"This is Halloween" Nail Art Challenge: Witches!

Hi everyone!

First off, i haven't forgotten about my give way. It has ended and i have already drawn three winners. I emailed two of the three yesterday and the other i just got confirmation back on her entry so i will be emailing her tonight. So please check your emails to see if you have won because i haven't gotten any responses back and i don't want to have to redraw.

Anyway, onto tonight's mani which is "Witches"

Index to Pinky: Cauldron, Broomstick, Witches hat, Witches face with warts.

I got a little bit more creative this time, Witches was such a hard challenge to come up with something. I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.

See you soon! xx

"This is Halloween" Nail Art challenge: Gradient!

Hi everyone!

This was the part of the challenge i was most excited about. Today's nail art is Gradients. I have never done a gradient before so this was my first time. I don't think it was fantastic but i liked what i came up with.

I knew from the start what i wanted to do and i couldn't wait to get to this part of the challenge. haha. 

I got my inspiration from these little guys.... 

Candy Corn!!!

As some of you know, Australia doesn't celebrate Halloween that much. We are slowly getting into it which means we are seeing more and more spooky items and lollies across our shops. I went to Melbourne last weekend and had time made time to head to USAFoods (as we always do when we go to Melbourne) As soon as i walked in i saw a massive shelf with just Candy Corn stuff all over it. I have heard of it many times but never saw it before.

(sorry for the dodgy picture)

Unfortunately i didn't buy any as i can't eat them at the moment. Boo you braces!! =(  I really would love to know what the tasted like but i wasn't going to buy a whole bag just to try a few. Oh well, there is always next year!

Anyway, if you've made it this far, i guess i'll show you my mani now....

I used a make-up sponge lightly dipped in water to create this.

Yellow - Ulta3 Honolulu

Orange - OPI In My Back Pocket

White - Lily White

 I was happy with how my first attempt came out. I know it's not a true gradient as the colours changed in each line. I wanted the white to be a bit more opaque also. Not a bad try. I definitely want to try this some more =)

Let me know what you think.

See you soon!
Kel xx

"This is Halloween" Challenge: Bats!

Sorry for the lack of posts in between all the halloween posts. I will defintely try and get something else up this week. I have been pushed for time this week as you can tell as it is already 11:30pm haha

Also please don't forget to enter my giveaway if you haven't already!! There are only a few days left!!!
ENTER HERE

Today's challenge nail art is Bats. I was really stumped as to what to do. I didn't really think there was a lot of different ways to do bats, even after looking at all the image plates i have for stamping, the bats were all similar looking. After stamping with those i wasn't happy so i took it all off and decided to start again and try freehand....

This is what i came up with. Pretty simple but cute i think.

 I freehanded the bats using a dotting tool and a small nail art brush and Ulta3 Black satin polish, i'm so glad this black polish is so cheap! I go through so much of it lol I also freehanded the "french tips" as you can tell lol. I did all of this over three coats of OPI In My Back Pocket which is my all time favourite Orange, which i also need to get a back up of!

Hope you liked and i'll see you again soon!!
Kel xx

This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Zombies!

Hi all!
Back for another Halloween challenge! Today's nails are Zombies.

I really had no idea on what i was going to do. I did some google searching and looked at everyone else's nails for the challenge and wished i could be as creative as some of the others! Seriously, you should see everyone else's!

Anyway, this is mine. Nothing to exciting, i actually thought these were pretty cute! lol These are probably more like dirty frankensteins lol.

I used Ulta3 Earl Grey as the base colour. 

Black and White as usual was Ulta3 Lily White and Black Satin and for the red i used China Glaze Scarlet, i even mixed in the tiniest amount of black to the red to give it a bit of darkness. Go me and my creativity! One coat of Seche Vite was added!

Hope you like these. I thought they turned out ok. I was pleased to at least come up with something lol

See you soon!
Kel xx

This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Jack 'o Lanterns

Hi everyone!
First of all, i just want to welcome the new followers to my blog! I appreciate everyone of you taking the time to look at my blog and to those that comment. =)
If you haven't already entered my giveaway, please do so HERE (i'll link when i can, my Internet is being a douche).

Anyway, onto todays nails!
Today's theme was Jack o Lanterns, or Pumpkins if you'd prefer.

This is my effort. lol

I used Ulta3 Black Satin as my black base colour for my index, middle and pinky fingers. I used Ulta3 Crazy as a base colour for my ring finger and stamped it with konad special black polish and Bundle Monster plate BM-224 from the second series. I love love love Ulta3's Crazy. It was actually the first Ulta3 polish i ever bought. If i could find another i'd buy it in a heartbeat. It's a little jelly like and a bit sheer but doesn't turn out too bad with this being three coats.

Excuse the messy clean up, my dodgy looking topcoat application, which i didn't notice until i was uploading photo's and my nubbin index finger. Just when it was getting to a nice length to actually start looking good with the rest of my fingers, it decided to break! Boo! 

An upside down shot just for the fun of it! 

Hope you liked and i'll see you soon. I was hoping to get another post up tomorrow but it doesn't look like i will have time to get it up, i'm heading to Melbourne early tomorrow morning and won't be back until Sunday night.
See you then!!!
Kel xx

This is Halloween Challenge - Ghosts

Hi everyone!
Just made it in time to get my post up for today's halloween mani challenge.
I just want to say first, Please don't forget to enter my giveaway HERE! Also, i have updated my blog sale too. A few items have sold but i haven't updated yet but give me a try anyway =)

Today's nails are "Ghosts"

I did this pretty quickly tonight. I did a mani yesterday but i hated it and hated it even more after photo's, so decided against it. I'm pretty happy with tonights 5 minute main effort lol

I am also trialing a new photo layout. Please let me know what you think. Do you like the first pic better or the second? I want to change up the way i take photo's.

For my Ghosts i used Ulta3 Lily White as a base colour not fully going up to the cuticle, not sure if that is the right thing to do or not lol

I then used Ulta3 Black satin and a dotting tool for the eyes, mouth and bits at the bottom to make it look like a sheet, IYKWIM lol

No top coat was added.

Hope you enjoy and get ready for pumpkins next!

This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge - Watermarble

Hi all! Back for another Halloween Challenge. Today's theme is "Watermarble"

Ok, So up until the other day i had never attempted to do a watermarble because i had heard of so many fail attempts and usually i'm kinda crap at nail art altogether so i thought i'd be crap at this too lol... But i definitely did want to try it sometime. What a better time to try than now.

This is my VERY FIRST attempt at watermarbling. I am super stoked it turned out... well, what i think is good. I have to practice more with slowly dipping in as i have a few bubbles here and there. 

This was done with Ulta3 Black Satin and OPI In My Back Pocket. Three drops of IMBP to one drop of Black Satin. 

I then decided it wasn't enough and i had an itch for watermarbling and to see what else i can come up with. This was the same outcome, i need to dip a little slower but not a bad outcome.

I used Ulta3 Lily White as my base colour. 

Black - Ulta3 Black Satin (i swear i need a lifetime supply of this)

Orange - OPI In My Back Pocket (and a back up bottle of this awesome colour)

Yellow - Ulta3 Honolulu

I hope you like my attempts at watermarbling and you will be seeing more from me in the future =)

Take care! xx

Indie Giveaway!

Hi everyone.

I know i posted the giveaway at the end of my last halloween post but i wanted it to be in a separate post to find it a bit easier.

So here are all the details again.


Rules:
You must be a follower by GFC
The rest of the entries are optional but you get more chances to win if you do them.
Open to only: Australia, New Zealand, the USA & the UK. Sorry to the rest but shipping costs a bomb, especially for 3 winners.
This giveaway ends on the 21st of October (somewhere in the world, or whatever the rafflecopter says it ends)
Winners will be notified by email and will have 48hours to respond or another re-draw will happen.
I am not responsible for broken nail polish bottles or lost/stolen/damaged packages once it leaves my hands. It leaves here with the utmost care and unfortunately sometimes postal workers are careless.


Now onto the Details and goodies.
First of all, i would love to thank these people who kindly donated all polishes for me to review and also to giveaway
Thank you:

Elevation Polish
Peita's Polish
Gloss 'n Sparkle
Wonder Beauty Products
Darling Diva Polish
Daring Digits
F4 Polish
Elixir Lacquer


There will be three (3) winners! They will be randomly selected by rafflecopter.


Prize 1:

Wonder Beauty Products Lollipop Explosion (scented), Daring Digits Mango Square, Gloss 'n Sparkle Cotinga, Elevation Polish Toubkal & Darling Diva Polish Roller Girl


Prize 2:


Darling Diva Polish Stripper Pole, Wonder Beauty Products Hippie Fest, Peita's Polish Mermaid Tetris, Daring Digits Ice Age, F4 Mint Chocolate Chip, Amy's Nail Boutique Daisy


Prize 3:


Elixir Lacquer Kind of Connery, WBP Be Gentle, Peita's Polish Observatory, Elevation Polish M'Goun, F4 Granite, F4 Shattered Rainbow

Enter below using the rafflecopter.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Take care! See you soon!
Kel xx

"This is Halloween" challenge Day1 + Indie Giveaway!!

Hi all
I am back with a new monthly challenge now. The awesome Bec from Lacquer Dreams made this challenge up, it starts today and ends on the 31st. Also, at the end of this post is a giveaway from last months Indie month.

So lets get started with Halloween Day 1.

 So my favourite horror movie is (if you haven't guessed it already) is the Saw movies. I'm not great with nail art and didn't even attempt to do "jigsaw" so i just went with some writing and the spirals of his face lol.

I started with a base colour of white and matte-ified it. Then i used red and black polish and my small "paint brush" to do the writing. I tried to do the saw logo in black and i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, not so much the swirl. I tried to do that a few times lol. No top coat was added because i wanted to keep the white matte.

Hope you liked! I actually really like how it came out and it looks far better IRL than in the pics. 

Stay tuned because Friday we have a water marble design.

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Don't forget to enter the giveaway below to win some awesome Indie polishes that were featured in last months Indie month!

Rules:

You must be a follower by GFC

The rest of the entries are optional but you get more chances to win if you do them.

Open to only: Australia, New Zealand, the USA & the UK. Sorry to the rest but shipping costs a bomb, especially for 3 winners.

This giveaway ends on the 21st of October (somewhere in the world, or whatever the rafflecopter says it ends)

Winners will be notified by email and will have 48hours to respond or another re-draw will happen.

I am not responsible for broken nail polish bottles or lost/stolen/damaged packages once it leaves my hands. It leaves here with the utmost care and unfortunately sometimes postal workers are careless.

Now onto the Details and goodies.

First of all, i would love to thank these people who kindly donated all polishes for me to review and also to giveaway

Thank you:

Elevation Polish

Peita's Polish

Gloss 'n Sparkle

Wonder Beauty Products

Darling Diva Polish

Daring Digits

F4 Polish

Elixir Lacquer

There will be three (3) winners! They will be randomly selected by rafflecopter.

Prize 1:

Wonder Beauty Products Lollipop Explosion (scented), Daring Digits Mango Square, Gloss 'n Sparkle Cotinga, Elevation Polish Toubkal & Darling Diva Polish Roller Girl

 Prize 2:

Darling Diva Polish Stripper Pole, Wonder Beauty Products Hippie Fest, Peita's Polish Mermaid Tetris, Daring Digits Ice Age, F4 Mint Chocolate Chip, Amy's Nail Boutique Daisy

 Prize 3:

Elixir Lacquer Kind of Connery, WBP Be Gentle, Peita's Polish Observatory, Elevation Polish M'Goun, F4 Granite, F4 Shattered Rainbow

Enter here:


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good Luck!!! xx