Sparkly Bat Nails.

My nails have been breaking a lot lately, which has led to them being quite short. I don't find short nails as fun to work on, but thankfully I do find Halloween to be very inspiring for nail art. Which means I've actually been doing designs more lately. 

For today's manicure I broke out one of the glitter polishes I bought when I loved them. ( I mostly stick with cream finishes now.) In order to update it a bit I decided to stamp bats overtop for Halloween. 

For the base of the manicure I used Icing's Force of Love over a coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme for opacity. Force of Love is supposed to be a dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Across the Universe.

The stamp I used was Bundle Monster BM-213, and the polish I used is Sally Hansen Silversweep.

I was happy with how this design turned out, and I think the bats go great with Force of Love. Sadly I didn't get much use out of the manicure because it turns out Force of Love is just one of those glitters that goes on very thick and refuses to dry!

If you're still trying to decide on nails for Halloween, you still have a few days to think up something awesome! If you want any ideas, you can check out some of the designs I've posted in the past or keep waiting because I have a few other appropriate manicures that I'll be sharing soon!

City Skyline Nails.

I did nails inspired by Maryland earlier in the week, so it seemed necessary to follow up with New York nails! NYC is my favorite place, and it definitely deserves a little nail art in it's honor. 

A skyline design seemed like the perfect choice, and I very fittingly chose China Glaze Skyscraper as the base color. Skyscraper is a gorgeous color, I'll have to try to use it more often. For the actual design I used Wet n Wild Black Creme. The finishing touch was a little extra glitter in the sky, which was from  Icing Magnetic Attraction.