bloody nails!

Hi y'all! I got a little behind on blog stuff with the recent storm here in the area, we spent a few days without power so I couldn't do much of anything besides stare at a wall or sleep and hope the power was fixed when I woke up. (It never worked that way. Never. Sigh.) But I have a few posts to line up that I did before that whole fiasco, to which this is one of them. Some bloody, battered, zombie like nails. Not really sure what else to call them. I did them last year as well and to be quite honest, I'm pretty sure that I liked last years better than the ones I did this time around. I loved them so much last time though I had to try again. Anyways, click through the jump to read more! 

Bloody Battered Nails

Hi y'all! It's getting much closer to Halloween now and I'm sooo excited but bummed at the same time that it's almost all over with. But I have some more gross nail art for you today. Which were suppose to be zombie nails, but I'm not quite sure you could call them that exactly. 

So, instead, we'll call them gross bruised, bloody, battered nails. These are meant to look like there's bleeding and bruising under the nails. Like they're rotting, or they've been seriously abused fingers, haha. and I loooove the way that they've came out. 

I used: 

Wet n Wild - 2% milk 

NYC New York Color - Black Lace 

NYC New York Color - Matte Me Crazy Matte Top Coat 

LA Colors - Bliss

LA Colors - Cactus

LA Colors - Festive 

LA Colors - Whipped

Hello Kitty - Minty

Plus various acrylic paints. 

I started with a base of two coats of Whipped. Then I asdded Cactus in half moon shapes. They don't need to be perfect though. Bruising and blood wouldn't show up in a perfect shape. Then I mixed some red acrylic paint with a tiny bit of black and i just painted that on with a brush randomly. Then I sponged on Minty and Bliss randomly over the nail. I think put two coats of 2% milk over that. I wanted it to look like it was all under the nail so a sheer nude is what I was looking for. After that I used that same red paint mix, watered it down, and splattered it over the nails. I then matted the nails with Matte Me Crazy and then used the bottle brush from Festive to add blood to the tips, leaving it shiney to give that fresh blood effect. 

I really love how this came out and I hope you all enjoy them too! 

What do you think of these nails? Let me know in the comments below!

Halloween week: Zombies

Todays nails are inspired by zombies! I used a base color of china glaze re-fresh mint and sponged on three other green colors, then sponged refreshmint back over that to lighten it up a bit since it had gotten too dark. Sponged sinful colors rich in heart onto the tips to kinda look like dirt and dried blood, and did random splotches, and used a tooth brush with sinful colors nail art in be my valentine. the ring fingers were just refresh mint with fantasy maker red crackle polish over it. it's been my favorite to do and with how it turned out so far.