Halloween nails–Ulta3 Carrot Top with Bundle Monster

I’m finally posting my Halloween nails (only a week late!!)

I’m really not happy with how they turned out, but I’ll show them anyway!

 

Meh. This is two coats of Ulta3 Carrot Top, which is a really cool neon dark purple with a hint of red. I love this colour! I thought it would be way too bright for me but somehow it works.

I stamped with Bundle Monster for most of the nails but the spiders are Konad. You know what? Everyone raves about Bundle Monster but I just don’t get it. It is SO much more effort to get a clean image from their plates and some images don’t transfer at all! It’s so frustrating and quite often I ruin a perfectly good mani by stamping Bundle Monster over it and the image smudges or doesn’t transfer. It’s so irritating. The ghost smudged whatever I did and I tried to make it better by adding eyes but it so didn’t work. Ah well, better luck next time!

 

Em

Four long years

Exciting, exciting news, everyone.
As of 10pm Friday night I have FINISHED my degree!! I submitted my last assignment (but not after a LOT of tears on Friday) and study is OVER!

It is such a bizarre feeling, waking up on a weekend and not having study to do. It's going to be even more bizarre coming home from work tomorrow and realising I don't have to spend the night studying. I already feel much more relaxed. Today I don't even know what I did! I spent part of the day making frankens (and came up with a gorgeous red jelly with glitter and hexes that I love) and reading blogs.

I'm going to take advantage of this extra time by doing more complicated nail art and frankening more. I have a tonne of untinted lacquer base, polish tints, glitter, flakies and hexes to play around with and I can't wait to show you some of my creations!

To my fellow nail bloggers who still have a few weeks of uni to go: hang in there!

Em

piCture pOlish haul

These are just a few piCture pOlishes I received over the past few weeks:

 

Malt-teaser, Berry Nice, Fairy Floss and Bliss. Bliss is such a pale purple it’s almost white. Lurv!

 

 

Jade, Tiffany, Coral Reef and Violet Femme. Violet Femme is a NEON dark purple. It looks freakin’ awesome!!!!!!

 

I’m loving the piCture pOlishes! Are you?

Em

Water Marbling using BYS Reign Supreme and Matte Black

My second water marble, woo hoo! This attempt turned out so much better than the first, and I did it for my good friend Alicia. She wanted it matched to her Halloween costume, a purple and black witch costume. We both agreed that these nails were perfect:

 

This is her right hand. I really, really like the white. That’s the great thing about doing a white base nail colour, it goes with everything! My favourite is actually the little finger. It’s black and then has a wavy line of purple and then white. It looks awesome!

 

This is her left hand. Alicia’s favourite was her ring finger and mine was her middle. Look at that cool white line through the purple on the middle finger!!!

 

I used two coats of Nailene French White for the base. It’s a great white to use as a base because it goes on smoothly and is opaque in two coats. Then we used lanolin to protect her fingers and used BYS Matte Black and BYS Reign Supreme for the marbling. Love it!

 

What do you think?
Em

Revlon Rock with Konad m83

Here we are again, another purple. This isn’t a terribly unique purple but it’s a pretty one!

This is Revlon Rock (or Rock Star, depending on whether you bought the mini or full size or both, like me. Grr.)

 

Two coats. Beautiful formula, but excuse the messy application (if you click to make the photo big, you’ll see!) I’ve had a tummy bug/food poisoning/something disgusting so I haven’t had a lot of time to spend on my nails. Let’s not go there.

I Konaded one of the newer Konad designs from m83, the heart flowers/balloons/whatever it is. I’ve seen this design around a lot and I love it! I used my new Konad Special Polish in Pastel Lilac. I also bought the pastel blue, green and pink. I know I can just mix my existing Konad polishes with white, but I’m lazy and I use white a lot so it’s kind of precious to me!

I had real problems lining this stamp up! It’s a bit wonky, especially on my right hand, but it’s still pretty. I can’t wait to try the other designs on m83. Konad have really stepped up their game and started producing some different designs other than flowers lately!

Do you like their newer plates?

 

Em

Essence Let Me in Pink with Eclipse glitter

I think I need to purge my stash of all my dupes of this shade of pink:

 

This is Let Me in Pink by Essence, two coats.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a pretty colour, I just have serious deja vu right now. It’s too similar to other pinks in my stash and there’s nothing unique about it.

So what did I do? I covered it in glitter:

 

(Deliberately blurry to show off the pretty holo glitter).

I immediately regretted doing this. I felt like a ten year old. It was just too much.

There was a lot of pretty glitter in this polish, all holo bar glitter, micro glitter, larger glitter particles and even some stars (although I got one star out of the whole bottle). It just looked wrong on me. By the second day it grew on me just a little, but only enough for me to stop wanting to saw my fingers off.

 

Are there some glitters you just feel you can’t pull off?

Em

Tony Moly unnamed grey-blue-green

I’m currently mourning the loss of my nails. I cut them down, as I always do when they get to a certain length, and I went a little too far and now I hate them

Oh well, they grow fairly quickly but I just have to be careful about what colours I paint them. Boo.

This is one of the Tony Moly polishes I got from Morning Glory in Adelaide:

 

I can never work out what colour to call this kind of shade. It’s like a grey-blue-green. Either way, it’s gorgeous!

This is two coats and it went on like a dream. I’m most impressed as this only cost me $3.50. Tony Moly are an Asian brand and, as far as I know, the only place to get them (apart from online) in Adelaide is Morning Glory.

So what are you waiting for!? Get to it and collect some Tony Molys!!

 

Em