Fortune Teller Nails // Halloween 2018 #1

It's time for my very first attempt at Halloween themed nails! I was going to take part of @clairestelle8 Halloween challenge however I just don't feel I'm good enough yet to be taking part in challenges. Also, at the moment thanks to work and my degree I only have around 2 hours a week to spend doing my nails so I have to choose wisely what nails I do. I wanted to try and push myself though to use the polishes I received in the Mani & Lola box in some way, sort of my own challenge so I came up with this grey and black glitter look using the new MoYou Circus plate I received for my birthday.

This was one of those designs where I honestly had no clue where it was going, I just knew I wanted to incorporate some elements of the plate onto my nails with the cuccio polish. I also wanted to use one of the new Nails Inc polishes I picked up during a trip to TK Maxx. They are the best for Nails Inc, I always get them for £3 or less. This one is a "leather effect" one though and I honestly had no idea how that would turn out but I thought the colour was beautiful.

This applies in one coat but dries to a matte concrete-esque effect. I wouldn't call it leather; I was expecting a satin finish. Either way, I went to stamp the design on and nothing would stick to the surface so I ended up adding a glossy topcoat which just turned it into a normal grey polish.

I added in some silver stamping polish in places as well just to tie in the black and grey theme and ended up stamping some words in black over the designs on the index and little fingers as I just didn't like how they turned out.

In the end though I was pretty happy with the finished result; they turned out as more understated spooky nails but still spooky enough for Halloween. I also just can't get over how stunning the Cuccio shade is; I didn't even sponge it on; it just applies with 1000 glitter pieces in one go. It is a bugger to get off though so make sure you apply a peel off base coat.

For the next design I really want to use the Orly & Morgan Taylor shades but I'm just not sure how to incorporate them together.

Polishes/Tools Used:

- Nails Inc Leather // Old Compton Street (grey with matte concrete texture)

- Cuccio Color // Vegas Vixen (black with different sized silver glitter pieces)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #3 (black)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #2 (silver)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #4 (white)
- Revlon // Colorstay Diamond Top Coat

- MoYou London // Circus 07 Plate