Halloween Nails

Hello again!

These are my Halloween nails for this week at work.

 I used Barry M Gold Mine and an orange from the asda nail range.

 For the pumpkin I actually used the end of a match stick!

It was the closest thing to hand that would work! 

I think it worked quite well.

 The Gold Mine polish is a bit of a love hate thing.

I love the effect, black with gold glitter.

The problem is the texture, its very lumpy.

I think I need to invest in a decent top coat to avoid this.

It also chips like crazy!

I painted these last night and by 8am at work they'd chipped.

 But its soo beautiful!

Anyone recommend a good top coat?

Love Nina x

Halloween Happenings!

Hi there!

 Sorry for the absence yet again.

I work a lot of 7-4  shifts, 5 am get-ups make it hard to do anything in my evenings!

Anyways, my mates birthday is close to Halloween so we had a fancy dress night in town!

I decided to go as a skeleton and make my own outfit.

My makeup was the focal point of my costume as it looked badass!

I just used black gel eyeliner and black shadow to create this. 

the smudge detail is what makes it look real!

I looked at images of skulls but primarily used Lady Gaga/ Born This Way as a guide and just winged it.

My costume is a black corset with bone shaped felt sewed on.

For my skirt I cut lengths of black and white fabrics in different textures and tied them to a ribbon waistband.

I loved my look and got a few compliments.

I mostly got weird looks and pointing though!

 Oh!

I also threw in some skeleton nails for good measure.

And made some paper decorations for our front window!

Anyone else adore Halloween?

Love Nina.