Before & After Twin Post: Native War Paints Extra Crispy Walkers + UberChic Beauty plates

(Plates sent for review)

Hello!

Recently the lovely Amanda, my friend and fellow blogger over at Polish & Plates gifted me a bottle of Native War Paints Extra Crispy Walkers, because  I'd admired it on her blog and told her what a huge fan I am of The Walking Dead (and of the zombie flambe scene that inspired the polish). And now since we each have a bottle of it, she suggested we do a twin post with it, and I jumped at the chance!

You may know that The Walking Dead is now on hiatus, scheduled to return with the mid-season premiere on *Valentine's Day*. And, you now know that I have in my possession an awesome polish that pays tribute to zombies. So, I think we can agree that what's about to happen was completely inevitable...

Zombies. Valentine's Day. Hmm...When I think of the combination of zombies and love, I can't help but think of The Zombie Song:

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It's a touching, heart-rending (or, rendering) story about a sweet girl zombie who has fallen in love with a non-zombie guy--talk about your star-crossed lovers...sigh...

I started with my base of Native War Paints Extra Crispy Walkers, a black jelly polish with orange, blue, and green flakies and glitter; it looks like either a charred zombie corpse, or the ash and embers flying up as the zombies are being fried:

Native War Paints Extra Crispy Walkers

Then I set to decorate it, based on the artwork in the video...

...and the fact that part of the chorus is 'I'd never eat your brain.'

Here's what I came up with:

If I were a zombie, I'd never eat your brain

I'd just want your heart, yeah I'd want your heart, just want your heart.

I freehanded the girl (obviously, lol) trying to re-create the stick-figure look, but I wanted her to look a little more gnarly and I added in a red heart on her dress and a red headband; I also freehanded a slashed circle around the brain on my pinkie. I used UberChic Beauty's Love & Marriage 02 plate (review coming very soon!) and UberChic Beauty's Zombie Love plate; I stamped with Konad White and Red.


For the freehand portion, I used white and red acrylic paints, and did a test run of this brush from Born Pretty Store:

Nail art brush from Born Pretty Store

Nail art brush from Born Pretty Store

The handle turns into the cap. 

The brush gave me good control, and finer lines where I needed them, bigger lines where I wanted them for the stick figure look. The brush was excellent quality; I love that it pulls apart and the handle becomes a lid to help protect your brush.


What do you think? Yes, the manicure is kooky and crazy and just a teensy bit sick and twisted. Okay, a lot sick and twisted. But I love it, and I never want to take it off! I'm going to recreate it for the premiere on Valentine's Day, luckily Mr. LOLH loves zombies as much as I do. :)

But that's not all! Don't forget to go check out what Amanda did with this polish, over on Polish & Plates! She does great polish reviews as well as cool nail art--my kind of girl. You can find her on Facebook, too.

You can find the nail art brush here, and don't forget you can use my Born Pretty Store code off you full-price purchase.

Happy stamping!
M.