Sweet Baby Octopolish!

 While my last look was spoopy cute but a little more reined in, this time it's back to glow-in-the-dark and dialed up to 11! Thriller night!!!  I've started with a white crème base, then brushed on one thin coat of Baroness X Never Trust the Living (I'm so not done with that ghostly blue glow!).  The tips of each nail are stamped in El Corazon True Red in drips & slashes from Dixie Plates Halloween 2017.  Though this was dry to the touch before topcoating, a lot of the red smeared into the white despite using a fairly new bottle of my trusty Glisten & Glow TC when using a thick, delicate hand to apply, and I had to wipe off the heavy quantity of red from the brush after each swipe.  Note to self - watch out when stamping with this stuff!  Fortunately, the messier the better with this look.  And oh YES that super glow!!  Charged  up in ordinary household lighting, this stuff would glow brightly for at least 4 hours, then faintly for a...

Just a quick look for this week - I was off at a business meeting most of the week, so toned it down to seasonally cute but not too outré. This is a base of 2 coats of ILNP Sitting Fireside, then stamped with layered jack o'lantern images from Clear Jelly Stamper Haunted Mansion (which I've gotten a lot of use from this season!).  The tiny pinky nail pumpkin is from the same plate, one of a set that's supposed to be an accent in a brocade pattern ;) ~Michelle

I am just on a roll with glow-in-the-dark goodness, and most all of my Halloween manis for this year are going to startle me in the middle of the night! OK this one is probably going to be my fave of this season... It started out as something else entirely, but I loved how this one ended up!  This is 2 coats of Different Dimension Good Evening Clarice , stamped in simple classic black, using various witchy images from MoYou London Halloween 01 & Dixie Plates Halloween 2017 and that adorable owl in the moon design from Mundo de Unas ZZ Moon. And oh WOW did I forget how amazingly glowy this polish is!  Like most GITDs (and especially ones nearing 10 years old!), the glowing pigment tends to settle out in the bottom, so this needed a serious shake before painting.  As you can see, the effort was worth it because woohoo! Hope all your spells work out just as you intended! ~Michelle 

For this week's Halloween look, I was inspired by a slew of truly impressive layered graveyard scene manis popping up everywhere.  Mine is much more simple, but I've still got to have some glow-in-the-dark fun! I've started here with 2 coats of Orly Fowl Play, a boysenberry-wine jelly with jewel-toned flakes.  I've stamped tombstones and a ghost from Clear Jelly Stamper Haunted Mansion in white and periwinkle, then stamped the ghost with Baroness X Never Trust the Living.  Though the BX is designed as a sheer topper, it stamped perfectly well and created a heck of an electric blue glow for hours.   Where to buy:  Baroness  X released a trio of GITD toppers a few years ago, so cross your fingers she restocks them because they're all wow!   ~Michelle 

Wet N Wild Morbid was indeed just the perfect base for a nail art look inspired by a glow-in-the-dark look I saw on one of my FB stamping groups. indoor, CF lighting On top of Morbid, I've stamped in classic black and white, but over all white elements here I've layered another stamp with Clear Jelly Stamper's glow-in-the-dark stamping polish.  It's thick and concentrated and was just barely textured enough that I could see it to line it up over the underlying white base. in the dark, obvi And heck yes does it glow like crazy!  I'd originally done only the skeletons in GITD, but the man said that the spiderwebs needed to match, and he was of course right.  I was really impressed that I was able to line up the glow over the white for those fine-lined little shapes! indoor, bright CF lighting again Skeleton & skull images are from Clear Jelly Stamper Coffee Scrubs & Rubber Gloves (because medical accuracy in your spooky is A+), spiderwebs from CJS Haunted Man...

Alrighty y'all, it's time for ALL HALLOWEEN ALL MONTH WOOOOOOOOOO First up, I'm going to start with probably the most Halloween-y named polish in my stash, Wet N Wild Morbid. indoor, CF lighting Morbid is absolutely perfectly named - it's the color scheme for every movie poster about vampires and werewolves going bump in the night, where it's not just black & white, it's murky teal and dirty charcoal. ya know what I mean? And this polish is only a hair older than that movie poster color scheme, being released as part of the "craze" line in ~2009.   bright afternoon daylight Morbid is an off-black base, slightly brownish-tinted and not a true neutral charcoal, giving it a "dirty" grungy look.  It's jam-packed with a borderline metallic deep teal shimmer that's fairly subtle in low light but blazes beautifully in brighter lighting. outdoor, bright direct daylight The brush and bottle are kinda weird to work with, since the bottle ca...