NOTD: Jack Skellington

Have loved seeing all the Jack Skellington manis so I decided to do my own! My cat decided that a scratch on my finger would make them look better... I disagree!

To start as always I painted a base coat on all my nails. I recently purchased OPI's Glitter Off Base Coat, I used this on my thumb and ring finger. I will update with my opinion of it in my next post, for now I can say it was very easy to apply and it seems like it should stay put until I decide to take it off, but we will see! After applying my base coats I painted just one coat of Barry M Cotton to all nails, definitely my new go to White!! I'm sure it would stamp very well too as do most of the other Barry M Gelly's.

On my thumb and ring finger I sponged on a gradient going from black to white. I used Barry M Cotton, Barry M Chai and China Glaze Liquid Leather. Around my nails as always when I do a gradient I put Rainbow Connections Zap Skin Protector. I also applied a glitter topper over the gradient, China Glaze Ghostess With The Mostess.

On my index and little finger I did these black and white stripes. I used She Sells Seashells straight stencils and China Glaze Liquid Leather.

Using my Uber Mat from Uber Chic Beauty I created Jack Skellington's face. I applied a clear coat on the mat, then used a black Sharpie to draw his face as shown. I then peeled it off and applied a clear coat to my middle finger nail to stick it on.

To finish I applied a top coat of Seche Vite to all nails.

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NOTD: Pumpkin Patch

I absolutely love these!!

To start as always I painted a base coat on all my nails. Then on all nails I painted 2 coats of China Glaze Lady And The Vamp.

To create the pumpkin look I decided to paint some lines down my nails in this lighter orange colour which is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Man-go Team! I used a thin nail art brush, as you can see the lines are a bit messy because I am rubbish at free hand! However with something like this I don't think the lines need to be that neat anyway.

I then used MoYou black stamping polish and stamped different pumpkin faces on each nail from MoYou Festive plate 29.

To finish I didn't use my normal Seche Vite as I thought a Matte look would be best for this, so I finished with Barry M Matte Topcoat.

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NOTD: Haunted House

And so begins the Halloween manis... :)

To start as always I painted a base coat on all nails. Then on my thumb, middle and little finger I applied 1 coat of Barry M Prickly Pear. On my index finger 1 coat of Ciate Cream Soda and on my ring finger 2 coats of China Glaze Sun Worshiper.

On the nails painted with Prickly Pear I created a gradient. I used Barry M Prickly Pear, China Glaze Spontaenous and China Glaze Grape Pop.

On my index finger I did another gradient this time using Ciate Cream Soda, Barry M Chai and China Glaze Liquid Leather.

I stamped on all nails with a different pattern on each. On my thumb I stamped the bats from MoYou Gothic plate 04 using MoYou black stamping polish. On my index finger I stamped the ghosts from MoYou Festive plate 15 using Konad white stamping polish. On my middle finger I stamped the haunted house from MoYou Festive plate 15 in black. On my ring finger I stamped the scary eyes from Gothic plate 04 in black and from the same plate and also in black I stamped the grave stones onto my little finger.

To complete I applied a top coat of Seche Vite to all nails.

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NOTD: Autumn Leaves

I have wanted to do a dry brush mani for a while now, and I thought it would look great for a leaf mani! So here it is... :)

 To start as always I applied a base coat. Then on my thumb, middle and ring finger I painted 2 coats of China Glaze Westside Warrior, and on my index and little finger 2 coats of Barry M Majesty.

For the dry brush effect I firstly used Barry M Mustard. I wiped as much of the polish off the brush as I could on the bottle and also on a piece of paper. Then I wiped the brush both up and down and side to side on the nail until I got the desired effect as shown. I then did the same using China Glaze Life Preserver. Of course you can use as many polishes as you like when doing this technique.

Over the dry brush effect I then stamped this leaf pattern from Born Pretty Store plate BP-L008 using Barry M Gold Foil.

To finish I applied a top coat of Seche Vite to all nails, with 2 coats on the textured polish.

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