SALLY HANSEN XTREME WEAR White On

Hello and happy hump day. I have 2 posts today. I seperated this one because I did not have a swatch post of this polish, White On, yet. I will be posting the nail art I did over this right after.

Okay, so SALLY HANSEN XTREME WEAR White On is the color of the day. Just a typical white-out white. The formula is just okay. It needs at least 2 coats for full opacity. It's a nice clean white though.

SALLY HANSEN XTREME WEAR White On

Still looking for that awesome white that has full coverage in just one easy applicable coat.

Anyways, come right back because my Go Pink Wednesday post is coming up! Thanks for popping in.

"This is Halloween" Ghosts

It's the 3rd day of the This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge! Today's theme is ghosts, spooOOky.

I created my ghosts using this awesome video tutorial.

I used CHINA GLAZE Crimson from the Haunting Collection (2011) as my base color. I created the white ghosts using a dotting tool to manipulate small pools of white polish. These ghosts are super fun and festive and worth the time to make if you're going for an awesome Halloween look.

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BUTTER LONDON Bluey

Some of you probably remember the Coterie B2G2 deal on Butter Londons a few weeks back. I grabbed my first Butter London polishes from this deal, which was totally amazing. 4 BL polishes and it was only $11.00 with Coterie's first time purchase discount of $25 at the time. Completely amazing, I know right!?

Matte Finish Top Coat, Knackered, Bluey & Wallis

Bluey looked so gorgeous in the bottle I decided to wear it first. Bluey is a shimmery deep peacock blue that has crazy sheen even without a top coat.

BUTTER LONDON Bluey - direct sunlight

BUTTER LONDON Bluey - shaded natural light

The formula was very easy to work with. The first coat was pretty sheer, you need to build it up for a richer color. I applied 3 coats which gave nice depth. I decided I should try out my matte top coat too so here is Bluey Mattified.

BUTTER LONDON Bluey with Matte top coat

I was very sad when I opened my brand new Matte Finish bottle and found this:

*sad face*  Also the bottle was very difficult to get open and my nails were not completely dry from application, so I used pliers. I know, I could have broken the bottle, but I didn't want to smudge my fresh mani! I don't understand why my bottle put up such a fight. Super disappointed in the brush. Other than that, it applied fantastically. It also didn't leave any stroke marks like you can get when you apply an actual matte finish polish. Two thumbs up for this matte top coat.

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October Polish Haul from Sallys

I have a quick haul post to share today. I printed out a Sallys coupon last night and picked up some goodies for my sister and myself.

Their big bottles of acetone are on sale for $4.99 this week, GREAT deal. I grabbed us each a 4pack of the Wicked collection, picked up some cotton rounds and then got a new base and top coat. I actually went to the dollar store and bought 2 packages of their cotton rounds for only a dollar, but I'm going to use these more expensive ones for my face. The dollar store one are a bit rough, but great for polish removal. Sometimes my dollar store has these awful cheap ones, but this time they had a new stock of better quality ones so yay.

The 4-pack was only $8.99 and comes with Roguish Red, Glitter Goblin, Bizzare Blurple and Ghoulish Glow.

In random news, that's my new table runner! It just arrived today from Kohls. I am obsessed with all things holiday related and this spider web runner is totally awesome.

Spider Web table runner from Kohls

I just need to iron out the folds and then congratulate myself on an awesome purchase. :-P

Don't go anywhere just yet because I will have polish post up in a few! I am doing BUTTER LONDON Bluey swatches in both normal and matte finishes.

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"This is Halloween" Water Marble Challenge

Today is the 2nd day of the "This Is Halloween" nail art challenge and it's water marbling.

This technique is not one I have perfected by any means. I have 2 designs to share today, one is from last year and one is from today. I hope you enjoy!

Orange Water Marble

Colors used:
   • FANTASY MAKERS Creepy Pumpkin
   • ZOYA Arizona (base color)
   • SALLY HANSESN XTREME WEAR Sun Kissed
   • FINGER PAINTS Orange-Cordur

I had other plans for this manicure when I started out, but if you've done water marbling before than you know not all polishes work. I ended up going all orange because these colors worked the best in the water.

I also wanted to share with you the water marbling I did last year for Halloween when I wasn't actively blogging.

I added a cute skull decal I picked up from Sallys as an accent. The black certainly pops more and I was trying to use it in this years, but the polish refused to spread in the water.

Water marbling takes a lot of patience to be sure. I love how the end result is always unique and pretty. I do feel that I still need more practice with this technique.

Thanks for popping in!
I wish the inlinkz where different for each challenge, sorry the links are cluttered between two of the challenge days!