Glaze - White on White
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Flag Red, Black and White
 
Pinky Finger (Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street)
Sinful Colors - All About You
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Flag Red and Lite Mocha
 
Pure Ice - Siren was used for the blood splatter
LA Colors Rapid Dry
 
 
2 days left until Halloween. What are your costume or nail art ideas for Halloween?

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

13 days of Halloween | Skull & Crossbones

Its day 10 of the 13 days of Halloween already. I'm getting sad that its almost over. For today I have Skull & Crossbones. I actually went a little girly and glittery for these.



Items Used:

Sinful Colors - Silver Screen
Sinful Colors - Fantasy
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in Black, White and Fuchsia
LA Colors Rapid Dry

Only 3 more days until Halloween. Stay tuned for more.

Monday, October 27, 2014

13 days of Halloween | Zombies

For day 9 of the 13 days of Halloween I have Zombies. I had originally planned on doing a Halloween watermarble but didnt feel up to it, so I decided to go with some Zombies. It also gave me the opportunity to use an untried indie polish which I am in love with. So here are my zombies.



Items Used:

Sinful Colors - Beau Khaki
Polish Addict Nail Color - Zombie Love
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint - Black and Flag Red

The Polish Addict Nail Color glows in the dark but my camera sucks so it wont pick it up, but let me tell you. It glows amazingly!

Were almost to the end of the 13 days of Halloween Series. Stay tuned for the final days.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

13 days of Halloween | Monsters

Today's post for the 13 days of Halloween is actually 4 nail art ideas in one. Sometimes you can just never decided on one thing to do, so why not choose them all. Its day 8 and I have monsters for you.


We have Frankenstein, a Vampire, Frankenstein's wife, and a Mummy.


Items Used:

Wet N Wild - Ghoul time
China Glaze - White on White
LA Colors - Whipped
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints - Black, White, Fuchsia
LA Colors Rapid Dry

How cute is Frankenstein's wife with her little bow. Of course I had to add a cute factor to all those monsters. Stay tuned for the rest of the 13 days of Halloween.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

13 days of Halloween | Candy Corn

I decided to go with something rather simple for day 7 of the 13 days of Halloween. Today we have candy corns. I went with candy corn for the simple fact that I have not done them before and I love doing gradients. Not to mention, who can go without candy corn around Halloween?



Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White
Pure Ice - Drive me Crazy
Pure Ice - Showstopper
LA Colors Rapid Dry

We are halfway through the 13 days of Halloween. Who's still with me, there is plenty more to come.