Halloween Nail Art 2014 & Weigh In Week 4

Halloween Nail Art

Happy Halloween to all you Gouls and Gals (sorry I couldn't resist)
I won't be celebrating apart from my nails, so I thought I'd show them off.
I usually get all excited about nail art for Halloween, but I haven't had the time or inclination this year i'm afraid!! So here's what i came up with... 2 hands = 2 different designs

LEFT HAND

Pumpkin fingers with an accent nail of the scaredy cats hiding in the dark...

Pumpkin Nails

RIGHT HAND

Lotsa scaredy cats hiding in the dark and an accent pumpkin finger.. I forgot to paint my thumb on this hand, not sure WHAT I was thinking putting in a smiley face, but it is kinda creepy isn't it?

Creepy Thumb

WHAT I USED:
OPI Nail Envy (base coast)
OPI Ridge Filler (base caot)
Orange = Missguided, Splash & Polish - Mismatch
Black = Essence - 144 -Black is black
White = Essence tip painter
Seche Vite (top coat)

I faced the scales last night expecting a gain after the long weekend, so I was pleasantly surprised to be down half a pound :)  i won't bore you with a confession of my long weekend, but it was pretty bad... I've been back to food optimising since Tuesday tho, so its all good again :) 

I'm aiming to loose 3lbs next week... if I pull my head in I can still get my Club 10 this year (loosing 10% of my weight) 
So that's 17.5lbs in 7/8 weeks.... I need a mini target to aim for.....


Weight lost to date: 6lbs
Onwards and Downwards, the Slimming World way :)

Halloween Nail Art

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE

I had loadsa ideas for nail art for this year.. but I left it too late :(

Here are links to a few I done last year.. Here and Here

And here is what i'm wearing on my nails today :)

What do you think? I like them.. they were easy to do and look kinda spooky..
I love the peeping eyes in the dark, I had them last year too, but I also wanted to try something new that a friend suggested :) Thanks Anna...



Wanna see lots more photos? Of course you do :) lol

Halloween Nail Art

A close up 

Halloween Nail Art

Close up of my thumb

Halloween Nail Art

Halloween Nail Art

Did you do any Halloween nail art? I'd love to see it, leave your link below and I'll check it out.

WHAT I USED 

Halloween Nail Art Part 2

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE

I'm a little late with my post!! but the time just got away from me today!! Madness at work, but I'm here now.. PHEW.. I'm only waiting for the bell to ring and the Trick or Treaters to start. Has anyone ever had to do a trick to get a treat?? I don't think I have!! hmmmm, sorry just a lil glimpse of whats going on in my brain at the mo!!! lol...NEXT (*back slowly away*)

So this is my second attempt at Halloween nail art, I knew I wouldn't have time this week to do a third halloween art attempt. So I decided to do different designs and colours on both hands!!

Yes I've had some curious glances at work and in shops.. But hey, its Halloween I say, people just kinda nod and smile and leave me off!! The orange is kinda eye catching I guess and people do like to comment!!

So here we go, have a gander at my attempts.

LEFT HAND

LEFT HAND

I used the puple from my halloween set (details here)

The black is Essence Colour and Go, Black is Black and
I used 2 nailart pens Black & White (from ebay)

The Spiders on the puper nails are ok, the black nail art pen was a little gloopy! If I done it again, I would put the black colour on tin foil and use a little paint brush rather than trying to clean up my nails as I went cuz the colour came out too quickly.. But this is how I learn I guess.

Another attempt at a spiders web and I think I'm getting there slowly with these!
My index finger was meant to be an aerial view of a spider/ scorpio!! But I was asked today was it a fish bone, So I think I'll go with that.. lol

LEFT THUMB

My thumb is painted with Essence Cherry Blossom Cherry Cherry Girl. I had wanted to have a spider creeping down his web!! but the nail art pen done blobs where the eyes should be!! I know, I know!! I sudda used my dotter and had some patience!! ah ah ah

RIGHT HAND

RIGHT HAND

Moving on... I painted my left hand with Essence Cherry Blossom Cherry Cherry Girl. I decided I wanted to try big pumpkins. I loved the pumpkins that I done last week (see here) But they took soooo long and to be honest, it was late, I was getting cranky and tired and that these were not turning out as I had hopped, so I said big Pumpkins would do the trick... What do you think? I think I should have used tape on these!! 
After 3 I could see they weren't going my way and attempted another spider!! I forgot to dot the eyes tho!! oops

RIGHT THUMB

My right thumb was neglected I'm afraid!! It was the last in the queue and I'd kinda given up at this stage!!

I use Seche Vitae Tope Coat over all the fingers and it kinda dragged some of the art, which I was surprised by.

Over all I guess these nails are only ok. I know I could have done better, but unfortunately I had one eye on Dallas (hot boys alert) rather than on detail!!

Here's what I used

Halloween Nail Art - what I used

I gotta go answer the door bell to all the spooky lil trick or treaters :)

Happy Halloween Y'all xxx







Halloween Nail Art Part 1

right hand

left hand

So yesterday I showed you my 3 new polish’s and how cute they are on the nails (bar the black, not a fan)

Well they didn’t last long looking like this!!

Simple Pleasures 3 piece Rhinestone "HappyHalloween" Nail Polish

I was a little unsure of what I wanted to try nail art wise for Halloween, so these nails are just me messing about with ideas that I had in my head.

Doesn’t everything seem so easy when you think about it!! Not so much when you have to sit down and actually do it with a shakey hand!!! Oops!!

But here are my attempts and to be honest I’m kinda proud of myself.

I decided to do 3 different designs because I had 3 colour’s on my nails, (as you can see above)

Earlier this year when I started reading people’s beauty blogs I came across Karen’s blog and this ghostly mani and its been in the back of my mind since..

So as soon as I painted my fingers black, I knew I have to try this out and I still love itJ its so cute and effectiveJ and easy to do using my dotter, you just need patience to wait for the colour’s to dry.

googley eyes

googley eyes

For the silver fingers I decided to attempt a spider web, as you can see, some are a bit dodgey looking and quite think, but it was all trial and error, I tries to cover up the bad buts with glitter!!

But over all, you do know what your looking at, so job done!! I defo need practise for these ones!

Spider Webs

Spider Webs

My Purple thumbs are pumpkins, my favourites I think. When I think of Halloween, I see a pumpkin in my mind,

so this was my attempt. Its not bad considering I still haven’t bought any nail art pens yet. This is free hand and I’m impressed, especially with my right thumb!!

I have the shakiest hand trying to add a face to my pumpkin!!! YIKES

Pumpkin’s

Pumpkin Left Hand

Pumpkin right hand

So this is what I used for this attempt of Halloween Nail Art.

I put Essence studio nails better than gel nails top sealer over all of my nails.

What I used

Self Praise is no praise, I know... But I’m impressed by my efforts I must admitJJ

I love to hear what you think?