NEW31DC Day 27 - Inspired By You

Hi Goddesses

Boy did I make this one difficult on myself!  Everyone knows my defining colour is purple (did that in 30 Days of Purple) and that my defining style is a Splodger (did a Splodgerama tutorial recently).

So that kind of left me puzzling for a bit - too long and too hard actually - so in the end I just decided to do what should be done, and do a purple splodgerama lol.

Small recap - splodgerama involves sponging colours semi-randomly onto your nails to create an overall effect which is splodgey.

As I'd used so many of my favourite colours in November, I decided to do an exclusively KIKO splodgerama.    KIKO ROCK at blues and purples so it was an easy choice.  Unfortunately, KIKO don't really name their polishes, so here are those sexy numbers - 

As always, I picked the palest colour as my base, and then started sponging on the other colours, starting with the darkest.  I left the sparkly KIKO til the end, as I wanted that to catch the light of the camera.

Finally, I went back and dabbed teeny amounts of colour here and there to balance out the overall effect.  Et voila.

Super easy, super lazy.  I love 'em!!

Enjoy - tomorrow it's inspired by your favourite colour ..... hhhhmmmm .... xx

Halloweenie - CROWS TOES Hell Hath No Fury

Hi Goddesses

The minute I first saw Crows Toes Halloween Collection, THIS was the one I knew I had to have - isn't she GLORIOUS ??

HHNF is a glorious soup of red and orange glitters and flashes of violet.  Everybody who has swatched this polish has done the obvious and layered it over orange.  I am not criticising them at all - orange is a perfect base for it - but I wanted to do something different.

KIKO 278 is the purple I used for the zombie blood splatter. Not only is it a lovely purple, it's glass flecked and sparkly, and it ALSO made a perfect base for this polish.

The overall combination was just soooo dazzling .... ugh, it was a combo I didn't want to take off.  In fact, the only thing that runs it close is its sister polish .... VooDoo, and you can see her tomorrow.

Enjoy xx :)

The Digit-al Dozen DOES Halloween ..... Zombie Blood Splatter

Hi Goddesses

So, Halloween Week ends pretty much as it began, with me disappointed with most of my manis, and slapping my forehead at how inspired and creative all the other bloggers have been.  And not just my Digit-al Dozen lovelies; the Crumpet Nail Tarts have also been doing a Halloween Challenge, as have a few other groups, and I just don't understand how my head is soooooo blank on this subject lol.

I hit on the genius idea of not doing a blood splatter mani, but doing a Zombie blood splatter mani.  I even had in depth conversations as to what colour zombie blood would be - red?  black ? purple?  And again, the execution, whilst "nice" is just not what I wanted.

I'm going to start with the base.  I was so proud of this base, but you just can't see any of the complexity of it in these photos.  This had 3 or 4 different colours in there, mostly sponged to show aging and decrepit skin - there was white, beige, light grey and pale green.  I topped it with matte coat and it looked ROCKING - but then look - it looks like smooth pistachio in the photos!  Tut!

The splatter.  Well, eventually I decided on purple.  I thought that if blood decayed it would darken and move from red to black, and purple seemed a great contrast to the greenish skin.  I used KIKO 278, a medium-dark metallic.

I didn't quite get the effect I wanted - mainly I think because the polish is not opaque enough - but I do love the clash of those colours.  I also love how some of the nails look like butterflies!

So, not my most triumphant week, although I was quite proud of my spiders.   We're going green for Depression Awareness for the next couple of weeks - swatches, indies, depression-inspired nail art, autobiographical posts, the whole works.  There'll also be more Crows Toes and a LOT of Halloweenies.  There's a lot to cram in before the month ends .... cos something special is looming for November .....

Enjoy xx :)