Hello!!
...And in this second post for today, I have my first challenge manicure for the second Halloween challenge I'm in...Did I lose you with all of that? Hee hee...
My second Halloween challenge is the 'This Is Halloween' nail art challenge:
The first theme of the challenge, as you can see, is 'Horror Movie'. I chose a slightly unorthodox horror movie to go with--Arachnophobia. It might not be a canonical sort of horror movie, but it scares the crap out of me...particularly because I had my own version of it happen to me.
There is a scene in the movie where the family finds a huge web in their barn, one that is bigger than the height of a human. This happened to me in my garage once...
See, I'd bought a car, and the car had been driven down from an area that was heavily populated with black widow spiders...and brought a hitchhiker with it. As the car sat in the garage for a few days, the egg sac that the momma black widow had laid in my wheel well hatched...and she and her little babies began to spin web, everywhere. When I opened the garage door, I was greeted by a huge web, with my car in the center of it. At first, I wasn't sure what had happened...but then I traced the density of the web to the wheel well, and came face to face with momma and the remains of the egg sac. Then I noticed that everywhere, all over the web, were little bitty white spiders...cause that's what baby black widows look like when they're newly hatched.
This manicure is a recreation of the trail of baby spiders leading away from momma:
Ugh, it still gives me the heebiejeebies just to think about it, but I love how the manicure came out, lol!
For my base color, I used Orly Space Cadet, and put Blackheart Beauty Royally Screwed, a blue glitter, over it. It's very hard to see because the sun wasn't out, but on the ring finger I have a web stamped in Color Club Wild At Heart, a purple holo (I used plate QA26). Then, I stamped the momma spider over it with Sally Hansen Silver Sweep using Mash-38. I stamped the baby spiders with the same polish and Bundle Monster plate BM13.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look, and please take a look at the other challenge manicures linked below! :)
xoxo,
M.
Reading this gave me goose bumps. I despise spiders. I never had a huge issue with them until we killed four of them on our front porch. I was really excited that we hadn't found any this summer only to be greeted by what I believe to be a hobo spider. My poor husband handled it like a champ. I just stood there screaming at him to kill it and he was just telling me to go inside but I couldn't. Lol.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh oh gosh oh gosh. Yep, that's exactly what I did, yelled at my husband to kill it. Good times...NOT!
DeleteSo cool! I love the base
ReplyDeleteThank you! That glitter is so great over so many colors. :)
DeleteThis mani is beautiful! I'm deathly afraid of spiders and have seen bits and pieces of this movie LOL
ReplyDeleteTy. :) I don't care what anyone says, it's one of the creepiest horror movies out there--gives me the heebiejeebies more than just about any other movie...::shudders::
DeleteOMG that is so creepy about the Black Widow spiders in your garage! Love the mani too, Arachnaphobia is one that scares the crap out of me too. I hate spiders!
ReplyDeleteOh, it was NOT okay. When I saw the egg sac, I don't even remember leaving the garage but suddenly I was in the far end of the backyard yelling 'KILL IT! KILL IT!' at my husband, lol! :) And ty about the mani. :)
DeleteI would have had a heart attack....I am deathly afraid of spiders....but not your mani...very cute!!
ReplyDeleteLOL! Thank you...And I think I was pretty close to a heart attack myself!
DeleteEwwwww, awesome mani, lol! That movie scared the crap out of me as a kid!!
ReplyDeleteTy! :)
DeleteI think you need to contact the organizer, or just add your mani via the inlinkz link. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is a gorgeous mani. I love to look at spiders, but only when they are outside and not in a position to sneak up on me. I am not afraid of them, but if a bug crawls on me I feel itchy and twitchy and blah for a long time.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! The only spiders I don't like are the poisonous ones. The rest are not really a big deal--except for the ones that look like the ones in that movie. They still creep me out!! :)
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