The Polish Diary

I must say I have had so much fun over the past few weeks with coming up with all the ideas for the manis as well as doing them. Some were fails and some I wanted to wear the whole time. It sucked because I would do an awesome mani but have to take it off because I needed another post. I know for next year what I want to do and what I don't. Without further adue here are all 13 of my Halloween themed manis. Link is under each photo for original post. Dracula with Lynnderella Connect the Dots Hanging Spider Mummy Nails Broken Bones Candy Corn Pumpkin Fail Blood Red Feather Mani Lynnderella & Spider Webs Tombstones Ghost & Franken Blood Drips Frankenstein Jason Mask Glowing Jason Mask I hope you guys enjoyed this little series as much as I did. I hope you have a safe and happy Halloween!

Happy Sunday everyone! I must say I am glad I am not digging out from snow right now. This weather is just crazy! I have to say I am looking forward to sweaters and boots and layers but not yet. I am enjoying this mild cool weather we are having. Well enough about that stuff because I have certainly saved the best mani for the last day of 13 Days of Halloween Nails. I must say first that I have searched high and low for China Glaze Ghoulish Glow and could not find it anywhere. My Sally's got one shipment of their Halloween polishes and those were gone within a day. As of Friday they still had no in stock. Well yesterday I came home from work and my BF was waiting, gift-in-hand, to celebrate our Five Year Anniversary! It was GHOULISH GLOW! So I had it in my mind that I wanted to do a Jason Mask mani with Ghoulish Glow if/when I could ever get it. I had staged my 13 Days of Halloween Manis to end Sunday, with a wrap-up on Monday. I honestly had kind of given up on the idea because ...

Hope you guys are having a great Halloween Weekend. I totally forgot about today's post because it is my BF and I, 5 year anniversary! Whoohoo! I did this mani before I had to cut my nails back down to nubs :( I saw everyone tryin this mani out and I wanted to give it a try. My Frankenstein has some crazy eyes but other than that I love him. OPI Don't Mess With OPI - Base of All Nails Sinful Colors Irish Fever - Applied over Don't Mess With OPI Wet n Wild Black Creme & White Creme - Frankenstein Hair & Face & Eyes OPI Black Shatter I have one mani left that I will post tomorrow and I will have a full roundup of all 13 manis on Halloween! Have a great rest of the weekend.

Sorry for the late post. You would think one would learn to schedule posts but I have been brain-dead for the past few weeks. I have another Halloween themed mani for you today. This is a drippy mani and  I have tried one of these before for the 4th of July and knew I wanted to try it again but in a more PSYCHO type way. OPI Skull & Glossbones - Greige Base China Glaze Phat Santa - Blood Drips I think I succeeded! I really like how this came out and it looks very creepy. Sorry for the short post but I am still down with my back and trying to do anything seems like a real hassle.

Hi Guys! A little late of a post today but I had some homework to do. I also sucked it up and went to work today with my back completely out. Let me tell you that was fun! I have for you today a ghostly mani I did using one of my first frankens ever! I started off with a base of Essie Midnight Cami that a fellow blogger Bottle and Bottles of Polish gave me. I then added a coat of my first franken ever that still remains nameless. I made this franken using the bottles of silver holographic glitter that Fantasy Makers had for sale at various places. I actually picked mine up from Walgreen's and of last check they still had some. I barely even used any of the glitter and I have made 3 frankens already. The bottle I am holding in the photo is the franken I used for my ghostly mani. It is just clear base and sparkles. The polish does settle quite a bit (like after a min. actually) but I added some BB's and all is well in franken world. Essie Midnight Cami - Blue Base Un-named Fra...

Welcome to 13 Days of Halloween Nails. This is day #8 and I have a fun post for you today. It will be short as I am lying in bed with my back completely out! Anyways enough about my helplessness for the moment and on to the mani. I really wanted to do like a graveyard type mani. I had this idea in my head and while it did not translate that well I was not completely horrified with the results. OPI Swimsuit...Nailed It! - Blue Base of all Nails NYC Starry Silver Glitter - Glitter Top on all Nails Wet n Wild Black Creme - Black Cat, Words on Tombstones Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow - Cat Eyes Sally Hansen Wet Concrete - Tombstones OPI Don't Mess With OPI - Green Grass As you can see the "black cat" did not turn out that well, but hey, it was my first cat. I wanted to make it look like a nighttime scene so I used OPI Swimsuit..Nailed It!. I layered NYC Starry Silver Glitter over the blue base to give it some sparkle as well as to make the sky look like it had stars! I hope yo...

Today is Day 8 of 13 Days of Halloween Nails. So I have to say that I have been doing these 13 manis for the past couple weeks and I have so much new holiday polish that I had to combine some. I have been dying to try my Lynnderella Snow Angel since I got it and I must say I am kind of in love. Now this is a layering polish although if you wanted to cake on this pricey polish I suppose you can but I am a conserver. I have seen this polish layered over many white/eggshell polishes and I wanted to twist it up a bit for my Halloween mani. I decided to layer Snow Angel over OPI Skull and Glossbones. Skull and Glossbones is a murky greige (gray-beige) creme. OPI Skull and Glossbones - Base for all Nails Lynnderella Snow Angel - Glitter Top Coat LA Colors Black Striper - Spider Web Now I must say this Snow Angel is one thirsty gal. I put two coats of Seche on top of Snow Angel and it still felt gritty. Snow Angel dries very fast but dried to a finish that felt more like sand paper. I hav...