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Hug My Face!

Hey!

Today I have four polishes from the Darling Diva Hug My Face collection to show you! 😀

Bad Ass, In Space No One Can Hear You Scream, Long Live The Queen, and Xenomorph.

darling diva bad ass

Bad Ass

Bad Ass is black with a very slight purple tone, scattered holographic polish.

darling diva bad ass nail polish swatch

Look at that holo flare! In the bottle this polish really didn’t look too exciting… This really is a case of not judging a book by it’s cover! But when it’s on the nails this polish is lovely! but then I may be a little bias, seeing as my favorite polishes are black/purple and holographic lol

I found Bad Ass has an average drying time, it dried slightly matte, and it two coats to be opaque. The formula is creamy and self leveling and the application was a breeze!

darling diva bad ass nail polish swatch

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

Darling Diva In Space No One Can Hear You Scream Nail Polish Swatch

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream is packed with Micro holographic shards iridescent hex glitter and holographic glitter all wrapped in a black jelly polish!

Darling Diva In Space No One Can Hear You Scream Nail Polish Swatch

This is a really complex glitter polish, it has so many different types of glitter in every drop!

On the nail it doesn’t look that OTT! The Iridescent hex glitters add a lot of depth!

This is three coats and it has a slightly longer drying time, it was dry in less than five minutes.

This is a thicker polish so the application was a little bit more tricky, but by no means difficult.

I have found that some shard glitter polishes can be scratchy with the little bits of glitter poking out all over the place, but that’s not the case with this one, it dried completely smooth!

Darling Diva In Space No One Can Hear You Scream Nail Polish Swatch

Long Live The Queen

Darling Diva Long Live The Queen Nail Polish Swatch

Long live the queen is a dark teal holographic polish packed with multi chrome flakies and glitter.

Darling Diva Long Live The Queen Nail Polish Swatch

The base colour of this polish is a really pretty blackened teal, and it really is packed with holographic glitter, unfortunately when it’s applied I couldn’t really see much of the multi coloured flakie glitter.

This is three coats and it has a similar drying time to In Space.

This is a thicker polish so the application was a little bit more tricky. it was slightly patchy on the first couple of coat but the subsequent coats evened everything out.

This polish is so pretty I didn’t want to take it off!

Darling Diva Long Live The Queen Nail Polish Swatch

Xenomorph

Darling Diva Xenomorph Nail Polish Swatch

Xenomorph is a dark teal/green polish filled with both multi chrome flakie and regular glitters, holographic micro glitter, and iridescent glitter.

Darling Diva Xenomorph Nail Polish Swatch

This really is a stunning polish, it’s so squishy and sparkly! some the multi-chrome glitters shift through red to blue while others are blue to red, unfortunately my pictures only show the green and blue, there is so much colour changing goodness going on in this polish!

the first coat was a little patchy but Xenomorph builds really nicely.

Darling Diva Xenomorph Nail Polish Swatch

These polishes are available here at Darling Diva 🙂

I really have to get the rest of this collection, no, I need the rest of this collection in my life right now!

In all these pictures I have used my usual base coat and top coat.

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Nude and White Matte Gradient

Hey Everyone! 😀

Matte Nude Gradient Nail Art

After all the Halloween craziness I realized that my brain and my nails needed a bit of a rest, so for the past few days I have been wearing this very neutral gradient!

Matte Nude Gradient Nail Art

There is a little tip wear but it’s surprisingly not too bad, especially seeing as I have been scrubbing fish tanks and gardening!

I used three polishes for this, Modern Love from Deborah Lippmann, Snow Me White from Sinful Colors, and Illamasqua Matte Topcoat.

Matte Nude Gradient Nail Art

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Candy Corn Coffins

Hello! 😀

Candy Corn Coffins

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

Candy Corn Coffins

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

 Candy Corn Coffins

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!

Candy Corn Coffins

I hope you have a lovely Halloween weekend! 😀


Glitter For Blood!

Hello! 🙂

Halloween glitter blood nail Art

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

Halloween glitter blood nail ArtFor 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.

Halloween glitter blood nail Art

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 🙂

 


Gruesome Green Gradient

Hallo! 🙂

halloween green gradient

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! 😀

halloween green gradient

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!

halloween green gradient

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


Bloody Bats!

Hello! 🙂

Bloody Bats Halloween Nail Art

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

Bloody Bats Halloween Nail Art

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!

Bloody Bats Halloween Nail Art

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