Tag Archives: Halloween

October 30, 2015

Candy Corn Coffins

By Ruth

Hello! 😀

I realized that I haven’t created any candy corn nail art this year oO so here are some Candy Corn Coffin nails! 😀

That random bit of thread is really annoying, the more I look at it, the more it looks like a creepy spider leg Ugh!

The polishes and other stuff I used are

Messy Mansion – MM11
Bundle Monster – BM-402
Hit The Bottle – Black
Sally Hansen – Lite
Rimmel – Shirley Temple
Sinful Colours – Snow Me White
Colour Club – Antiquated
Seche Vite

Starting with a white base I used Lite, Shirley Temple and Snow Me White for the gradient, then using Hit the bottle black for the coffins.

The little coffins are from Plate MM11 the larger coffin is from BM-402. then using a tiny brush I added the gold detail with Antiquated.

Then finished it off with a layer of topcoat!

I hope you have a lovely Halloween weekend! 😀

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October 29, 2015

Glitter For Blood!

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

Today I have this rather gruesome and glittery gradient to share with you!

For this I used

Barry M Red Glitter
Estee Lauder Red Hot
Revlon Stiletto
Seche Vite
A Thin Nail Art Brush
and a Sponge

I started off with the red and black gradient, which I really think is a classic vampy nail art look. Then to add some Halloween joy I added the glittery blood lol. 🙂

I like this bit I think it would look a bit more interesting if the two red polishes had contrasting shades, on the nail they are surprisingly similar.

I ended up with so many bubbles in my topcoat, it’s probably because the glitter polish, is getting really thick, and trapping air in all the lumps and bumps.

This mani is definitely going to go on the list of ones to recreate 🙂

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October 28, 2015

Halloween Monster Eyes and Some Candlewick Greens Waxy Goodness!

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

Sorry about the lack of posts last week, I managed to cut my finger don’t worry, it’s on my dominant hand so there won’t be any gory pictures! And I’ve also have a cold (ugh, stoopid germs).

But now that I have dragged myself out of my sofa cocoon and polish remover isn’t really painful to use. I can share with you a two part post starting with these Monster Eyes! 🙂

For my monster eye nails I used

Revlon – Stiletto
Illamasqua – poke
Sally Hansen – Blue Streak
Barry M – Crystal Glaze
Seche Vite
Illamasqua – Matte Top Coat

Thinking about it I didn’t really think through the steps for making the eyes. So I think they do look a little messy round the edges.

The gradient is Poke and Blue Streak with a coat of Crystal Glaze over the top, then with a thin brush I added the eye shape using Stiletto.

In hindsight I should have used tape or something to mask off the eyes, It would have made the edges of the matte topcoat look a lot cleaner.

A quick question… Have you seen a nail polish that looks like the picture above? If you have please let me know, as I want something like this on my nails right now 🙂

As I’m sure you can tell the photograph isn’t nail polish, its wax! Which brings me on to the second part of my post!

I want to show you some wax melts from a really lovely little company here in the UK. It’s not often that I come across wax melts that I’m really impressed with, but these honestly are amazing! Before I carry on I should let you know that I purchased these myself!

I have pet rats, at the moment I have 8 of the whiskery critters in my living room, and like any pets they can get really rather stinky, so I do end up looking for lovely room fragrances quite often.

These wax melts are so loaded with fragrance that one quarter of a pot is enough to scent the whole of my apartment all day!

If my nostrils could sing with happiness they would be, and not in a creepy old man nose whistle way!

The Candlewick Greens Shop is right here if you would like to have a look 🙂 http://www.candlewick-greens.appspot.com/index.html

Autumn Wreath is the melt I have in my warmer right now, it’s so nice, slightly spiced apples and crunchy leaves!

There is a facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/740123009371304/?fref=ts

it’s the best place to fins out about the restocks and upcoming new scents 😀

Gingerbread Latte smells just like the drink, I have found that some coffee/creamy scented candles and melts (from a well known brand that happens to start with the letter Y) have this nasty chemical plastic smell. But not these, they smell heavenly!

Another wonderful thing about these wax melts is that most of them are covered in glitter and shimmers! Yay for glitter 😀

The best way to order these lovely melts is through the ready to ship page. http://www.candlewick-greens.appspot.com/readytoship.html

Sticky Toffee Pumpkin Waffle smells so amazing I want to eat it! But I’m sure it wouldn’t taste nearly as good lol!

Out of all the different scent collections on offer at candlewick Greens I have to say my favorite is the Mystical ones!

But I have found one little problem with the bakery scents… Being surrounded by wonderful cake smells makes me really hungry! 😀

Oh if you do make an order for some of this lovely wax (you really won’t be disappointed) if you could leave a note with your order about finding out about them here that would be amazing! 😀

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October 12, 2015

Gruesome Green Gradient

By Ruth

Hallo! 🙂

I really wasn’t feeling like doing anything to complicated with my nails today, so I decided on this black and bright green gradient.

Thinking about it this would look great as part of a Spooky Witch costume! 😀

The three polishes I used are all from Illamasqua! the Bright green is called Nurture, Scorn is the black polish, and the matte black glitter topper is Swarm!

I have to say I’m still not the biggest fan of Green Polish, but as a Halloween mani this is quite fun 🙂

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October 9, 2015

Bloody Bats!

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

Today my Halloween mani is Bloody Bats lol and it’s a combination of water spotting and stamping!

I used Ivory Skull from Sally Hansen for the white base, the red is Red-ical Gypsy from Color Club, the bat image is from Moyou Gothic 04 and I used Hit the Bottle in Black, then a coat of Seche Vite and it was all done!

Well after cleaning up it was all done, I don’t know what it is about Red-ical Gypsy, but it really likes to stick to your skin! Getting rid of it took nearly half an hour!