It's A Bloodly Mess!!!

One of my favorite things to do is a splatter mani, and I love blood splatters the most!! Halloween would not be complete without one. Here is mine for the holiday season :)

I started out with 1 coat of Circus 'Reverso' which is the awesome white polish from my last post.

I seriously love this polish an am on the look out to get another bottle! I could have done 2 coats but just the one served it's purpose. Since I have the french tip CNS nails (Custom Nail Solutions) I usually need a base coat unless the polish is darker. So I just use 1 coat to give me a staring point.

This is what I ended up with: (please excuse the slight tip wear on a few nails. I wasn't able to take pictures right after doing my nails so I did them as soon as I could.

 Left Hand: I used a coffee stirrer as the straw. I really like how this one turned out.

 Left Thumb

 Right hand. I didn't want to go over board and make them really "bloody" so I tried to keep it to 1 or 2 blows per finger and a 3rd one here and there.

 Left thumb

 My wonderful bottle of 'Reverso'

 For the blood I actually mixed two polishes together. I really wanted the red to sparkle. I liked the color of Spoiled 'Pick Your Poison' and the sparkle/glitter in NYC 'Broadway Burgundy Frost. It's a little hard to see the sparkle in the pictures but it is much more noticeable in person.

I think that mani turned out pretty darn good!!! I hop you like it as much as I do. I am hoping to have another post up tomorrow. Thanks for reading and please let me know what you think!!!

Day 23: Inspired By A Movie

 I couldn't decide what movie to use for today's mani. I went back an forth and finally chose "Dawn of the Dead" I really wanted to do a blood splatter so I knew I had to pick a zombie movie :) I really like the re-make because it takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin which is where I live lol. Plus I like the fact that the zombies can run. Ok well here is my mani...

 

 I started out with a glue base coat. I've been using it recently since I've been changing my polish everyday and it just seems to make things easier for me. I've also notice that my nails haven't been peeling like they use to. I'm not sure if it has to do with the glue or something else but... yeah lol so over the glue I used 3 coats of OPI "Skull & Glossbones" on all my nails except my ring fingers.

 

 On my ring fingers I also used the glue base coat, and then I used 3 coats of Wet N Wild "Once Upon A Time" I just got this polish a few days ago and I hadn't tried it yet. This polish looks to be a dupe of Spoiled "Ants In My Pants" but I think the red glitter is more dense in this one. I'll have to do a comparison ones of these days.

 

 For the splatter  used L'Oreal "Caught Red-Handed"

 

 I love splatters because no 2 nails are ever the same. I've been wanting to do this again since I did it last halloween (I think that's the last time I did it lol)

 

 Left Hand

 

 Right Hand

 

I guess I could have been a bit more creative but I've been having horrible migraines this whole weekend, so I'm glad I was able to do anything lol.

 

Well tomorrow is "Inspired By A Book" I'm not sure what book to choose, but I'm sure I'll figure it out while I'm at work tomorrow lol. Thanks for reading and make sure to check out the other ladies in the challenge below...

 

 

 

Blood Splatter!!!!

Warning: Picture Heavy!!!

I've been seeing many posts about people doing blood splatter nails. I was very excited to try it myself. It made me think of my favorite show.... Dexter :)

So it's pretty easy to do once you know how to do it.

 You just put down a base color of your choice. Here are the colors I used:

I used L.A. Colors "Energy Source" and did 3 coats. It's not the best white because it is so sheer and  very streaky :( but it was the only white I had, but I have since bought a new one :)

On top of that I used 2 coats of Sinful Colors "Easy Going" to give it a little bit of a sparkle.

To do the splatter you pour a little of the red, I used L.A. Colors "Hot Blooded" out and dip a straw in it and blow through it to create the splatter :) I put tape around my fingers so the clean up would be easier. What you see in the pictures is the remining clean up needed. So here are pictures of what I ended up with... I really like it!! The red ended up being kind of pinkish so next time I will have to use a darker red next time.

 
 

I hope you enjoyed. Please leave any comments or questions you may have. Thanks for reading and don't forget to follow me :)