NCC Halloween #4: BOO

D: I'm sorry for these too! I am pretty certain that I just was not patient enough and it's all my fault. I tried though... Sometimes it just doesn't come out =_=

Obvs, started with ILNP My Little Glacier. Over that, I put two coats of WarPaint Glow Turq, a glittery glow in the dark polish.

It totally did glow quite beautifully, but of course my camera just couldn't get into it.

I used white acrylic paint and tried to freehand some little ghosties over it. Unfortunately I don't think I waited long enough and the layers underneath seemed to be goopy. Also, it was really hard to paint properly and leave eyeholes (because I wanted them to be glowy). This whole thing just didn't work out but take a look.

Poor lumpy ghosties....

I think next time I would well, not leave this until the last minute, I might use actual nail polish and I will probably repaint the eyes over top despite that it would be more work to do so. The appearance would be much improved I'm sure.

Have you guys seen any cutie ghosts floating around? Wanna link me? =3

Oh, Happy Halloween!

Swatch: ILNP My Little Glacier

So I had a plan for this which didn't really turn out, and I had to do these on a time crunch so I missed the sunshine for my photos... plus my cuticles are in a terrible state, so basically I'm apologizing for this whole post. There are much better photos out there if you want to look at My Little Glacier for reals.

I did three coats, and the shift was extremely difficult to capture. Again, it might have been easier in the sunshine, and I might time travel and add pics later. Under a lamp, it actually looks like a very fine, a little faint linear holographic. In proper light, it turned purple at the edges, and my camera didn't like that.

PICSPAM :D

 Oh hey those pics aren't so bad, are they? What do you think? It's gorgeous, just like the rest of this collection <3

Don't forget, ILNP  has a website and a Facebook and Barb is fab =3

What's your favourite so far? Do you know what's next?

NCC Halloween #3: Meow

As soon as I saw Mutagen in person, there's only one thing I could think of. I mean, the name and colour kind of implies a Frankenstein monster or something, but it almost glows so I went for something else...

All this is is ILNP Mutagen and some Sharpie. Easy peasy =3

I have three little kittens on each hand and a tail peeking out on my pinkie. To get there, they obviously walked across my thumb ;D You can see both hands above, do you think I'm getting more ambidextrous?

Here's a better view of the colour shift:

It looked sooo cool in real life =3

Also a reminder to keep your kitties indoors for the next little while, especially the black ones. Unsupervised kids (and adults, to be fair) are ignorant of right and wrong sometimes.

Swatch: ILNP Mutagen

Hello again! Hurrah, posts! I'm definitely procrastinating both tutorial prep and cleaning my disgusting room... But the lightbulb (the only one in my room) went out and I'm stuck sitting in the dark... I can't really do much about that. Anyhoo, Mutagen is the polish from ILNP's Ultrachrome collection that's said to be the weakest of the bunch, but still beautiful. Well, it's definitely beautiful but also from some angles it's downright pink. As in, the alternate colour is so strong that it stops looking green entirely. :o If that's not cool, I dunno man.

Anyway, I did 2 - 3 coats.

UNF that last photo is perfect if I do say so myself... I think I've said this already, but if you're going to get one thing from ILNP.com, it needs to be this collection. They're also on Facebook ;D

NCC Halloween #2: Creepy crawlies!

ILNP Birefringence + Billie Silver = GORGEOUSNESS. I really don't have much else to say about this. I'll let the photos do the talking ;D

What do you think? All it took was a striper brush actually! The colour combination is fantastic too, and even my off hand looked alright despite the obvious lack of dexterity.

I love Halloween, how about you? :D

Swatch: I Love Nail Polish Birefringence

WELL THAT WEEK GOT AWAY FROM ME. In case anyone was wondering, I took over one of the other TAs so I have twice as many hours per week and I don't think I was quite prepared for it. On top of that Pokemon X/Y came out and I'm still Mayor of Avaric in Animal Crossing New Leaf... My priorities are bad and I should feel bad... This should hold you for a while though.

Have you guys got enough of these by now? This is Birefringence, the best of the bunch I think and I did three coats to achieve this result. AND I got sunlight!

I didn't even have to try to get this to show up in the pictures. Now this is the only one I bought but I was lucky enough to win the rest from one of my awesomest friends, Harriet, who lives over at Nailhilism (the best name for a nail blog ever, imo) and you should go check it out because her hands are DIVINE.

As for ILNP, you can find her on Facebook and her website and she is a sweetheart too, so feel free to fall in love and give her money for her craft ;)

Swatch: I Love Nail Polish Ginger Spice Latte

And another :D This time, a glitter topper that just screams fall. ILNP is an amazing brand and just recently came out with the Ultrachrome collection (of which I am a proud owner, but I'll tell you about that later). They're also a pretty high end brand so I hadn't had a chance to try them yet (shipping, ugh). BUT, I jumped on the chance when it did come up and got a couple things for a great price on sale.

One of them was Ginger Spice Latte, which I layered over CagedBird Equinox in a glitter gradient fashion.

ILNP does the most amazing job with everything. The label is beautiful, they each come in their own little box and the cap is rubber-grippy! Barb is also just about the nicest person and very active on Facebook and her shop <3 Visit her, tell her I sent you, and look out on this blog for a little more of her stuff!