Haunted Houndstooth

BOOOOOOHH!! *spooky voice*

I finally have a proper Halloween design! To be honest, in my country we don't really celebrate Halloween. We often get together with friends, dress up a bit scary and then watch a creepy movie (which I don't even like because, well, they're creepy!). But the looking forward to Halloween like people seem to do in America, we don't really have that here. Hence why I don't really do a lot of Halloween designs; I just don't feel it. But now and then, I get in the spooky spirit!

Anyway, I wasn't sure beforehand if I'd have the time to create a new design for Halloween because I've been swamped with school work, but I was able to squeeze it in luckily!

Last year I did some Halloween slime drips for Halloween - you can see them here. I was looking back at my old posts and really liked that design, so I decided to create some more slime drips this year!

The super fun thing is: the amazing Jacqui from Craftynail has sent me some gorgeous stamping plates she didn't want to use anymore, and when they arrived and when the stamper I had ordered finally arrived too, I couldn't wait to try out the plates! It was incredibly nice of her - thanks again Jacqui! I will have so much fun using these, like, how cool is it to just stamp an image onto your nails?! V cool if you ask me ;) The plates she sent me are verrrrry purty - with animals and a forest, and with lots of elegant and fun patterns.

Hehe so the picture below depicts me being overly excited about stamping! Remember, this is my first go at it EVER.

I found a few creme polishes in my stash that seemed to work well for stamping - including my black one from Maybelline. Since I love love love houndstooth print, I decided to do a slime covered houndstooth design!

I used OPI's Alpine Snow, Maybeline's Blackout, and a green glow in the dark neon polish from Born Pretty Store  (if you want to buy something there, feel free to use my 10% off discount code XDX31!)

I did 2 coats of Alpine Snow, and then stamped on it with the black polish. The image on the plate was a bit too small for my nails (I do have very long nails), so I had to stamp a few times to cover the entire nail - that's why the image sometimes doesn't look the way it's supposed to. Stamping correctly is hard!

It is, however, undoubtedly much quicker and less frustrating than trying to paint houndstooth by hand! I can't believe how fast the stamping was, it was awesome!

Anyway, after that, I painted the slime drips with white polish first because the green one doesn't cover well. And after that, I just painted the green on top! It's SO SO NEON. I'm glad my pictures really depict the neon-ness of the polish so well!

And like I mentioned before, the green slime glows in the dark! The most glow-y nails were the ones I held under a lamp for a few minutes to "load" them.

I had actually forgotten that this green polish was glow in the dark, and when I went to bed at night I was like "huh wait what is this light emenating from my nails?"

I wore these for a day, but then I got annoyed by how obviously Halloween they were and I needed something less eye-catching :) The stamping is definitely something I will do again though! There are a lot of gorgeous images on Jacqui's plates - I'll try to remember to take pictures to show you :)

I think these nails actually came out amazingly good seeing as it's my first time ever stamping. I've read a lot of stamping horror stories where it just wouldn't work no matter what they tried, but luckily I've found a good polish/stamper/plate!

What do you think of these? I quite like the fact that it's not "just" slime drips, but that they are in fact really dripping over something :) Plus, I was able to do this on both hands! Photographic evidence of that fact is sadly lacking though (unless you include the glow in the dark picture where you can only see some green light)

Thanks for reading!