By 
Well after two horrendous nail fails today I have some super simple blood splatter nails to share with you! I did these for the holo #wnac2015 prompt and I wish I had gotten them done in time to get a nice sun shot of all of that holo! One of my fails this morning prompted me to make this lovely meme:
I had originally tried to make decals to work around having to do all of the blood splatter cleanup but after I cleaned up my first attempt I noticed that the red holo polish I was using (Love Bites from Glitter Gal Aus) left behind a hint of orange on my Uber Mat so I exnayed that method pretty quickly!
I began by laying down 2 coats of Opal Jamila from Gothic Gala. This is a white pearly polish with a strong scattered holographic glitter scattered throughout. If you think you may not be able to live without this color you should hurry over and purchase it today because I believe it is being taken off GG’s store tomorrow! Plus, it’s only $5 on sale! I then topcoated with KB Shimmer’s Clearly On Top.
Next I went ahead and prepped my cuticle area with liquid latex and I brought it all the way up to my second knuckle because I am a pretty messy splatter-er! I don’t recommend going that high unless you totally want to wax your hand though, trust my little invisible knuckle hairs that I never noticed before lol!
Next I took a standard size drinking straw (I used a red one from Sonic!) and dipped the tip (just the tip) of the straw directly into my polish bottle. The straw fits perfectly and that way it contains a little bit of the mess! I then held the straw around 6 inches away from my nail and blew forcibly from the end without polish. I repeated this step about twice per nail and I found the closer I got to my nail the less defined and more blobby my splatter turned out. I then allowed the splatter to dry for just a minute and then removed my liquid latex and topcoated with Clearly On Top once more. This is the finished result:
So that’s it for today, I’m really interested to see how long I can hang for doing a different nail art look each day on October, I totally almost gave up today! Thanks for reading along.
Simple and easy but an awesome result. My kind of mani. 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
lol exactly! Thank you!
LikeLike
I totally want to splatter like you when I grow up. Your video made it look so easy!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!! I had so many fails along the way lol!
LikeLike
Your nail shape is so perfect for this art. Love it so much!
LikeLike
Thank you so much!
LikeLike
Freaking awesome!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Ma’am!!
LikeLike
Brilliant, I tried this once and failed. Now seeing your mani I will so try again 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
You absolutely should, its so much fun!!
LikeLike
Great mani! I’ve tried splatter once and it kind of looked like the attempt on your mat. I’ve never tried it again.
LikeLike
Lol! It does take some practice but it’s almost worth the clean up! ❤
LikeLike
This looks great!! I just did this a couple of weeks ago and was surprised by how difficult it was for me, I almost blew my lungs out!
LikeLike
Thank you! I think a lot of the problems I had was by either having too much or not enough polish in my straw!
LikeLike
Love it! I love that you used Gothic gala as the base as opposed to the typical nude.
LikeLike
Thank you, Kim! I love that polish so much!
LikeLike
I’ve got to get my nails done for that prompt lol. I’ve never done a splatter mani before!
LikeLike
It’s a really fun technique, good luck!!
LikeLike
This looks perfect for Halloween
LikeLike
Yaaas!!
LikeLike
I love your tutorial so much! Thanks for sharing!
LikeLike
Thank you!
LikeLike
Yesss!! Saw these on IG and I love em!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much!!
LikeLike
These are great. I love the look of splatter manicures, but I’ve only done one, once. lol
LikeLike
Lol! Thank you!
LikeLike
I love that even though it is a blood spatter mani you have all that holo going on lol!
LikeLike
Right?! Everything is better with holo lol!
LikeLike
This is so much fun! Love the white base you used!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much!!
LikeLike
Great splatter! I totally LOL’d at your ‘Apparently there is such a thing as too much holo.’ meme.
LikeLike