Lacquer or Leave Her!: UberChic Beauty Zombie Love 02!

Monday, October 9, 2017

UberChic Beauty Zombie Love 02!

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Hello!

So we're into the heart of the Halloween season, and that means it's time for some awesome zombies! If you love Walking Dead or any other incarnation of zombies or apocalyptic mayhem, UberChic Beauty's Zombie Love 02 plate is a must have (and it goes beautifully with their first Zombie Love plate, of course). Here's the video review I did of the plate:

And here's a still shot:

UberChic Beauty Zombie Love 02

What I love best about this plate: Oh, please don't make me choose. Zombie goodness everywhere...I love the cute little zombie guy that looks like he's dancing, and the creepy zombie guys and the layering zombie images, and the layered hand, and, and, and...I also love that she has some general apocalypse images on here so if whatever apocalyptic character you're dressing up as this Halloween, you can have some scary nails to go alone with.

As always, UberChic's full nail images are 1.7 x 2.1 cm, and here are shots with a ruler so you can judge the size of the others:

UberChic quality is always excellent--here are swatches with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Plummet, with my clear stamper:

For my first manicure, I started with a base of Girly Bits Cosmetics Funky Town and Jive Talkin' (I did a circle gradient on two of the nails, then stamped and made decals with Messy Mansion Carbon, Spring Green, Summer Heat, Banana Bender, and Red-y Or Not (also available directly from Messy Mansion if that works from where you're located):

UberChic Beauty Zombie Love 02 over Girly Bits Cosmetics Stayin' Alive and Funky Town

I adore that these zombies are whimsical, but not super-duper cute, so you can have a look that's not super scary, but still creepy at the same time. Glitter holo + zombies = my happy place.

But what if you're looking for a straight-up scary zombie look? For my second mani, I wanted to use a layering effect to create a horde of zombies comin' right for ya! I started with a gradient of Zoya Scout and Tabitha, then stamped my images using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Grease Lightening and Messy Mansion Carbon:

UberChic Beauty Zombie Love 02 over Zoya Tabitha and Scout

You can bet I'll be wearing this for the next Walking Dead premiere...

I think manis like this look even creepier with a little mattification, so I used my Sally Hansen Big Matte to mattify it:

UberChic Beauty Zombie Love 02 over Zoya Tabitha and Scout, matted

Somehow the matte makes the different layers look even deeper and more scary...Go Michonne, go!

I love this effect so much, I made a tutorial for you so you can recreate it: