Halloween Costume Nail Art

Hi guys! So you would think that the manicure I actually wear on Halloween would be Halloween-themed, but I decided to match it with my costume. I'm going as a female gangster. 

Here it is: 

The base color is Space Cadet by Glitter Guilty, made specifically for me for my first Glitter Guilty Pleasures Box. 

When I first got this color I wasn't thrilled with it. It's pink crelly base with holographic orange microglitter, magenta and white circle glitters, and white bar glitters. This was my first indie polish ever, and the glitter was all in the middle of the bottle, so didn't really get any out on my first try. This time, I had the bottle upside down on my rack for the past week, and I thought that the polish was really pretty when you put it all together. It works as a great girly or "Barbie" color. 

Dollar signs were made with Mash Image Plate M32, and the diamond were from Bundle Monster BM09. I stamped with green and black Konad stamping polish. Since I wanted to green to show up on the pink, I stamped each dollar sign twice. 

Just have to hope that I can get through 5 hours of work without peeling/cracking/chipping! 

Happy Halloween, enjoy and stay safe! 

EDIT:

Here's a picture of the full costume :) 

xoxo,

Belle

Glitter Daze Daze of the Month Ultra Box October 2013

Hi guys! Today I present to you the contents of my Glitter Daze Daze of the Month Ultra Box for October 2013:

Full sized A Garlic A Day Keeps the Vampires Away:

This is a white to red thermal polish with red microglitters, various sized black glitters, and holographic micro glitters. I was REALLY excited to see this in my box. I actually saw this polish on the Glitter Daze facebook page a few days before the box came, and the "I-need-this-polish-to-live" switch went off in my brain. However, the rational part (it's still in there somewhere) said that I should wait until I get my box. I'm glad I did! 

Mini Dont Bite the Heart That Feeds You:

This is a clear glitter topper with holographic silver, purple, and black glitters in various shapes and sizes. This is REALLY pretty, when I swatched it I couldn't stop moving the swatchie-thing from side to side.  

Bat decals! This is the extra gift this month for the Ultra box. 

Glitter accessory: These are earrings made with nail polish that match the mini polish for this month. They're really pretty, but they're kind of big. One thing I learned about myself recently is that I apparently don't like big circles. I wore them to work though and they looked cool & didn't bother my ears (I've been having problems with earrings lately). 

Here are some swatches of Don't Bite the Heart That Feeds You and A Garlic a Day Keeps the Vampires Away (cold) - this is two coats no top coat

DBTHTFY and AGADKTVA (warm)

I was so excited about this polish that I peeled off my other nail polish at work so I could put this one on. This is what it looked like after the topcoat dried. 

Also pictured is the Mini Super Smooth Top Coat, which I used in the mani pics. I used it with my super smooth base coat that I got in my last box. The top coat made a huge difference in shine, it would have looked kind of matte and dull without one (which you can see in the swatch)

I didn't actually touch anything, it just started to get cold in my room...

...and then it got really cold.

I decided to add one of the bat decals literally like five minutes ago. 

When AGADKTVA is changing, it kind of looks like you ripped someone's heart out with your bare hands. Which is pretty sick for Halloween. For the mani I layered one coat of My Boyfriend Scales Walls by OPI (my go-to white coat). I think it looks kind of weird when it's cold with the white around the edges, so next time I would try to do 3 layers of the polish by itself instead of putting white underneath. This is gonna be fun to wear at work. 

I might actually keep this sub for more than 3 months. My first polish is glow-in-the-dark and my second one is a thermal? I'll probably just subscribe for of the smaller boxes when my first three months is up. 

Can't wait to see what's up for next month :)

Subscribe at http://glitterdazenp.com/

xoxo,
Belle

More swatches of She's a Pirate by Glitter Guilty

So as I predicted, my last manicure didn't last very long. It chipped, I touched it up, it chipped even more. The only nails that weren't chipped were the ones with She's a Pirate by Glitter Guilty on them, so I decided to do a full manicure with it:

One thing about having the skulls in a colored base is that you have to get the nail polish off of the top of the skull glitters or they blend in. I did this with one of those orange sticks that I bought like a pack of 100 of. I pressed them down and put on a coat of Gelous over them to keep the glitters from sticking out. 

I kind of love the fact that no one has this polish except me :) 

xoxo, 

Belle

Some Halloween Nail Art

Hi guys! Just a quick Halloween Nail Art mani that I did:

Pinky is 2 coats of She's a pirate by Glitter Guilty. Ring finger is 2 coats of Bump in the Night by China Glaze [textured] with a spider web stamp from Bundle Monster plate BM13. I used White by Kleancolor to stamp with. 

Middle finger is 2 coats of You're a Hoot by China Glaze...which is one of those fuzzy coats. 

Pointer finger is two coats of Toe-Tally Textured by China glaze. Over that I used a nail brush with black acrylic paint to freehand (in case you couldnt tell) the face. 

Thumb is two coats of Brit by Julep, which is described as a "matte suede finish." On the tip of my thumb I put on some Helen Gurley Brown by PISTOL polish. Then I used an Emori nail art brush in green to do the grass, and a really pointed and thin nail art brush with black acrylic paint to write the letters. 

I'm not really LOVING the way this came out...i feel like I should have used black skull glitters or used Jack Skellington by Sick Lacquers because it has a milky orange base and matches more with what I did. I'm also not loving the fact that I can't use a top coat because it kills the textured effect. I was at work for ONE day and every nail has tip wear/chips except the ones with the Glitter Guilty polish on them. Oh well, I'll probably touch them up for now and do a new mani on my next day off (Monday, or Sunday night.) I'm thinking blood spatter/zombies/glow in the dark (:

Until next time,

Belle

Glitter Guilty Pleasures Box October 2013

Hi guys! So today I received my third Glitter Guilty Pleasures box. I have to say, this is my FAVORITE one. 

When I saw the tag on my "monthly me," I saw that the polish was called She's a Pirate, and I just knew it had to be awesome. And then I took it out of its little individually-wrapped bag, and I was blown away. 

This polish is seriously amazing. It's a white crelly base with pink and black skull and crossbone glitters, orange hexes and shards, small black circles, and even some holographic microglitter! In other words, everything I love in a nail polish. 

When I got my first Glitter Guilty box, I wasn't really thrilled with my monthly me. Some of the glitters were magenta (a color on my hate list) and I just wasn't impressed. 

Now, when you sign up, there's a little profile that you can fill out, stating your likes and dislikes. When I initially filled it out, I wasn't very specific. I put a few colors I liked and a few colors I didn't. About a month later I was going through the message boards at makeuptalk.com, and someone posted that you can make your likes and dislikes as specific as you want. Not just color, but also type of polish and finish. You can also change it as often as you want. When I got my second box, I liked the color of the polish, but it was a glitter bomb, and I'm not the biggest fan of them because you need to layer them over other polishes, and more layers = more chipping. (I actually didn't have a problem with chipping, however. The mani I did with the black and white with Neon Lights over it lasted over a week, with minor tip wear from work. The formula is excellent.)

This time, I put in my likes that I wanted "Halloween, orange, black, skull and crossbone glitter, holo, creme or crelly finish." In my dislikes, I put "all browns, maroon and magenta, yellow, and glitterbombs." I was very specific, and it paid off! 

The monthly mini that everybody received this month is called Something Wicked, a very dark purple jelly base with purple shimmer, and green, purple and yellow hex glitters. I thought I wasn't going to like this one (I have a very odd relationship to the color purple...I HATE middle purples, but I like lavender and amethyst) but it's actually really pretty. 

Yay! Chocolate! Included in the box is a chocolate-covered Oreo and graham cracker. Can't wait to try it! 

Here are some swatches of the nail polishes: 

God they're pretty. 

This is actually going to be my last GGP box. I'm did 3 of these and I'm doing 3 Glitter Daze...after that I'm trying to get my subscription addiction under control (because it's not like I don't buy polishes I see that I like anyway). 

That being said, this is really a one-of-a-kind box. You get a custom polish, a mini, and some kind of artisan chocolate, all for only $15.99 a month. Jessica, the owner, is very sweet and gives amazing customer service. 

She actually just announced that, due to recent personal circumstances (I don't feel right mentioning the specifics in a blog post), she will not be able to do a custom polish for everyone, but rather will do 10-12 each month from now on and you will receive one of those, or you can pick a color from her shop. I think 10-12 is still a pretty good number of options, still way more than you get with other subscription services. 

Also I wanted to take some time to thank our readers, followers and commenters, especially The Nail Snail, who has a really awesome nail art blog (http://the-nail-snail.blogspot.com) and Elizabeth Breygel, who had a really cool beauty blog (liz-breygel.blogspot.com)...check them out! 

Also, I just added a couple of "follow" buttons, so please feel free to click on them :)

Peace, love and polish, 

Belle

Halloween Haul Part II: Sick Lacquers

Hi guys! Here is a really cute pair of Halloween polishes I recently ordered from an indie brand called Sick Lacquers:

Sick Lacquers is a mother and son team that makes really cute polishes!

The one on the right is called Jack Skellington, and it's a crelly with a milky light orange base filled with neon orange hexes, squares and bars, black hexes, bars, and skull and crossbones glitter, and small neon yellow hexes. Very Halloween. This is the only skull and crossbones glitter that I own in a colored crelly base. I'd probably layer it over white or something. 

The one on the left is called She Breaks Hearts and Skulls. It's a clear base with bubblegum pink bars, squares and skull and crossbones, pastel pink hearts and hexes, matte grey dot glitter and "ultra fine" pink and silver glitter. The pink and silver glitter give the polish a gorgeous sparkle. This polish is so pretty I can't even take it. I also love the name. 

In fact, after I ordered Jack Skellington, I stalked Sick Lacquers Instagram and Facebook pages, and I saw She Breaks Hearts and Skulls, so I had to have that one too. I ordered it like an hour after the first one. Later on that night, I got an email from Peggie, one of the owners, saying that she noticed that I placed two separate orders, and asked if I wanted them shipped together. She said she would refund me one of the shipping prices through paypal. I thought this was really sweet, especially considering it was my own fault, and she reached out to me. I love when people do nice things like that. 

Some swatches: 

I also really like how the names of the polishes are on the bottle right in front, that's something I haven't seen before. 

Definitely check out Sick Lacquers! 

You can buy from http://www.etsy.com/shop/SickLacquers

Got to run, have to get ready for work, which I have in an hour. Peace!

xoxo

Belle

EDIT: The pictures have been changed...I used a different camera setting and they're now more focused!

Halloween Haul: China Glaze

Hi guys! So I went into Sally's today (there is one literally steps away from where I work, which is REALLY bad for my wallet) to get some more swatchie things (I don't know what they're called, I just call them swatchies), and I couldn't resist picking up a few more Halloween polishes (especially since I'm going on a no buy in October). 

I wandered into the China Glaze section and here is what I found: 

On the left is one of those "fuzzy"

 polishes. I never really saw the appeal to these because I don't know why you would want your nails to look like a fuzzy sweater. I figured if I was going to buy one, I might as well get a Halloween one. This one is called You're a Hoot, and it has black, yellow and orange matte bar glitter. It's from the On the Horizon collection, and I plan on doing some serious Halloween nail art with this. 

All the way to the right is Bump in the Night, and it's a textured polish. Again, I was never a big fan of these, but a few months ago a picked up an orange textured polish in the clearance bin at Sally's. I figured I can use both together for a Halloween mani. Here are swatches of these: 

The one in the middle is called Ghoulish Glow, and it's a glow in the dark top coat. Even though I JUST ordered a glow in the dark top coat in my Julep box, I couldn't help myself. 

This is after charging it near a lightbulb for literally 10 seconds. 

I'm so excited!!

xoxo

Belle

You Polish October Box

Hi guys! So recently I got another box from a cool indie brand called You Polish. 

For $16.99 (U. S., there's also a Canadian version that is slightly more expensive), you got to pick two out of five  full-size polishes from their Halloween collection. That's right, not only do you get to see what's in the box before you get it, but you get to pick from a few options. 

If you bought one of the first 9 boxes, you got a special surprise (I was too late for this and I have yet to find out what the special surprise was). If you bought one of the first 30, you got 3 assorted Halloween fimo canes (I LOVE fimo) which I wasn't actually too late for. Here's what I got:

She threw in a box of candy too...which clearly didn't last long because, as you can see the box is already open and empty :)

These are the two polishes I picked:

Without flash

With flash

The one on the left is called After Midnight, and it is described on the website as a black base with orange, purple, and silver microglitter. Honestly, this color is SO much prettier in person. I could swear there is green glitter as well. I found it a bit impossible to photograph this polish...pictures just don't do it justice. 

No flash

Flash (you have to see the green flecks too!)

The one on the right is called Calaveritas, and it is a glitter bomb with pink, black, grey and white hex, dots and squares, and pink and white skull glitters. I think since I've discovered skull glitter nail polish I've ordered at least 6 different ones. I can safely say I have an obsession. And I'm okay with that. As with any heavy glitters, the bigger ones tend to sink toward the bottom (I had to fish to get the skull in my swatch picture below, but turning the bottle upside down a little while before you want to paint your nails should solve this). 

My 3 fimo sticks were a pumpkin, a black skull with a pink background (LOVE) and a...creepy footprint? I actually already have that fimo and I thought it was supposed to be like a baby's footprint (like for a baby shower manicure??) 

All in all Im in love with this box. It's not a monthly or recurring subscription, so you have to order a new one each time. I love that you can pick out the polishes you're going to get. I have WAY too many polishes now to be getting surprises that I may end up hating. I believe there are some October boxes left, and there is talk of a box for next month. 

Get one at www.youpolish.com!

xoxo,

Belle