girly bits - apparition

this is one coat of apparition over this manicure. this was released as a halloween polish.

i love how the bar glitter glows and how texas tea still shines underneath.

oh, and look.  no more stains from time traveler >.>

i  purchased mine from llarowe.    this is also available on girly bit's site.

nail pattern boldness - texas tea

this is 1 coat of texas tea over 2 coats of cult nails - time traveler which is a dark blue cream, 1 coat of gelous and 1 coat of seche vite.

this polish glows in person like no other.

it's a llarowe exclusive polish.

i have a few other nail pattern boldness polishes that i picked up from their etsy shop before llarowe started carrying them.  i'm a sucker for matte glitters and they have several.

i love this polish.  i had no application issues with it and it's glass smooth with the top coats.

time traveler did stain a bit with cleanup, i've tried 3 times last night to get it to completely clean up and it just won't, so this was as good as i could get it ;)   in person the blue staining is not a noticeable, but as we all know, cameras seem to catch everything...random glitter, that spot that was missed in cleanup, just everything >.<

anyhow, onto the pics.

slightly blurred to show more of the color:

halloweenish marble

so, cleanup on this was a bitch.  i ran out of tape, but still decided to just go for it, so excuse around my cuticles.  they got flooded when i did the actual marble.

i used orly 'decades of dysfunction' as my base, then marbled with cult nails 'nevermore' and 'deal with it' along with china glaze 'roguish red', which is definitely an orange and not so red.


left hand:

stamped candy corn

i was wanting to do a stamped halloween manicure using pretty & polished - candy corn. n this is a polish that changes based on temperature,  sometimes its all yellow, sometimes all orange, or like this; faded together.

 i started out with bundle monster plates....they wouldn't pick up with either my konad stamper or the xl stamper from llarowe, so those got ditched pretty fast.  i tried the smallest tree on the llarowe plates, however they were too big for my nails since i just had cut them down, so i decided just to pick a random image and go with it.

i started using the HITS stamping polish, then decided to try out cult nails - nevermore.  i honestly can't tell the difference.  my middle and ring finger are HITS, the rest are nevermore.

this is 3 layers of candy corn, no base color used.

this is the image i used.

 

 

polish remover 'scrubby tub'

this thing is awesome...it's a tub of acetone with little scrubbers on the site that work wonderfully on removing glitter.

i used this while taking off the spooky floam manicure i last posted about.  when i removed regular floam with polish remover and cotton i had glitter all over my fingers and up where my cuticles are...not with this.

the little fingers work really well at removing everything.  for whatever reason it reminds me of a sea urchin O.o

i picked this up at target for a couple of bucks. 

ninja polish - spooky floam

this is 3 coats of ninja polish - spooky floam on its own, i did a manicure of it over cult nails nevermore here.

i tried i don't know how many times last night to get it glowing in the dark both with my cell phone and my regular camera, i just couldn't capture it.  there is a picture of it glowing along with comparisons of other glow in the dark polishes on their page.

the glow on this in the dark is crazy bright.

i have a coat of gelous and 1 coat of seche vite over this.  also bought qtica nail growth stimulator yesterday when i went to ulta.  i've read good reviews about it and decided to go for it.  1 coat and my nails do feel much stronger than what they normally do.

also picked up a 'scrubby tub' from target.  won't lie...the 'fingers' inside of that thing scare me...looks like a sea urchin...but since i stopped using the glue method on my nails, i figured why not give this thing a go instead of scrubbing or waiting like 10 minutes for the glitter to come off with the foil method. 

anyhow, here's spooky floam...i love matte glitter so much.

ninja polish - spooky floam over nevermore

 very fast post tonight.  was only able to get 1 photo snapped off before my battery in the camera almost died.

this was purchased from ninja polish.  it's part of their halloween collection.  i did also pick up geeks which is a green glitter.  unfortunately the other 2 in the collection weren't really talkin' to me.

i used 1 coat of cult nails nevermore, 2 coats of spooky floam and 2 coats of seche vite.

i have the original floam as well as some other matte glitters purchased from etsy.  i love how they look, but have yet to get through them all. 

this polish also does glow in the dark.

when i re-do this manicure with just spooky floam by itself tomorrow i'll try to get a picture of it glowing.

also, this is the first picture cropped through flickr.  i think it does look better cropped without so much dead background.