Bloody Dracula

Dracula's nails! Dracula's is a theatre restaurant down the Gold Coast, Queensland. It is awesome. My friend had a waiter crack onto her. I was paid out for not being able to reverse park my car in a crowded car park.

So I did these bloody nails to get in the mood for the event:

Awesome, isn't it? 

America Apparel - Hassid for the black (this is the best black nail polish I had ever tried. Ever.), then Camouflage Colour nail lacquer (made by tns Australia) in a bright red (Sorry, the label wasn't on it when I got it). The feature nail is a white polish (Revlon, but I don't recommend it because it takes about 4 coats to get it perfectly opaque). And the red on that nail is Essie - Limited Addiction which I used a straw to blow the nail polish onto the nail to get the splattered effect. 

For the dripping blood I just used the normal polish brush and did it by hand. It was surprisingly easy but it really is just packed on. That's about three or four coats of the red. You could feel the red I had to put so much of it on. Thank god for Seche Vite top coat. 

Halloween and Blood

Everytime I looked at these nails I would think of the My Chemical Romance song "Blood". Then I'd sing it. And as I work in a call centre I'd start singing it, then a call would drop in right when I was getting to the best parts. heh.

Not totally cleaned up because I was so excited that I wanted to take pictures straight away. And I had skittles right there!! You can see that my hand is a bit hot - it's melting the skittles. And yes, that is a hair. It was still attached to my head, I was just leaning over to take the picture. I have really long hair that I do absolutely nothing with. 

I used a Revlon white (so old it has no label. I rarely use white), and Essie - Limited Addiction. So far I would have to say that Limited Addiction is the closest colour to blood that I have been able to find. If anyone has found any better blood colours I would be happy to hear your recommendations! 

Oh, and how to do this look. You will  use a LOT of polish doing this, just a warning. I painted my nails white, then used a straw and dipped it in the essie polish. Then I blew down the straw and it splattered them. Keep newspaper or something behind your nails because it gets everywhere. I experimented a couple of times on the newspaper just to see what the best way to do it was. And I didn't try to make every nail the same because it's impossible and looks weird if you try.