Sunday Stamping: Halloween Stamping, Black and White Halloween mani with Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

Hi folks!

This post is going up late, seeing how Sunday is more than halfway over. This is my mani for the Sunday Stamping challenge, Halloween themed stamping. I really, really wanted to do a black and white gradient so I finally did it for this mani. Then I took Hard Candy Black Tie Optional out of my untrieds and used it with a few randomly yet strategically placed matte glitter in orange, purple and lime green. I added glowing orange eyes to the skull while the image was still on the stamper, stamping decal style. If anyone is curious about what I'm talking about, I can elaborate if you ask me.

I really love how this looks. Love the randomly hand placed glitter mixed with the black and white glitter. I placed a few glitters down first, then painted a coat of BTO, then placed a few more glitters over it. A lot less time consuming than you would think because it was random placement. I will have to do this technique more often. Gives the impression of having an entirely new form of glitter polish.

Here's all the polishes used in this mani. The plate is Bundle Monster BM 225.

Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris

Sinful Colors Snow me White

Sally Hansen Wet Cement

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional 

Sinful Colors Courtney Orange

Hello Everyone!

After being addicted to all things nail polish for the last year or so, and learning to take care of my nails and paint the perfect manicure, I finally decided that I wanted to take things one step further and share my addiction with the rest of the world. I've had multiple people, including strangers, tell me now that I should start a blog and I figured, why not? I have a huge backlog of manis that I can show to start with and I think it's a great way to add another dimension to an already favorite hobby. You might find some non nail polish stuff sneaking in here once in a while since I have other hobbies too but I'll try to keep it mostly polish related :-)

To start with, I'm going to bring an old favorite out of the vault. Hard Candy Beetle. This is a very easy to find, shimmery duochrome. Any Walmart should carry it.