Before & After: Smile, Jack, smile!

(All products purchased by me.)

Hey there!!

It's the final week of the Nail Challenge Collaborative's Halloween month, and today I have a fun little manicure to celebrate the week leading up to Halloween itself!

I started off with China Glaze's Bizarre Blurple, from the 2012 Halloween collection. This is a stereotypical blurple duochrome, which flashes blue to purple; this definitely favors the blue side. What so bizarre about it you ask? Maybe the fact that my camera was actually able to take a picture of it, when blurples normally freak it out:  

China Glaze Bizarre Blurple, 2 coats, artificial light

Then I layered on a coat of Shirley Ann Nail Eyes On Indie, a limited edition polish in a purplish-red tinted base, with red, black, pinkish-white glitters in a variety of shapes, including diamonds and half-moon holographic:

The moment I saw that polish, I thought it would be a great glitter for Halloween...I'm not much for the glitter shapes like hearts, flowers, moons, etc., but this one just worked for this purpose, I think. :)

Finally, I stamped a jack-o-lantern and some jack-o-lantern faces on it with Barry M Silver Foil; I used Bunny Nails HD-D and HD01:

What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

Pumpkin Pi!

I think this is a fun manicure with a slightly spooky edge, and I love how this glitter looks against the blurple. :)

Don't forget to take a look at the other Halloween manis linked below! Hugs and jack-o-lantern kisses,

M.

(All products purchased by me.)