Cupcakes Halloween Challenge: Classic Horror Character

I chose to do a ghost design for this mani-

 

For the base I used Illamasqua Raindrops, then went over it with 17 Bluechrome. To draw my ghost I just took a plain white and using the brush in the bottle painted the shape, pressing more heavily at the beginning then with less pressure towards the end to make the tail. I used Andrea Fullerton's Dot and Flick to draw the eyes and mouth. To write Boo I just very carefully used Barry M Nailart Pen in White.

The makeup look to go with these nails-

For this look I started off with a wash of a matte white eyeshadow all over my lids and upto my brow bone. I then intensified the white on my lid by adding more of the white, I also put some onto my waterline to brighten up my eyes a bit. Then I took a light blue and applied that on the outer half of my lid. Once that was done I used a dark/navy blue to go right into my crease and took it right to the inner corner of my eye and very carefully winged it out lightly, then once I was happy with it I went back in and built up the colour. For my mascara I used Bad Gal by Benefit because I wanted something quite pretty and subtle, nothing to dramatic. On my lips I have Money, Honey Dazzleglass by Mac and on my cheeks I have a pink blush by makeup essentials, which I can't find the name of. 

Blue and glitter nails!

This design was very simple and easy to do, but I think it still looks very pretty. I started off trying to do a different design, well I tried a few different designs until I eventually got to this one, but none of the others were working for me. I think I was being a bit overly ambitious. I might try some of them again some other time, but I was getting very frustrated so I decided to settle for this easy one.

For this I used seventeen wave as my base colour, then got a glitter striper from Andrea Fullerton and just did flicks from the top of my nails. Easy as that! 

Natural Collection, Seventeen, Barry M and Maybelline review.

Today I went to boots and bought these nail varnishes, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on them.

I'll start off with the natural collections. These polishes were quite cheap at £1.89 each, but they were on 3 for £5 so I only paid £5 for them all.

From left to right the colours are; antique coral, pink manicure and peach manicure

In the picture, I have 3 coats of antique coral although it probably could've done with having four coats. This nail varnish was a little thin, but wasn't terribly so and it's a very pretty colour, it looks a little more pastel in real life than in the picture.

The other two nail varnishes I had to use 6 coats! Which I wasn't too pleased about, but then it dawned on me... They're probably designed for french manicures, so I tried that out and they worked fine!

Pink manicure on the left and peach manicure on the right.

Now for the maybelline polishes, these were £2.99 each but they were on offer so I got 3 for the price of 2

From left to right the colours are; red grained, tanned and ready, turquoise temptation.

All these polishes say vintage leather, I assumed this meant they would have a leather effect, no where on the bottle does it say they're meant to and I can't seem to find these colours on the boots or maybelline website, so I don't know if they're meant to or not. They all have a matte finish and little shimmery bits which you can't see when they're on your nail, you can only see them when you're putting your nail varnish on or taking it off, so I'm not quite sure what they're there for. I was quite disappointed with these as I was expecting a leather look, but I don't know if these polishes are designed to do that, I will use these colours, but just as I would use any nail varnish, not for their leather looks.

And finally my seventeen and Barry M polishes! These are all £3.99 each, but my two seventeen polishes were on sale so I got them for £2.99 each instead!

The seventeen polishes are both from the nail effects graffiti range. The one on the right is bluetone and on the left is monochrome. The Barry M is key lime and is one of their gelly polishes.

It only took one coat of the key lime for it to be completely opaque (it was quite a thick coat though, maybe 2 thin coats). It's a lovely colour as well, very vibrant!

The two graffiti polishes are very good too! Just the right amount of little bits (not quite sure what to call them) come out and they're very pretty... Not sure pretty is the right word, but they look good! I tried out monochrome over my yin and yang mani and I loved how it turned out!