Halloween Nails: Spooky Cat Foils

Purple Polish | Tonic Polish - The Answer is 42

Nude Polish | Barry M - Almond

Halloween Cat Foil | Born Pretty Store - #50543

  

Stamping Plate: Beauty Big Bang 01 - Halloween

As October is upon us I thought it was time to review some of my Halloween themed stamping plates. This one I bought myself, if I was sent a plate to review I will always put an asterisk [*] in the blog title.

This Halloween themed plate comes in a cardboard slip cover, and with a blue protective plastic wrap on too. The back of the plate comes branded.

It comes with four full nail designs and about seven smaller images. All of the images stamped across really well, below are two of the nail designs I have used this plate in;

[Bat Nails]

[Holo Spider Webs]

Beauty Big Bang

  

Swatch: Rimmel - Ritas Black 900

Colour | Black
Finish | Semi Matte
Opacity | Two Coats
Brush Type | Flat, Wide, Rounded Cuticle
How Much | 8ml

  

Halloween Nails: Holo Spiderwebs

As today is the beginning of official spooky season, I thought I would share some more Halloween themed nails. I am aiming at about 10 sets of nails, but may end up with extra!

Base Polish | Leighton Denny - Steel Appeal
Stamping Polish | Barry M - Holographic Lights
Stamping Plate | Beauty Big Bang 01 - Halloween

  

Topic Tuesday: Unconventional Autumnal Polishes

I think for me an unconventional polish for autumn could be holographics because particularly here (northern England) there isn't a lot of bright sunlight for around six months. Holo's do look amazing in direct sunlight so that is why it may be unconventional.

[Tonic Polish - Jinx]

  

Nails: Autumnal Dotticure

Base Polish | Barry M - Butterscotch
Accent Polishes
Barry M - Black Forest
ELF - Medium Red
Nails Inc - Drty Girl

Dotting Tool

  

Stamping Plate: Nicole Diary 172 From Born Pretty Store [#49664]*

 

Nicole Diary 172 is a square plate, 60mm by 60mm. It comes with a blue protective sticker over the top of the plate, it is backed with branded logos.

The plate has six larger images, the theme of the plate is classed as part of the leaves collection however I think that this plate could be used as a easier way of doing the current trend fluid art nails. All of the images I have used stamped across well.

Here is some nail art I have done using this plate;

[Autumn Abstract Nails]

[Snake Skin Print]

I have a 10% off discount code (HS7J61) if you would like to use it;

Born Pretty Store
Nicole Diary 172 - $1.99

  

Swatch: Fancy Gloss - Magma

Magma is a duochrome flakie topcoat polish, I have shown it over black below as well as matte because flakies always look good mattified. It is a perfect autumnal / fall flakie polish.

[Indoors, Flash]

Colour | Red, Yellow, Orange

Finish | Duochrome Flakie Topper

Opacity | One Coat shown over black

Brush Type | Flat and Wide

How Much | 15ml

[Outdoors, No Flash]

[Mattified]

  

Review: Born Pretty Store - Hoh Xil - Thermal Stamping Polish [#42853]*

To celebrate Born Pretty Store's upcoming 10th Birthday I have some polishes to share, two holographic ones Beautiful Eyes and Zeus Sword and this thermal stamping polish;

The polish comes in a cardboard box, has a wide brush and 6ml of product.

As this is a thermal polish I thought I would share it worn as a polish in both cold and warm states;

[Hoh Xil - Thermal Stamping Polish - Warm]

[Hoh Xil - Thermal Stamping Polish - Cold]

The above photos show the polish with four coats to reach full opacity. As this is a stamping polish I found it to be quite thin and so only showed up over particularly light polishes. However it did stamp as shown below.

I found the thermal colour change to be quite subtle in Hoh Xil, Born Pretty Store does have 12 shades in this stamping thermal polish range and so perhaps one of the others has a stronger colour change.

I have a 10% off discount code (HS7J61) if you would like to use it;

Born Pretty Store
Hoh Xil - $5.99