Tag: nail art

Posted on

GLAM NAILS CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2025 — Haunted House

Hello lovelies & happy Wednesday! I hope everyone is having a lovely & safe week so far. It’s a busy week as we prepare for Halloween, but we have one more prompt for Glam Nails Challenge October, & I couldn’t wait to share my design with you — even if I’m posting it a bit late in the day!

The final prompt for October is Haunted House, & I’m super proud of my spooky haunted house design I created.

The polishes I used for this manicure are: 

  • Top Coat: Sally Hansen InstaDri Top Coat (red bottle) 
  • Base Coat: Essie Hard to Resist (purple)
  • Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Sugar Fix
  • Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Beatnik
  • Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Dark Hue-mor
  • Quo by Orly Nail Art Striper in black
  • Wet n Wild Nail Art Stickers Trick Me, Treat Me style
  • LA Colors Crackle Top Coat Black
  • NailStuff.ca Mermaid Tail 7mm Liner Brush

I tried my best to create an atmospheric spooky background for my design, & painted the graveyard/spooky background. Then, I had a Wet n Wild nail art sticker that was a haunted house that I placed on my ring finger — which saved me from having to handpainting it! & the pink moon just seemed like a fun little touch to add as well.

& with that, we are done Glam Nails Challenge October for another year! Crazy to think that we are so close to the end of 2025. It’s been a crazy year, so I’m excited to close out the year with some fun designs.

If you’ve been following along with this challenge thank you! I had so much fun painting my nails this month, & sharing all my Halloween design with you!

Have the lovelies rest of your day!

♥︎

Posted on

GLAM NAILS CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2025 — Trick or Treat 👻 🍬

Hello lovelies & happy Wednesday! Can you believe we are only 9 days away from Halloween? Where the heck has this month gone?! It also means we only have 3 prompts of Glam Nails Challenge October to go before the end of the month. I’ve absolutely enjoyed jumping back into these month challenges, & I’m excited to finish up this month & start planning for my nail art for the rest of the year!

Today’s prompt is Trick or Treat, which is such an ambiguous prompt. But, I did pick up those Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers nail art stickers & there was some fun candy stickers, plus a few that say Trick or Treat. So I instantly knew that they would be perfect for this particular prompt, & I couldn’t wait to use them again!

The polishes I used for this manicure are: 

  • Top Coat: Sally Hansen InstaDri Top Coat (red bottle) 
  • Base Coat: Essie Hard to Resist (purple)
  • Colour Club Purple Haze layered over OPI Lincoln Park After Dark
  • Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers Nail Art Stickers Trick Me, Treat Me style

How fun are these stickers? I know I said it in my previous post featuring them (my birthday nails), but I just love these stickers. I will definitely say though — you want to apply these stickers after your base is fully dry. I had a much better application this time with a manicure that was done the night previously, as opposed to a base that was still tacky & wet. They sit much flatter on the nail, & I think look much smoother as well.

What do you think about my fun Trick or Treat design for this prompt of Glam Nails Challenge October? Do you love these cute Halloween nail art stickers? I purchased my sheet at Shoppers Drug Mart for $7.99 CAD, but I have also seen them available at Walmart in previous years. I kind of wish I had also purchased the other style of stickers (with cute little Ghost Face stickers) but when I went back to find them, they were already sold out at my local store.

Happy Wednesday loves!

♥︎

Posted on

GLAM NAILS CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2025 — Spiderweb 🕸️

Good morning lovelies & happy Monday! I hope you’re having the most beautiful start to your day. Today, I’m sharing prompt # 4 from Glam Nails Challenge October for 2025: Spiderweb.

Spider’s are probably my least favourite thing, but a good spiderweb nail art look does fit the spooky Halloween vibes.

The polishes I used for this manicure are: 

  • Top Coat: Sally Hansen InstaDri Top Coat (red bottle) 
  • Base Coat: Essie Hard to Resist (purple)
  • Sally Hansen Triple Shine Wavy Blue
  • NailStuff.ca Essentials Raven
  • LA Colors Black Shatter
  • OPI I Cannoli Wear OPI
  • Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Make It N-Ice
  • NailStuff.ca 16mm Liner Brush

So I tried to do a cute black gradient at the tips of my nails, but it went kind of weird so I created a fun textured effect by adding the LA Colors Shatter at the tips as well — which I like even better than my original idea for a gradient. Then I hand drew my spiderwebs on the tips, with a little extra sparkle.

Is it similar to the same design I do every year? Yes.

Do I still love how it turned out? Also yes.

What do you think of this spiderweb design? Do you like how I created my fun textured gradient on my tips? Let me know your thoughts on this design, & don’t forget to check out #glamnailschallengeoct25 on Instagram to see all the other beautiful looks that have been created so far this month.

Happy Monday!

Posted on

GLAM NAILS CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2025 — Ghost 👻

Hello lovelies & happy Wednesday! It’s hope your week has been as calm & peaceful as can be.

Today is our third prompt for Glam Nails Challenge October, which is ghost! I do love a good ghost design especially this time of year, so I was excited to give this a go. I wanted to create a ghost look slightly different from ones I’ve done in the past, & I think I managed to create a spooky & fun look. & I’m so in love with how they turned out.

The polishes I used for this manicure are: 

  • Top Coat: Sally Hansen InstaDri Top Coat (red bottle) 
  • Base Coat: Essie Hard to Resist (purple)
  • China Glaze Skyscraper
  • Essence Pastel Ombre Top Coat
  • OPI Alter Ego
  • Icing Store Black
  • Small Dotting Tool (NailsStuff.ca Dotting Tool Trio)

So the trick of creating these translucent ghosties is using a really, really shear white polish (or mixing a more opaque white with a clean polish to thin it out.) I Have this Essence Pastel Ombre Top Coat from years, & years ago, & while I’ve never used it for an ombre design, it works perfectly for nail art like this! I also added a bit of OPI Alter Ego for a bit of extra shimmer/glow.

What do you think about this ghostly design? Do you like the spooky sheer effect of the ghosts. I feel like these ones are definitely more on the spooky side, compared to my ghost designs of years past — which I’m loving! Let’s go for all the spooky vibes this October — I am here for it!

Happy Wednesday

♥︎

Posted on

SWATCH SUNDAY — China Glaze Skyscraper (Fall 2011 Metro Collection)

Good morning lovelies & happy first Sunday of October. It’s a beautiful Autumn day, I’ve been jamming to Taylor Swift’s new album for the last two days, & I’m currently enjoying my maple brown sugar coffee. It’s a good day! I’m also excited for another Swatch Sunday.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t really been in the mood to buy new nail polish. Maybe I just need a trip to Sally Beauty, but my usual haunts are not really cutting it right now. However, the plus side of me not buying new polish, is I’ve been going through my current stash a lot more often & finding long forgotten about gems — like today’s polish pick. This is China Glaze Skyscraper from their Metro Collection from Fall 2011.

2 coats + top coat

Once upon a time, purple used to be my signature colour (after red, of course) & as a result I spent many years buying every purple, or purple leaning, polish I could get my hands on. Skyscraper is a gorgeous dark blue/indigo jelly base packed full of silver & blue micro glitters. Some of the pictures of swatches of this shade I’ve seen seem more blue than my bottle, but maybe that’s the result of it being 10+ years old (I can’t remember exactly when I bought it, but I did post about it here.)

Close up shot to see all those glitters. I only did 2 coats on my nails for swatches, but you could definitely do another coat for even thicker glitter — or sponge it on to make it really glittery! I was happy with the opacity I had after two coats though, & especially happy with how easy the formula was to apply The first coat goes on very thin, but that second one saves it & gives it a beautiful finish. Will I enjoy removing this glitter? Well we will have to see.

But I do love wearing it!

What do you think about China Glaze Skyscraper? Do you own this shade? What do you think about the colour?

China Glaze has long been one of my favourite go to brands (I own a drawer & a half of their polishes!) but I feel like I haven’t really checked out the new revamp they recently did. I’m definitely going to have to go to my local Sally’s & check out the new bottles & polishes they’ve released!

Happy Sunday!

♥︎