Hi Goddesses
OMG IT’S DEXTER WEEK ON THE BLOG !!!!!
Honestly, I can barely contain my excitement. Dexter is one of my favourite TV shows EVERRRRRR, and yet I only got into it a few months ago. Advantage? Watching 6 series in 4 weeks is just AWESOME!
I blame Black Cat Lacquer. And Missy. BCL sent me some polishes to review which were inspired by Dexter, and I didn’t have a clue what they meant lol, and then Missy was all “omg you HAVE to watch it.” So I did. And I loves.
Today’s mani is the only blood mani of the week. It’s so easy to do blood splatter to represent this show, and it’s about so much more than that. Also, I only just did a Dexter mani with blood in a couple of months ago, so I wanted this week to go in a different direction.
However the show IS all about the blood. It’s defined Dexter’s life since his memories began, it soothes him and it heals him. So there had to be 1 blood mani :)
The thumb is the blood slide – from the calling card in Season 1 to LaGuerta’s fate in Season 7, it’s been all about the blood slides, an oddly clinical keepsake of such an emotional event.
Then we have a lake of blood. I actually made my own blood for this mani. My recipe was 50% clear polish, 25% China Glaze Velvet Bow and 25% Bettina 47. It was a really good move, and gave me the less opaque tones I was after.
I then splattered with it, and created a blood drop with it. These are over a base of OPI My Vampire Is Buff. I particularly like the dripping blood. I just put a huge blob of my recipe on my nail, and then let it dribble down – simples! And then finally, another blood pool.
Don’t forget to check out my lovely besties, and I’ll be back tomorrow with my Ice Truck Killer nails :) Enjoy xx
Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Ashley at Smashley Sparkles
Emma at Manicurity
Kerrie at PishPoshandPolish
