Monday, October 15, 2012

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Zombies "This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge"

This was fun!

I spotted this image on google images and knew exactly what I wanted to do for todays theme in the challenge. Here are my zombie nails. 

I starting with cutting jaggered rough edges into my tips, then I used OPI Don't Pretzel my Buttons as the base. Using a nail art brush I painted on various lines and shading using Ulta3 Chocolate Cake.  The red is Ulta3 Firetruck and finished with a layer of Essie Matte About You. 

The matte top coat dried a little strange with some white dots, but for this mani I didn't mind at all, just it just ended up looking like some funky nail fungus or something.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, no these are not my real nails - these are falsies that I stuck on.

First up - grabbing my victims arm!


I love how creepy this shot is.  My lovely mum took on the role of victim for me, but I feel my fingers are posed a little too pretty. So it's not a scary zombie 'grab you' kind of feel, it's more of a creepy cold zombie hand touching you vibe!

Lastly - I just love these photos.  I never ever thought I would pose my nails with a raw piece of meat as my prop, but it just works so well.  Never say never ladies.
I'm really loving doing this Halloween Challenge, I love having something to inspire me each few days.

24 comments:

  1. This is amazing, I adore this look (though I'm not sure I will be wearing it around the place in the near future!), you are so very talented!
    xx

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  2. oh my god oh my god oh my god this is so amazing

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  3. I almost had a heart attack when I saw this as I thought you had cut your real nails. They look amazing (and quite scary to someone so attached to her nails!)

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  4. OMG that's horrible, but sooo good :P

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  5. That is sooo gross...but sooo awesome!!!

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  6. I am not normally grossed out by halloween stuff, I even get into food that looks like raw brains and worms in dirt but the zombie nails on raw meat sent a chill down my spine. Maybe it's the fact that 28 weeks later is on the tv behind me. Very clever work :)

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  7. This is a must do!! Great Job!!

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  8. This is EASILY the best Halloween mani I've ever seen. Hot damn. Amazing.

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  9. Ooooh, yukky! I love it!

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  10. This turned out great!! I lobe the jagged nails... Glad you did t cut up your real nails lol.... I'm going to post mine up after I write my post today.


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  11. So amazing!! Smart to use false nails too because I would hate to shape my real nails like that, I thought they were real!

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  12. This is disgusting - well done :D fitted the brief perfectly!!!

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  13. WOW so amazing!! These are literally perfect :)

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  14. THANK GOD THOSE ARE FAKE NAILS. I thought you had cut into your real nail! :O This is really good! Disgusting but good! :)

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  15. These are AMAZING! I think you win the challenge :)

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  16. Wow!! So awesomely disgusting! Lol

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  17. That's fantastic, what a great idea!

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  18. This is terrifying! Such a great idea though.

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  19. ohhh Ghastly !!! in a nice way :D

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  20. That is amazing in a disgusting, gory way!

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