Monthly Archives: October 2012

Beauty tips for Women: Halloween Nail Art 2

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Here is my second Halloween nail art manicure.  My girls have been going crazy asking for candy corn and I finally purchased some.  This was inspiration for my festive candy corn Halloween nail art manicure.

Here is a picture of the polishes I used for the manicure:

Konad Special Polish – Black
Seche Vite – Dry Fast Top Coat
Sally Hansen – Yellow Kitty
Sally Hansen – Parrot
Wet n’ Wild – Sunny Side
Wet n’ Wild – French White Crème
Essence – Wake Up
Color Club – Clear Coat

I started off by doing a gradient using the French White Crème, Sunny Side and Yellow Kitty.  I did three coats of the gradient because the yellow and orange colors where just two light and I wanted it a bit more richer in color.  Once I got the colors the way I wanted, I applied a clear coat to blend the colors.  I waited for it to dry then started applying random dots in Parrot, Wake Up, and French White Crème.  Once that dried up, I thought some stamping would be cute.  I used Bundle Monster – BM225 Skull image on the thumb.  The cat and witch used on the index and middle finger are from Shany – SH02.  The ring finger skull is Bundle Monster – BM211 and pinky finger is Bundle Monster – BM222.  Topped everything off with Sech Vite.

Here are the pictures of my festive candy corn Halloween manicure:

 

 

Beauty tips for Women: Shimmer Polish – Michelle

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I would like to share a beauty product review of a beautiful polish I won from Shimmer Polish via her Facebook page.  The name of the polish is Michelle.  It is a gold shimmer with gold glitter and fine black glitter.  It changes colors so wonderfully I swear there is other glitter colors in there.

 

As soon as I got the polish I had to swatch it.  Unfortunately my index finger nail broke so it makes the whole manicure look off.  I opted to use a bottom coat of black on my index finger.  I’ve read that if you put a base color under glitter polishes you use less of the glitter polish so it will last you longer.  All of my nails except for the index finger have 3 coats.  I could have stopped at 2 coats because the coverage was wonderful but I’m greedy, I just loved the sparkly of it all and wanted more.  The index received 2 coats.

Shimmer Polish is $12 each and for custom, (yes, you read right, she does custom polishes) it is $15.  I’m in love with the beauty she sent me and I can’t recommend it enough.  So check her out on Facebook: Shimmer Polish and on Etsy by the same name.

I give Shimmer Polish 5 brains!

Homemade Halloween Costumes for Kids: Mickey Mouse Pirate

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Although this site is mainly devoted to beauty tips for women on occasion I like to share some other stuff I’m into like sewing.  I’m very much a beginner at sewing; so this is no project runway type stuff.

My youngest, 3, wants to be a pirate.  You think no problem with that, except she wants to be a Mickey Mouse Pirate.  I can’t just step into the Disney Store and pick one up.  They do have some Pirates of the Caribbean costumes but they are mainly for boys and they don’t have Mickey Mouse on them.  She wants Mickey Mouse all over this costume.  So this would have to be a homemade Halloween costume.  I couldn’t find a vest, so one had to be made.  Here is a front and back picture.  A simple vest nothing crazy.

 

I then need to create the images that I would use for the vest.  Below is a picture of what I used: my computer, Cricut Create, a Cricut mat, Sure Cuts A Lot 2 software, a brayer, Steam-A-Seam 2, Fray Check, and white and red fabric.

 

Once I created my images on the computer, I ironed on the Steam-A-Seam to the pieces of white and red fabric.  Used the Cricut Create and Sure Cuts A Lot 2 to cut out the images.

 

I then ironed on the images to the vest to create the Mickey Mouse Pirate look. I applied Fray Check so that the images would not fray.

 

The pirate hat was a bit trickier.  I picked up the hat at Clarie’s.  This is what it looked like before the full transformation into the Mickey Mouse Pirate hat.  I wanted to give it the Jack Sparrow feel by adding some dangly things to it and I would have loved to try my hand at dreadlocks but I don’t have the time for that.  So yarn pieces braided up was the best I could do.

 

I still needed to get Mickey on the pirate hat.  The idea I came up with was to cut Mickey Pirate out of a foam sheet and sew him onto the hat.  I couldn’t use fabric because it didn’t cover up the skull, it was too transparent.  The foam sheet cut out worked like a charm.

 

Here is the Mickey Mouse Pirate or as she says the Mickey Pirate costume for Halloween this year.  I picked up the sword at Target and the sash was made from red fabric.  So to complete the outfit she will have on a white t-shirt and black pants.    Now if only I had time to make myself one too but I have to work on my oldest daughter’s costume.