Halloween Water Marble

Happy Halloween! Are you guys doing anything special for Halloween today? I'm doing the usual, going to university, but I think I'll dress up to hand out candy tonight, maybe! Today I have a water marble to show you, which I'm actually really proud of. I personally think these are great Halloween colours, but a couple of people I talked to didn't agree - what do you guys think?

I used a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and then I marbled with China Glaze Kiwi Cool-ada, OPI A Grape Fit, and Quo by ORLY Little Black Dress. I think this is one of the best water marbles I've done, in the sense that all of my fingers ended up with a nice pattern.

This green looks radioactive to me, I wish it glowed in the dark, that would be the only think I think I would change about these nails.

To be honest, I'm sort of happy that Halloween is here, I'm bored of seeing so many Halloween manis, including my own. Bring on November!

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Zombie Nails + Tutorial

Hi everyone! Today I have another Halloween look to show you guys. I was chatting with one of my best friends, Anisha (of The Chaddabox), and I asked her if she was planning on doing any Halloween nail art. We both decided that we're not really the biggest fans of holiday-specific nail art, which is why the ones I'm showing you in this Halloween series aren't filled with pumpkins and witches. I wanted to try a look that I've seen around a few times, which is zombie nails. I tried to make these look like there was dried, crusty blood around the cuticles and I think I pulled it off. Let's take a look!

I've included my very first attempt at a tutorial below, so keep reading if you need a last minute how-to for Halloween tomorrow!

I used OPI Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh for the base colour as it's a close match but a little sickly-zombie tinted. To make the dried blood I used the new OPI Skyfall and a tiny bit of Quo by ORLY Little Black Dress to get a couple different colours of crimson in there.

What do you think of these? My boyfriend actually told me he didn't really like looking at them because they creeped him out so much, that's success in my opinion.

So here is the photo tutorial I tried to do. I just used a little part of a makeup sponge to cake on the blood. The addition of top coat really evens it out.

Thanks so much for reading everyone, I will be back tomorrow with one final Halloween look.

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Blood Splatters

Hi everyone! Welcome to my first Halloween manicure for this year, I actually have three manis prepared and this was my least favourite, so I thought I'd give it to you first and let you appreciate the other two closer to the spooky day itself. To create this look, I used the splatter technique, where you drip a drinking straw in polish and blow through it onto your nails.

I used a coat of China Glaze Liquid Leather as the base coat for this, and OPI The Thrill of Brazil and China Glaze Ruby Pumps for the splatters. They don't show up as well as I had expected on the black background, but this kind of adds to the creepy look in my opinion.

Here's the aftermath of my splatters, I actually did mine inside an old Tampax box. Eh, whatever works!

Bonus photo of my hands pre-cleanup, I feel like someone with a nosebleed sneezed all over my hand - gross!

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