Showing posts with label halloween nails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween nails. Show all posts

Monday, 29 February 2016

Shellac Winter 2015 Aurora collection - Swatches and Reveiw


My first impression of this winter collection was refreshing! Here we have a winter collection that isn't dark or Christmas red but instead light and bright! All of these colours appealed to me. Here's a closer look at the colours. I apologise I couldn't find my lens for my camera so the picture quality isn't the best but at least you get an idea of these colours.




Winter Glow
Apart from loving the name, Winter Glow is most definitely comparable to Cake Pop which surprisingly doesn't annoy me too much, Cake pop is up there with one of the most popular Shellac colours so I think Winter Glow will do quite well. It is paler than Cake Pop but almost the same shade. Winter Glow OK that's the last time I'll say it! 


Glacial Mist
"The cold never bothered me anyway!" See where I'm going with this?? Yes ladies this is Frozen in a bottle. That's all that really needs to be said oh and it glitters!



Tundra
Not usually a fan of shimmers but I'm not sure I class this as a shimmer more like a chrome. It's a pinky lilac chrome. And surprisingly I like it!



Nordic lights 
It's purple and sparkly what's not to like! Although there is something different with this shellac colour, it's actually sheer. That was a surprise when I first put it on -a nice one though, it made me think of all the possibilities of new colours and effects we could create with this colour. And still easy to create a solid colour as the purple is almost the exact shade of Rock Royalty. 

Well done CND I was very impressed with this collection and all the colours beautifully compliment each other. I look forward to creating new looks on my clients with these. My favourite so far? That's hard.... But I think it has to be Glacial Mist I find it the most original. 

What are your thoughts on this collection? Or dare I ask what's your favours colour? I'd love to know in the comments below. 

Thanks for reading! 

Until next time pretties! 

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

October Nails of the Month

So of course Octobers' nails of the month have to be a Halloween set. Though what I love about these is that they aren't obviously Halloween nails. But very much witch inspired!




'I put a spell on you,
Because your mine!'

I may have mentioned before that Hocus Pocus is my favourite Halloween film so loved doing a nail with the best song ever, 'I put a spell on you' (cannot say those words without singing them in my best Winnie Sanderson voice!) Although with these nails I did do probably one of the worst things I've ever done in my nail tech career. To paint I put a spell on you on a nail obviously takes some time and patience. So what did I do? I decided to wipe it all off thinking the nail was cured with topcoat. I KNOW! I thought I was going to cry and so did my client. Lol but we got there in the end and were able to laugh about it too! 

What Halloween nails did you go for in the end? I didn't get any on as I didn't have time. #lifeasanailtech!
 Hope everyone had a great Halloween! 

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Preparing for Halloween in the salon

Halloween is a busy time in the salon a lot of clients are wanting their nails done all in a very short space of time. So to prepare for this rush we have to be a little organised. As you've already seen in our last blog post we have already decorated the salon.



The next step is to be aware (no pun intended) of what our clients want. For a lot of them at Halloween that is... yep you've guessed it Halloween nail art! Now I know your wondering how do we prepare for that?? Well... in 2 ways.

1. Displaying nail art ideas for our clients to choose from, some people just don't know what they want and having a visual is a big help, it also helps us as there is much less time wasted on making decisions. We have ours in a decorative frame.





2. The second way we prepare for the load of nail art coming our way is to pre make them. We most commonly do this by making 3D designs in advance using Arabella forms. These forms come in different sizes but all form a nail curve, they repel liquid and powder just like regular forms so we can just take our design off when finished and store them ready for use.

Can you tell what these are going to be?


 Yep 3D skulls!

Now when a client asks for some creepy spooky nail art we can use the phrase the child in all of us wants to say....Here's some I made earlier! (just love saying that!)

So there you have it an insight into how we deal with the madness of Halloween. It's something I personally really enjoy as I love this time of year!
What do you do to prepre for busy times? I'd love to know any tips and tricks you have.

Pretty Polished

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Happy Halloween!



I just love Halloween not as much as Christmas mind you but I love getting into the Halloween spirit and forcing that upon every client that enters the salon with my excessive decorations including our 6ft skeleton we have affectionately named Fred! It's also such a fun time with nails so I've put together a few of our favourite Halloween themed nails.

Jack The Pumpkin King! 

3D Eyeball squilettos

Gravestone nails with 3D spiders

3D skulls, pumpkins and ghosts oh my!

I hope you liked our Halloween work and that it gave you some inspiration for your own Halloween nails. I can't wait to see what our clients ask of us this year! Until then I'm looking forward to sitting in and eating the sweets I've bought for the trick-or-treaters while watching Hocus Pocus! 

Fred being pampered for the big day!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 
FROM ALL OF US AT PRETTY POLISHED!