HPB Oct. Halloween Mani Link-Up

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I'm a member of the Hobby Polish Bloggers group on Facebook. We're a diverse group of bloggers who help each other discover new ways of getting the blogging done, give each other feedback when asked, and grow our friendship inside and outside the group. Each and every lady in our group is special, we're very supportive of each other and we each contribute in different ways.

We're doing monthly link-ups, and the theme for October is Halloween! I've prepared a few nail art manicures with stamping and a even touch of freehand on two of them!
(The Simples group is really helping give me the confidence to try more free-hand nail art!)

For this look, I used Sweet Heart Polish Rad!, that I recently reviewed, as the base color. I then stamped it with spiders and webs from the Vivid Lacquer plate VL013. Spooky? Creepy?




Next, I tried capturing the feel of eery night skies filled with bats and different phases of the moon. The base is a sponged gradient of two Darling Diva polishes - Early Riser and Tina the Labradorite. The bats are stamped with Vivid Lacquer plate VL013 and the moon is freehanded with a mixture of Zoya Dove and Sweet Heart Polish Bitchin for a greyed out yellow moon effect.




What will you be wearing on your nails this Halloween?

An InLinkz Link-up

Zoya Payton - a gift from Anni

Gift

My online bestie, Anni, sent a huge box to me for Christmas that was packed full of wonderful surprises and Zoya Payton was among them! See, Anni was determined to find the perfect Zoya polish that I'd love, so let's see how she did, shall we!?



Soooo Purple and deeeeeeep! Can you believe this is only two coats!?



Just look at those holographic sparkles! Like fire! And the formula? Like butter!



I took a fun shot of a pose I've never done before and I was surprised with how much I like it! Label porn, yes!?



So, how do you think Anni did?
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Anni was so right and knows me quite well - I love this polish! Its perfect in every way!
Thanks so much Anni, for being such a wonderful and very thoughtful friend. You make every holiday special!

You all can get your very own Zoya Payton at the Zoya website!

42/52 Zoya Crystal

Brand: Zoya
Color: Crystal
Coats: 2, 3 on some I messed up. >.>
Application: dries fast, gotta work fast w/this one
Finish: foil
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: SH Insta Dri, red bottle
Wear: 4 days, shrinkage like woah
Purchased From: Zoya.com
My Polish Spreadsheet

I was really excited about receiving this polish!
SO much sparkle and glam, and its a simple foil finish with gold flecks so no gritty glitter to remove. It's everything I thought it would be. Note that I always have trouble with zoya metallic type polishes shrinking up and this one did the same thing. =/

shade photo



sun photo


flash photo



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Zoya - Adina

Zoya's funky new Adina from the reverie collection. Its a medium shade of purple with a funky green duochrome.
I love it!

Zoya Polish - Ki

This is a new polish I received last week so my nails are a week and half old paint job. xD
I really like how this looks, but I fear its a little on the dark side for me. I Photoshopped the green color in the second photo as close to original as I could because it wouldn't pick up on my camera

Zoya - Pru

One of my freebie nail polish from Zoya, I just paid shipping. ^.^
This one is my favorite of the three, its really unusual and looks a totally different color in different lighting. In dim rooms, it looks quite brown and in well lit rooms its purple up close and more wine looking from further away. Really a difficult one to capture on film!