NOTD: Influenced by scary movie

Hello!!

Today's prompt in the CNT Halloween challenge is 'influenced by a scary movie'. As I was working on recreating a manicure I liked from earlier in the competition (the last prompt in each of the challenges is to recreate someone else's manicure), I was inspired to do Amityville Horror for this prompt. :)

To do this, I wanted an evil looking house, so I went with a blood red house under a spooky night sky. Then, of course, I had to represent all of the ghosts lurking around the house:

Horror House--are those ghosts flying away, or just circling?

Fly away ghosties! Fly away!

To create the manicure, I started with a base of China Glaze Smoke And Ashes, and added a layer of Max Factor Fantasy Fire to give the night sky a little mystery. I freehanded the moon with Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, and the house with Pure Ice siren and Sally Hansen Lightning. I stamped the ghosts using Anna plate W227, and Sally Hansen White On. And there you have it!

Thanks for looking, and please check out the other scary movie manicures linked below. :)

Xoxox,
M.

Halloween Cutouts

A bit ago I was asked to do some Halloween designs. The original source that asked for the pictures didn't pan out, so I had all these unused Halloween nail art ideas sitting around. I just remembered that I had one more, so I'd like to share that with you today, before it's non-Halloween season. (That's on Wednesday folks...put those costumes together!)

This design used two bottles of polish (similar to my NAIL ART COMPETITION THAT YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY ENTER), Decoded from ORLY and Twiggie from Color Club. I also tried some new and interesting techniques.

The chevron pattern and "Boo" were both done freehand. No big news there. However, the scream face and ghost figure were actually something new I've never done. First, I got a makeup sponge and dabbed a small amount of Twiggie onto the sharpest corner of the sponge. Then, I lightly dabbed a rough outline of the shape of the ghost, eyes, and mouth. (It helped to draw the pattern out on paper first to get an idea of the shapes needed.) When Twiggie had dried, I used a small striping brush dipped in Decoded to draw a clean outline of the shapes over the patches of green. Without a topcoat, this looked strange, so you really need to smooth it all out with a nice layer of topcoat. With that last layer of topcoat added, it really pulls together nicely, wouldn't you say?

Franken Friday: Halloween Edition

The last Friday of every month is Franken Friday on the blog!  Today, I'm going to show you what I came up with for Halloween!  As a child, my sisters and I LOVED to watch Hocus Pocus.  Hell, I still love to watch it.  In fact, we loved it so much that we actually went as the Sanderson Sisters for Halloween three years ago!

I'm Mary. This is well before I started my weight loss journey.

I took colors that reminded me of the main characters and put them into polishes!  Without further ado, here they are!

Black Flame Candle, Fur Black as Black, Hollywood, Shish-ka-Baby, Circle of Salt, Je veux mon livre, Just Lucky I Guess, I Smell Children!, Mother!

Black Flame candle is pretty obvious.  It is a black based polish with gold/red duochrome, gold squares, and red, yellow, and orange hexes.

Fur Black as Black is a  mix of black and blue glitter in a clear base.  You know how sometimes black can be so deep that it looks blue?  That's what I thought of when I made this guy.  It builds into pretty full coverage but only with five coats or something ridiculous like that.  I have one coat on my pointer finger.

Hollywood is a blue linear holographic polish with blue shimmer, white, black, and gunmetal hexes.  I chose these colors because they are the colors of Max's shoes that were stolen by Jay and Ice.

Shish-ka-Baby is based off of Danny's Halloween costume.  It's a black jelly based polish with orange shimmer and green and orange hexes.  Unfortunately, the large green hexes are curling.  Well, more like tacoing.  I just ordered a matte replacement, but it's not as large, which is sad.

A Circle of Salt will protect you from zombies, witches, and old boyfriends.  Allison used this handy trick to protect the gang from the sisters.  It's a clear based polish with silver shimmer and three different sizes of white hexes.  My ring finger is a jelly sandwich with Circle of Salt and Elevation Sarychev.

Je veux mon livre is a sage green based polish with gold and green shimmer and purple hexes, squares, and shreds.  This is based on the baddest bad witch of them all, Winifred Sanderson!

Just Lucky I Guess is a fuchsia polish with pink and blue shimmer and light pink hearts, hexes, and shreds.  Sarah was always the heart breaker who lured the men and children in to their doom.

I Smell Children! is a ruby based polish with red shimmer, black, fuchsia, and purple hexes and purple squares.  This polish comes from sister Mary's flannel dress.  She sniffs out the children so the sisters can live and stay young forever.

Mother!  Sadly, this particular polish is chock full of tacoing glitter.  I have replacements for the green and purple, but I haven't found a replacement for the fuchsia yet.  Mother! is a clear based polish with fine black hexes, medium orange hexes, and large green, red, purple, and fuchsia hexes.  I took the colors that I identified most with each sister and combined them all into this polish.  I hope I can find replacements soon because it looks pretty cool.

And there they are!  What do you think?