Pretty & Polished - Blood Clot or my take on Halloween!

Here in The Netherlands, Halloween is not very big business...some children will go and try to "scare" some shop holders in the street, but it is nothing big.
I had the sudden urge to wear something bloody on my finger tips so I reached to a friend from last year: Pretty & Polished Blood Clot. I stalked it for weeks because it was sold out every time...and when I finaly purchased it..Halloween was over!
I love this polish, it sounds gruesome "Bloot Clot" but it looks quite charming I would say!
It is a syrupy cherry red (or blood red if you prefer) with two sizes of shiny hex glitters. There is some fishing acquired for the big hexes and with that you tend to add a blob of syrup on the nail as well. This gives it that extra clotted appearence.

This was three layers and some extra blobs:

Pretty&Polished - Blood Clot

I tried my hardest to get it photographed right...it just wouldn't. The polish is so shiny that it messed with the focus of the camera. The colour of the third and the fifth shot is the closest to the truth, it has just a hint more brown in it (more blood, less cherry). Do NOT look at my cuticles they are horrid...and it isn't even winter yet!

Happy Halloween!!!

China Glaze - Foie Gras and Pretty and Polished - Vampire Sing-a-Long

Yesterday evening I started with a fresh coat of paint: China Gaze Foie Gras (from the Hunger games Collection).
It's a fairly straight forward brownish color, very wearable certainly not light and definately not vampy dark!
The formula was a bit goopy: when painting there seems to be a moderate amount of polish on the brush and then......suddenly this big drop of polish appears out of nowhere and throws itself on your nail....
Soo, application is a bit tricky but doable.

Voila:

a bit of a "hairy" bottle of Foie Gras

in the shade

China Glaze -Foie Gras in the sun

BUT today I received my Etsy order from Pretty and Polished and when I saw Vampire Sing-a-Long I just needed to throw that over the Foie-Gras. In VSaL you can find black micro bar glitters (I hate bar glitter but this is so cute: they look like tiny little mouse hairs :-) ), then there is red micro glitter and micro glitter with a lilac sheen, bigger lilac hexes and some smaller white opalescent hexes. And the cherry on the cake are the big black dots (love them)!!!

Pretty and Polished - Vampire Sing-a-Long

look at that fabulous dot!

I love the greyish brown of the Foie Gras together with the red and lilac. The formula was good: a bit thick but very workable.

China Glaze - Elephant Walk (On Safari, autumn 2012) and Pretty & Polished - Sand Art

This is an older mani....I made it a few months ago.
As a base color I used China Glaze - Elephant Walk and I topped it with Pretty and Polished - Sand Art.
It was a pretty nice combination allthough it could be a little more airy I guess.

See for yourself:

Pretty and Polished - Sand Art and China Glaze - Elephant Walk

Next time I am going to try Sand Art on it's own!

What do you think?