Halloween Splatter Manicure Inspired By Chalkboard Nails!

Hello!!! It is Wednesday, offically one week until Halloween! I cannot believe how fast this fall season is going! I don't want it to end!

Today I bring you a manicure that I did, inspired by Sarah of  Chalkboard Nails! She posted a black and orange splatter manicure a little while back and I fell in love with it! I haven't attempted a splatter manicure since last Halloween and at that time I was so very new to nail art. I tried to accomplish that splatter with a paint brush; I tapped the end of it to try to get it to splatter. Needless to say I only accomplished one hand before I gave up!

The lovely Sarah accomplished her splatter by using a straw and dipping it into polish and giving one good puff of air through the straw and a fair distance to achieve the best splatter.

So to recreate her splatter I used three coats of New York Color's Time Square, Tangerine Creme for my base. It is litterally the best Jack o Latern colored polish around! Three coats is great for opacity, Time Square is one of those squishy creme polishes that I probably could do a jelly sandwich with!

Then taking a drinking straw, I dipped it into black polish. I of course used Wet 'n' Wild's Black Creme Polish. Once I had the polish dipped in I had a hard time of deciding how far to pull back to shoot the splatter out on to the nail!

As you can see I got a little over zelous with my ring finger on my left hand. I had the distance between my nail and the straw to short and a little too much polish in the straw. I feel my thumb came out nice and my right hand which is the last picture came out the best, since by then I had gotten a handle on things.

I hope you all enjoyed this post! Stay tuned for my Halloween inspired post throughout the week up unil Halloween!

Unil next time <3 Nicole

China Glaze Wicked Collection: Roguish Red

Good Morning! Today I have a nail polish from China Glaze's 2012 Halloween Collection called the Wicked Collection.


Now I picked up the four pack and one single polish from this collection, from Sally's. The four pack had Roguish Red, which is what you will see today, Bizarre Blurple, Glitter Goblin, and Ghoulish Glow. The Single Polish I picked up is Immortal.

Roguish Red was a polish I didn't expect to like at all. Red polishes and I don't usually get along unless they are some what vampy. The bright orange-y reds don't usually mesh with my skin tone so I tend to stay away from them, however this one actually looks okay.

Roguish Red is a bright orange-red creme polish that definitely needs two coats so your visible nail line doesn't show. The first time I used this color was with a failed gradient attempt and the tips of my nails looked like I had dug into flesh. I think some nice black polish stamping would look really good over this color.

Drying time is good, I noticed it didn't take long to dry in between coats and before even adding a top coat the polish is glossy!

                                         All three pictures were taken in natural sunlight!

These pictures were taken with my IPhone, my digital camera wanted to make my fingers glow.:(
Okay so I hope you enjoyed this quick look at Roguish Red. If you think your skin tone can handle this bright polish then by all means go out there and get it!

Talk to you soon
<3 Nicole