Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Today I would like to show you a manicure that I created quite a while ago, but have not gotten around to posting. I have been sick the past two weeks and my energy for creating manicures is at an all time low. Luckily this candy filled manicure is just perfect for a day which has become synonymous with candy overload...

Zombie Nails...

Halloween is tomorrow and I want to show you my totally grody zombie manicure. I actually created these earlier this month, right before cutting my nails. Figured I might as well jack up the edges if I'm going to cut them anyway. I got the idea to do zombie nails from this manicure by More Nail Polish. Hope I'm not grossing too many of you out...

Incoco Spooktacular

With Halloween just a few days away, I would like to show you another fun set of nail polish appliques from Incoco named Spooktacular. These are glow in the dark nail strips which feature what are quite possibly the most adorable ghosts ever...

Incoco Halloween 2013 Collection: Fright Night

I would like to show you the new Incoco Halloween collection, Fright Night, which will be released today! This collection includes four designs that are perfect for Halloween. Two are rich glittery orange shades and two are fun glow in the dark appliques. I decided to show one of each style today and the remaining two I will show you another day...

Sunday Stamping: Halloween

Just ten days left until the spooky day of Halloween so it is no surprise that the popular vote for this week's Sunday Stamping challenge in Adventure is Stamping is a Halloween themed manicure. I chose to skip the really dark and scary for today and go for cute instead. The idea for the manicure came from the fact that we are having some friends over later today to carve pumpkins. It only seemed fitting that I dig up all the jack-o-lantern images to play with for inspiration...

OPI So So Skullicious Mini Set with Decals

Today I have a really fun OPI So So Skullicious set to show you. It comes with four mini nail lacquers and some fun skull decals which are perfect for Halloween. Believe it or not, this was my first time using nail decals and I love them. They are really easy to apply and a great way to add something special to a manicure. I ended up with a fun skittle manicure that I hope you'll enjoy...

Happy Howl-o-ween!

Happy Halloween or Howl-o-ween everyone! I hope you are having a fantastically spooky day and enjoying lots of yummy treats!

For my manicure today I chose to attempt a free-hand wolf howling at the moon. I'm pretty excited about how it turned out, especially the moon! I started out with one coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme followed by one coat of Sinful Colors Fiji. On it's own, Fiji is pretty sheer, but I think it looks amazing over black. The moon was panted using white acrylic paint and sponged with Fiji. The wolf was painted using black acrylic paint and the whole thing was topped off with a nice top coat.

Polishes used for this manicure:
- Wet n Wild Black Creme
- Sinful Colors Fiji
- Acrylic paint in white and black (not pictured)

What do you think? Is it worthy of being worn on Halloween?

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

Halloween Week: OPI Pair'em Scare'em

This is my second time around swatching the OPI Pair'em Scare'em set that I received from the girls at Glambo. Earlier this week I could not get a photo of the glow in the dark effect no matter how hard I tried. I finally found a nice tutorial that is meant for photographing glow in the dark polymer clay, but it worked perfectly for me.

This is three coats of Zom-Body to Love with no top coat. It is very sheer with visible tiny glow in the dark particles. It would probably work well layered over a nice lime color, but since I was planning to cover it with a shatter, I didn't bother. Application was very nice with this one.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that to get a good glow you have to "charge" it by holding it under direct light otherwise the glow is pretty faint...

Lights out time... fun!

Topped with Black Shatter, which cracked very well even with my rather thick coat on the middle finger...
(Oops, looking at these photos I just realized that I forgot to apply a top coat. Oh well, I'm too lazy now :P)

Lights out time again... look at it glow! I must be getting better at photographing it :D

What do you think? Are you a fan of glow in the dark polishes?

Brand: OPI Collection: Pair'em Scare'm Set 2011 Color Name/Number: Zom-Body To Love Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Brand: OPI Collection: available alone or in sets Color Name/Number: Black Shatter Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

This concludes Halloween Week, I hope you enjoyed it. I know I had lots of fun! Now all that's left is the mani for Halloween itself. Can't wait :D

Thanks for Looking!
Anutka :)

Halloween Week: Black Cats...

This is the manicure that almost broke my printer... yes, printer. It would have been a very expensive manicure had it actually stopped working. It all started when I saw some adorable cats that I wanted on my nails. I realized I could never do such detail freehand, so one thing led to another and my printer almost didn't make it. It is still spitting out pieces of plastic with every page it prints... Don't ask...

I started out with Sinful Colors Tapping Nails and I did manage to get enough cats for one manicure...

My bf loves the big fat one on the ring finger and I can't decide which I like best :)
What about you?

Here are the inspiration cats. I found it on 123rf.com

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

Halloween Week: Dripping Red...

I have seen quite a few of these "dripping" manicures and in the spirit of Halloween, I wanted it to look like blood... I guess though since I'm not good with guts and gore, it came out looking more like strawberry sauce, but I still love it!

So I hope you enjoy my bloody strawberry manicure because I had fun with it! I'll definitely have to do this again :)

For this manicure I used:
- Wet n Wild Black Creme
- Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar
- White acrylic paint

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

Halloween Week: Beakers of Potion...

I guess the scientist in me came out to play for today's manicure. I traded yesterday's cauldrons for some shiny new beakers full of magic potions... a love spell perhaps? or maybe a frog transformation spell? Only time will tell ;)

For the manicure I used:
- Color Club Wicked Sweet Polishes: Gimme a Grape, The Lime Starts Here, Wicked Sweet, and Get Your Lem-on (beaker colors left to right)
- Wet n Wild French White Cream (tips)
- White Acrylic Paint (numbers and marking on the beakers)

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

Day 18 - Half Moon Spiders...

I decided to combine today's challenge of half moons with some fun Halloween inspired creepy crawlies after seeing a manicure done by Simply Rins. This was a good compromise for me since I'm not the biggest fan of half moon manicures. The little guys just make me smile unlike the ones in real life that make me shudder...

I hope you like them... Sorry for the dent in my ring finger (I didn't have time to redo the whole thing...)

For the manicure I used:
- Petites Color Fever Vintage Gray for the base
- Wet n Wild Black Cream for the spiders
- Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar for the eyes

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)