Zombies! This Is Halloween Day 15 Dawn Of The Dead

I can't believe how hard it is for me to pick the ideas for my challenges.  I get stuck every time!  I ended up going with George A. Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, one of my favorite zombie films.

 

I used Milani Black Magic, Nicole by OPI Paparazzi Don't Preach, OPI, La Paz-itively Hot Matte, and a Kiss nail art pen in silver. 

 

The zombie head is the guy on the box cover of Dawn Of The Dead.

 

 

 

 

China Glaze Cast A Spell

Here is one of the China Glaze Wicked Halloween collection, Cast A Spell! This is a beautiful blackened green with gold shimmer. It felt like a hunter green version of Butter London Wallis.

Cast A Spell had amazing application. It has the potential to be a one coat color. I did two coats for this picture. This may be my favorite of this collection, I will have the others later this month.

Piggy Polish Lightmare

Okay, so this is my first Piggy Polish, but I always look at them at Ulta, they have some good colors, but nothing I don't already have. I found their Halloween polish and though Lightmare looked interesting.

It is, indeed interesting. It's an orange glitter mixed with a grayish-black glitter that almost looks like it has a lavender tint to it as well, when applied.

The color is quite stunning in the bottle and on the nail, but this was by far the worst formula I have ever worked with. I needed three, tedious coats to get the polish to full opacity, and it kept wanting to have bald spots.

It was so difficult I will probably never try another Piggy Polish glitter, though I will still give their creams a try at some point.

Please, let me know if you've had better luck with other colors or if you've tried this one!

Jack-O-Lanterns This Is Halloween Day 12

Today is Jack-O-Lantern day for the This Is Halloween Challenge.  Today I had a little bit of help with my manicure, my cat Pumpkinhead (named after one of my favorite movies) was close by the whole time! 

 

 

I added the picture of the cat to distract from the uneven nostril marks on my jack-o-lantern face!  I didn't even notice 'til now for some reason.

 



 

This is three coats of OPI Hi, Pumpkin from the So So Skullicious mini set, it was really streaky.  I mixed some of that orange with Milani Black Magic to paint on the faint pumpkin ridge lines.

 

 

Dollish Polish There's Something Up With Jack

Here is another Dollish Polish This Is Halloween polish, There's Something Up With Jack!

I was lucky enough to find Sinful Colors Winterberry right before the pamphlets came out with the stolen blogger pictures and I started to boycott them.  I used two coats of Winterberry underneath two coats of There's Something Up With Jack.

 

There's Something Up With Jack has square and bar white glitter with multi shape and size bright blue glitter.  I think this polish is a good one for all the way though fall and winter and on trend. 

 

I have one more polish from this collection coming soon.

Dollish Polish Spectral Pup

Tonight I have another one of the Dollish Polish This Is Halloween collection for you.  This is Spectral Pup, and besides the fact that it is an awesome and adorable glitter, this guy glows in the dark, like Zero!

 

 

 

This is three coats of Spectral Pup over two coats of OPI Mourning Glory.  Spectral Pup has white and orange glitter of various shapes and sizes.

 

 

And this is two coats of Spectral Pup over three coats of Essence Color & Go Sweet As Candy

 

 

And here it is in the dark!  This really glows, it doesn't even have to be in pitch black.  This is by far the best glow in the dark polish I have ever had. 

 

 

Dollish Polish is available here, you can follow Dolly here, and it looks like Overall Beauty will have some This Is Halloween collection polishes in a grab bag, but only until Thursday 10/11, so I would suggest checking that out now!

 

 

 

 

 





f4 Polish Drunken Zombie

Today's Halloween polish is from f4, a new to me indie company.  f4 is available on etsy, and you can follow them here.

This is a yellow-green kinda jelly, kinda creamy base with black and purple matte glitter and gold and purple holographic glitter. 

 

 

 

The color of this polish does speak zombie to me more than some of the other indies that have a zombie polish right now.  And since zombies naturally stumble around, are confused and have poor motor skills, I suppose a drunken zombie needs to present itself differently, and if that translates to holographic glitter, I'm in!

 

This is three coats for full opacity, and the formula was a little on the thick side because of the amount of glitter, but still easy to apply.

 

More f4 Halloween polishes will be coming soon.